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Recent Examples of tragicomedy
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.
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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 3 Dec. 2024
The jury cited his skill in crafting a tragicomedy against the backdrop of social upheaval.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Nov. 2024
John Fawcett’s flawless tragicomedy is part satire, part splatter body-horror flick, part full-on monster movie, and complete heart.
—EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
The Off-Broadway tragicomedy stars Driver as Strings McCrane, a country music icon who finds himself at a crossroads following the death of his mother.
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2024
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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 3 Dec. 2024
The jury cited his skill in crafting a tragicomedy against the backdrop of social upheaval.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Nov. 2024
John Fawcett’s flawless tragicomedy is part satire, part splatter body-horror flick, part full-on monster movie, and complete heart.
—EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
The Off-Broadway tragicomedy stars Driver as Strings McCrane, a country music icon who finds himself at a crossroads following the death of his mother.
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tragicomedy
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During the event, held on Feb. 22 at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium and hosted by Deon Cole, the Wayans family was honored for their contributions to TV, film and comedy.—
Marissa Muller,
WWD,
22 Feb. 2025
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The result was a raucous and at times sentimental at television's most famous comedy hour.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
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There was a lot of love for The Brutalist, Brady Corbet’s extraordinary shout-out to both 1950s wide-screen melodramas and 1970s moody epics, which was not a surprise.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
24 Feb. 2025
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The film teases a will-they-or-won’t-they frisson about the two, and occasionally taps a lush score that wafts in the romantic melancholy of a 1960s American melodrama (making one wonder if the score from May December is starting to have its first, unironic imitations).—
Nicolas Rapold,
Deadline,
16 Feb. 2025
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Ahead of the tragedy, Caribbean leaders met with U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres to discuss the future of the mission amid its uncertain funding.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
25 Feb. 2025
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The cause of the maritime tragedy remains under investigation.—
Leah Sarnoff,
ABC News,
24 Feb. 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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Life imitated art on the set of The Sound of Music, the beloved musical that debuted in movie theaters on March 2, 1965.—
Jen Juneau,
People.com,
26 Feb. 2025
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The Basics On the original Smash, the Marilyn musical is called Bombshell.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2025
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Tommy Dix, who starred as a young military school cadet opposite Lucille Ball in the 1943 MGM musical comedy Best Foot Forward after appearing in the Broadway original, has died.—
Mike Barnes,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Feb. 2025
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What a week to revive a musical comedy about corporate raiders sabotaging the public good.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
7 Feb. 2025
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And in some of his greatest on-screen work ever, Hackman depicted the resentful, acidic patriarch in the Wes Anderson dramedy The Royal Tenenbaums.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2025
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The holiday dramedy toes a careful line between dry humor and themes of mental health and personal loss, and no one does it better in the cast than Randolph.—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
25 Feb. 2025
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At the end of mountain stages, a delicious monodrama always unfolds.—
Thomas Curran,
Time,
8 Aug. 2023
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Suzie Miller constructs her monodrama at the intersection of #MeToo and British justice, and though the dramatist appends a superfluous moral to the story, the proceedings amount to a virtuosic, blow-by-blow account of a process stacked against female victims.—
Peter Marks,
Washington Post,
17 May 2022
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“Tragicomedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tragicomedy. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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