What unfolds, beyond the hectoring about American greed, is a bleakly intelligent satire looking for bleakly intelligent viewers.
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The app's Experience choices are often outsized and bleakly funny.
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"Football life is hard now in Latvia," he surmises bleakly.
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Debord bleakly concludes that the integrated spectacle now permeates all reality.
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He recalled bleakly humorous incidents from his past in National Action.
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The service invites you to belong, until, quite bleakly, it doesn't.
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Above all, this is an original and bleakly funny portrait of grief.
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How best to describe this upstart avatar of Beckett's bleakly comic worldview?
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Spree also puts forward a bleakly amoral vision of the internet economy.
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Winston Churchill was grounded in a bleakly realistic view of the world.
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As the children were questioned, they squirmed or stared bleakly at the floor.
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As with much of Beckett's writing, "OK, Mr Field" is often bleakly comic.
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The final five minutes are bleakly abrupt, like being dropped off a cliff.
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As the daughter he seemingly forgot about years ago, it's a bleakly sensible request.
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Stephen Rea returns to the Public Theater in this bleakly comic exploration of prejudice.
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Such accusations are so bleakly common they have earned shorthand among South Africans: "state capture".
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It's a bleakly gorgeous game full of striking imagery and heavy-handed symbolism and abstraction.
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But Lanthimos complicates that one-sided view, painting the loners just as bleakly as the oppressors.
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"There used to be a lot more middle-class jobs," said Clyde bleakly, another concrete ladler.
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The effect, as in such works, is of a place both suffocatingly overcrowded and bleakly isolated.
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Rich knew that only a great poem could undo the mortal erasures so bleakly enumerated here.
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We don't know a lot about the game yet, but the trailer is cinematic and bleakly gorgeous.
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Cuddy stared bleakly at the pile of case files on her desk, making no move to open them.
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"Californication" is so bleakly postmodern that grad students would purr at it in a Bret Easton Ellis novel.
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The principles of seduction espoused in that teen romance were regurgitated, and made sour, in this bleakly adult setting.
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Mr De Graaf is known in professional circles for his bleakly humorous lectures on architecture as a social act.
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To deliver it, Rourke noted bleakly, the actress playing Isabella, Hayley Atwell, does not have to dig deep emotionally.
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That part of her story is bleakly familiar; it's a sad, maddening movie-industry refrain, especially for older actresses.
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But as is often the case in comedy, American Dreamer works because it feels true, and bleakly, unapologetically possible.
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DAVID ALLEN Mr. Girard's post-apocalyptic production of Wagner's "Parsifal" for the Met was bleakly somber, mysterious and haunting.
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"Anywhere alcohol touches the body is a potential site for cancer later on in your life," Griswold bleakly points out.
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"I can only pray to one day feel happiness again," Kesha bleakly sighed last August, after yet another court hearing.
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It was formed by members of Joy Division after that band's bleakly charismatic singer and leader, Ian Curtis, committed suicide.
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Granted, Collins dined out on this creative breakthrough for the rest of the decade, occasionally recapturing the same bleakly dramatic magic.
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His hologram stares bleakly out the jail cell window of the Black Museum, his body limp, his image flickering with fatigue.
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If Woody's reason to exist relies on love, Toy Story 4 asks bleakly, what happens if that love is taken away?
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Jonás Cuarón and his cinematographer, Damian Garcia, make the desert look bleakly beautiful in "Desierto," right from the opening landscape shot.
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At the strip club, the men lined up along the catwalk remind him, bleakly, of Communion-takers at the altar rail.
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In "Friday Black," the dystopian future Adjei-Brenyah depicts — like all great dystopian fiction — is bleakly futuristic only on its surface.
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Jonghyun's suicide in December hangs bleakly and inevitably over his second and final album, the posthumous Poet Artist, out since January.
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The other is inventive, diverse and bleakly humorous—the idiom of the street, or what in Tanzania they call the kona (corner).
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But she has a bleakly realistic idea of how political compromise happens, and how little it has to do with human feeling.
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Her portrait of Breivik is bleakly common: He had an unhappy childhood and spent a lot of time alone in his bedroom.
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Or to put the point more bleakly: If the police hadn't been violent on June 12, would the bill have been suspended?
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In some ways, it is a bleakly familiar story of a troubled department struggling — and failing and struggling — to right its wrongs.
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It's a bleakly comic film about two families, one wealthy and one not so wealthy, and a caustic tale of class conflict.
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Set in an impoverished housing project, "J'ai Pris Mon Père sur Mes Épaules" manages to be at once epic and bleakly realistic.
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Yet Widows is still bleakly entertaining, a movie in which each new revelation asks viewers to re-evaluate earlier parts of the film.
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"History" is Black at its best: An observant, sometimes bleakly funny tale of how we interact not only with technology, but with each other.
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"History" is Black at its best: An observant, sometimes bleakly funny tale of how we interact not only with technology, but with each other.
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In his annual report in January the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas, declared bleakly that "our system of justice has become unaffordable to most".
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And they depict out-of-the-way characters who bleakly dwell in relative seclusion, wizened men and women whose lives are crabbed and gritty.
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That makes it sound grim to a fault, but look at that idea another way, and you'll also see how bleakly funny it is.
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While he struggles financially, he hones his craft in the bleakly lit city — on buses, during factory lunch breaks, in front of the mirror.
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The Long Wharf Theater is presenting Samuel Beckett's "Endgame," one of his seminal, bleakly comic but highly stylized dramatic emblems of the human predicament.
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It was bleakly funny at first, finding myself outside of my home and not knowing how I got there, not knowing why I was outdoors.
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"It's as if you gave me the keys to your apartment and, suddenly, I'm saying, 'The apartment is mine ,' " Hamilton told me, bleakly, last fall.
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In the bleakly comic and relentlessly claustrophobic "Endgame," a play by Samuel Beckett, he plays the submissive Clov to Mr. Cumming's cantankerous and blind Hamm.
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The only solo Cudi track performed was "Pursuit of Happiness," and that, too, felt of a piece with the bleakly nihilistic bent of the show.
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Last season was Charles Wuorinen's bleakly strident "Brokeback Mountain"; before that, Peter Eotvos's "Angels in America," a streamlined and spare adaptation of the Tony Kushner play.
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Now in a wheelchair because his feet were badly damaged during his barefoot trek, Mr. Jubori looked bleakly at the M-16 that he had seized.
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This new, less dilatory mode doesn't ask to be understood, but haunts us with a bleakly dead-on, diffident humor about the pain of being alive.
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A kiss in the front seat led straight to the bed in her Ann Arbor apartment, where Philip performed manfully while staring bleakly at the wall.
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From Ken Kagami come 24 bleakly hilarious ink-on-paper meditations on the relationship between Charles M. Schulz's classic comic-strip characters Snoopy and Charlie Brown.
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Acutely observed and bleakly erotic, the film is less a judgement of that era than an exploration of the human need for intimacy, whatever the current regime.
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One employee shared bleakly titled Spotify playlists in Slack featuring songs like 'High and Dry' by Radiohead, 'The End' by The Doors, and 'Help!' by The Beatles.
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At least half a dozen friends, including Mary, brought home new puppies, providing spots of sunshine in an otherwise bleakly monotonous scroll of doom, gloom, and ruin.
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Nick: When we last saw Rick, Michonne, and the others, they were in a garbage dump, surrounded by a group of bleakly dressed survivors encircling them with violent intent.
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Then on a yacht, staring bleakly out towards the Mallorcan sunset, his ponytail draped in an immaculate braid over his shaved head and secured with a small gold medallion.
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In "Earth," the area's continued expansion is bleakly expressed by a parade of bulldozers and backhoes that, from a distance, appear to be engaged in a perverse, choreographed dance.
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Parasite returns to those themes with superb control; it's a bleakly comic story about two families, one wealthy and one not so wealthy, that's a caustic tale of class conflict.
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It plays with the lines between hero and villain, victim and perpetrator, and it quietly, humorously, and also a little bleakly challenges stereotypes long entrenched in tales of the West.
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At least, it ought to, but I would guess that this particular storyline is a bit too bleakly real for the glamorous structured reality that Watson is supposed to inhabit.
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Softly lighted and bleakly bucolic, "Here Alone" sacrifices momentum for a dreamy tension that tightens when Ann encounters an injured man (Adam David Thompson) and his teenage stepdaughter (Gina Piersanti).
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One photograph shows models cloaked in black, one with a dark veil atop her head, staring blankly, bleakly into the distance while hovering on an elegant yet aged and battered staircase.
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These questions hovered over Monday's revival of François Girard's bleakly poignant 2013 production, even as Mr. Nézet-Séguin brought his own strong take to this profound, challenging and very long score.
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Deliberately cryptic and bleakly funny, the novel puts you inside the mind of a person you'd strive to avoid in real life, but also points to the fundamental elusiveness of character.
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Parasite returns to those themes with superb control; it's a bleakly comic story about two families, one wealthy and one not so wealthy, that's also a caustic tale of class conflict.
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While the bassoonists, oboists and clarinetists navigated their jaunty, folk-like melodies, the trilling violins played in the background with a metallic sheen, adding a suggestion of bleakly beautiful winter light.
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There will be a quest of some kind — pursuit of "the darker mysteries of the self" — that might lead to a ritual of some sort and, often, a bleakly comic interlude.
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Tamir Rice's death was the most bleakly unextraordinary of policing errors, one whose frequency suggests it requires factors no more unusual than the presence of an excitable officer and a black male.
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But we can ask: Why and when and how did Arab politics take such a bad turn as to make the outcome of the Arab Spring of 2011 turn out so bleakly?
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But accompanied by his longtime pianist, Ivari Ilja, Mr. Hvorostovsky sang with his trademark smoky colorings and affecting expressivity, including several bleakly poignant Russian songs that deal with death, grief and longing.
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RimWorld's sophisticated simulation, in which people are resources-with-personality in such a bleakly amusing way, happened to clarify in my mind why an opt-in organ donation system is good healthcare policy.
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Allen, like so many other individuals whose art — or, to put it bleakly, their ability to rake in money and awards — transcends their horrendous personal histories, is protected by a well-oiled system.
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Her bleakly mordant Puberty 2 (2016) was the year's weirdest and saddest breakup album, a song cycle about extricating herself from a toxic relationship, with every flaw exaggerated for comedic and horrific effect.
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Here, a terrorist attack in another country becomes a sound bite at an American pop star's news conference and, like clockwork, fuels a scandal, a bleakly familiar transformation of news into a show.
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We'll wrap with notes from startups that are building remote-work friendly products, sharing what they are seeing on the ground regarding demand for their services during this bleakly fascinating period of history.
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This adaptation by the composer Thomas Adès is a riff on Luis Buñuel's 1962 film of the same name, a surreal, bleakly comic yet disturbing fantasy about a dinner party gone to hell.
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Nothing nearly so weighty is involved here, but the show's best sequences capture the awkward theatricality of certain moments in adult life, when you are bleakly aware of how much you are performing yourself.
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That production uses the traditional storybook sets of the Norwegian National Opera's 1963 "Bohème," but begins with a bleakly modern scene: a hospital room in which a man's lover has just died of cancer.
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"The 10,000 baby boomers turning 65 everyday who want to retire would certainly be disgusted with that," Peter Boockvar, chief investment officer at Bleakly Advisory Group, wrote in a note to clients on Wednesday.
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One night, designed to incite a battle of the sexes, produced a raft of submissions that were so bleakly misogynistic that they finally moved Ms. Waller-Bridge to write a script of her own.
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I wanted to offer a look into the living quarters of refugees at Tempelhof, so I documented their rooms—or "boxes" as they're bleakly referred to—and talked to the residents about their living situation.
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" Where another writer might end his story on this bleakly graceful note, Nguyen moves into a coda in which the wife decides to surrender her identity and acquiesce to the professor's delusion: "It's just me. . . .
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An ad campaign in early 20th-century America noted bleakly that "two-thirds of the wayward boys — detained in prison schools — never ate oatmeal at home," whereas for "senators, governors and financiers," it was a staple.
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Plus, just when the show is starting to run out of juice from the "Nadia dies in some bleakly comedic fashion" gambit, it starts seeding other big ideas and twists, ones that I'm loath to spoil.
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CANNES, France (Reuters) - It seems fitting that Romanian director Cristi Puiu, known for his bleakly realistic takes on ordinary life in his homeland, would describe his latest film "Sieranevada" as an opportunity to correct previous mistakes.
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There was also some encouragement for McLaren, whose day began bleakly with engineers fussing over an exhaust system problem that left twice champion Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne confined to the garage for most of the session.
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Although there are touching moments, the women who pass through Labrouste's life, like those who feature in Mr Houellebecq's previous work, are bleakly two-dimensional, more often than not there to serve the narrator's (dwindling) sexual needs.
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Moshfegh's characters tend to be amoral, frank, bleakly funny, very smart, and perverse in their motivations, in ways that destabilize the reader's assumptions about what is ugly, what is desirable, what is permissible, and what is real.
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Hodgson's fatalism took full, bleakly inevitable effect over the past week, when his decision to decline a ringside seat at Iceland's final group game in favour of a scenic boat trip down the Seine came full circle.
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Yorgos Lanthimos's confrontational, bleakly funny sci-fi satire about love, death, and turning into a dog was undoubtedly one of the year's best films, but it's rare that the Oscars recognize such a small, spiny movie at all.
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London Theater Reviews LONDON — Don't be misled by the streamlined Scandinavian-style chic of Gabriella Slade's cunning design for "Bodies," the bleakly compelling Vivienne Franzmann play that opened Tuesday night at the Royal Court's 87-seat Theater Upstairs.
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Guillermo del Toro's two film adaptations, 2014's Hellboy and 2008's Hellboy II: The Golden Army, rendered Mignola's work as a dark carnival, a bleakly complicated world packed with diverse and colorful critters, often in frantically busy motion.
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His psychological thrillers are in the tradition of Georges Simenon's romans durs, and Boyce's lucid translation of this, his final book, feels true to that bleakly lyric vision, though one wonders about the "children's books" listed in his oeuvre.
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She's never really managed to pull that off before, which is why the concept of Veep has been so bleakly funny from the start: Selina is a nakedly ambitious politician who has somehow managed to score the worst possible job.
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One of The Report's more bleakly bureaucratic scenes features Mitchell and Jessen pitching their program to the CIA, using a slide deck that contains stick figures in compromising positions and explaining how to induce "debility, dependency, and dread" in detainees.
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Set in Moscow in the autumn of 2012, the picture sits on the screen with an almost physical weight, its heaviness as much to do with the bleakly beautiful visuals and painstaking pacing as the bitter divorce at its center.
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The deep house thing—one of the stranger moments in recent club culture history—drifted into a bleakly forgettable nothingness, and we all decided—seemingly collectively—that we'd be better off living on kale and quark than sweet potato fries and sticky ribs.
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The closest analogue to "In the Aisles" might be the bleakly comic films of the Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki ("The Other Side of Hope"), with which this movie shares a taste for deadpan sight gags and an interest in everyday working-class lives.
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In fact, every time I return to Dickens, I'm amazed at how pertinent he remains in his descriptions of the shallowness of the socially ambitious and, more distressingly, in his vision of England as a bleakly divided land of haves and have-nots.
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He presents major modern and contemporary scores not as the next monuments of music history, but as exhilarating in-the-moment opportunities — for example, the ingeniously staged, sold-out run of Ligeti's bleakly satirical opera "Le Grand Macabre" during his first season.
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The name "Willa" invokes Cather's bleakly tender depictions of the Midwest, but I kept thinking of Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio" as I read, and the special brand of Midwestern claustrophobia felt by those who are trapped and unable to imagine any exit.
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In an open letter (bleakly tagged "comedy") to Jeremy Stoppelman, the company's CEO, Talia Ben-Ora wrote about how she couldn't even afford transportation to work at customer support at Eat24 in San Francisco because the company wasn't paying her a living wage.
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Because V for Vendetta was originally serialized in six- to eight-page installments in the science-fiction comics anthology magazine Warrior, it in some ways lends itself better to a movie, where the chapters can play as normal-length scenes, punctuated by bleakly ironic twists.
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Chatting to Alkan and Norris on a late spring afternoon at Alexandra Palace, a heavy smog hanging over the London skyline looking bleakly psychedelic itself, I began to understand the lengthy, decade-long process of ushering what became The Soft Bounce into the world.
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The photograph is a black-and-white print, taken by the photographer Bruce Bernard; it lives in a box of keepsakes near Celia Paul's bed, a metal cot in a bleakly empty room with bare boards on the floor and water stains on the walls and ceiling.
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It's a strange, melancholy, morally complex, grainy, often appalling and sometimes bleakly funny book, one that casts a spell not dissimilar to that cast by Janet Malcolm's "The Journalist and the Murderer" (1990), another slim volume about the uneasy fandango that nonfiction writers and their subjects perform.
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"Boyz N the Hood," a bleakly realistic film about three teenagers growing up amid gang violence in South-Central Los Angeles, established Mr. Singleton's credentials and placed him in the conversation with more established African-American directors like Spike Lee, Bill Duke, Julie Dash, Robert Townsend and Reginald Hudlin.
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In Thursday night's A Closer Look, Seth Meyers imagines Rudy Giuliani's four-second Law & Order episode, as well as the scenario where Nancy Pelosi ends up as president — but mostly he takes you through a hilariously, bleakly simple summary of Trump's Ukraine call, alleged cover-up, and increasingly nonsensical excuses.
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That response encapsulates some of the disturbing intellectual trends chronicled in "The Coddling of the American Mind": a willingness, even eagerness, to take offence; a determination to interpret other people's words as bleakly as possible, regardless of intent; and a Manichean world view in which a political opponent must always be wrong.
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His is the classic "blue-collar average Joe gets discovered, kicks around the music industry, recovers from a serious illness, ages comfortably into elder statesman" story, and if Prine hadn't insisted on bucking convention from the get-go with his wry, occasionally bleakly humorous tunes, he'd probably already have a big-budget biopic.
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Why a euphoric ode to mid-20s ennui by a group who take their name from a low-grade Swedish vodka resonated with me, an eight-year-old, front crawling indifferently through the ASA curriculum, is either bleakly prophetic or a simple testament to the universal resonance of its three opening notes.
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If you log on to Facebook looking for cat videos and baby pictures but encounter a disturbing image, not only are you emotionally unprepared for it, but its placement within fluffy, upbeat content can be unsettling, as if bleakly reminding us that the same species that routinely produces adorable toddlers is also responsible for ISIS.
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At festivals and in clubs around the world, an endless procession of DJs spend their nights with faces slipping into the kind of bleakly blank non-countenance normally associated with grouting, while tingling intoxicators stumble from dancefloor to smoking area and back again, their faces a terrifying blend of bug eyes and tight jaws.
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The opening weekend offers a double dose of the acclaimed Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa, who will appear with the bleakly absurdist fiction feature "Donbass" (on Friday), a narrative relay set in that war-torn, Russia-bordering region of Ukraine, and with "The Trial" (on Saturday), a document of real people confessing to fictional crimes.
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In the digital short "Indefinite Pitch" (Program 5), James N. Kienitz Wilkins uses a succession of black-and-white still images of a Northeastern river — framed by a bleakly industrial landscape and littered with refuse — for a sneakily thoughtful, sometimes funny riff on art and work that flows, drifts, dribbles and sometimes rages much like its inert river.
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From the intimate details of Lady Bird to the bleakly comedic terror of Get Out, from the cat's-eye-view shots of Kedi to the sudden plunge into the vastness of infinity in A Ghost Story, movies often felt like a great way to remove myself, for a little while, from life as I was living it.
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The oblique title, meanwhile, refers not just to medical heart rates as bleakly tracked on hospital monitors, but to the euphoric rhythm of the electronic music that soundtracks ACT UP's occasional disco breaks, in which matters of love, death and ideology are briefly lost to the rush of the dancefloor, and strobe-lit faces fade into dust motes and blood cells.
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As brutal as they are coy, as mindlessly fun as they are bleakly depressing, these films — including the newest installment of the franchise, The Purge: Election Year — attempt to weave a dark, urgent morality play around the story of a dystopian America that allows its citizens to enact terrifying violence on each other for one night each year, known as Purge Night.
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THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Believing that a police chief (Woody Harrelson) hasn't done enough to solve her daughter's murder, a mother (Frances McDormand, widely praised at the Toronto International Film Festival) puts that message on three billboards, ticking off some townspeople and triggering a wild series of bleakly comic plot developments of the variety for which Martin McDonagh ("In Bruges") is known.
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