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Recent Examples of docudrama
The limited release caps off a mixed week for the journalism docudrama, which earned a Best Drama nom at the Globes but was left out of the Best Picture lineup at Critics Choice.
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Nate Jones, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2024
Event = Peter Sarsgaard, September 5 Photo: Paramount Pictures via YouTube
September 5 is Schrödinger’s contender: Is the Munich Olympics docudrama a potent player awaiting its moment or an also-ran whose own studio barely wanted it?
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 30 Nov. 2024
At Witt’s End elevates the typical true-crime docudrama by drawing an intimate portrait of Witt, a beloved teen whose life was cut far too short.
—Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
The production reunites Pacino and Chastain for the first time since the former’s 2011 docudrama Wilde Salomé, with that collaboration sparked by their appearing together in a stage production of Oscar Wilde’s 1891 play Salomé.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024
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Nate Jones, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2024
Event = Peter Sarsgaard, September 5 Photo: Paramount Pictures via YouTube
September 5 is Schrödinger’s contender: Is the Munich Olympics docudrama a potent player awaiting its moment or an also-ran whose own studio barely wanted it?
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 30 Nov. 2024
At Witt’s End elevates the typical true-crime docudrama by drawing an intimate portrait of Witt, a beloved teen whose life was cut far too short.
—Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
The production reunites Pacino and Chastain for the first time since the former’s 2011 docudrama Wilde Salomé, with that collaboration sparked by their appearing together in a stage production of Oscar Wilde’s 1891 play Salomé.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024
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Amazon put $40 million behind a Melania Trump documentary.Scott Rosenberg, Axios, 11 Jan. 2025
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Trump's eldest son landed in Nuuk on Tuesday and spent the day handing out red caps, filming a documentary and speaking to residents.Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2025
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Tim Lammers For example, SPE’s summer action comedy smash Bad Boys: Ride or Die opened in theaters on June 7 PVOD and arrived on PVOD about six weeks later, on July 23.Tim Lammers, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
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The original did air on NBC, which could rebuild a comedy block to try to bring back Must-See TV.Emily Longeretta, Variety, 18 Jan. 2025
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Other election experts that the government allowed to witness the vote said polling records posted online by the opposition appear to exhibit all of the original security features.Regina Garcia Cano, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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This is a cool feature of Bitcoin that was there from the beginning.Korok Ray, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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His television series Twin Peaks (1990–91, 2017) further cemented his reputation, becoming a cultural phenomenon with its blend of soap opera melodrama, supernatural intrigue, and quirky humor.Darryn King, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
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David Lynch, the acclaimed filmmaker who blended dreamlike surrealism with mystery and melodrama in films like Mulholland Drive and television projects like Twin Peaks, has died at 78.Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 16 Jan. 2025
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Trump's lawyers are asking the Supreme Court to delay his sentencing in New York on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records connected to a $130,000 hush-money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 election.CBS News, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2025
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The Last Showgirl actress, 66, recreated her famous aerobics scene from her 1985 film Perfect, which also stars John Travolta, on the latest episode of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon — only the pair's new version featured several saucy twists!Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 9 Jan. 2025
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Feldman’s specific style is hard to explain or neatly label though critics and viewers alike have tried to with terms like dramedy and tragicomedy.Dana Feldman, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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If that sounds less than promising, even for a deadpan Romanian slice-of-life tragicomedy, go ahead and make the mistake of skipping this one.Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 3 Dec. 2024
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Part of what was fun about working on this project was really living in her personality for the length of a movie.Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
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The closest analogy to what Whannell is trying to do here isn’t a werewolf movie so much as David Cronenberg’s The Fly (1986), which turned a ’50s B-movie into a gory, gooey interpretation of the havoc disease wreaks on those suffering from both sides of the hospital bed.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2025
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The results are equal parts marital crisis, sins-of-the-father psychodrama and visceral body horror.Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2025
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Niemann himself sometimes seems like a method actor appearing in a psychodrama, whether by temperament or by a recognition that the mad villain is the only decent role available to him now.Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2025
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“Docudrama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/docudrama. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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