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Adjective
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Part of my demands were cast approval, final cut, and theatrical release.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
6 Nov. 2025 -
After recent discussions with his major studio suppliers in Los Angeles, Jacob touted Paramount, newly-acquired by David Ellison’s Skydance, ramping up its movie output and growing interest in theatrical releases from streamers like Amazon and Apple.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The actor who played the lovably histrionic Cameron Tucker on the ABC sitcom playfully flipped out over his onscreen husband, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, posting a picture from a series mini-reunion on Monday.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Sep. 2025
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These two are rarely histrionic.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
24 Sep. 2025
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There are elements of quite graphic violence, then there’s also quite melodramatic moments, and then there’s also quite funny moments, and then there’s obviously the games themselves.—
Abid Rahman,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Nov. 2025
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There were stabs at horny lounge jazz, a melodramatic Latin guitar ballad, even a folksy blues number.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
18 Oct. 2025
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Snook is excellent at playing tremulous and overwhelming feeling without ever seeming hammy or phony, and Marissa’s raw emotion anchors All Her Fault in something real even as the plot reveals grow increasingly (and enjoyably) outrageous.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Nov. 2025
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The Omen is extremely hammy, with its clunky synthesized score and melodramatic shifts between cameras, but its point is nevertheless clear: None of this should have been allowed to happen.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
30 Oct. 2025
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The dramatic retelling chronicles the moments leading up to and immediately after the shotgun killings of Murdaugh’s wife, Maggie, and teenage son, Paul.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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The country had made dramatic leaps in health-system capacity and life expectancy with the help of a mixture of projects.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
5 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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And even though there are stretches of stagey-sounding expository dialogue, the story manages to wheel along at a clip.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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The Fence suffers from dialogue overload and a somewhat stagy mise-en-scène, although those elements occasionally yield strong sequences fraught with unsettledness, if not outright hostility, when the drama finally boils over.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Actorly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/actorly. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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