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This will test the Jonathan Majors bodybuilding psychodrama that debuted at Sundance in 2023 but was derailed by abuse accusations against its star after winning the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision and a distribution deal with Searchlight Pictures, which dropped it.
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Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 21 Mar. 2025
Comic pastiche gives way to tender romantic ballads only to explode in musical psychodrama.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2025
About Town Indie Rock As Father John Misty, the singer and multi-instrumentalist Josh Tillman stages albums as little psychodramas.
—The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2025
The thought that Sam Riley’s Tom might turn out to be Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity or John Garfield in The Postman Always Rings Twice is tantalizing but gradually appears to be more like teasing misdirection as the movie shifts into psychodrama gear.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2025
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Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 21 Mar. 2025
Comic pastiche gives way to tender romantic ballads only to explode in musical psychodrama.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2025
About Town Indie Rock As Father John Misty, the singer and multi-instrumentalist Josh Tillman stages albums as little psychodramas.
—The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2025
The thought that Sam Riley’s Tom might turn out to be Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity or John Garfield in The Postman Always Rings Twice is tantalizing but gradually appears to be more like teasing misdirection as the movie shifts into psychodrama gear.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for psychodrama
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What should be a tender, feminist-minded story centered on a young woman rediscovering her dormant childhood dreamer turns into a middling melodrama about being with a cute guy in desperate need of her rescue.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
1 Aug. 2025
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Dunham’s genius, and what made Girls a legitimate cultural event, was to meld heartfelt James L. Brooks-style melodrama with brutally honest reportage about millennial mores, desires, and deficits.—
Derek Robertson,
The Washington Examiner,
25 July 2025
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Its jacket copy states, With a voice somewhere between Violeta Parra and Bad Bunny, Paulina Flores paints a portrait of a city, a generation, and its distinctive characteristics in this tragicomedy.—
Diana Arterian
July 30,
Literary Hub,
30 July 2025
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Told with a classic heist structure and hints of tragicomedy, the story follows an ordinary government employee obsessed with winning the Melate lottery.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
23 July 2025
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Paramount Pictures’ reboot/sequel of the comedy film series The Naked Gun is projected by Deadline to earn $8.1 million in its second weekend from 3,363 locations.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
9 Aug. 2025
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These are the words her character, Dr. Tess Coleman, yelled out the car window to her daughter Anna (Lindsay Lohan) in the 2003 body-swap comedy Freaky Friday.—
Angie Martoccio,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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Many of Lloyd Webber’s detractors believe his musicals have about the same depth as a scrape.—
Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
10 Aug. 2025
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At a time when many companies are undergoing identity crises or struggling to connect with audiences, this one endures by programming original musicals anchored in local history, institutions, archetypes and customs.—
Elisabeth Vincentelli,
Twin Cities,
9 Aug. 2025
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Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day Through the voice of an aging butler, Ishiguro explores dignity, regret, and the quiet tragedies of a life spent serving others.—
Mark Nevins,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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The council additionally issued a two-day state of mourning in response to the tragedy, per a statement shared on Aug. 9.—
Toria Sheffield,
People.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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In film, he's appeared in the musical comedy World's Best (2023) and Tessa Blake's indie coming-of-age drama Boundary Waters (2024).—
Katie Labovitz,
People.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Hercules: The Muse-ical could be seen on the Disney Magic and Disney Wonder from 1998 through 2008, and was earmarked as a musical comedy.—
Megan duBois,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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At the end of mountain stages, a delicious monodrama always unfolds.—
Thomas Curran,
Time,
8 Aug. 2023
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Suzie Miller constructs her monodrama at the intersection of #MeToo and British justice, and though the dramatist appends a superfluous moral to the story, the proceedings amount to a virtuosic, blow-by-blow account of a process stacked against female victims.—
Peter Marks,
Washington Post,
17 May 2022
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Putin's meetings with U.S. presidents: Dozens of talks with Bush, Clinton Since taking office in 1999, and again in 2012 after a brief four-year interlude when ally Dmitry Medvedev held the job, Putin has met with every U.S. president, according to U.S. State Department archives.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
14 Aug. 2025
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On Sushi, vivid splashes of R&B sleekness coexist with rap interludes, herky-jerky dance rhythms, and even a bit of jazzy trumpeting.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Psychodrama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/psychodrama. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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