How to Use two-hander in a Sentence
two-hander
noun-
And the two-hander aspect of it is just off-the-charts brilliant.
— Rob Turbovsky, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2024 -
The project is described as a two-hander, so Blunt would be playing one of the leads in the project.
— Justin Kroll, Deadline, 13 June 2024 -
The play is a two-hander that, while set in the modern day, has a nebulous sense of time and space.
— Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023 -
But the movie is really a two-hander — a duet between a man and his cage.
— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2023 -
The Life and Loves of Edith Wharton was a personal two-hander project of hers that toured for many years.
— Clare Fisher, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2023 -
The film appears to be a two-hander between Cruise and Atwell, who are at odds yet must team up to survive in the scene.
— Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2023 -
What’s the joy and terror of a two-hander, of having to rely so much on each other?
— Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023 -
The flagship [series] did not really allow for the time and the space for a two-hander.
— Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2024 -
Details on Youssef’s part are being kept under wraps though sources say the show isn’t a two-hander.
— Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2024 -
The pieces span nearly two decades, from the mid-two-thousands to last year, and each one is a two-hander of sorts, between Nelson and an artist or a work of art.
— Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2024 -
Her co-star in the two-hander, Laura Linney, was left out of the category.
— Gordon Cox, Variety, 10 June 2023 -
But there’s also something for the casual viewer, the one who doesn’t much care about match cuts or dolly shots or the meaning of two-hander.
— Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 4 July 2023 -
Fair Play is mostly a two-hander carried by Dynevor and Ehrenreich.
— Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 8 Aug. 2023 -
End of carousel This show is a two-hander, so the absence of works by Degas, who died 34 years after Manet, from the exhibition’s final gallery stands out.
— Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023 -
The play, a two-hander, is a 1984 drama by John Patrick Shanley about two hardened people who meet in a Bronx bar and wind up spending a night together.
— Michael Paulson, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2024 -
It was titled Sidewinder and was more of a two-hander between Costner's character, Hayes, and another man.
— Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 May 2024 -
The two-hander centers on two strangers, Danny and Roberta, who meet in a dive bar in the Bronx and strike up conversation and the possibility of a romance.
— Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2023 -
After a quiet holiday debut, Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell’s two-hander has proven to have some stellar word-of-mouth.
— J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 13 Jan. 2024 -
Duchovny stars alongside Logan Marshall-Green in a two-hander about a misanthropic man dying of cancer and his sappy son, who craves love from his dad.
— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 18 Dec. 2023 -
Romantic comedies have a reputation for floundering in theaters these days, but perhaps the Sydney Sweeney-Glen Powell two-hander can build on this.
— J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 23 Dec. 2023 -
Despite fashioning himself a two-hander, Elcar puts most of his imagination working as the film’s sound designer.
— J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 21 Aug. 2023 -
Red Eye moves like a bullet, jumping from disaster movie to psychological two-hander to blazing action and eventually a pretty gnarly stalker-in-the-house sequence.
— Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 11 Jan. 2024 -
These are two big shows about a man that are crafted as a two-hander, with very strong, complicated, dynamic female characters who ultimately have more interesting arcs than the male characters.
— Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2023 -
Amy Brenneman delivered one of the finest performances of the year, playing a Yale creative writing professor facing a terminal cancer diagnosis in this two-hander by Adam Rapp that spun a spiderweb around the creative act.
— Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023 -
Essentially a two-hander, Luke Paradise’s screenplay provides its leads with plenty of opportunity for histrionics; only a credible context and conviction are lacking.
— Dennis Harvey, Variety, 24 July 2023
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