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Popular on Variety All of this works like a charm, but as the film goes on, it’s slowly subsumed by a larger tale in the background, unfolding in the form of oblique 1950s flashbacks and opaque references to decades-old blood feuds.
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Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 21 May 2024
At first, the story plays its cards close to its chest before transforming wildly and suddenly into a mythological epic about secret societies and millennia-old blood feuds.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 22 Dec. 2023
Albanian, Colombian, and Mexican groups have formed alliances with local gangs to store and move drug shipments, transmitting their own blood feuds into Ecuador, where the most powerful gangs, Los Choneros and Los Lobos, are locked in conflict.
—Ivan Briscoe and Glaeldys González, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2023
The attack deepened a blood feud and led to days of clashes that left 13 people dead and forced 4,000 from their homes.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2023
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Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 21 May 2024
At first, the story plays its cards close to its chest before transforming wildly and suddenly into a mythological epic about secret societies and millennia-old blood feuds.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 22 Dec. 2023
Albanian, Colombian, and Mexican groups have formed alliances with local gangs to store and move drug shipments, transmitting their own blood feuds into Ecuador, where the most powerful gangs, Los Choneros and Los Lobos, are locked in conflict.
—Ivan Briscoe and Glaeldys González, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2023
The attack deepened a blood feud and led to days of clashes that left 13 people dead and forced 4,000 from their homes.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2023
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Disney had a distribution deal with Pixar, but there was a lot of bad blood between the two companies.Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
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But those brief bad blood moments were few and far between.Joe Lynch, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2024
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Lamar released the anthemic West Coast banger in May after the rappers’ feud resurfaced in March.Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2024
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Burns didn’t know the Turners but went to the Archer Court home with his girlfriend, who was part of the feud.Quinlan Bentley, The Courier-Journal, 19 Dec. 2024
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And Answers For Saturday, December 21 As for the music, award-winning songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote the songs for the film, while Dave Metzger composed the original score.Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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The score would remain the same until William Nylander’s empty-netter secured the 6-3 victory.Omar White, The Athletic, 21 Dec. 2024
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All of the hatred and violence of their relationship all culminated in this moment.Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
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But this act also gave people permission to go far enough—to acknowledge their righteous hatred of our depraved health-care system, and even to conjure something funny or silly or joyous out of that hate.Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
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So filmmaker Zack Snyder, who’d taken over as visionary leader of the DCEU, was forced to gut much of his film’s central motivations for Batman’s and Superman’s animosity toward one another, and removing most of Superman’s emotional and heroic arc in the process.Mark Hughes, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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The visit is being investigated in connection with the alleged killer’s apparent animosity towards the healthcare industry.Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 14 Dec. 2024
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The closest parallel was nearly 50 years ago, when then-Egyptian President Anwar Sadat jettisoned decades of enmity and abruptly announced his readiness to travel to Israel, kickstarting diplomacy that led to a peace treaty.Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2024
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That space the evil one abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed.Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
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In severe cases, patients may experience extreme weight loss, jaundice, inflammation of the pancreas, delirium, shock, liver failure, massive hemorrhaging and multi-organ dysfunction, the CDC stated.Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2024
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Seek treatment immediately if your skin or the whites of your eyes turn yellow, as this is a likely sign of jaundice.Doru Paul, Health, 20 Nov. 2024
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Both women seem stuck in a cycle of mutual antagonism, leaving us to wonder how long the truce will last before someone gets triggered again.Shelby Stewart, Essence, 16 Dec. 2024
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Iran’s leadership is steeped in antagonism toward both Israel and the United States, and the regime’s investment in its nuclear program and proxy network has been key to its survival strategy.Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Blood feud.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blood%20feud. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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