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The exhibit’s name and its graphic treatment are themselves an elegiac ode to Heaven, the avant-garde novelty boutique at the Century City Mall that held serious sway in the ’80s with the likes of Brooke Shields, Paul Reubens and Freddie Mercury.—
Gary Baum,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Feb. 2025 -
Out went the names, and in came a sweeping, elegiac — but life-fostering — quality that operates as a sonic treatise on the nature of love itself.—
Colin Fleming,
New York Daily News,
14 Feb. 2025
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The Welsh quartet’s Dead Meat follow-up takes DNA from the Smiths’ melancholy exuberance, the Go-Betweens’ windswept gusto, and gung-ho London punk fervor to formulate a disempowered power-pop that spins insecurity and grief into bundles of melodic joy.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
7 Mar. 2025
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Luckily, Pattinson manages to keep things buoyant without diluting the late-capitalism metaphors or the melancholy existentialism.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
6 Mar. 2025
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Rooks deftly sketches this lamentable, sobering history.—
Justin Driver,
The Atlantic,
15 Mar. 2025
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Goldberg would appear in several popular movies — Jumpin’ Jack Flash, The Sister Act franchise, and, in an Oscar-winning role, the lamentable Ghost.—
Armond White,
National Review,
7 Mar. 2025
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Somebody Somewhere is tiny: a gorgeous, introspective, intimate story about a woman with devastatingly mundane problems whose chief obstacle is her own aching sense of grief and dislocation.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
9 Dec. 2024
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In this novel about the shape-shifting nature of love, Parsons captures Kit’s grief in aching and honest terms.—
Annabel Gutterman,
TIME,
6 Dec. 2024
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The funeral procession begins with a sorrowful requiem but transitions into a celebration of life — reminding us that life extends beyond death, that grief is not the absence of love but an extension of it.—
Mathew Holloway,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Feb. 2025
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Such sentiments may not be entirely avoidable, but party planners can emphasize fun and a festive atmosphere to ensure the night is celebratory and not sorrowful.—
Metro Creative Services,
Boston Herald,
24 Feb. 2025
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For the certification, Senate pages carried the Electoral College ballot boxes through the rotunda like caskets in a funeral procession.—
Antonia Hitchens,
The New Yorker,
21 Jan. 2025
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Now the family is grappling with funeral arrangements for the young woman.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
2 Mar. 2025
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James, with his doleful countenance, makes the adult Hal vaguely sympathetic.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2025
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Krauss’s ethereal voice is as haunting as ever on this mournful ballad, where doleful lyrics look back on a time marked by regret and deceit, and get elevated by the elegant interplay between Krauss’ voice and Jerry Douglas’s soul-piercing steel guitar.—
Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
3 Feb. 2025
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Featuring Harris’ own plaintive vocals, the song is another pretty undeniable earworm from one of dance’s foremost hitmakers.—
Katie Bain,
Billboard,
14 Mar. 2025
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The scenes that follow — accompanied by the plaintive strings of composer Suad Bushnaq’s soulful orchestral score — are genuinely awe-inspiring.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Dirgelike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dirgelike. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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