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Recent Examples of dramedy
The previous year, Indian Paintbrush (which also recently financed Aubrey Plaza’s coming-of-age dramedy My Old Ass) announced Galerie, a subscription- model digital film club featuring screenings, discussions and exhibits examining cinema.
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Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2025
This quirky Turkish dramedy series tells the tale of a down-and-out sports betting writer for a newspaper who is roped into teaming up with the ghost of a bossy business tycoon demanding to crack his own murder case.
—Dana Feldman, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Some might also reference feel-good sports dramedy Ted Lasso because the story centers on the athletes as much as the owners and coaching staff.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025
And in some of his greatest on-screen work ever, Hackman depicted the resentful, acidic patriarch in the Wes Anderson dramedy The Royal Tenenbaums.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2025
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Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2025
This quirky Turkish dramedy series tells the tale of a down-and-out sports betting writer for a newspaper who is roped into teaming up with the ghost of a bossy business tycoon demanding to crack his own murder case.
—Dana Feldman, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Some might also reference feel-good sports dramedy Ted Lasso because the story centers on the athletes as much as the owners and coaching staff.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025
And in some of his greatest on-screen work ever, Hackman depicted the resentful, acidic patriarch in the Wes Anderson dramedy The Royal Tenenbaums.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dramedy
Noun
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He will next be seen in the British comedy horror film The Scurry.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
7 Mar. 2025
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The crime comedy co-stars Ed Harris, Gabrielle Union, Pete Davidson, and Bill Murray.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
7 Mar. 2025
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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.—
Karen D'Souza,
The Mercury News,
21 Feb. 2025
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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
Noun
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There was a lot of love for The Brutalist, Brady Corbet’s extraordinary shout-out to both 1950s wide-screen melodramas and 1970s moody epics, which was not a surprise.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
24 Feb. 2025
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The film teases a will-they-or-won’t-they frisson about the two, and occasionally taps a lush score that wafts in the romantic melancholy of a 1960s American melodrama (making one wonder if the score from May December is starting to have its first, unironic imitations).—
Nicolas Rapold,
Deadline,
16 Feb. 2025
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About Town Indie Rock As Father John Misty, the singer and multi-instrumentalist Josh Tillman stages albums as little psychodramas.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2025
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The thought that Sam Riley’s Tom might turn out to be Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity or John Garfield in The Postman Always Rings Twice is tantalizing but gradually appears to be more like teasing misdirection as the movie shifts into psychodrama gear.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Feb. 2025
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The director borrows from different genres — nostalgic Westerns, propulsive crime thrillers, high-stakes heist films and even musicals — to tell this winding tale about what makes a place and its people feel like home.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
11 Mar. 2025
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The 50-minute, one-act musical includes audience interaction that begins within a couple minutes of the opening, Jiménez Pagán said.—
Elizabeth Marie Himchak,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Mar. 2025
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In the first section of the book, Franklin repeatedly brings historical analysis, primary sources and Anne Frank’s writing into juxtaposition with each other in a way that both illuminates Anne Frank as an individual and the larger tragedy of the Holocaust.—
John Warner,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Mar. 2025
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Reynolds lends a hardness to Masha, at once bitter and comic, and her leading of a game of bingo at the play’s resolution restores some dark humor just as tragedy is about to strike.—
Demetrios Matheou,
The Hollywood Reporter,
7 Mar. 2025
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In the film, the group of actors are working on a time-traveling musical comedy, which honestly looks rather fun.—
Mark Olsen,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb. 2025
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Eight years later, Shepard played Presley’s business partner’s wife in the ’60s buddy musical comedy.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
27 Jan. 2025
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