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Recent Examples of surreality
If this is a slightly offbeat choice for a midnight movie column, there’s something to be said about the surreality of viewing such an immediate and reactive artform from nearly 10 years of distance.
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 29 May 2026
His music has spanned genres and mediums, with the composer filling various roles, but its through line is its sense of the uncanny and Lopatin’s understanding of how warping sonic textures can tap into surreality.
—Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026
The surreality of Colbert and Dratch’s advice made this sketch work.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
The longer Liz stays in that house, the more her mind seems to slip into a Repulsion-esque surreality.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 13 Nov. 2025
There are few characters, minimal flourishes of surreality, and a complete lack of the outré whimsy that defined several of Lanthimos’s previous projects with Stone, including Poor Things and The Favourite.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2025
Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 29 May 2026
His music has spanned genres and mediums, with the composer filling various roles, but its through line is its sense of the uncanny and Lopatin’s understanding of how warping sonic textures can tap into surreality.
—Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026
The surreality of Colbert and Dratch’s advice made this sketch work.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
The longer Liz stays in that house, the more her mind seems to slip into a Repulsion-esque surreality.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 13 Nov. 2025
There are few characters, minimal flourishes of surreality, and a complete lack of the outré whimsy that defined several of Lanthimos’s previous projects with Stone, including Poor Things and The Favourite.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for surreality
Noun
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Advertisement Michael, at his peak, offered us a cosmopolitan dreaminess that feels too remote in today’s hyper-fractured world.—
Steven Gray,
Time,
29 Apr. 2026
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There’s an intoxicating dreaminess to the imagery that recalls the early films, but with a sharper focus on the menace Collins has always infused in her work.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
13 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Clearly, the promotional popcorn stunts were effective marketing, inspiring fans to flock to comment sections and discussion threads to find out what was fact and what was fiction.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
4 June 2026
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Its presidential reading room features thousands of books chosen by the Obamas, ranging from presidential biographies to best-selling fiction.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
4 June 2026
Noun
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The unreality of Lexi’s play gave us a fun-house mirror of the show cast back onto itself.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
2 June 2026
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The percussive score by Joseph Shirley and Moses Sumney underlines this, and gives the whole film an eerie, curious atmosphere, lending to a sense of nightmarish unreality.—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
15 May 2026
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Founded in 1997 and now among Asia‘s largest showcases for horror, fantasy and thriller cinema, BIFAN runs July 2-12 in Bucheon, just west of Seoul.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
4 June 2026
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Two oversized Adirondack chairs face a campy performance-art film that traces a path from Caribbean sugar plantations and rum production to the modern fantasy of escape marketed by Margaritaville.—
Michelle F. Solomon,
Miami Herald,
4 June 2026
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“Surreality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surreality. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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