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Recent Examples of tragicomedy
Diego Luna got his feet wet as a director with the promising 2011 debut, Abel, a slight but disarming tragicomedy that took imaginative shots at Mexican patriarchy and manhood.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2026
Almodóvar’s latest is billed as a tragicomedy, starring Bárbara Lennie and Leonardo Sbaragli as writer-directors exploring autofiction.
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Rachel Handler,
Vulture,
12 May 2026
It’s presented as dramatic dialogue, or maybe as absurdist tragicomedy.
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Hua Hsu,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
That’s a strong hook, but Thai filmmaker Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke is just getting started with an erotic political tragicomedy that, like a Roomba, is forever veering off in unexpected directions.
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Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2026
Almodóvar’s latest is billed as a tragicomedy, starring Bárbara Lennie and Leonardo Sbaragli as writer-directors exploring autofiction.
—
Rachel Handler,
Vulture,
12 May 2026
It’s presented as dramatic dialogue, or maybe as absurdist tragicomedy.
—
Hua Hsu,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
That’s a strong hook, but Thai filmmaker Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke is just getting started with an erotic political tragicomedy that, like a Roomba, is forever veering off in unexpected directions.
—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tragicomedy
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The two first crossed paths on André's Adult Swim late-night talk show comedy series The Eric André Show in 2020.
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In the latest installment of the comedy franchise, written by Chris Hazzard and Mike Fontana, Nick faces his biggest challenge yet… grandkids.
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With a deep baritone and a flair for hyperbolic sentimentality, Clayton-Thomas’ melodrama fueled a string of hits for Blood, Sweat, and Tears in the late Sixties and early Seventies.
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Griffith’s own work looks stiff and sentimental, weighed down with melodrama and grandiosity that may have seemed dated even in 1915.
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First a human scores a model’s outputs — say, how likely a character in a drama would be to react to news of a tragedy with a host of jokes or expressions of sympathy — going back with one score after another to various responses.
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The parents of the teen killed in the horse carriage crash in Central Park are remembering their son as rides resume a week after the tragedy.
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Unlike Magazine Dreams, the modest but satisfying Test avoids the lurid descent into violent psychodrama that swerved into hallucinatory Taxi Driver territory and undercut that film’s integrity.
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And Malia is also achingly lonesome for her family life, with a sister about to get married and a doting father played, in this headache-inducingly twisty psychodrama’s most refreshing meta-twist, by Romanian director Radu Jude.
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Of course, bringing an original musical to New York is no small feat.
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The Rocky Horror Show began life as a theatrical musical on London’s West End in 1973.
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New Zealand actor and comedian Jemaine Clement is having a moment thanks to recent reunion gigs for Flight of the Conchords, his musical comedy act with Bret McKenzie, and co-starring role in buzzy Disney+ relationship drama Alice & Steve.
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Frankie stars in the musical comedy, a parody of the 1997 blockbuster Titanic set to a score of songs by Céline Dion.
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Cruz joined director Olivia Wilde and costar Seth Rogen for the screening and conversation of the upcoming dramedy.
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This dramedy, about a man whose husband is abducted by aliens, is the perfect choice for summer — with a poignant twist.
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In her performance of Francis Poulenc’s operatic monodrama La Voix Humaine (The Human Voice), Hannigan turned that problem — and many more — into an advantage with a couple of technological aids.
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At the end of mountain stages, a delicious monodrama always unfolds.
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“Tragicomedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tragicomedy. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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