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Adjective
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The directors will have their first films fully financed (to a budget of 10 million Danish Krone, or $1.45 million), with a theatrical release guaranteed for Denmark.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2025 -
The film, which is due to shoot later this year in Hungary, is being lined up for a U.S. theatrical release from Independent Film Company in 2026.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
17 May 2025
Adjective
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The most reliably entertaining are the dryly sardonic Yelena Belova (Pugh) and the excitable, histrionic Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian (a showily outsized Harbour).—
Manohla Dargis,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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Real Women takes a more tender, less histrionic approach.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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The European Commission hit back, accusing the ECB of being melodramatic.—
Billy Bambrough,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Babygirl has some crucial hallmarks of that classic Hollywood mode: a melodramatic plot that places a morally ambiguous woman’s concerns at its center — though Babygirl’s melodrama is subdued in favor of stately psychological introspection.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Austin’s lush mustache and hammy Southern drawl aren’t quite in sync with the tone; Rudd seems stuck in the Ferrell version of the film.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2025
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But the banter is quick and Yelena and Alexei’s Russian accents are enjoyably hammy.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2025
Adjective
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Lowenstein examines how excessive leverage, overconfidence in mathematical models, and market forces beyond the fund's control led to one of the most dramatic financial failures in modern history.—
Robert Daugherty,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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Sirens’s ending is a solid reminder that, sometimes, the most dramatic stories can also be the most realistic.—
Caroline Framke,
Vulture,
23 May 2025
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His Cabinet gathered in the Rose Garden alongside supporters wearing hard hats and reflective vests—a stagy reference to all the manufacturing jobs that would presumably be flooding back to U.S. soil.—
Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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Ferrell just isn’t right for this part: The role is too stagy, too wordy for him, and his style of comedy is just too modern and deconstructionist to handle the Borscht Belt punning of Mel Brooks.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2025
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“Actorly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/actorly. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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