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In the featurette below, premiering exclusively on Billboard, Sink is a traveling troubadour in a wasteland communicating with her music, but runs afoul of a charismatic dictator, Plutonovich, played by Bartlett.
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Melinda Newman, Billboard, 17 Mar. 2025
In a featurette from the forthcoming digital release of A Complete Unknown, which Entertainment Weekly can share exclusively above, star Timothée Chalamet discusses his extensive vocal and musical preparation to portray a young Dylan on the rise.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2025
In fact, White teased the possibility of more Greg in a featurette accompanying that season’s finale.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 17 Feb. 2025
Bonus content will be available on the disc, including special features and a featurette.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
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Melinda Newman, Billboard, 17 Mar. 2025
In a featurette from the forthcoming digital release of A Complete Unknown, which Entertainment Weekly can share exclusively above, star Timothée Chalamet discusses his extensive vocal and musical preparation to portray a young Dylan on the rise.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2025
In fact, White teased the possibility of more Greg in a featurette accompanying that season’s finale.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 17 Feb. 2025
Bonus content will be available on the disc, including special features and a featurette.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for featurette
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Three decades later, the documentary Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror looks back on that day, featuring interviews with law enforcement involved in the case and victims of the attack.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
18 Apr. 2025
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Whether a film is a documentary or a fictional drama, all modern cinema is in a sense docu-fictional, because most viewers know that a documentary is carefully crafted to yield a narrative and that the making of a fictional film is often as good a story as the one in the script.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2025
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Going for a cut that accentuates your best facial features and hair texture can be a foolproof way to walk out of the hair salon feeling happy.—
Julie Ricevuto,
Glamour,
15 Apr. 2025
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This is a sprawling document of balance changes, quality-of-life tweaks, and major new features.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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This is one of those stories that could easily be a feature length film.—
Mac Engel,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Apr. 2025
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Versions of these battles were playing out at the U: a Latino student group, Mecha, blocked the entrance to a film screening about transgender kids who had detransitioned, hosted by the Young Americans for Freedom.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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This means there are no story connections between any of the shorts, beyond the general overlapping of genre and theme.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
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Brooks & Dunn fans were left wanting more Thursday when the band unexpectedly cut their encore short.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
7 Apr. 2025
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What might work in a fantasy show, or a campy horror movie, comes off as weirdly goofy here.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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The actress, who had shaved her head in 2024 for a movie role, managed to keep her lack of hair hidden until the awards show.—
Brittany Talarico,
People.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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The first time Kurt Russell met Val Kilmer was when the Hollywood homegrown was hanging out with Cher on the set of Silkwood, a 1983 docudrama.—
Charisma Madarang,
Rolling Stone,
2 Apr. 2025
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The filmmaker broke out with his 2023 docudrama BlackBerry, charting the rise and fall of the world’s first smartphone, which premiered to critical raves at the Berlinale and was named by the National Board of Review as one of the Top 10 Independent Films of 2023.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
9 Apr. 2025
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Some passed the Star & Garter bar, with its cartoon in the window stating ‘Thistle Be Our Season’.—
Michael Walker,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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The cartoon imagines that the audience would revel in punching down.—
Yii-Jan Lin,
The Conversation,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Featurette.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/featurette. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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