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Noun
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Scottish actor Capaldi, the twelfth Doctor in the Doctor Who universe (2013–2017), won several awards, including a British Academy Television Award, for his performance as Malcolm Tucker in the beloved satire The Thick of It (2005–2012).—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
10 Apr. 2025 -
The story works less as a Hollywood satire than as a survival thriller.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2025
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Plot details for The Naked Gun are being kept under wraps, but like the first three movies, viewers can expect a cop spoof filled with ridiculous sight gags.—
Christopher Rudolph,
People.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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Beginning in the ‘30s and really hitting their stride in the glorious color animation of the ‘40s and ‘50s, the Warner Bros. cartoons have certainly stretched the bounds of what’s possible in 8-11 minutes, from full opera spoofs to fourth-wall-breaking experiments.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
17 Mar. 2025
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Where Wilson went slow, Kosky goes fast; his performers engage in vaudevillian prancing, slapstick scampering, Chaplinesque waddling, and acrobatic clambering.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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Every so often, the E.R. is visited by rats, little symbols of disrepair and instigators of slapstick freak-outs.—
James Poniewozik,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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In Terrence McNally’s The Ritz, a farce set in a gay club not unlike the Continental Baths, Moreno plays Googie Gomez, an outrageous singer with dreams of stardom.—
Mark Seliger,
Vulture,
7 Apr. 2025
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Get your popcorn ready to watch the next act of this play — whether tragedy or farce — on April 2. Related Articles St. Paul economist and writer Edward Lotterman can be reached at [email protected].—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
23 Mar. 2025
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Elsewhere, Abercrombie’s pastorals are almost like burlesques of plein air painting.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
ARTnews.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Expect a heavy-hitting lineup of live music, rotating DJs, and burlesque shows that will carry you well into the late night hours.—
Kristin Braswell,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Mar. 2025
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Imagination was key to the films that Hess made after Napoleon Dynamite: the soulful Nacho Libre, in which Jack Black as a novice monk and Lucha Libre fan gave a fully rounded characterization, and the ingenious fantasy-fiction parody Gentlemen Broncos.—
Armond White,
National Review,
16 Apr. 2025
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The joke came in an SNL parody of The White Lotus, which stars Wood.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Apr. 2025
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