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Backrooms was released by A24, the indie studio that in the past couple of years produced such notable films as the dystopian action thriller Civil War, the Hugh Grant horror thriller Heretic and the Jenna Ortega horror comedy Death of a Unicorn.
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Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
His first attempt, a dystopian fantasy, had flopped.
—Nathan Heller, Vogue, 29 May 2026
The production’s hallmarks are the acting performances that are mostly quite strong, along with some scintillating technical aspects that affirm the show’s dystopian aims, unified smartly by Lisa Mallette’s active direction.
—David John Chávez, Mercury News, 29 May 2026
The techno-optimism of the 2000s has evolved in increasingly dystopian directions.
—Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
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Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
His first attempt, a dystopian fantasy, had flopped.
—Nathan Heller, Vogue, 29 May 2026
The production’s hallmarks are the acting performances that are mostly quite strong, along with some scintillating technical aspects that affirm the show’s dystopian aims, unified smartly by Lisa Mallette’s active direction.
—David John Chávez, Mercury News, 29 May 2026
The techno-optimism of the 2000s has evolved in increasingly dystopian directions.
—Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dystopian
earthly
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Some of this can be put down to the production; Kartel’s longtime collaborator and established hitmaker TJ Records conjures a palette more suited to the trebly ionosphere of Spotify streams than the groundshaking speaker stacks that once fortified dancehall’s earthly domain.—
Edwin “STATS” Houghton,
Pitchfork,
17 June 2026
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The British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge, who converted to Christianity late in his life, pointed out that Jesus’s entire ministry was directed against the pretensions of earthly power.—
Peter Wehner,
The Atlantic,
10 June 2026
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“Dystopian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dystopian. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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