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Adjective
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Beginning March 31, Cinema United is bringing together the folks who represent all those screens for CinemaCon, which is the annual convention in which the studios show off their upcoming theatrical slates to entice those theater owners to book their movies on their screens.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
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The visual arts community, the theatrical community, the heritage preservation folks, festivals, the people that the independent resident artists bring to their studios are all there.—
Maximilíano Durón,
ARTnews.com,
18 Mar. 2025
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As a piece of political rhetoric, the word has become numbingly histrionic.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
The New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2025
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Tang Ren’s histrionic, oftentimes scatological behavior is offset by Qin Feng’s almost superhuman intuition, and director Chen Sicheng has repeatedly doffed his cap to the BBC’s hugely successful series Sherlock, not least in the vivid visualisations of Holmes’ deductive reasoning.—
James Marsh,
Deadline,
31 Jan. 2025
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This melodramatic pivot is surplus to the requirements of a shattered family portrait already rife with conflict and complication, and most moving when centered on small, everyday gestures of tenderness and loyalty.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
8 Mar. 2025
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Fortunately this is a terrific cast that also avoids overplaying the melodramatic undertones here, keeping it believably human all the way.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
7 Mar. 2025
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Every actor’s Hamlet is theirs and theirs alone, and Olivier’s is big and hammy and searing and often quite devastating.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2025
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More emotional scenes, however, feel hammy and didactic, heavy on the telling over the showing (and that telling hinges on being damn blunt about the whole thing, to boot).—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
19 Feb. 2025
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Given Trump’s order, the release of all this information sounded dramatic, but much of what has been revealed is about as interesting as that driver’s-license detail.—
Kaitlyn Tiffany,
The Atlantic,
22 Mar. 2025
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Former Reba co-stars Melissa Peterman (as Gabby, the needy and dramatic bartender) and Reba McEntire already have proven chemistry, and any scene between the two is a lightning rod for plenty of chuckles.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes,
22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Ferrell just isn’t right for this part: The role is too stagy, too wordy for him, and his style of comedy is just too modern and deconstructionist to handle the Borscht Belt punning of Mel Brooks.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2025
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Here was elegance without exaggeration, tension and beauty without stagy excess.—
James Shapiro,
The New York Review of Books,
3 Jan. 2025
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“Actorly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/actorly. Accessed 29 Mar. 2025.
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