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a social sphere that exists outside of the mainstream
a magazine article taking an insightful look at the underworld inhabited by street people
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That was the key idea that started the whole thought process for me, and then to be able to use that to explore this very elevated movie version of the criminal underworld, all those things made sense.
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Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 18 Sep. 2024
Set against the backdrop of Corsica in 1995, the narrative follows the father-daughter pair as they’re forced to flee when violence erupts in the criminal underworld.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Nov. 2024
As the title indicates, the story centers around Hit-Monkey (Fred Tatasciore), a snow monkey intent on taking out the Tokyo underworld with the help of his mentor, Bryce Fowler (Jason Sudeikis).
—Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
That leads them into a vast, interconnected conspiracy linking the murky London underworld to a looming geopolitical crisis.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2024
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Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 18 Sep. 2024
Set against the backdrop of Corsica in 1995, the narrative follows the father-daughter pair as they’re forced to flee when violence erupts in the criminal underworld.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Nov. 2024
As the title indicates, the story centers around Hit-Monkey (Fred Tatasciore), a snow monkey intent on taking out the Tokyo underworld with the help of his mentor, Bryce Fowler (Jason Sudeikis).
—Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
That leads them into a vast, interconnected conspiracy linking the murky London underworld to a looming geopolitical crisis.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2024
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So what if her husband, Bill, is hovering on the edge of the abyss of Alzheimer’s?Jesse Green, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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Accused of stealing a backpack in the Bronx in 2010, Browder was dropped into an abyss of bureaucracy and neglect.Jelani Cobb, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024
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Below that is the Futures tour, tennis’s vast netherworld of more than 2,000 true prospects and hopeless dreamers.Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 8 July 2024
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Tells Real-Life Tales of the Country's Most Notorious Motorcycle Gang 'Dune: Part Two' Is Bigger, Bolder — and Yes, Even Better — Than Part One Lyons’ book also utilized a long, taped conversation with Kathy Bauer, the real-life Benny’s wife, as a dispatch from this dirty-fingernail netherworld.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
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In the frigid depths, the cold-blooded animals’ movements and metabolism slow dramatically.Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024
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In contrast, Raman lidar systems can analyze underwater environments at various depths without being impacted by these sea conditions.Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 10 Dec. 2024
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Should their conditions worsen or improve, the end result is the same – promising an instant and irrevocable erasure of this demimonde forged from slumber.Ben Croll, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
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The film’s writer-director Yorgos Lanthimos, a connoisseur of Biblical violence and creator of cursed demimondes, likes to push viewers to the limit.Thomas Page, CNN, 21 June 2024
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“Underworld.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underworld. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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