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Recent Examples of tragicomedy
Alas, Godwin’s gentle take on the tragicomedy misses the explosive nature of this moment, the desperation these characters feel to change their fate right now or live and die steeped in stifling ennui.
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Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2025
The tragicomedy follows a grieving widower who sets off on an epic quest to find the truth about a mysterious photo left behind by his deceased wife.
—Ed Meza, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
In the international competition, Australian stop-motion animator Adam Elliot took home the 50,000 Swedish krona ($4,500) prize for his tragicomedy Memoir of a Snail.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025
Feldman’s specific style is hard to explain or neatly label though critics and viewers alike have tried to with terms like dramedy and tragicomedy.
—Dana Feldman, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2025
The tragicomedy follows a grieving widower who sets off on an epic quest to find the truth about a mysterious photo left behind by his deceased wife.
—Ed Meza, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
In the international competition, Australian stop-motion animator Adam Elliot took home the 50,000 Swedish krona ($4,500) prize for his tragicomedy Memoir of a Snail.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025
Feldman’s specific style is hard to explain or neatly label though critics and viewers alike have tried to with terms like dramedy and tragicomedy.
—Dana Feldman, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tragicomedy
Noun
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Examples include Africa United, a comedy about young Rwandan soccer players; The Trial of Jeff David, a true crime podcast detailing the lives of former slaves falsely accused of murder in the 1800s; and Black Enuf, a cartoon about LGBT hip-hop lovers.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
24 Apr. 2025
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Glickman knew that a successful relaunch required one essential ingredient — the involvement of Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans and Keenen Ivory Wayans, the siblings who gave those popular comedies their subversive spark.—
Katcy Stephan,
Variety,
23 Apr. 2025
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Photo: Everett Collection Most stories about identical twins fall into the genres of horror or comedy, but A Stolen Life, one of the earliest twin movies, opts for sumptuous melodrama.—
Barry Levitt,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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But this is also Coogler’s riff on the Western, with circling buzzards and black hats; his stylish crime-flick pastiche, with sleek suits and loaded guns; and a Southern Gothic melodrama about the sins of the father and the return of prodigal sons.—
A.A. Dowd,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2025
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Holland was attempting a routine landing when the tragedy occurred, and was not performing any stunts, Boggs said.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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While King's career has been fruitful, she's also experienced tragedy in her personal life.—
EW Staff,
EW.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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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.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
21 Mar. 2025
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Comic pastiche gives way to tender romantic ballads only to explode in musical psychodrama.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Mar. 2025
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Stephen Sondheim might have enjoyed the challenge of creating a musical from such an outlandish premise.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Apr. 2025
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There’s probably a lot of coffee, as well as a starry-eyed love of stage performance, especially classic musicals and dance.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2025
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Halle Bailey, Havana Rose Liu and Bernadette Peters have joined the untitled musical comedy, which stars Julianne Moore, Paul Giamatti and Eisenberg.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
15 Apr. 2025
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For the rest of us, a real musical comedy is a cause for celebration; most are either too tuneless to be musicals or too dull to be comedies.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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Disney has moved James L. Brooks’ dramedy Ella McCay from Sept. 19 to Dec. 12.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
25 Apr. 2025
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The network is developing a sequel to Royal Pains, a medical dramedy that ran for eight seasons on USA from 2009-16.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Apr. 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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“Tragicomedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tragicomedy. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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