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Jude has two films in the fest this year, the first being a riff on a Romanian icon and the other a darkly funny morality tale.—
Vulture Staff,
Vulture,
23 Sep. 2025 -
Regan’s darkly comic series is about the inner life of a crime clan.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
22 Sep. 2025
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Look pessimistically, and perhaps the inexperience is too much of a barrier.—
Jake Ciely,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025
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Immediately after his defeat, Medvedev violently smashed a racket in frustration and sat dejectedly on his chair for several minutes before leaving the court.—
Manasi Pathak,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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What at first appears to be a run-of-the-mill trauma drama about a family dealing with the eldest child’s anorexia nervosa gradually evolves into something odder and more original, even blackly comic, in Ungrateful Beings.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Sep. 2025
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Finally, from some point in the future, miserably tied together, the two sing that the end of time can’t come soon enough.—
Molly Langmuir,
The Atlantic,
25 Sep. 2025
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When the little doggy pool doesn't float, their plan fails miserably, and both Mabel and her sister Millie are left having to rethink their strategy.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Somberly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/somberly. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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