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Adjective
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Following the film's IMAX run, Gerwig's Narnia will be available on Netflix as per Belloni, who also reveals that the film will be shot on both IMAX and regular cameras, with the potential for a regular theatrical run alongside the IMAX release.—
Billie Melissa,
Newsweek,
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Netflix has approved a limited theatrical run for Greta Gerwig‘s forthcoming Chronicles of Narnia adaptation.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
17 Jan. 2025
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This is histrionic and fun and has a nice ending with Michael Longfellow.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
8 Dec. 2024
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Beginning at the very apex of his falsetto, Hawkins tears through his ode to a life-changing love with an impassioned vocal performance that peppers his slight drawl with histrionic growls, effortlessly matching the rousing energy of the track’s instrumentation.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
3 Sep. 2019
Adjective
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Movies in this questionably political category tend to feature othered people dealing with some melodramatic version of struggle.—
Kyndall Cunningham,
Vox,
6 Jan. 2025
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Instead, their presence tips the narrative into something both more melodramatic and more conventional, with blazing showdowns and a climax of moral retribution worthy of Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
3 Jan. 2025
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Hemsworth is gleefully hammy as the OTT villain, while Taylor-Joy can do more eyes than seems humanly possible.—
Photo: Courtesy of MGM.,
refinery29.com,
23 Dec. 2024
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Daniels is morose and whiny and Reynolds is hammy and over-the-top, which allows Stone to steal the movie, giving it its only modicum of zest and soul.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
10 Mar. 2024
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By allowing additional seconds or minutes to elapse between a user’s prompt and the program’s response, and by providing extra computational power at the program’s critical moment of inference, some AI developers have seen a dramatic jump in the accuracy of chatbot answers.—
Lauren Leffer,
Scientific American,
23 Jan. 2025
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The current era is a dramatic shift—almost like a changing of the guard.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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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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This framing device, which has the clunky air of a middlebrow play, provides a convenient if stagy way of breaking down his biography into manageable parts.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Aug. 2024
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“Actorly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/actorly. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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