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Recent Examples of melodrama
His earlier works presented short, bizarre riffs on silent cinema and the genres of the past — war flicks, melodramas, propaganda films, etc.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
Sally Kirkland’s grassroots effort The star of the 1987 melodrama Anna, Kirkland knew that her indie release didn’t have the marketing budget for a splashy best-actress campaign.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 8 Feb. 2025
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
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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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
Sally Kirkland’s grassroots effort The star of the 1987 melodrama Anna, Kirkland knew that her indie release didn’t have the marketing budget for a splashy best-actress campaign.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 8 Feb. 2025
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
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for melodrama
Noun
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Simultaneously, the Claire Tow Theater will program events, concerts and comedy shows, in addition to LCT3 productions, serving as a hub for community gatherings.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
19 Mar. 2025
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Also, Adam, being a comedy writer, giving feedback on the writing was great.—
Georg Szalai,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Mar. 2025
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Gone are the days of sending flowers and jewelry; today’s unique anniversary gifts for him and her focus on personal touches and sentimentality.—
Jené Luciani Sena,
Fox News,
12 Mar. 2025
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The Islanders spent their final game before the trade deadline surrounded by uncertainty and steeped in sentimentality.—
Jerry Beach,
Forbes,
6 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
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That form inflects the entire movie—the contours of its dramas, the style of the performances, the earnest emotionalism—while also embodying a noteworthy conceptual vision.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
20 Feb. 2025
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Simmons took that religious devotion to exercise, stripped away its grim asceticism and elitism, and imbued it with pure emotionalism and inclusivity.—
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela,
The Atlantic,
16 July 2024
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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
Noun
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The rush occurred mere weeks before Waldorf Astoria Monarch Beach’s planned announcement of their spa updates; the tragedy in Los Angeles simply moved up the timeline for the quiet, coastal community’s merits as a luxury wellness hub.—
Jessica Ourisman,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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And that March, tragedy struck when three people died in a fatal crowd surge at her concert with Finesse2tymes in Rochester, N.Y.—
Kyle Denis,
Billboard,
21 Mar. 2025
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Her theatricality, emotionality, romanticism, and understanding of the human condition led her to writing original songs for motion pictures.—
Carrie Wittmer,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
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If the past 50 years of scores were all about boundless emotionality, these newer scores are pulsing and discordant — closer to Steve Reich or Karlheinz Stockhausen than European Romantic composers like Beethoven or first-generation Americans like Leonard Bernstein.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
27 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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“Melodrama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melodrama. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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