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But another Best Picture nominee offered a more playful variation on The Wild Bunch’s elegiac spirit, the George Roy Hill–directed Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford as outlaws roaming an Old West that’s starting to leave them behind.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
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The elegiac sweep involves the clearing away of detritus.—
Colin Fleming,
New York Daily News,
14 Feb. 2025
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This week, Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco share a vulnerable highlight from their new collaborative album, Jessica Simpson makes a triumphant return to music with a country pop power ballad, and Japanese Breakfast delivers an appropriately melancholy track from her new LP.—
Rolling Stone,
Rolling Stone,
21 Mar. 2025
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Blanchett is apologetic and melancholy as Cate, and wonderfully snotty as Shelly, critiquing the privilege and luxury that the actress knows that famous people like her take for granted.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
15 Mar. 2025
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For many attorneys, the episode encapsulates a lamentable shift in their roles, in which a profession that once embraced the lofty obligation to do good for society has degraded into another grubby enterprise focussed on profits.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2025
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Out of that, this: a team that had three wins over opponents ranked in the top five at the time and 11 wins over NCAA Tournament teams before this lamentable ending.—
Vahe Gregorian,
Kansas City Star,
21 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 dissolve from a god’s eye view of a comforting, warm embrace in a bed between mother and daughter to the cold, sorrowful chill of Alex’s lonely body hits us like a wallop.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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No other actor this year delivered a line with more sorrowful force.—
Peter Rainer,
The Christian Science Monitor,
27 Feb. 2025
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The funeral mass for Azcona will be held Friday at 10:30am at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
12 Mar. 2025
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On Wednesday, Israelis lined the streets to watch the funeral procession for Bibas and her two young sons, Kfir and Ariel, who were nine-months-old and 4 years old respectively when they were taken hostage with their mother, and whose bodies were also returned and identified last week.—
Hadeel Al-Shalchi,
NPR,
27 Feb. 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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This latest album is plaintive, with tracks about remembering historical tragedies and overcoming hard times.—
Kate LoPresti,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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Basden, who also wrote the plaintive songs that Herb and Nell play together in the film, has an extensive career in British television and theater.—
Peter Rainer,
The Christian Science Monitor,
25 Mar. 2025
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“Dirgelike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dirgelike. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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