When we answer melodrama with melodrama, we're playing his game, by his rules, and he wins.
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The melodrama of the script, the melodrama of Crawford herself, and the melodrama of the production around Dunaway-as-Crawford all combine to make Mommie Dearest one of the campiest films ever made.
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And not fun, soapy melodrama like (that other Reese Witherspoon drama) Big Little Lies: melodrama that thinks it's serious social issues drama.
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It's a distinctively woke race melodrama, but it's still a race melodrama — a genre that "An Octoroon" and, more recently, Jackie Sibblies Drury's "Fairview" suggest we might retire.
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I love melodrama — the operative word being "melos," right?
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The sonic melodrama of Lorde's Melodrama had a lot to do with broad strokes: solo post-party ballads followed by big, dancefloor pop; mellow keys that broke into wide-gated, reverberating drums.
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Yet, Night Time, My Time is like a proto- Melodrama.
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It's an absorbing domestic melodrama, shot like a historical epic.
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The song exercises power and conviction without straying into melodrama.
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My subway melodrama has nothing to do with your question.
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It's not a reality star problem; it's a melodrama problem.
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"It's like The Notebook," Khloé says, thrilled with the melodrama.
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There's nothing wrong with dappling existentialism with a little melodrama.
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Nothing says "ten hours on the couch" like teen melodrama.
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Is there an audience that responds more strongly to melodrama?
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Does a gay audience have a particular affinity for melodrama?
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But instead the melodrama amplifies to an appallingly hackneyed crescendo.
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Reviews complained about the songs or objected to the melodrama.
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" It was a part in the 1997 melodrama "Live Flesh.
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Or so it might appear if you're looking for melodrama.
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But as his story devolves into melodrama, the comedy curdles.
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Ditto scenes of the high melodrama that fill the book.
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Life Itself is a decades-spanning melodrama — a hyper-melodrama, really, that compacts a whole television season's worth of wild romances, wilder coincidences, absent parents, and Spanish olive grove intrigue into a single ridiculous movie.
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Every time Mr. Giamatti gamely leans into the melodrama, it backfires.
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What surprises is how the script always stops short of melodrama.
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Lorde's Osheaga set also included songs from her new album Melodrama.
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Lorde's sophomore studio album Melodrama is the artist at her best.
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Though Melodrama boasts confidence and empowerment, it didn't start that way.
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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is adolescent melodrama mixed with occult horror.
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So what are we to make of this banal marketing melodrama?
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Because yes, everyone needs a little melodrama in their life sometimes.
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The Pet Shop Boys sound like an impossibly unreal Hollywood melodrama.
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You engineered Melodrama, which is one of the year's biggest albums.
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This is the kind of melodrama we watch the show for.
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So we might as well sit back and watch the melodrama.
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" He added: "I don't have to look very far for melodrama.
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Across Melodrama, Lorde negotiates the intensity a broken heart can cause.
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In "Kalank," a lavish Bollywood melodrama, people talk in mysterious ways.
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So are the body slams, the melodrama and the copious laughs.
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Delaney represents a disruptive, democratic force in this melodrama of ideas.
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"Invisible Life" is a modern melodrama that's proud to be one.
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Jenkins keeps the fear but not the melodrama in his film.
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" Time said it was "a terrific melodrama for the modern age.
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And it's as a melodrama of survival that "Widows" works best.
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"This Is Us," the NBC melodrama, took best drama series ensemble.
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The difference between melodrama and comedy is a matter of perspective.
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Here's what the critics are saying: Stephanie Zacharek, Time Exaggeration is key—a tasteful, sensible melodrama is no melodrama at all—and you need a star who can radiate the nobility of suffering with Kabuki-level grandeur.
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The idea is to amp up the melodrama by heightening the stakes.
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It's a melodrama, and by no means short on bangs and crashes.
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Here, she's forced to slow down and deliver a bit more melodrama.
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The real-life couple met while shooting the period melodrama in 2014.
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The story is as convoluted and ridiculous as a Japanese daytime melodrama.
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THE melodrama that is Peruvian politics has just taken another unexpected turn.
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Every episode features epic melodrama in the form of a rose ceremony.
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For those unfamiliar with Marbury's latest melodrama, here is a quick recap.
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In March, Lorde (born Ella Yelich-O'Connor) announced her sophomore album, Melodrama.
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Halfway through the year, no pop album has come close to Melodrama.
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Well, Snapchat just released a feature that could help alleviate your melodrama.
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The "Royals" singer will release her sophomore album, Melodrama, on June 16.
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They both veer into melodrama with big speeches and shock-value horrors.
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"Second Chance" — as the show will be called — sounds like pure melodrama.
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It didn't always work; sometimes the show crashed full-on into melodrama.
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Daily life is a melodrama, a musical, a rom-com, an epic.
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She suffers, perhaps a little too beautifully, like a heroine of melodrama.
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Interviews of targets are generally the final act in a judicial melodrama.
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What's a film in the series that stretches your definition of melodrama?
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"Prolonged trench warfare, whether enacted or remembered, fosters paranoid melodrama," he wrote.
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It's a masculine melodrama that doubles as a fable of social catastrophe.
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There is, to be sure, a touch of melodrama in Cavusoglu's threat.
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Stone knew he didn't want to make a shocker or a melodrama.
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Taking quite so much time on "Melodrama" was never Lorde's master plan.
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Let this '90s melodrama wash over you in all its teary warmth.
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Her talent for pasta was surpassed only by her gift for melodrama.
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From there, Proud Mary morphs into melodrama, which isn't automatically a problem.
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"Trapped by His Lies," was People's cover story headline, wrapping up the melodrama.
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The script ultimately blended Greek tragedy with Yankee mythos, Freudian theory with melodrama.
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There were two possibilities, a likely one and a life-or-death melodrama.
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In fact, he's the one who produced her hit album, Melodrama, in 2017.
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They draw on the heady emotion and melodrama of death, tragedy, and terror.
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For the dedicated fan, its potent melodrama, as sincere as it is cynical.
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So this is a musical melodrama, one shot through with heat and light.
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The violent ballet, the melodrama, the emotional pull and swirl of the storylines.
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The Melodrama singer was reportedly asked to perform in a Tom Petty tribute.
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And that's how I felt the instant I played Melodrama last Friday morning.
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On closer listening, Antonoff's full-length productions, like Melodrama, or Norman Fucking Rockwell!
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Giving into the melodrama of the moment is not the way to go.
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I'll be back with video games, with all their noise, flashes, and melodrama.
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Thankfully, director Sayed keeps it short, resisting the temptation to segue into melodrama.
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"Melodrama" by Lorde from 2017 is described as an extraordinary and authentic album.
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A movie can veer from broad comedy to high melodrama in an instant.
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It's a melodrama, to be sure, but with as much brain as heart.
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" He adds, with a touch of melodrama: "This dress is not my legacy.
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A subplot like that can veer into melodrama, but Moriarty handles it deftly.
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As it is, it sometimes slips into melodrama, but the lapses pass quickly.
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His second movie was the romantic melodrama "Interrupted Melody" (1955), with Eleanor Parker.
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That Aciman lapses here into melodrama and cliché suggests he isn't convinced, either.
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LA CINÉMATHÈQUE FRANÇAISE PRESENTS: FRENCH MELODRAMA at the Quad Cinema (through May 22).
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She decided that "Melodrama" would tell the story of a single house party.
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Lorde's "Melodrama" is an intimate, richly painted portrait of heartbreak and young adulthood.
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It seemed he hungered for some kind of melodrama, but why and what?
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Within Lorde's jam of an album Melodrama are a few quiet, vulnerable spots.
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It's also a show business melodrama, and the Oscars love movies about show business.
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So what's left if you want to watch an old melodrama or silly musical?
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A post-apocalyptic story alternates between the three Ms: melancholy, melodrama, and meta-humor.
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People will tell you to pull back on that, that you don't want melodrama.
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A fine example is the black-and-white melodrama Struggle in the Valley (1954).
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For Martin's own reasons, she shot the second film as a 1950s-style melodrama.
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"I'm not into all this melodrama and you playing the victim," Dr. Phil said.
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There's nothing quite like the sweet, visceral melodrama of being a teenager in love.
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Because it's really hard to top yourself 22 times and not get to melodrama.
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This "Plenty" feels as artificial and remote as a Mayfair melodrama from the 1920s.
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"Finally, here it is: the first single from my sophomore album, Melodrama..." she wrote.
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The move is irksome to "woke," tuned-in critics: Lorde's Melodrama or Kendrick's DAMN.
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Mid-twenties melodrama is part of life, so don't feel like you're messing up!
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Sports clichés, family melodrama and video-game visuals will be thick on the ground.
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Back to Sicilia we go, for a denouement that is all melodrama and magic.
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That one, "The Electric Hotel," an ambitious and fantastical hourlong melodrama, nearly killed him.
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Another YA teen melodrama on Netflix calls for a cast of stellar YA actors.
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Stoical and selfless, Horacia resembles one of the suffering mothers of classic Hollywood melodrama.
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"Meta with a vengeance," Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times of Ms. Jolie's melodrama.
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With the second section, the album starts to move and a certain melodrama emerges.
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Mr. Andrews and his team remind us that there can be truth in melodrama.
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It's weighed down by melodrama and long-winded reflections on the price of fame.
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There are multiple possibilities for failure: preachiness, melodrama and bias, to name a few.
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That caused the series to occasionally spin its wheels or descend into unmotivated melodrama.
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Incredibles 2 is a family sitcom, Runaways is high-school melodrama, Venom is horror/comedy.
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Lastly, did you know that Taylor doesn't have a favorite song on pal Lorde's Melodrama?
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But, according to human fans, Taylor said she doesn't have a favorite track on Melodrama.
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In the case of a family melodrama like This Is Us, that means feeling stuff.
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But, Jane isn't merely some flimsy melodrama sudsing up the CW's schedule every Friday night.
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Additionally, Lorde is nominated for the evening's highest honor, Album of the Year, for Melodrama.
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This device simply adds to the melodrama, as does the alternatively tense and sad score.
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Olivier's mistress may be a bit too mad, but "Couple Mechanics" shies away from melodrama.
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And that's when, whether you're a young woman or not, Melodrama earns its universal potency.
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Billions is a melodrama, a gleeful jab at the men who think they are kings.
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Melodrama, long maligned as failed tragedy or cheap sentimentalism, appears to be having a moment.
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Lorde's second album Melodrama is one of the most anticipated pop releases of this year.
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Given Gaga's proclivity for artifice and melodrama, it would be easy to question her suffering.
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Then, quickly and without melodrama, he descended to the floor to kiss the stage itself.
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Many fans frame The Untamed as a guilty pleasure melodrama, and I can see that.
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He oscillates distractingly among tones and styles, jumping between dark-comic satire and earnest melodrama.
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That message would seem to be, get all your melodrama out of the way now.
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Her preoccupations were nostalgia and melodrama, and strategic falseness became a kind of calling card.
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She began performing at a community theatre called Moorpark Melodrama, where she studied other actors.
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Elsewhere, Acorn TV heads to India with "The Good Karma Hospital," an escapist medical melodrama.
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Mitsuki had long believed her mother to be the egotistic antihero of her own melodrama.
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Add a touch of consumption to the proceedings, and you have the makings of melodrama.
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Then came 2017's "Melodrama," easily one of the decade's most moving and masterful albums.
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The so-called faith-based film is not any different from an ordinary Hollywood melodrama.
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Without it, the show would've careened over the edge much sooner into frantically strange melodrama.
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They are earnest to a fault; you'll find no melodrama here (or even much drama).
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One is a romantic musical melodrama; the other is a bizarre, gleefully uneven comic-book horror.
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Even these reconsiderations cannot help but get caught up in the maternal melodrama of it all.
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But also what scheming, what melodrama, what Walpurgisnacht (Beuys, Wagner — all that old German Mumbo Jumbo).
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"So horrible, repetitive, simple and boring," the user wrote in a zero-point review of Melodrama.
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Vaveloz, who bodied Melodrama on July 103, was the first user to review both records exlusively.
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But she says that now, with her second album, Melodrama, dropping on Friday, she's better equipped.
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Watch the 1994 film's trailer with a full-blown genre makeover — from comedy to melodrama — above.
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Melodrama can be an advantage for the modern novelist — we live in such tame fictional times!
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It's a little of both, in truth, with some family melodrama and sweet romance thrown in.
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Was it funny like funny ha ha, or are we tragically erasing all its glorious melodrama?
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New revelations continue to emerge well into the second act, inching Ms. Gurira close to melodrama.
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That's a wildly narrow viewpoint to take and, with respect to Melodrama, couldn't be more untrue.
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It's a feel-good story; it's a cautionary tale; it's a melodrama and a buddy comedy.
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So, he fleshes out Jack's past, turning melodrama into therapy and robbing the character of mystery.
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The setting for this haunting musical melodrama of unmoored lives is, after all, a premature winter.
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"We Step into the Responsibility Suits of Our Art" adds a touch of self-aware melodrama.
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But it's also fundamental to the entire aesthetic of this movie and its mumblecore melodrama vibes.
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You put on her self-titled first record, from 21972, and, evidently, her melodrama becomes yours.
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He made his Broadway debut as an understudy in the melodrama "Speaking of Murder" in 1956.
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Like his first two, they relied on deadpan humor, oddball characters and occasional bursts of melodrama.
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Life as he portrays it is so expansive, only myth and melodrama can accommodate its dimensions.
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Star Wars has always been broad melodrama, and Vader Immortal's plot beats are a bit predictable.
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Though it could be classified, in conventional genre terms, as a melodrama of a forgotten woman.
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"Meta with a vengeance," Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times of Ms. Jolie's melodrama.
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The result is a muddled first effort in which drama and melodrama are hard to distinguish.
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Its best moments are those that offer light-hearted banter and scenes with little or no melodrama.
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She has also made custom Melodrama warm-up suits for her background singers, which are very soccer.
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"Sultan" works because director Ali Abbas Zafar injects enough wry humour into the proceedings and eschews melodrama.
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Big Little Lies, around its fifth episode, transitioned from a sudsy, pulpy melodrama into something more serious.
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There are a few moments of melodrama here, and some passages that seem effective rather than inspired.
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The second half, when it all comes crashing down, favors movie-of-the-week melodrama and sentimentalism.
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Perhaps due to the focus on the character's interior lives, "The Crown" at times tips into melodrama.
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The exhibit mostly resembles the mawkish sentiments of a Lifetime movie: melodrama without depth, expression without illumination.
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Aiming for epic adolescent romantic melodrama, they instead capture the grating cadences of standoffishness in electric detail.
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O.J. Simpson, which deftly used tabloid appeal and melodrama to complicate its narrative, Confirmation plays everything straight.
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Lorde covered Houston in November during the Australian and New Zealand leg of her Melodrama World Tour.
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Such a person is stating they are playing a role and inviting us to critique their melodrama.
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But on top of that, I feel everything so deeply and that's really what Melodrama is about.
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As a director, Mr Luhrmann is more interested in melodrama and spectacle than drawing the audience in.
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It's like watching the sleek production values of James Cameron applied to the melodrama of Tommy Wiseau.
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We can see what bothered Weber's detractors in her ambitious didactic melodrama, Where Are All My Children?
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Kaitlyn Tiffany: Hard to believe it's all over, after a mere 984 hours of prime time melodrama.
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With the release of her second album, Melodrama, Lorde is a pop star in her own right.
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After four years in retreat, Ella Yelich-O'Connor's signature catchy melancholy is back with the album Melodrama.
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So when it came time to dance, sing and swagger in this musical melodrama, she was ready.
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But period pieces, especially those about domestic lives, can also easily tip into dustiness or maudlin melodrama.
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KILL ZONE 2 A prison is a front for organ trafficking in this Chinese martial-arts melodrama.
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Instead of a prolific visionary, Michel's Degas more resembles a Beckett character retrofitted for Third Republic melodrama.
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Moments of melodrama and scenes of everyday life are stitched together by deliberately dry third-person narration.
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It was hard to see any immediate material impact from the Trump White House's chaos and melodrama.
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At times, Mannaert and de Radiguès spike the book's dialogue with unnecessary melodrama and conjure silly nightmares.
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The symphony is episodic; hearing it is like binge-watching an entire season of a TV melodrama.
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All that good science fiction melodrama vanished when spacecraft images showed the real planet, cratered and dustblown.
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If a black-and-white melodrama isn't up your alley, enjoy the timeless score by Miles Davis.
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Jack Antonoff, the producer of Lorde's impending album, "Melodrama," had just performed with his own band, Bleachers.
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What separates the novel's setup from the gothic melodrama that emerged later is how well it's constructed.
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Mr. Puts's music blithely segues from Felliniesque evocations of British music hall skits to Gothic horror melodrama.
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Four years after her debut album, the pop prodigy offers "Melodrama," a testimonial to heartbreak and solitude.
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She discusses pop in the language of a zealot and describes "Melodrama" as an act of zealotry.
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But, in my eyes, Bergljot saves herself from melodrama by being honest about her tendency toward it.
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"Sunset Song" is a grand-scale melodrama compressed into the quietly burning point of a single soul.
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Just because you put Jesus Christ into a Hollywood melodrama doesn't mean that it's a spiritual film.
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The whole enterprise, though, has a made-for-TV patina and tonal primness that drain the melodrama.
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Lorde's second album, Melodrama, is up for Album of the Year at tonight's 60th Annual Grammy Awards.
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It is first and foremost a painfully relatable family melodrama, with affecting performances and fully realized characters.
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Lorde has said that her forthcoming album, Melodrama, captures the highs and lows of a single house party.
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Punchy and quick-pulsed, it's a fine example of that now-rare species, the big-city newspaper melodrama.
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Dead to Me pings between grim melodrama and dark comedy, which are two modes Applegate can play well.
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This White House tourney is usually presented as a clash of partisan ideology or as a human melodrama.
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Yes, the first single from 2007's Unbreakable pours on the melodrama and goes straight by the playbook.
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On the night of February 7th, however, OPS embraced the sort of melodrama he has so long eschewed.
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The film reportedly blends social realism with magical realism to create the kind of queer melodrama we deserve.
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But the film never really provides any new information, and stays within the realm of the family melodrama.
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He also produced Lorde's 2017 album Melodrama — which, umm, is the major reason that these two are tight.
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Whatever melodrama goes down in the house, this Family Vacation is going to be one for the books.
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Unfortunately, football rarely finds its way into anything other than cringeworthy Hollywood melodrama or cartoonish soap opera portrayals.
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That's why we love when a new one comes along that promises to indulge our taste for melodrama.
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" Even so, Lorde insisted that Melodrama isn't a "breakup album," but rather "it's a record about being alone.
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" When it came time to commit herself to Melodrama, though: "I went to the party and got drunk.
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This setup provides the fodder for either a serious melodrama or a kind of goofy road trip movie.
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Lorde is here to tease us with another single off her soon-to-be-released, second album Melodrama.
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" Some "nicely played home-front melodrama" makes the film "genuinely more ambitious than most works of this kind.
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There are spasms of farce and throbs of melodrama, but they arise within the rhythms of everyday behavior.
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Stephanie Zacharek, Time Best of all, Cooper has succeeded in making a terrific melodrama for the modern age.
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By crosscutting a crime of passion with a street singer's performance, Renoir elevates tawdry melodrama to something operatic.
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But as enjoyable as that version was, it didn't quite reconcile its screeching turns between farce and melodrama.
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Her Odette was doom-laden without melodrama, poignant without heaviness; her Odile, coolly joyous, had mystery and allure.
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Although it employs all the tools of high melodrama—evil twins, gaslighting—it doesn't have a camp sensibility.
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For all the stiffness of its characters' upper lips, The Crown relishes finding melodrama behind every damask curtain.
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There are villains, a few lines of action, the usual cliffhangers, some getaways and dashes of family melodrama.
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As a film, it was a shambolic melodrama that seemed to treat Ramdev almost as a divine messenger.
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His addiction to melodrama was a discordant note at a World Cup that has seen thankfully little controversy.
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As to what happens, well, there are shards of drama and melodrama, many meant to cut and hurt.
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The film, directed by Douglas Sirk, Hollywood's master of glossy melodrama, also starred Rock Hudson and Robert Stack.
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So much so, that one intrepid Melodrama-lover, Nina Richard, actually hung the cover art in the Louvre.
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The first episode runs that risk, leaning hard into the melodrama and underlining its moments of pathos heavily.
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Over 160 intermissionless minutes, nine jittery actors attempt a deconstruction of the Russian writer's sprawling and tragic melodrama.
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He's too honest to deliver false happy endings, but he doesn't slather on the melodrama for sentimentality's sake.
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Each dancer peels back layers of increasing intensity and melodrama to create a deeper connection with the audience.
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Mason prevents this from rising to melodrama by anchoring their affair within the routine horrors of the hospital.
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And if you want "Othello" to register as a tragedy, instead of a melodrama, this is a problem.
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He just mumbles that his life story is more complicated than some feel-good rags-to-riches melodrama.
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A door might open onto a live tripwire, another might introduce some item of melodrama — a photograph, say.
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Mr. Sullivan's confident production doesn't deny melodrama, but it prefers psychological and social detail over Southern gothic fripperies.
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The album succeeded because it seemed as though Swift was finally open to owning her melodrama and messiness.
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And one tradition of melodrama is having the scope of a story match whatever the characters are feeling.
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"The Beguiled" remakes a pulpy early-'70s study in sexual hysteria into an arch melodrama of beleaguered femininity.
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The French director François Ozon drew inspiration from Ernst Lubitsch's 1932 antiwar film, "Broken Lullaby," for this melodrama.
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At first, "Everybody Knows" unfolds in a hectic, half-comic vein, with hints of melodrama, mischief and misbehavior.
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Throughout her first album, she mixes the fuzzy fragility of the lo-fi demo with epic teen melodrama.
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It's also meant as a new start for the series, a recentering after the death of original series star Paul Walker, and the kickoff of a trilogy that continues its characters' mutation from criminals in a soap opera melodrama to globetrotting, government-sanctioned action-heroes in a soap opera melodrama.
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Disney dropped a surprise teaser trailer for their much-awaited Dumbo live-action movie, and it's packed with melodrama.
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Whenever Mr. Brookshire sings, "Pow" turns intimate, allowing for an enticing sort of melodrama to creep into the piece.
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The result is gorgeous, dark, and twisty (see: "Sober II [Melodrama]"), and simultaneously sweeping and intimate (see: "The Louvre").
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The franchise has had great marketing in the past, carefully concealing the bloated melodrama, offensive caricatures, and puerile humor.
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Private Life refuses to stick to just one mode of storytelling — it has slapstick and melodrama, heartbreak and hope.
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But Mr. Gere's flamboyant performance is the sole raison d'être for this melodrama, written and directed by Andrew Renzi.
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Lorde's sophomore album Melodrama is out today, marking the 20-year-old pop star's first release since September 2013.
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"Worst Reviewed" videos combine a Fear Factor–esque approach to late capitalism with the heightened melodrama of Yelp reviews.
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The biggest surprise in this sincere but hokey melodrama is how little Mr Cooper does to update the scenario.
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But on the other hand, Italy's continuing political melodrama has demonstrated that Europe's populist insurgents are under immense constraints.
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I think my way into the concept of what an opera is, is that I love melodrama in film.
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Querelle coats us in spit, sex, glitz, glare, lush light, sweaty muscles, mirrored surfaces, synthetic sounds, melodrama, and shadows.
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Lorde produced the entirety of the project with Jack Antonoff, an impressive feat for the pop powerhouses within Melodrama.
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" There's also the masterful "Sober II (Melodrama), a searing ode to facing up to what you did last night.
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Though the premise of "Embedded" is promising, the opera hovers uncertainly between satire, unabashed melodrama and hyped-up terror.
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Its execution shaded into melodrama, with Alicia chasing a man who turned out, predictably, not to be her lover.
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The fifty-four features in the Film Society of Lincoln Center's series "Emotion Pictures: International Melodrama," running through Jan.
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It's had its ups and downs, in five seasons, with a few spikes of melodrama that went to eleven.
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But, in "Fosse/Verdon," it's filmed as melodrama, all cheesy flashbacks and bathos—climaxing in a truly cheap shot.
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A melodrama of village women wronged by their social betters, "The Undesirable" is a window on a feudal world.
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Schiller's five-act melodrama dramatizes many of the main concerns of the Enlightenment in a tale of sibling rivalry.
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"Rojava," at one of the city's main theaters, explodes onstage with a megadose of melodrama, kitsch and self-importance.
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In "Escape to Berlin," Piper's need to flee Wellesley takes on the urgency and melodrama of a psychological thriller.
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A road movie of sorts, it steers clear of melodrama or sentimentality, but it also never risks hitting anything.
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By now this melodrama starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams is as much a cultural symbol as anything else.
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Writing in The New York Times, Mike Hale called it 50 percent postcolonial escape fantasy, 50 percent medical melodrama.
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The music draws the story into the heightened, emotionally manageable space of melodrama, an approach that remains consistent throughout.
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A financial melodrama, in other words, starring a guy who doesn&apost have much in the way of filters.
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The melodrama came to a close on Tuesday, when a contrite Mr. Harvey apologized to his teammates and fans.
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She portrays all the tumultuous emotions on Melodrama, and "Perfect Places" is the boisterous thesis of the entire project.
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Some sections read like folk tales or adventure novels, while those set in Virginia serve up reheated plantation melodrama.
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However, with her newly earned honor, the Melodrama singer recently sparked a fair share of confusion and controversy amongst fans.
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The singer sat next to Jack Antonoff during the ceremony, where she is nominated for best new album for Melodrama.
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Lorde has basically dropped off the face of the Earth since releasing her 2017 album "Melodrama," and we miss her.
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On the one hand, he is a straightforward realist, creating scenes filled with foreboding that often spill over to melodrama.
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For two hours the viewer gets to trade in their own dreary life for melodrama, Hollywood celebrities and ABBA songs.
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The result is something that's neither committed to its melodrama nor intimidating enough to be menacing — a floundering, forgettable song.
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The Grammy-winning songstress announced her 2018 Melodrama world tour back in June with a list of shows posted online.
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She's also part of the cast of Netflix's GLOW, the '80s wrestling melodrama that saved us from ourselves this summer.
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The same goes for any of the other interactions between the main characters that aren't caked in cheese and melodrama.
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Having divorced their father, Prince Andrew, when the girls were very young, the family has had its share of melodrama.
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It became synonymous with this big, cheesy melodrama that would galvanize people back when the networks were in that business.
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So I wondered how Billions, this show that saps our institutions for exhilarating melodrama, would incorporate the Donald Trump presidency.
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ALL you need for a movie is a girl, a gun, lots of singing, melodrama and never-ending dance sequences.
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This appeared to be a retaliation after Melodrama had been dragged down below a 213 by Lana Del Rey's stans.
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This week, Riverdale goes full blown gothic horror melodrama in order to create an engrossing tale about dark family secrets.
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And yet the game has a very specific, rare kind of maturity: a commitment to pitch-perfect, solidly crafted melodrama.
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It abruptly shifts from a show about bros hanging out into a weird melodrama, and it probably doesn't need to.
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We're reaching the pinnacle (rock bottom?) of this Charles Oakley melodrama—as if things could get any crazier (more depressing).
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Rather than offer statistics to illustrate the sadnesses of the First World War, the game leans into character-led melodrama.
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Trump's election victory has reaffirmed, through chilling melodrama, the supremacy of optics over policy, at least in the short term.
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So how disappointing to find her having to carry Julio Medem's florid "Ma Ma," a melodrama only glancing at profundity.
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" He described the series as "the latest gangster melodrama to sit at the confluence of 'Les Misérables' and 'The Godfather.
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But when I heard "Green Light," the first single off her sophomore album Melodrama, I quickly became a Lorde addict.
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The film proceeds like a melodrama, but you may leave the theater thinking you've just seen the blackest of comedies.
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"The Get Down" is plagued by a undisciplined ambition to be every story — melodrama, history, romance, musical comedy, political intrigue.
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The legend of Colette, in brief, is one of those rare real-life dramas that arrive at melodrama without assistance.
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"Meta with a vengeance," Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times of Ms. Jolie Pitt's jet-setting marital melodrama.
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So she was ready when it came time to dance, sing and swagger in this Gina Prince-Bythewood musical melodrama.
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Her new material from Melodrama soared live, as did her cover of Robyn's "Hang With Me" with collaborator Jack Antonoff.
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"Dynasty" ran on ABC from 1981-89 and was known for its over-the-top catfights, fashion and unapologetic melodrama.
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It's a complicated and ambivalent tale that bears far more social freight than the usual beat-the-odds sports melodrama.
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Typically, the mainline games balance self-contained, light recaps of Disney movies with the broader melodrama of the original story.
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Although many audience members enjoyed the movie, critics called it out for being well-meaning but ultimately filled with melodrama.
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McQueen directs Davis in the heist movie "Widows," which A. O. Scott says works best as "a melodrama of survival."
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Since then, assorted directors and actors have come and gone amid period shifts, sudsy melodrama, knockdown fights and corporate changeovers.
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Like that show, "Sabrina" places adolescent melodrama in a supernatural milieu, drawing parallels between everyday teenage antics and otherworldly horrors.
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"Melodrama" (Lava/Republic), Lorde's second album, squeezed ahead of the rapper 2 Chainz in a close race for the top.
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Another episode makes Meek Mill's "Cold Hearted," about fame, money and jealousy in the rap game, into a crime melodrama.
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During the Democratic primary and then the general election, the Trump melodrama and the Trump spectacle would overshadow all else.
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And she brought the same songs from her coming album, "Melodrama," that she had performed a week earlier at Coachella.
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There's a little melodrama and a lot of whiz-bang, and the crime stories are as mechanical as Gideon's gadgets.
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" He added, "Her Odette was doom-laden without melodrama, poignant without heaviness; her Odile, coolly joyous, had mystery and allure.
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Four years after her universally lauded debut album, "Pure Heroine," Lorde is releasing "Melodrama," a testimonial to heartbreak and solitude.
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David Bowles, a Chicano writer and professor, called American Dirt "harmful, appropriating, inaccurate, trauma-porn melodrama" in a withering review.
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And so he turns a downbeat melodrama of unhappy marriage, bohemian drift and sexual duplicity into something bizarre and horrific.
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Daniel Sullivan's nimble and exhilarating revival of this Lillian Hellman melodrama about an appetitive Southern family will finish its run.
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Lorde's sophomore effort "Melodrama" is one of the decade's finest, most cohesive albums, on which each song enhances the others.
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The progression of the story is steadily downward, and at times the style flirts with melodrama, the mood with moroseness.
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The movie spends too much time dwelling in overwrought melodrama and not enough building the emotional connections to justify it.
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Mr. Almodóvar, for his part, tells her story with his characteristic later-period blend of elegant restraint and keening melodrama.
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The track comes along with an official announcement that Lorde's second studio album, Melodrama, will be out on June 16.
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The book is extremely honest in its portrayal of mental illness, particularly how it affects sibling relationships, without veering into melodrama.
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Jolie Pitt wrote and directed the melodrama about a couple who are unraveling while on vacation in the south of France.
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Its conceit doesn't leave much room for nuance, with characters who are thinly developed and played with varying levels of melodrama.
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"No Time to Die" has gusts of orchestral melodrama, hints of John Barry's original soundtracks and a looming sense of fatalism.
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But Ms. Callender's blunt interpretation of the text and the resulting performances tend to veer simply between situational comedy and melodrama.
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However, Riverdale truly sings when it uses all of its melodrama and madness to explain a deeper truth of a character.
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Wherever Longshot goes from here, it would do well to learn from the success of the grounded moments, rather than melodrama.
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Nothing. It's been months since this melodrama unfolded for the Kardashians in real life, and they've made strides to move on.
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Every other character has a pretty bonkers, rich storyline involving things like murder, intrigue, institutionalized sisters, and heavy doses of melodrama.
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But it's also easy to conflate Kingdom Hearts' melodrama with the emotional honesty from the people at the center of it.
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Melodrama doesn't have a release date just yet, so watch the video below as we all eagerly await Lorde Phase Two.
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Like it's this super-glossy Transformers-esque world, but shot at canted angles and filled with intentionally (I think) goofy melodrama.
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The Whit Stillman-esque romantic melodrama "Those People" goes to great lengths to humanize Manhattan's upper crust, with generally successful results.
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A domestic melodrama in an anguished key, "Waves" is the story of a Florida family nearly undone by a shocking tragedy.
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" Oh, and she listened to Melodrama continuously while making it which she says "probably drove me to insanity to some degree.
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While it's refreshing to see a young company tackle period melodrama, the show, from spit&vigor, is erratic rather than rollicking.
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Outrage sidesteps the messy nuances of complex political issues in favor of melodrama, misrepresentative exaggeration, and hyperbolic forecasts of impending doom.
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For all its melodrama, emo was a movement that (at least at its core) took those issues and those people seriously.
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We'd all be poorer if Antonoff produced St. Vincent's Melodrama 2.0—Clark's music can be weirder and more wonderful than that.
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If Jack Antonoff produces Melodrama 2.0 with St. Vincent, feel free to screenshot this and drag Alex Robert Ross on Twitter.
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Live, all four members strike imposing figures, alternating between normal postpunk stoic glaring and full on legs-spread, instrument-punching melodrama.
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Advantage: Bagpipes Low-budget, and relatively low melodrama, this faithful 1971 BBC mini-series again stars Glenda Jackson as Queen Elizabeth.
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If nothing else, Big Little Lies, HBO's dive into the "salacious small-town melodrama" genre, captures the loneliness of car rides.
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Mr. Bezos is at the center of an honest-to-God melodrama, full of salacious revelations, family betrayals and international intrigue.
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Her ability is, in the nature of the teenage supernatural-science fiction melodrama, a curse whose benefits must be discovered gradually.
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In "Hunderby," a Gothic melodrama parody, she was a housekeeper out to undermine the marriage of the minister she worked for.
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Ponyboy and his friend Johnny are reading "Gone With the Wind," and it's fitting that a melodrama would capture their attention.
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Slipping in and out of realism, blending biography with melodrama and camp, Mr. Dawkins's play is mostly a lot of talk.
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This is a universe where the blood-drenched melodrama of Riverdale or the dazzling and depressing mania of Euphoria reigns supreme.
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The Mets' way is not, and with every new melodrama, the feeling grows stronger that this group may have already peaked.
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But much of this melodrama is only a distraction from the intricate plotting that keeps the story shifting under our feet.
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It's mostly ridiculous and an embarrassingly unsuccessful attempt to infuse psychological horror with Bollywood's typical mix of melodrama and flashy masala.
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Another leading character in Trump's churning political melodrama, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is waiting for his fate to be decided.
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Lorde is back, and in the first single from "Melodrama," her album due in the summer, she's been betrayed and dumped.
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The same could be said of "Empire," Mr. Daniels's once scorchingly hot and still successful hip-hop melodrama, also on Fox.
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Many people, including Atwood, have stated that the dystopian melodrama conjures up real-life conflicts and is more documentary than fiction.
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LORDE "Melodrama" (Lava/Republic) An album of actual art-pop from a left-field thinker still young enough to bruise easily.
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"Melodrama" bristles with pulpy romance and pulpier romantic disaster, rendered by a performer not content with the usual language they inspire.
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The final part, "Water Will (in Melody)," May 28-29, flirts with melodrama and catastrophe, which sounds like a fitting end.
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It followed the teen melodrama of children of privilege in the ZIP code it made nationally famous — they had problems too!
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The agreement, which to critics is a bit of a farce itself, has turned the sale into a three-act melodrama.
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Deprived of the human melodrama that populates his portraits, Rembrandt's landscapes provide a rare look into the artist's sense of tranquility.
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While the intentions may have been in the right place, the real voice of "Shorgul" is lost in melodrama and fake blood.
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His work seeks out the buried parts of American life, bringing them to the surface with a mix of irony and melodrama.
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Fast and the Furious built a name for itself on lovable melodrama, though it's recently wobbled, overemphasizing CGI-soaked action set pieces.
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We describe the first half as a melodrama like Valley Of The Dolls, and the second half is like Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
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Lorde revealed her foodie side during her many concert stops and promotional appearances ahead of the release of her new album, Melodrama.
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In a way, his administration enjoys continuity with his dark horse presidential campaign, which was similarly beset by incompetence, melodrama, and criticism.
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Carmen Cusack shines as a feisty teenager who, after trauma bordering on melodrama, becomes the editor of a literary journal (25212:25279).
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Carmen Cusack shines as a feisty teenager who, after trauma bordering on melodrama, becomes the editor of a literary journal (8663:30).
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Carmen Cusack shines as a feisty teenager who, after trauma bordering on melodrama, becomes the editor of a literary journal (2532:251).
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Carmen Cusack shines as a feisty teenager who, after trauma bordering on melodrama, becomes the editor of a literary journal (2:30).
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Carmen Cusack shines as a feisty teenager who, after trauma bordering on melodrama, becomes the editor of a literary journal (2073:2063).
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Carmen Cusack shines as a feisty teenager who, after trauma bordering on melodrama, becomes the editor of a literary journal (003:30).
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Carmen Cusack shines as a feisty teenager who, after trauma bordering on melodrama, becomes the editor of a literary journal (453:30).
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Ms. Zimmer was the first choice to play Quinn, because she can be fiery but also "vulnerable without melodrama," Ms. Shapiro said.
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The show mostly focuses on Payton's run for class president, with plenty of high school-appropriate melodrama thrown in for good measure.
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"If you scroll past these little TikToks with like five likes, they're probably going to die soon," she says, with ironic melodrama.
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So when it came time to dance, sing and swagger in this Gina Prince-Bythewood musical melodrama, Ms. Mbatha-Raw was ready.
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It was another banner year for InStyle's elevator cam, a magical land where celebrities can truly embrace the Golden Globes' tipsy melodrama.
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The lesson of Sunday's series finale was that every complicated melodrama requires a multiplicity of happy endings, no matter how hurriedly achieved.
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Instead, his Strings — physically, a ringer for the young Randy Travis — is a man of understated overstatement, of matter-of-fact melodrama.
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Music-wise, the distinct Pokémon melodrama found in the soundtracks is something I think of as a blueprint for my own production.
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The Trump at the center of this mystery melodrama is mostly a phantom, a fitful gust of pique and an offstage rumble.
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The show will continue to alternate between everyday domestic melodrama and a twisted, pulpy take on modern organized crime in Middle America.
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Over hours of conversation, I found him to be articulate, irreverent and passionate — and also blunt, cocksure, hyperbolic and prone to melodrama.
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"Many people learn history through television dramas," said Zheng Junnan, a production assistant for another concubine melodrama set in the Qing dynasty.
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"Pola X" is a film where all the elements of melodrama are recognizable, it's about buried family secrets, incest and forbidden love.
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Not long after this scene, Daniel Warth's "Dim the Fluorescents" evolves from a screwball roommate comedy to a melodrama about artistic frustration.
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Both use serious business — social history in "Downton," violence toward women in "Liar" — to dress up what is essentially well-made melodrama.
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Yet the work's melodrama, as Mr. Khan staggers, shell shocked, through this hostile space, undercuts its power, particularly in the final scene.
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"Eccentricities" is an improvement, but "Summer and Smoke" is nevertheless Williams, with veins of rich pathos to be mined from its melodrama.
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A man and woman, isolated in a stark, snowy Russian wilderness, seem lost, both in time and in this slow-boiling melodrama.
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A surreal Arctic thriller, a classic Los Angeles hard-boiled procedural and an operatic Mafia melodrama: Choose one or try all three.
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Unlike the Sirkian melodrama of "Polyester" or the period nostalgia of "Hairspray," the political satire in "Desperate Living" is relentless and confrontational.
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To be sure, Augustin Daly, the playwright, was generous with the melodrama: Characters deliver expositional soliloquies, and emotions run deep and syrupy.
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Dark as that sounds, the show's revuelike format allows the authors to vary the palette with mad scenes, melodrama, minstrelsy and vaudeville.
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Which is to say, by memory as it actually is and not as a neat, banal narrative or a huge baroque melodrama.
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If "Sojourners," which feels more modern, never quite reaches that lovely peak of melodrama, it is both funnier and more excitingly staged.
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But how will this show's melodrama and cynicism fare in a year when political strife seems baked into the daily news cycle?
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In a show that is prone to breakneck narrative melodrama, the answers to the big questions of "In Memoriam" are painfully realistic.
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There's a famous photograph of Crawford and Davis signing their contracts for the film, and "Feud" excavates the melodrama behind that moment.
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That sounds like a burst of high melodrama, but, after she's gone, we linger, and watch her parents resume their everyday tasks.
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First on the agenda: how to market "Big Little Lies" to reflect the humor, but also the serious drama and frothy melodrama.
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It felt like a documentary in its attention to routine and like a melodrama in the way it galvanized currents of feeling.
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And my fandom, forged in suffering and melodrama and "wait 'till next year" rue, never quite recovered from my favorite teams' success.
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Coming off a critically acclaimed album, Melodrama, Lorde performed "Homemade Dynamite," or rather danced as the entire song played in the background.
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It seemed odd and perhaps underwhelming, especially since her album Melodrama sparked so much excitement and garnered critical praise earlier this year.
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If the first week of April felt a little (comparatively speaking) light on political melodrama, last week made up for it, and how.
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It's a dive into the politics of parenting in Monterey, a pulpy look at how high school melodrama can carry on into adulthood.
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While the 1999 Roswell pilot also includes one of these confrontations, it's a shrug in comparison to its pop cultural descendants' high melodrama.
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Though Callie and Mariana's dramatic past will certainly inform the spinoff, the show's lighter tone is refreshing after so many seasons of melodrama.
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So, while albums like Lorde's Melodrama and Jay-Z's 4:44 are up for nomination, Swift's winter album won't be eligible until 2019.
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It's what has made his Amfortas in Wagner's "Parsifal" unconventional yet arresting: searing clarity that scales down melodrama to something more rendingly human.
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Since 203 Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg's operatic melodrama has been performed more than 53,000 times in 44 countries and 349 cities.
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There he might have remained, had his plight not been brought to Conan Doyle's attention, via a method itself redolent of Victorian melodrama.
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No, Station 19, premiering Thursday, March 22, is as sexy, shocking, and addictive as the long-running medical melodrama from whence it came.
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Producing an album as fire as Melodrama, which was nominated for Album of the Year, means plenty of time in the studio — working.
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When writing the Nazi side, I thought a lot about the absurd melodrama Speers described that led to so much suffering and tragedy.
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"The Nixon campaign thrives on paranoia and melodrama, and these silly accusations are more of the same," spokesperson Lis Smith told the Times.
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But the writing drives it into what can best be summed up as unadulterated Caucasian nonsense that's equal parts melodrama, affluence, and Dynasty.
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The albums we were listening to while we were making this record were like, Melodrama by Lorde, Taylor Swift, Carly Rae Jepsen, Bleachers.
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The ads are all Melodrama purple eyeshadow, red lips, and visible armpit hair, cool gal pals with punchy makeup and an accessible aesthetic.
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Lula's mother laughs, screams, and cries without any pause between them, working as a kind of melodrama machine that only produces ridiculous scenarios.
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Available for: PC, Xbox One Arizona Sunshine is like The Walking Dead, except it's set in the sunny desert and there's no melodrama.
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The New Zealand native announced that on June 16 the world will be able to finally hear Melodrama, her second-full length album.
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Lorde's Melodrama is taking shape in a blaze of wild dance moves and raw emotion as she debuts new tracks one by one.
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But it is impossible to finish this medieval melodrama without thinking that it would make a riveting series for an enterprising TV producer.
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But there's another side of Melodrama too—the side which evokes the memory of the relationship that started the album's chain of events.
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Apart from the cheeky "When It Rains It Pours," Combs's earlier hits deployed lyrical melodrama juxtaposed with tender reads on hard-rock dynamics.
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Despite being dubbed a "gameplay launch trailer," it features little gameplay, instead focusing on the melodrama that has become a Gears trailer staple.
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In a particularly contemporary twist to the melodrama, Big Time's court filings revealed that it was now buying knockoff Sea-Monkeys from China.
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McCabe's book offers a fitting overture to the next important act in the Trump melodrama: the completion of Mueller's report, which appears imminent.
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Gabriel Byrne ("In Treatment") is her husband, James, a prosperous actor in melodrama, who fears he has sacrificed his art for material success.
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On her new record, "Melodrama," Lorde has moved on from disillusionment to something more sincere, exploring a chaotic range of emotions and textures.
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But he's perhaps better known as the Yella Fella, mascot of his own company and star of a western melodrama series on YouTube.
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A lot has obviously been written about Melodrama by Lorde because it was one of this year's most vibrant and relatable pop masterpieces.
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"Hello" and "All I Ask" started low and sultry and ascended to full belting; "A Million Years Ago" was a mournful acoustic melodrama.
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What follows is a ritual of rebellion that is part hysteria, part melodrama—a subconscious bargaining between the possessing demons and school officials.
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And somewhat oddly, the melodrama of it all, and the spectator sport that is Fleetwood Mac mythology, has become more novel with time.
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Has any recent film threatened to drown more big-name talent in scented soap suds than Gabriele Muccino's weepy melodrama "Fathers and Daughters"?
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Ms. Jenkins, whose previous features include "The Savages" and "Slums of Beverly Hills," patiently assembles a structure suited either to melodrama or farce.
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It's the stuff of mothball melodrama, and Mr. Dromgoole, the former artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe, is well aware of the play's creakiness.
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I'm more drawn to the shows and films that revel in hip-hop's innovation rather than the ones steeped in nostalgia or melodrama.
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Psychologically astute and socially aware as the film is, it is also infused with mystery and melodrama, with bright colors and emotional shadows.
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Television newscasts play up the melodrama, focusing on the human tragedy; we can never get enough close-up shots of family members crying.
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But that quick turn from melodrama to "everything is fine!" repeats itself every season in some fashion, and we keep falling for it.
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Recently Lorde released Melodrama, one of the most interesting albums we've heard this year, and the second from the New Zealand singer-songwriter.
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But even when — perhaps especially when — things tip over into melodrama, it feels true to the way life is experienced by the young.
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Up until that point, you might have thought this was a marital melodrama set in a nightmarish version of a '50s academic marriage.
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The show sounded like the stuff of soapy teen melodrama, but it rarely was, thanks to the intelligent writing and first-rate ensemble.
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The big stuff and the small stuff have to stand somehow in relation to each other; Dubus must navigate between melodrama and sentimentality.
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Without that kind of control and pictorial fluency, the story loses its sensuality, and all that's left is a fairly threadbare, clichéd melodrama.
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The escalating feud, though, goes beyond mere West Wing melodrama, the sort of who's-up-and-who's-down scorekeeping that typically consumes Washington.
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It's a psychological thriller, a strangely dry-eyed melodrama, a kinky sex farce and, perhaps most provocatively, a savage comedy of bourgeois manners.
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Audience Score: 87%Critic Score: 58%Although the film got a lukewarm critical reception, audiences praised it for its melodrama and delightful cheesiness.
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And the film itself loses focus as it drifts toward the conventions of the coming-of-age story and the family-dysfunction melodrama.
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The melodrama was milder, and a cynic might surmise that that's why the show lasted only three seasons, compared to the original's 14.
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Next year, Democrats should pick up many seats in Congress, given the usual midterm correction and the unusual melodrama in the Trump administration.
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The story, set against the backdrop of warring royal houses in 13th-century Sicily, is a melodrama of the type Bellini's audiences savored.
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And, like O'Connor, Bausch is able to pull a story back from melodrama, no matter how sudden or dramatic the turn of events.
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The melodrama -- more "House of Cards" than "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" -- has only heightened, and the mistrust deepened, over the past 10 months.
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Another question, asked only by the husband, and only in his head: How does a science-fiction guy end up writing racial melodrama?
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Jack Antonoff—the pop dude who produced Lana Del Rey's Norman Fucking Rockwell and Lorde's Melodrama—comes through on co-production duty, too.
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" Cuomo spokeswoman Lis Smith hit back at those complaints, saying in a statement Wednesday morning, "The Nixon campaign thrives on paranoia and melodrama.
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Instead, the score builds to a final chorus about the power of remembrance, complete with "ah-ah" refrains and soaring Hollywood-melodrama melodies.
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That's the optimistic idea, at any rate, as well as the bold, obvious metaphor that shapes this seemingly impossible, seductively heartfelt male melodrama.
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A melodrama and fable set in post-war Coney Island, Wonder Wheel could, with some polishing, have been one of the good ones.
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A romantic melodrama starring a man could go on to win Best Picture and become one of the best-known films of all time.
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They have raised the ordinary frictions of daily affairs into a melodrama of microaggression, heteronormativity, and ableism, and Trump won't respect the new rules.
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For starters, Kal Ho Naa Ho really does feel like a rom-com even when it's using the traditional structure of a Bollywood melodrama.
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Gifted, a return to modest-budget Hallmark-shop sentimentality for the filmmaker, is a custody battle melodrama that's as schmaltzy as all get out.
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In just one month of shooting, the cast and producers packed in the melodrama in a perfect marriage of low brow, shocking, and hilarious.
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Iron Chef started as a Japanese cooking show in 1993 and its mix of melodrama, competition and food skyrocketed the program to worldwide fame.
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It's no surprise both Rise and the much-venerated FNL both hail from Emmy-winner Jason Katims, who also gave us family melodrama Parenthood.
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The melodrama is playing out across many networks, genres, and perspectives, from other breakout smashes like 213 Reasons Why to new offerings this fall.
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And with the exception of Lorde, whose sophomore project Melodrama received a nod, all of the nominees in that category are people of color.
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It's a far cry from 1960s films, known for their melodrama and impressive song and dance numbers, yet is all the better for this.
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The 150-minute screen time is devoted to melodrama and peripheral characters, all of whom try to build up the invincibility of the hero.
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She'd taken a miniature recreation of Lorde's Melodrama album cover, originally painted by New York artist Sam McKinniss, and hung it in the Louvre.
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I'm not saying Sense8 was perfect, but with its unembarrassed melodrama, kinetic action and wild ambition, it didn't resemble any other show on television.
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His endgame isn't to tell a story inside the park, it's to turn everything around the park into a melodrama for his own amusement.
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Comey graciously demurred, but we can take his version of events at face value and still find the whole affair a D.C. melodrama. Sen.
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We live in a combat culture, as evidenced by the pro wrestling-esque melodrama that Trump both created and exploited in the 2016 election.
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This particular poor ending felt like a betrayal, since it wrenches A Cure for Wellness fully out of its original genre and into melodrama.
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The final product is a glorious pack of notes poking fun at the dark melodrama of a holiday that drives most of us insane.
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On "Sober II (Melodrama)," Lorde redresses that balance by lending beauty to the messy and mundane aspects of partying we know and, begrudgingly, love.
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At first, Raymond Yip (who supervised another ghostly story in "The House That Never Dies") directs this sleek, baroque melodrama with a sure hand.
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But the commitment to going over the top is so pervasive, it's hard to tell what's serious and what's another heaping spoonful of melodrama.
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Right now, it's hard for TV viewers not to see duplicates of civic turmoil everywhere, in satire and melodrama, in sitcoms and superhero fantasies.
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Some of this negotiation involves a romance with a student from her university, a forbidden, not especially engaging, liaison that generates friction and melodrama.
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It offered something for everyone involved in the tortured melodrama of the last election, should they chose to salve their wounds and move on.
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The Kingpin's overscaled rage and narcissism gave the story energy, and the contrast with Daredevil's problematic idealism was fertile ground for comic-book melodrama.
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" Before Lorde initially announced that Melodrama was on its way, she wrote a note which included the statement "The party is about to start.
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Lorde was the musical guest on last night's SNL, her first network TV performance since announcing the release of her second studio album, Melodrama.
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It was pure melodrama of the best sort, capped off with Ibushi fighting back and winning with a phoenix splash from the top rope.
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Melodrama will likely be very good, because Lorde is very good, but will it get the reception it deserves when it appears in June?
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And forcing Archie and Veronica to hide their relationship is sure to keep the melodrama cranked way up the way we all like it.
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On its own, the depressing family drama would be bearable, but Hobson loses her thread when "Summer Cannibals" veers into frenetic, upsetting, slapdash melodrama.
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Lorde's forthcoming album, Melodrama, doesn't have a release date but the singer's own excitement and the hype around "Green Light" are certainly building anticipation.
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Three films will be shown on a loop, including a six-minute German abstract impressionist dance and a silent melodrama created by the collective.
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The movie is the usual plateful of low humor and high melodrama, in no particular hurry to make its way through a busy plot.
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's brainy and anguished rewrite of a classic melodrama played with ideas of race, representation and the peculiar work of playwriting itself.
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It's too cool for melodrama and too pretty for politics, and the drama of May's experience occupies a middle ground between pity and indignation.
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Xavier Dolan was in his mid-20s and already well-respected when he debuted this transgender melodrama, his third feature as a writer-director.
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Showtime's new series, with an impressive cast led by Kevin Bacon, wraps race, crime, city government and family melodrama in a "Wire"-like package.
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Dubbed by many as the worst film of all time, the melodrama "The Room" initially only made $1,800 off of a $6 million budget.
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It is a debate, wrapped in cloying melodrama, over whether a particular land border should be used to check the quality of imported pork.
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The series attempts to port its overheated emergency stories into its personal scenes, with huge levels of melodrama, but it doesn't work very well.
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The group sometimes shambled into a free-flowing rubato right in the middle of a fast tune, but it maintained conviction, and avoided melodrama.
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It's been an era in which call-out culture, reality TV melodrama and tribal grandstanding have overshadowed policymaking and the challenges of actually governing.
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Ms. Best, by contrast, handles the borderline melodrama of the plotting with ease and makes one see the cost to the soul of Mrs.
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There's now some solemnly overheated melodrama involving sexual exploration and jealousy, and every once in a while a modern mean-girl comedy takes over.
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Ms. Amirpour's 2014 debut feature, the Persian-language feminist vampire melodrama "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night," has already acquired a cult following.
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As it happens, "Two Ladies" needs as many real-life parallels as it can muster once the plot has derailed into absurdity and melodrama.
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In the colorful melodrama "The Sky Is Pink," a teenager tells the story of her family's care and sacrifices from an unusual vantage point.
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Instead, in its eagerness to depict its subject through the pivoting lenses of gleeful satire and high melodrama, Hunters usually shifts into empty provocation.
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Theater Daniel Sullivan's nimble and exhilarating revival of this Lillian Hellman melodrama about an appetitive Southern family will finish its run on July 2.
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That's a tough combination to pull off, especially without the critical distance, deep feeling and laughter that turn an ordinary melodrama into an Almodóvar.
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Just crack open one of the glossy new books devoted to American "country house" living and concoct your own melodrama about the privileged few.
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The movie is clamoring to erupt into melodrama, but de Clercq, content to wallow in teasingly luscious and enigmatically staged images, happily isn't listening.
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His stories blurred the lines between gay and straight, coerced and consensual, comedy and melodrama, the funny and the repulsive, high and low art.
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She's not O.K." The reader is like the audience at a melodrama — ready to shout across the fourth wall at the actor: "Go home!
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"You're tearing me apart," James Dean wailed at his befuddled parents in the melodrama "Rebel Without a Cause," a paragon of 1950s male anguish.
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The series explores story lines that practically scream for teen-show melodrama — drinking, drug use, bullying — and treats them with audacity and deft humor.
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That The Girl on the Train is partly meant as an homage to the mid-century social melodrama is apparent from its visual clues.
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"Jane Cum" is maybe the most pertinent case, its vocal take embodying the kind of controlled melodrama that Kate Bush nailed on "Hounds of Love".
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Offered a simple, familiar romance plot, viewers may mentally expand it into something more suited to their own needs, from family melodrama to industrial espionage.
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Back in 1991, when David Lynch and Mark Frost's groundbreaking TV melodrama Twin Peaks was cancelled, it left viewers with a lot of unanswered questions.
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Alena Smith, who's written for "The Newsroom" and "The Affair," created the show, with its high-low, deadpan spoof of both melodrama and sitcom conventions.
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For the witch aesthetic, it's New Zealand pop star Lorde, whose sophomore album Melodrama is up for Album of the Year at this Sunday's Grammys.
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He wrote more than 21977 plays that were funny, moving and immensely popular - sometimes shifting from slapstick to melodrama with the turn of a phrase.
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The story unfolds as a kind of tragic horror melodrama (again, Frankenstein-like), with Jessica powerless to prevent her mother from destroying herself and others.
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"Living in NYC can be a tortured melodrama, a grand romance, a horror movie, a screwball comedy — sometimes all in the same day," said Wells.
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What kind of satisfaction do you get from working on albums like Melodrama and 1989, which are bound to be massive hits upon their releases?
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Washington (CNN)Sally Yates didn't bring a smoking gun to the latest episode of the long-running political melodrama entwining the White House and Russia.
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In some ways, these films play like a real-life version of "A Star is Born" -- a classic melodrama ruminating on the price of stardom.
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What could be a straight up driving game, fixated on the rote world of cops and robbers, becomes a soap opera, a melodrama, a comedy.
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There are a lot of moments on like this on Melodrama, where I feel able to fit the events Lorde's describes to my own life.
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But for that reason, it's the closest to melodrama — saved by more ambiguity, as the onstage creator appears to doubt the worth of his art.
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Season 1 guest stars Alexandra Breckenridge (Sophie) and Jon Huertas (Miguel) are becoming series regulars in season 2 of NBC's hit melodrama, Entertainment Weekly reports.
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Last night, Lorde appeared on The Tonight Show to promote her much-anticipated new album Melodrama, and host Jimmy Fallon brought up the onion rings.
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"They're burning all the witches, even if you aren't one," she sings, on "I Did Something Bad," making a thinly veiled reference to political melodrama.
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The scene is overwritten, but Morisseau isn't afraid of melodrama; she knows that highly theatrical emotions can actually be true, on or off the stage.
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Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian Cooper directs and co-stars in this outrageously watchable and colossally enjoyable new version, supercharged with dilithium crystals of pure melodrama.
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One of the best NYC retrospective line-ups of the year, it features action films, thrillers, romantic comedies, outrageous sci-fi, horror, and melodrama alike.
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The next episode in this melodrama came in early August, when the Thunder and their other great player, Russell Westbrook, agreed to a contract extension.
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"Descendants of the Sun," a TV melodrama about a special forces captain and his doctor girlfriend, was a huge hit when it aired this year.
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In his meta-melodrama, the beautiful Cathy Whitaker (Julianne Moore, playing the flip side of Carol White) is living the Populuxe dream in Hartford, Connecticut.
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He read How to Draw the Marvel Way and he studied the pencils of Gene Colan and tried to mimic the melodrama of Jack Kirby.
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Like Carpenter, Clark is all about the analogue synths, but puts them to way more muscular, dancefloor-friendly use on this pounding slice of melodrama.
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It's sweet and strange, and the awkward laughs from the crowd when the monologue breaks from misery add another uncomfortable layer to the gutter-melodrama.
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While I wouldn't call tragedies like Bambi and The Lion King treacly, a cynic could easily cast those weepy titles as nothing more than melodrama.
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Eventually, that gives way to a protracted melodrama that adds higher stakes to the movie, which lopes along at a leisurely pace for too long.
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This year, McKinniss provided the cover portrait for goth pop chanteuse Lorde's album ''Melodrama,'' in which the singer lies in bed like an insomniac princess.
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The psychological drama of "The Strain" is largely carried by Corey Stoll and Kevin Durand, savvy, naturalistic actors who give emotional weight to the melodrama.
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Horace Jenkins died shortly after finishing this 1982 romantic melodrama tackling issues of colorism, the legacy of slavery and deceitful practices against African-American landowners.
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She's intrigued — the dedication is a seduction — and, after some domestic melodrama with her husband, Hutton (Armie Hammer), she settles in to read Edward's novel.
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"Story of a Prostitute" (1965) is a melodrama about a headstrong young woman who becomes a "comfort girl" in Manchuria during the Sino-Japanese war.
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" He added: "It's a psychological thriller, a strangely dry-eyed melodrama, a kinky sex farce and, perhaps most provocatively, a savage comedy of bourgeois manners.
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The new "Party of Five," from the original's creators, Amy Lippman and Christopher Keyser, is in many ways so far a standard, sentimental family melodrama.
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The border between the United States and Mexico has long been a place for vital cinema — a site for suspense, melodrama and tough-minded realism.
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It's also one of those rare times a song was given new life with an upbeat remix that nearly surpasses the original's ingenuity and melodrama.
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Presumably this teasing means we're in for dramatic, devastating reveals in both departments, which, sure, bring on the melodrama; that's what we're all here for.
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Some of the complications are standard melodrama; others concern more quotidian matters, like when to plant before the rain and where to sell harvested onions.
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Lorde's sophomore album, "Melodrama" was no exception to this rule (although it broke a few sonic rules like that wicked key change on "Green Light").
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This is just one instance in which Hatch resorts to melodrama when the stories of the outbreak are already sufficiently surreal and very often tragic.
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Aldridge and Somerset cut out most of the carnage and interpolated at least one scene from a contemporary melodrama that Aldridge had also starred in.
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" But "The Ferryman" also feels as if it's a cousin to that other memorable melodrama about a big family under one roof, "August: Osage County.
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It's a tale worth telling on celluloid and even though director Ali can't stop himself from injecting some Bollywood jingoism and melodrama, he doesn't go overboard.
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It's got a typical three-hour runtime — outsize in America but standard in Hindi films — and a typical romantic melodrama at the center of the plot.
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That might sound like your cup of tea, but so far, Chance is so over the top with its melodrama that it's impossible to take seriously.
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The slideshow breaks down an overwhelming amount of information into easy-to-understand chunks, communicating intrigue, clues and, ahem, melodrama in a comically crazed tone throughout.
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Mr. Pinckney rarely presents a basic fact, such as that Jed has found a room to rent, without attaching it to a little kite of melodrama.
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Lorde's song "Louvre," from her 2017 album Melodrama, also talks about taking up space in a museum: "But we're the greatest," she sings on the track.
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A few of Lorde's Pure Heroine teen angst classics were cut to make room for her new, more mature Melodrama songs over her 60-minute set.
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Beyond Boe and Minnette, Miles Heizer and Brandon Flynn also go the extra mile in selling subpar and often expository dialogue and growing amounts of melodrama.
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Critics expected her millennial masterpiece Melodrama, and its lead single "Green Light," to garner the wunderkind (born Ella Yelich-O'Connor) more nominations in the pop categories.
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Fast & Furious 6 (2013): The franchise takes a full turn toward melodrama, with double-crosses, amnesia, and brave self-sacrifices turning up as major plot points.
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Something good can come out of all the juicy onscreen melodrama of The Bachelor, and we're not just talking about the few healthy relationships it's spawned.
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Nowadays, he's as Trumpian as they come, and he seemed giddy after Trump and Democratic leaders turned their Oval Office meeting into a daytime-TV melodrama.
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Unapologetic melodrama is the best fit for shooters like Deus Ex, because subtlety looks grotesque when your avatar is personally capable of causing so much destruction.
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"L'Attesa" ("The Wait"), Piero Messina's debut feature, is an elegant melodrama of maternal grief with overtones of horror, a psychological rather than a supernatural ghost story.
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The countertenor Iestyn Davies made for a chillingly incisive Terry; Denyce Graves lent a bracing tinge of Tennessee Williams melodrama to the role of Marnie's mother.
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In sitcoms, there were few alternatives to such Tyler Perry confections as "House of Payne" and "For Better or Worse"—shotgun marriages of slapstick and melodrama.
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It's also pretty special to see her airing the finished tracks in the studio where they were made, as Electric Lady was where she recorded Melodrama.
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They're victims of Titus Andronicus (the play and the character), Shakespeare's first tragedy, which is really a melodrama more along the lines of Hannibal than Hamlet.
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The game was directly influenced by Twin Peaks, itself a television series that bucked genre convention, combining soap opera melodrama, small town mystery, and surreal horror.
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But Ms. Evans ("Dance Nation") wisely keeps the performances from her five cast members at a meditative simmer that never boils over into declamation and melodrama.
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Mixing a lathered-up love triangle with a ghostly murder-mystery, Derek Nguyen's "The Housemaid" wraps a painful chapter in Vietnamese history in Gothic-melodrama trappings.
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There was a component of melodrama in the 2007 production of "Dying City," which flirted with the archetypes of menacing (male) villain and vulnerable (female) prey.
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Instead he relies heavily on "An American Melodrama," a masterpiece of eyewitness history written in 19753 by three British reporters, and a handful of other accounts.
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Children are unlikely to be captivated by this unconvincing melodrama of abandonment and reconciliation, and adults will be moved by it only because we're hopeless crybabies.
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Mostly, the show is exactly what it sounds like: a hospital melodrama, with whiz-bang medical science, a dash of intra-staff romance and shameless sentimentality.
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The stunt performers spin, jump, and kick with weightless improvisatory brilliance, then pass the baton to the actors, who immediately sink into a bog of melodrama.
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We come to the show for steamy adult melodrama, but we stay for the sheer spectacle of grown-ups acting, over and over, like petulant children.
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The films of Pedro Almodóvar swerve among camp, melodrama, psychosexual thrillers and jet black comedies, a combo that inspires the Puerto Rican-born choreographer Antonio Ramos.
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There will be those who protest the melodrama, saying justifiably that science is why we care about Einstein, and why he is important to begin with.
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And at that point, all the White House melodrama and dysfunction could cease to be a sideshow circus and become a serious threat to the economy.
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Washington (CNN)On a Washington day like no other, President Donald Trump found himself in an unusual spot: publicly absent from a melodrama gripping the nation.
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So yes, the story is very, very anime, swelling melodrama at every turn and filled with worldbuilding that makes absolutely no sense and is extremely cool.
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The Crawleys will make a triumphant return to Highclere Castle, decked in pearls and braced for more melodrama, to film a "Downton Abbey" movie this summer.
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Time magazine once exclaimed that she "lived a life of glamour and danger that Ingrid Bergman only played at in 'Notorious,' " Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 spy melodrama.
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One surprise from working on this story was how well Pierre Berton's 1977 book, "The Dionne Years: A Thirties Melodrama," holds up as a good read.
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"Melodrama," from 2017, coped with fame and tried to escape politics by telescoping infatuation, intoxication, disenchantment and regret into songs that chronicle one eventful house party.
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The show tilts into full melodrama as we find out about Madeline's (Reese Witherspoon) affair with Joseph Bachman (Santiago Cabrera), the man running the Monterey theater.
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Like Maureen Dowd's Opinion column on Uma Thurman, there was simultaneously too much melodrama and too much normal going on for the story to be believed.
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Curiously, though, the film seems to be trying to both ape and update a mid-century melodrama, but without the self-awareness the best ones display.
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Those for both seasons of "True Detectives" are surrealistic montages of worried faces, bleak landscapes and atmospheric commotion, summing up with terrific intensity the show's noirish melodrama.
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It's an English-language production, and the variety of accents coupled with John Fusco's stilted dialogue call to mind an old Hollywood melodrama set in exotic lands.
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Nor is Veep a melodrama in the style of Scandal; with a few exceptions, this isn't a show about people driven by animalistic passion or deep connection.
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After twenty-four hours of my crying inconsolably in my room, alone—major melodrama—Mom had to pull me out of there to go down to dinner.
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Stylish and bold, it was happy to traffic in cheap scares and cheaper melodrama even while it earnestly tried to tackle real themes like guilt and shame.
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Su Salón México fue una película distinta, un melodrama musical de cine negro ambientado en un cabaret de mal gusto al ritmo casi continuo de la rumba.
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The melodrama is a reinvention of the Archie comics, best known for celebrating the simplicity of the 53s from the safety of the grocery store checkout aisle.
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Voiello is slimy, Spencer is bitter, and Mary is patient, and all three actors put in turns that help elevate the melodrama and drive the narrative along.
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But like a self-help manual, Gappah's book cloaks its aphoristic abstractions in the trappings of shallow lyricism, hoping that we might mercifully mistake melodrama for substance.
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Armed with that information, fans began commenting to demand that Lorde release the song, in its entirety, as a bonus track on an extended version of Melodrama.
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The most powerful part of this little family melodrama is when Abe asks if Midge is as good as the comedian Steiner booked for the farewell dinner.
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On July 25, user THANKSAGAIN wrote that Melodrama was, "Honestly one of the worst albums I've heard," before following up with a review of Lust for Life.
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But present-day audiences don't always know what to do when films straddle the blurry line between melodrama and regular drama, most especially where sexuality is involved.
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Menos aún en su versión más pobre, en el melodrama que exige creer que a la historia solo la mueven los villanos desgraciados o los héroes bondadosos.
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For a great many hours, you manage ever-dwindling resources, kill lots of things (both living and undead), and try not to drown in all the melodrama.
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Nostalgia gives way to melodrama, and dramatic truth to soapy histrionics, and "Blue Jay" falters on a formulaic revelation about mistakes made and lessons learned too late.
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"Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves" is an irresistible slab of pop melodrama, and "Dark Lady" gave Cher the first (but far from last) tasteless key change of her career.
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A peculiar air of mystery hangs over this Quebecois zombie survival film, making it all the more compelling than the seemingly endless melodrama of The Walking Dead.
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Having collaborated before on the soundtrack to the third Hunger Games movie, Lorde paid tribute to Mr. West during her Melodrama Tour stop in Chicago, Kanye's hometown.
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Netflix and other streaming platforms, for whatever reason, seem to be a place where this sort of contrived melodrama is more engrossing than it might be elsewhere.
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A woman's drinking is often understood less as the necessary antidote to her own staggering wisdom and more as self-indulgence or melodrama, hysteria, an unpardonable affliction.
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Lacking both the romantic chemistry and the directorial panache that might justify its life-or-death stakes, "Midnight Sun" is a medical melodrama in need of resuscitation.
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Lorde's second album, "Melodrama," was one of last year's greatest pop triumphs, using subtle gestures and pinpoint-accurate observations to convey the conflicted joys of early adulthood.
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Making good on the teaser video dropped earlier today, Lorde has released the full visual for single "Perfect Places," the closing track on her latest LP Melodrama.
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Tamaki and Valero-O'Connell slyly undercut the rocky romance, preventing it from veering into melodrama with endearing moments between the girls' other friends and flashes of humor.
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Even the slow-motion destruction of an entire civilization can register as a thrilling show, a soap opera, a gripping melodrama of our own must-watch demise.
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"The Crime of Monsieur Lange" opened belatedly in New York on a bill with Robert Bresson's austere melodrama "Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne," made in 1944.
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These "ratchet" reality shows offer a kind of empathy most often found in soap operas and melodrama, the two genres that "Love & Hip Hop" most closely resembles.
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We were mostly right about the hearings, but surely we should have anticipated that the Author of our crazy national melodrama had another narrative trick to play.
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Ted Kennedy has not passed into the public domain in this sense, so one tampers with his life at the peril of turning it into tawdry melodrama.
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After working with the New Zealand musician and producer Joel Little on "Pure Heroine," she wrote and recorded nearly all of "Melodrama" with Jack Antonoff of Fun.
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"Twin Peaks" drew on soaps (remember the show-within-the-show "Invitation to Love"), teen melodrama, detective procedurals — but while it twisted them, it didn't mock them.
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But it only thickened the stew of melodrama that makes watching "The Affair" feel like watching the longest, slowest, most entertaining freeway pileup ever caught on film.
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Featuring similar emotional beats, the movie suffers by cramming all that melodrama into a confined space, heightening the sense of manipulation to what feels like absurd levels.
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He admits that he's biased against FOX's "Empire"—a camp rap melodrama that's been creaming "black-ish" in the ratings—but he also doesn't think it's good.
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A decade later, he was summoned by Fassbinder to shoot "Whity" (22007), a melodrama centering on the butler to a fractured American family in the Old West.
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Over all, the characters' melodrama is unwarranted; the final climactic event that Alix thinks "felt like the plot twist of a horror movie" is actually quite predictable.
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In the 1965 melodrama "The Sandpiper," she works her wiles on a priest (Richard Burton), enveloping him in the ample folds of her bell-sleeve crimson robe.
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It's rendered in the film as a kind of heightened melodrama, with rich colors and emotive touches likely intended to evoke the era in which it happened.
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In the 1965 melodrama "The Sandpiper," she works her wiles on a priest (Richard Burton), enveloping him in the ample folds of her bell-sleeve crimson robe.
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"In the Hollywood melodrama, characters made for operettas play out the tragedies of mankind, which is how they experience the contradictions of American civilization," Mr. Elsaesser wrote.
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CNN's Stephen Collinson lays out how a week that was supposed to be filled with drama at the United Nations turned into America's latest impeachment melodrama. 2.
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" His expenditures came under scrutiny after a Washington Post report about lavish decorations in his Capitol Hill office based on the popular PBS period melodrama "Downton Abbey.
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According to Lorde herself, her long-awaited second album, Melodrama, traces the trajectory of a single night of partying, with all its exhilarating peaks and self-loathing valleys.
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It's embarrassing that I used to earnestly listen to a lot of this, but the melodrama is great for powering through the last 220 minutes of a run.
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More than a place to pick up Juicy Couture tracksuits and Ugg boots, Kitson provided a backdrop for celebrity melodrama: Ms. Spears trying on hats at 2 a.m.
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Like Frank Ocean's Blond(e), or Tyler, the Creator's Flower Boy, or Lorde's Melodrama, it's the kind of record that is difficult to write about after one listen.
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Portman put that accent to use again playing Anne Boleyn – that is, the main Boleyn girl – in this melodrama about the many loves of Henry VIII (Eric Bana).
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With royal protocol keeping Meghan from commenting or lashing out as her family dished intel from private conversations, the world couldn't help but be transfixed by the melodrama.
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Early in FX's new scripted melodrama Pose, Blanca, a HIV-positive trans performer, introduces Damon, a gay youth from Pennsylvania, to the glamour and volume of ballroom culture.
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"Money Monster" goes the melodrama route, with a TV investment pundit, played by George Clooney, held hostage by a blue-collar worker (Jack O'Connell) who's lost his savings.
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I rattle off other Soviet films whose names I can recall: Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears (a melodrama about tough life in the big city), Kin-dza-dza!
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Reynolds avoids allowing his plot to devolve into either sentimentality or melodrama by refusing to outline a broader happy ending for this tale and the characters in it.
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It must be said that they and Mr. Rapp (who also directed) appear to be having a high old time in this lurid melodrama with music (1:45).
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It must be said that they and Mr. Rapp (who also directed) appear to be having a high old time in this lurid melodrama with music (246:24111).
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It must be said that they and Mr. Rapp (who also directed) appear to be having a high old time in this lurid melodrama with music (2222:251).
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It must be said that they and Mr. Rapp (who also directed) appear to be having a high old time in this lurid melodrama with music (200:2195).
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Such a milieu could easily have produced a melodrama of the gay-martyr type, but "Fellow Travelers," which has a libretto by Greg Pierce, is after something different.
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It must be said that they and Mr. Rapp (who also directed) appear to be having a high old time in this lurid melodrama with music (21978:21).
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It must be said that they and Mr. Rapp (who also directed) appear to be having a high old time in this lurid melodrama with music (1:23).
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It must be said that they and Mr. Rapp (who also directed) appear to be having a high old time in this lurid melodrama with music (2126:2800).
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It must be said that they and Mr. Rapp (who also directed) appear to be having a high old time in this lurid melodrama with music (200:2530).
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And yet every time I want to roll my eyes at the melodrama, this show does one of two things: And that leaves me teetering on the edge.
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The show crams in melodrama, family drama, righteous monologizing, hand-wavey sci-fi nonsense and pertinent facts about the Hindenburg, plus it's basically a cops-and-robbers show.
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It must be said that they and Mr. Rapp (who also directed) appear to be having a high old time in this lurid melodrama with music (2745:223).
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For those teetering on the edge of dropping Empire off their DVR schedules, fed up with its melodrama, over- or under-acting, and lack of substantive storylines — stop.
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From communist academics and charming mobsters, to brash movie execs and working-class stiffs, the film oscillates wildly between comedy and melodrama, Borscht Belt humor, and gentle sentimentality.
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She has a knack for channeling drama through her voice box without ever falling into petty melodrama, something you'd think might be harder with network television cameras rolling.
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Lorde wrote that she had been spending most of the year writing songs for her next album, after the release of her critically acclaimed album "Melodrama" in 2017.
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The crime melodrama is one thing, but if you can't have a self-aware sophisticate screaming about her right to a slice of the patriarchy, what's the point?
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Mr. Fellowes' historical melodrama "Downton Abbey," which first aired on ITV in Britain in 2010 and on PBS in the United States in 2011, ran for six seasons.
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But the scene doesn't have the force it should, because like much of what has come before, it takes fictional license over the line into contrivance and melodrama.
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The action-packed melodrama was plagued with conflicts on set and a weak box office debut that only managed to recoup a third of its $16 million budget.
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Rather than illuminating the politics of the present by examining the struggles of the past, Bissell lurches from folksy comedy to clattering melodrama, producing the opposite of enlightenment.
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Yet there's a certain cathartic charm in seeing the moral squalor of present-day governments translated into a juicy melodrama that winds up in an orgy of destruction.
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THE FOSTERS (Freeform, Monday-Wednesday) It's not a good moment to be losing this touching young-adult melodrama, one of TV's most overt celebrations of tolerance and diversity.
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Even without the wigs and tarantula eyelashes of his performing alter ego, Arnold is a preternaturally heightened figure, only rarely without the battle gear of exaggeration and melodrama.
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Anchored around props and stage sets, de Cointet's performances fused dry conceptualism with Hollywood melodrama, an approach that would influence fellow Angelenos like Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy.
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Melodrama teams with maternal martyrs, but in this male-dominated industry many sacrifice stories involve men forfeiting their lives for family, war, a wagon train, a hapless village.
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Now, though, Cooper goes in for the emotional kill, cutting to Jack and Ally alone in their woodsy idyll, a paradise that's worthy of a Douglas Sirk melodrama.
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The movie, directed by Rupert Goold and written by Tom Edge, is a gentler, squarer mash note to the Great Woman that's part maternal melodrama, part martyr story.
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But while "Greater Clements" deploys the grinding gears of melodrama to wear down its doomed characters, "Paris" takes an almost flatline approach to the unhappy existences it portrays.
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Their daughter, the actress Susan Kohner, was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actress for her performance in Douglas Sirk's melodrama "Imitation of Life" in 1959.
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CANNES, France (Reuters) - A gripping whodunnit with barnstorming performances, or a "telenovela" melodrama: critical reactions were mixed on Wednesday for "Everybody Knows", which opened the Cannes Film Festival.
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At times, his visual style announces itself too overtly; and he tends to be too withholding, as if he were concerned about being obvious or falling into melodrama.
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Others, like "An American Melodrama," by three British journalists, about the turmoil in 1968, say something valuable about the fabric of the country and the concerns of voters.
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In "Die Räuberinnen" ("The Robbers"), an all-female deconstruction of Friedrich Schiller's 1781 play, the director Leonie Böhm reduces the five-act melodrama to a plotless 80 minutes.
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He went to France, discovered melodrama and forged an uncanny ability to transmute the language and events of his day — scandals, disasters, new technologies — into playable, rousing theater.
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"Italian melodrama starts as popular — it was not an elite genre," noted Paolo Fallai, the president of the board of Rome's municipal libraries, one of the project's sponsors.
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That omission leaves only New Zealand-born singer-songwriter Lorde's album "Melodrama" and the Latin global hit single "Despacito" to mount a serious challenge in the top races.
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"Consider the case of Nordstrom, ... the swanky department store chain I like so much with a story that's reaching soap opera levels of melodrama, " Cramer said on Wednesday.
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The Affair Through two seasons, "The Affair" charted a course between melodrama and comedy of manners, with a ticky-tacky mystery thrown in to keep the plot percolating.
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"Es un thriller de superhéroes con toques de horror y melodrama entre familias", cuenta sobre Glass la crítica del Times, Manohla Dargis; es decir, hay algo para todos.
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Fox became my chief vice, less for the news than for the melodrama—there was no better view of the meteor hitting the Republican Party in real time.
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Directed by Richard Shepard — best-known for the pulpy dramedies "The Matador" and "Dom Hemingway" — "The Perfection" starts out like a genteel melodrama, then descends into the depraved.
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The film overall was far more romance than horror, and more melodrama than thriller — a genre-hybrid formula that Universal would return to for its unexpected 1999 hit.
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Harris, all melodrama and exaggerated accents, is playing to the back of the room; the kids he's chasing blink back at him, voicing their protests in monosyllabic bursts.
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Karukoski's sensitive direction, which only occasionally gives way to cloying melodrama, offers a perfect platform for actor Pekka Strang to showcase his impressive range in the lead role.
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But the death of Alison is good melodrama, in that it feels deeply rooted in her character and should give everybody else on the show something to play.
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On Wednesday, Lauren Conrad announced (sort of) that she's working on a new show for MTV, almost 10 years after she starred on the cult teen melodrama, The Hills.
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Two weeks after the release of Lorde's second album, Melodrama, a fan has pointed out a significant repetition, listing all the times the singer mentions "dancing" in her songs.
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This article originally appeared on VICE Sports UK. While the language of football most often borrows from pantomime, points deductions are more in keeping with the genre of melodrama.
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Tech companies are not exactly shy about using melodrama in their ads, but Sonos' latest commercial — first shown last week and again during tonight's Grammy Awards — takes the cake.
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The saga of Bill and Hillary, with its echoes of Eleanor and Franklin and undertones of Bonnie and Clyde, was animated by melodrama, narrow escapes, knock-down-drag-outs.
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The latter was shot in Technicolor, and Sherman's most recent body of work, with its deeply saturated color, brings to mind Sirk's lurid palette, so well-suited to melodrama.
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The series' installation in a warehouse loading dock outfitted with glaring flood lamps ratchets up the atmosphere of menace, but never does the tenor of the exhibition risk melodrama.
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There's an obvious reason why these stories are so common in literature and film: They're ripe with melodrama, and give audiences the chance to experience emotions to the extreme.
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The rough acting style pioneered by the first Danjuro (who was stabbed to death on stage in 1704) is particularly demanding, full of melodrama, sword swinging and grandiose gestures.
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Tia Booth found herself in another Colton Underwood-centric love triangle, this time swapping out Becca Kufrin for Chris Randone as the third leg of this hellish romantic melodrama.
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The magical backdrop of temple ruins adds grandeur to the melodrama, and the losses on both sides of the movie's conflict suggest that justice prevails only after enormous sacrifice.
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But Ford's stance on the material is strangely opaque: He treats the novel as pulpy melodrama with moments of piercing clarity, while leaving the real-world drama oddly vague.
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One is immediately certain that he has learned all his lines, considered various deliveries, searching for the tonal shadings between comedy, melodrama, and tragedy that make the play sing.
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Without the detached coolness that characterized 2013's Pure Heroine, Melodrama retains all the precocious smarts of its predecessor while offering a riveting, more emotional journey of self-discovery.
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Claim to Fame Lil Freckles (her real name is Emma Carroll) is a pixie-faced rapper whose unapologetic and raunchy lyrics betray the high-low melodrama of millennial life.
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With hints of "The Wire" and traditional Mafia melodrama, "the combination is handled so adroitly that the show sucks you in," Mike Hale wrote in The New York Times.
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With ordinary emotion sung in idiomatic English having been reclaimed by the singer-songwriters, theatrical music could borrow rock style but move backward in form, toward operetta and melodrama.
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After being spotted in the Off Broadway musical "The New York City Street Show" in 1977 she was cast in the 1978 film "Nunzio," an Italian-American family melodrama.
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It all has the potential for some sappy feel-good melodrama just in time for Father's Day; but somehow, like Bucky Dent himself, Duchovny hits an unexpected home run.
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That's paralleled in what we've heard from Melodrama so far, too: It's sleeker, sexier, but maybe also a little awkward as they push her distinct, hazy vocals into hyperbole.
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Since its cult success, Wiseau has tried to pass his film off as a "black comedy" rather than an inept melodrama that's unintentionally funny, but he's not fooling anyone.
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Her first track from her forthcoming sophomore Melodrama was "Greenlight" with both the track and the video arriving in early March to kick off the new Lorde album frenzy.
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Mad Men, the modern classic chronicling Madison Avenue life in the 1960s, set episodes in concert with major 60s events and borrowed heavily from legendary melodrama auteur Douglas Sirk.
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"Lizzie" isn't perfect — the pacing can flag, and the lovely Kim Dickens, as Lizzie's older sister, barely registers — but Ms. Sevigny's intelligence and formidable control keep the melodrama grounded.
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Ms. Madigan gets closest to a coherent character, and Mr. Abraham, always confident with melodrama, grabs his depressive nothing of a role by the throat and makes it jump.
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If Big Little Lies' second-season premiere was the calm before a storm of consequences, then the second episode, "Tell-Tale Hearts," is a whole new maelstrom of melodrama.
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It's similar to Dick Wolf's "Law & Order" formula, and it makes "Line of Duty" a better show than the more highly rated "Bodyguard," where Mercurio leaned heavily into melodrama.
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There's an awkwardness in the title — "Emotion Pictures: International Melodrama" — given to the sprawling, 62-film festival that's running at the Film Society of Lincoln Center through Jan. 7.
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His rapturous 1975 filming of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" and his sumptuous 1982 family melodrama, "Fanny and Alexander," are among his greatest, most tonally varied and completely satisfying experiences.
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The music of "Diary" is often passionate, but this melodrama — the kind of needlessly heightened, smugly visceral stage action that's characteristically van Hove-ian — feels out of place, false.
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Any writer trafficking in such lofty Faulknerian themes ("love and honor and pity and pride") risks melodrama, and Ward can get positively melismatic when she strains for poetic effect.
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