How to Use two-hander in a Sentence

two-hander

noun

• And the two-hander aspect of it is just off-the-charts brilliant.
  — Rob Turbovsky, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2024
• The project is described as a two-hander, so Blunt would be playing one of the leads in the project.
  — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 13 June 2024
• The project is seen as a two-hander and sources say that Monroe the first choice for the role of nanny.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Sep. 2024
• The play is a two-hander that, while set in the modern day, has a nebulous sense of time and space.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
• But the movie is really a two-hander — a duet between a man and his cage.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2023
• The Life and Loves of Edith Wharton was a personal two-hander project of hers that toured for many years.
  — Clare Fisher, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2023
• The film appears to be a two-hander between Cruise and Atwell, who are at odds yet must team up to survive in the scene.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2023
• What’s the joy and terror of a two-hander, of having to rely so much on each other?
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• The flagship [series] did not really allow for the time and the space for a two-hander.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2024
• Details on Youssef’s part are being kept under wraps though sources say the show isn’t a two-hander.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2024
• For me, their stories are like a two-hander, because both men are driving our show.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024
• The pieces span nearly two decades, from the mid-two-thousands to last year, and each one is a two-hander of sorts, between Nelson and an artist or a work of art.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2024
• Her co-star in the two-hander, Laura Linney, was left out of the category.
  — Gordon Cox, Variety, 10 June 2023
• Like in the first season, though, the ultimate villain reveal was a two-hander.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 20 June 2024
• But there’s also something for the casual viewer, the one who doesn’t much care about match cuts or dolly shots or the meaning of two-hander.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
• Fair Play is mostly a two-hander carried by Dynevor and Ehrenreich.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 8 Aug. 2023
• End of carousel This show is a two-hander, so the absence of works by Degas, who died 34 years after Manet, from the exhibition’s final gallery stands out.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
• The play, a two-hander, is a 1984 drama by John Patrick Shanley about two hardened people who meet in a Bronx bar and wind up spending a night together.
  — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2024
• Featuring a book, music and lyrics by Brown, the two-hander first premiered at Chicago's Northlight Theatre in 2001.
  — Dave Quinn, People.com, 22 Jan. 2025
• It was titled Sidewinder and was more of a two-hander between Costner's character, Hayes, and another man.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 May 2024
• The two-hander centers on two strangers, Danny and Roberta, who meet in a dive bar in the Bronx and strike up conversation and the possibility of a romance.
  — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2023
• Rivals are projecting a $5 million weekend for the Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield two-hander, which would be up 20% from last weekend.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 26 Oct. 2024
• Circle is a two-hander action thriller about assassins from the future hunting each other through time.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 June 2024
• After a quiet holiday debut, Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell’s two-hander has proven to have some stellar word-of-mouth.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 13 Jan. 2024
• Duchovny stars alongside Logan Marshall-Green in a two-hander about a misanthropic man dying of cancer and his sappy son, who craves love from his dad.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 18 Dec. 2023
• In what is essentially a two-hander for the most part, Teller and Taylor-Joy are well matched and make this love story credible against all odds, both also proving to be action stars of the first rank.
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2025
• Kidman is fabulous here in what is essentially a two-hander between her and Flanagan.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 27 June 2024
• Romantic comedies have a reputation for floundering in theaters these days, but perhaps the Sydney Sweeney-Glen Powell two-hander can build on this.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 23 Dec. 2023
• That’s because the trip quickly becomes the Matt and Chris show, a long-running two-hander stuffed with bickering, personality tics and grievances that suggests a friendship of opposites long past its sell-by date.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
• Despite fashioning himself a two-hander, Elcar puts most of his imagination working as the film’s sound designer.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 21 Aug. 2023