surreality

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Recent Examples of surreality Director Lance Oppenheim, who makes his narrative feature debut with the A24 release, really spoke to the surreality of it all while speaking at the film’s festival press conference. — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026 Last November, Levy spoke with Entertainment Weekly about the influence that Star Wars had on his work and the surreality of now making one of these movies himself. — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Aug. 2026 The evolution of homicidal doll Chucky has been a real trip since his debut in 1988, and 1998's Bride of Chucky marked an inflection point toward gonzo surreality under the direction of Hong Kong action-horror master Ronny Yu. — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 31 July 2026 Throughout, the show’s trademark surreality and sense of play allowed Sweeney to act out massive emotional swings and to edge into the absurd, as in a sequence where Cassie strides through Los Angeles, towering over buildings and dominating the men below. — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 10 June 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
  • At a party one night, struggling musician Owen strikes a connection with a young woman (Sadie Soverall) that feels downright magical — she’s even dressed as a fairy, emphasizing the dreaminess of the moment.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • Viewers will be relieved to know that the last few minutes — in which Schulman delivers us a shocking act of violence — are fiction.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Cycle two dedicated to projects in production, received 696 submissions, with 17 projects ultimately selected, spanning feature fiction, feature documentary and short fiction.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Subverting the unassuming realism of the city with the twisted unreality of this level design not only heightens the uncanny factor but also unlocks more design creativity.
    — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 18 Sep. 2026
  • God is the infinite Mind that naturally causes each individual to know right from wrong, truth from untruth, and most importantly, reality from unreality.
    — Suzanne Riedel, Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2026
Noun
  • The Ministry of Time is one of the more anticipated BBC fantasy series currently in the works.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026
  • His search gradually shifts from extraterrestrial fantasies toward the invisible outsiders living among us on Earth.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2026

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“Surreality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surreality. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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