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Adjective
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Discovery in the second quarter from A Minecraft Movie to Sinners with theatrical revenue up 38% as the company prepares to separate into two.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
7 Aug. 2025 -
This helped offset a decline in Motion Pictures revenue, which fell by $175 million year-on-year, driven in part by a softer theatrical slate.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
7 Aug. 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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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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Of all the reactions to Belly and Jeremiah’s engagement, Conrad’s is the most melodramatic.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
23 July 2025
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In the real world, however, workplace crushes aren’t quite so melodramatic.—
Olivia Petter,
Vogue,
18 July 2025
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Daniels is morose and whiny and Reynolds is hammy and over-the-top, which allows Stone to steal the movie, giving it its only modicum of zest and soul.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
23 July 2025
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Maybe some scenes and interactions were right on the edge of scripted, and maybe Ozzy’s primal form was that of a hammy lover of the spotlight.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
22 July 2025
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Soon, attention will turn back to the pitch for what will probably be another dramatic campaign.—
Matt Woosnam,
New York Times,
15 Aug. 2025
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Its comp sales were bolstered by 4.7% increase in online sales against a dramatic 5.7% decline in store sales.—
Pamela N. Danziger,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 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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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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“Actorly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/actorly. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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