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The dark tragicomedy stars Maria Bakalova, who appeared opposite Sacha Baron Cohen in Amazon’s Borat Subsequent Moviefilm and returns to her Bulgarian film roots.
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Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
Her most recent screen role was an episode of Showtime’s Emmy-winning family tragicomedy Shameless (2021).
—EW.com, 18 July 2024
With influences drawn from tragicomedies and coming-of-age indie rom-coms and more distinctly social media platforms like TikTok and X (formerly Twitter), many of us try to inject a sense of drama, excitement and mystery into our lives by, well, making some dubious decisions.
—Beauty Dhlamini, refinery29.com, 15 Jan. 2024
The tragicomedy follows a New York journalist named Ruth (Dunham), who confronts generational family trauma on a trip to Poland with her father, Edek (Stephen Fry), a Holocaust survivor.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024
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Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
Her most recent screen role was an episode of Showtime’s Emmy-winning family tragicomedy Shameless (2021).
—EW.com, 18 July 2024
With influences drawn from tragicomedies and coming-of-age indie rom-coms and more distinctly social media platforms like TikTok and X (formerly Twitter), many of us try to inject a sense of drama, excitement and mystery into our lives by, well, making some dubious decisions.
—Beauty Dhlamini, refinery29.com, 15 Jan. 2024
The tragicomedy follows a New York journalist named Ruth (Dunham), who confronts generational family trauma on a trip to Poland with her father, Edek (Stephen Fry), a Holocaust survivor.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024
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Grab dinner or a few drinks, see a movie or comedy show, stay in and make dinner together, or sit on the porch with a glass of wine.Alex Vance, Parents, 1 Nov. 2024
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There is something innately amusing about meaty, cheesy pasta as a sculptural material, but in combination with the mythically ruinous painkiller, comedy and tragedy conspired to forge an unforgettable image-concept.Jeff Gibson, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
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Even Lawrence, the steadiest of the lot, gets caught up in the melodrama.Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024
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Haley was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor in the 2006 Academy Awards for his performance in Todd Field’s 2006 satirical melodrama Little Children.Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2024
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Life itself, with all its toil, drudgery, tragedy, and pain, is weighty enough.Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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At the groundbreaking, First Selectman Bill Gerber noted that the tragedies on Redding Road have resulted in a number of people who have become emotionally invested in making safety a priority.Brian Gioiele, Connecticut Post, 1 Nov. 2024
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Gaga would be seen as a key component of what Phillips wants to do with this sequel as well, in terms of integrating old-fashioned musical numbers into the psychodrama.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2024
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Excess, violence, and the kind of family psychodrama that would make Sigmund Freud’s eyes pop — yes, the first full trailer for Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is here.Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2024
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So many people worldwide have been introduced not only to your work, but to musical theater itself, through recordings of your musicals.Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 24 Oct. 2024
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The last of the musicals Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote at the peak of his own fame, the show played Broadway with Glenn Close as its Norma in 1994; Close reprised the role in New York in 2017.Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024
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After all, Bruce Campbell is the reigning king of horror comedy with roles in the first three Evil Dead films and Ash vs. Evil Dead, while Julie Bowen starred in the classic sitcom Modern Family and Anna Camp played a key role in the Pitch Perfect musical comedy trilogy.Tim Lammers, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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In the musical comedy franchise, Kendrick played the role of Beca, alongside Wilson's Fat Amy and Brittany Snow’s Chloe Beale.Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 11 Oct. 2024
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Watch on Deadline In film, Clemons-Hopkins recently starred opposite Elizabeth Banks, Sarah Snook and Zach Galifianakis in The Beanie Bubble, a dramedy inspired by the Beanie Babies craze of the 1990s, from Apple and Imagine Entertainment.Matt Grobar, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2024
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In the family dramedy series, a young Spanish couple relocates there to provide their children with an optimal quality of life, drawing inspiration from northern European models.John Hopewell, Variety, 22 Oct. 2024
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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 9 Nov. 2024.
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