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Up until that point, Oscar gowns had often been the purview of costume departments and more theatrical designers (save an occasional visit by a Givenchy).—
Belinda Luscombe,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025 -
Zhou’s theatrical vision explores humor, sensuality, and existential themes, resulting in garments that blur the boundaries of fashion, sculpture, and spectacle.—
Essence,
Essence,
4 Sep. 2025
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As bills were called up for debate, members lined up to ask questions about them, and the questions were often laden with histrionic and hyperbolic language.—
John C. Moritz,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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Populated by unhinged men and masochistic women, and punctuated by fiery, increasingly histrionic set pieces, Smoke fails to reconcile its mood of noirish nihilism with its efforts at social commentary.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
27 June 2025
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As is, the film is somehow both glancing and melodramatic, a strange and underwhelming cocktail of blasé Euro sleekness and TV-movie drama.—
Richard Lawson,
IndieWire,
7 Sep. 2025
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That should turn our attention to those strictures, rather than to questioning the verisimilitude of her melodramatic doom.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Sep. 2025
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Injury watch Justin Jefferson’s hammy will make its 2025 debut Monday night, and Vikings fans should not be expecting an all-world opener.—
Kevin Cusick,
Twin Cities,
7 Sep. 2025
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The military, led by an officer known only as the Major (Mark Hamill, the right amount of hammy), remains in control and supervises the Walk.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
3 Sep. 2025
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Her efforts saved the animal’s life and landed her in her hometown newspaper, The Mountain Eagle, which was the first to write about the dramatic rescue and resuscitation.—
Michael Collins,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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The increase widens a stark property tax gap between Idaho’s two largest school districts — Boise and West Ada — and illustrates dramatic policy differences between the adjoining Treasure Valley districts.—
Kevin Richert,
Idaho Statesman,
10 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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Some reservations: Song plays out the scenes between Lucy and Harry, and between Lucy and John, as two-way dialogues that are often stagy and too on-the-nose.—
Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
12 June 2025
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“Actorly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/actorly. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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