Thesaurus results for PHOTO-REALISM

photo-realism

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Definition of photo-realism

as in realism

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Recent Examples of photo-realism Video game graphics have been defined by technical limitations ever since the invention of the art form, with photorealism only becoming possible within the last decade. — Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 7 May 2026 Many of these images were highly persuasive, complete with fully legible text, shading, and other visual props that increased their photorealism. — Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026 Aside from the out-there storylines, these movies look nothing like Studio Ghibli or the photorealism of a Disney/Pixar film. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 15 Jan. 2026 Then the animators could take over and finish the rest with their skillful photorealism. — Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 18 Apr. 2025 In the same way that VR gaming has been detrimentally entwined with the pursuit of photorealism, VR gaming has been co-opted by these hardcore values that ultimately limit the medium. — Marcus Carter, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2024

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Throughout, the movie’s deeply affecting realism feels also like symbolism—an existential crisis without any of its arch markers, a world of metaphors without referents, both universal and blank.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2026
This curiosity for the many shapes of grief is translated in the film through magical realism.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of realism

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Yana Radeva, shockingly a first-time actor, is quietly commanding as Veska, suggesting entire histories without spelling them out, while Grisebach’s documentary-like naturalism makes even the film’s strangest turns feel oddly plausible.

— Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2026
In true Joycean fashion, Ironweed wants both symbolism and naturalism, the elevated language of heaven’s vaults alongside the unadorned details of bodily filth.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of naturalism

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As with the Yale-set After the Hunt, Guadagnino and the production designer Stefano Baisi grew obsessed with verisimilitude as an index of truth.

— E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
That process of reconciliation takes precedence over the music, all of which is believable in its context (the verisimilitude of the The Behemoth!

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of verisimilitude

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