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Unlike horror movies built on shadowy boogeymen bouncing out of the dark, The Witch's tone stays quiet, swarming around themes of bewitchery, black magic, and wickedness without overdoing it.—
Michael Lee Simpson,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Oct. 2025 -
Besides, Chrishell should be glad that Nicole’s wickedness is so blatant.—
Anne Victoria Clark,
Vulture,
29 Oct. 2025
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That was really what helped me into the character and into her evilness.—
William Earl,
Variety,
4 Oct. 2025
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As the party collapses into collective, mob-like madness, despair is unleashed along with paranoia, depravity, violence, and carnage.—
Dennis Perkins,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
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An experimental art project about the depravity of late capitalism?—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
30 Oct. 2025
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For many Americans, there might be a temptation to disbelieve the enormity of what has happened in the Gaza Strip.—
Lydia Polgreen,
Mercury News,
25 Oct. 2025
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So was the enormity of all that was lost, an era that has ended.—
Charlotte Varnes,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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These satellite images from late October appearing to show bodies in the streets and bloodstains on the ground, gruesome signs of the atrocities visible from space.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Nov. 2025
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Raymond’s team has been tracking atrocities in Sudan using satellite imagery from NASA and commercial sources.—
Nicolas Niarchos,
New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2025
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Ballad of a Small Player is part of that long and not always illustrious tradition of stories about Westerners who go East in order to wallow in decadence and malaise.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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Combs' Halloween menu reads like the ghost of a feast, stripped bare of decadence but still precise in its monotony.—
Danielle Bacher,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Hellishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hellishness. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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