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All three films include commentaries from key contributors like cinematographer Eliot Rockett, production designer Tom Hammock, and set decorator Kelsi Ephraim, along with featurettes about the making of each film.
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Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2025
Watch the Ice Spice SpongeBob Movie featurette below.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2025
Other marketing, the kind of stuff that people who would need to seek out (like, oh, big fans of Bruce) is more honest, like this featurette all about Cooper’s approach to this specific time in The Boss’ life and career.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 26 Oct. 2025
Watch the Lego featurette below.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
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Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2025
Watch the Ice Spice SpongeBob Movie featurette below.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2025
Other marketing, the kind of stuff that people who would need to seek out (like, oh, big fans of Bruce) is more honest, like this featurette all about Cooper’s approach to this specific time in The Boss’ life and career.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 26 Oct. 2025
Watch the Lego featurette below.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for featurette
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The Fear of 13 is based on the documentary directed by David Sington, which tells the true story of a man who was wrongly convicted in 1982 of the murder, rape and abduction of a Delaware shop assistant.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Jan. 2026
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Welcome news for makers of documentary shorts, who often struggle to reach a wide array of viewers with their work.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
13 Jan. 2026
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This is not always the case, however, as rates, service quality, and coverage features often vary widely.—
Ethan M. Stone,
Miami Herald,
9 Jan. 2026
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Of the 14 teams that qualified for the playoffs, eight feature a player with Idaho ties on their roster.—
Rachel Roberts,
Idaho Statesman,
8 Jan. 2026
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The film, and Jordan's dual performance, are major players in this year's awards race.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Jan. 2026
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This month, a film adaptation directed by Kristen Stewart and starring Imogen Poots hits theaters nationwide.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Jan. 2026
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Inspired by a true story, the short follows Sasha Skochilenko, a Russian artist who was arrested and sentenced to seven years for replacing four price tags in a grocery store with anti-war messages about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
11 Jan. 2026
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The team self-funded an initial short, which later won a Webby, then used a drop of 10,000 high-fidelity digital collectibles as a crowdfunding mechanism.—
Callum McLennan,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025
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This opening scene establishes a human, forgiving tone for a movie in which we are often encouraged to laugh with our heroes but never at them.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Jan. 2026
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In 2014, the actress won another SAG Award for outstanding performance by a female actor for playing attorney Linda Kenney Baden opposite Al Pacino in David Mamet's 2013 TV movie Phil Spector.—
Diane J. Cho,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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The film is easiest to categorize as a docudrama, though its inventive form, blending real-life audio with dramatized dialogue, doesn’t fit neatly into any one genre (this singular, hybrid approach of Ben Hania’s will be familiar to anyone who has watched Four Daughters).—
Olivia Marks,
Vogue,
16 Dec. 2025
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The actress and filmmaker directed the final episode of his new Fox Nation docudrama series, The Saints.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Dec. 2025
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For a long time your political cartoons published in the editorial pages have irritated me.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
13 Jan. 2026
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He was widely discouraged from a career in cartoons, and after a series of rejections, majored in economics.—
People Staff,
PEOPLE,
13 Jan. 2026
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“Featurette.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/featurette. Accessed 21 Jan. 2026.
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