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The directorial debut from the Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids star is an Aussie musical comedy set in a small outback town that appears to have the energy to be a potential Muriel’s Wedding or Strictly Ballroom-style indie breakout.
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Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Sep. 2024
So the musical comedy style helps carry that through musical drama, where singing and dancing do play a role.
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2024
Last year, Hewson starred in John Carney’s musical comedy Flora and Son which was acquired by Apple.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2024
And Rebel Wilson’s The Deb, a musical comedy set in rural Australia, will close TIFF.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 July 2024
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Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Sep. 2024
So the musical comedy style helps carry that through musical drama, where singing and dancing do play a role.
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2024
Last year, Hewson starred in John Carney’s musical comedy Flora and Son which was acquired by Apple.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2024
And Rebel Wilson’s The Deb, a musical comedy set in rural Australia, will close TIFF.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 July 2024
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For Greta Gerwig’s comedy drama Lady Bird (2017), Feldstein and the cast were nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture.Julie Tremaine, People.com, 19 Oct. 2024
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Set in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Jerusalem, the comedy drama starring Nur Fibak, follows a young modern woman’s journey to self-discovery and liberation.Annika Pham, Variety, 19 Oct. 2024
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Each won the Emmy Award for outstanding music or comedy program.Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2024
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The 56-year-old returns to standup comedy in his latest endeavor with Netflix, and the streaming platform has set a premiere date.DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 1 Nov. 2024
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So many people worldwide have been introduced not only to your work, but to musical theater itself, through recordings of your musicals.Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 24 Oct. 2024
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The last of the musicals Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote at the peak of his own fame, the show played Broadway with Glenn Close as its Norma in 1994; Close reprised the role in New York in 2017.Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024
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Even Lawrence, the steadiest of the lot, gets caught up in the melodrama.Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024
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Haley was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor in the 2006 Academy Awards for his performance in Todd Field’s 2006 satirical melodrama Little Children.Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2024
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But in this first-rate production – featuring superb performances from Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati – the play nevertheless emerges as a gripping drama of great wit, absurdity and tragicomedy.The Week UK, theweek, 26 Sep. 2024
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Her writing radiates a cosmic empathy that coexists, sometimes on the same page, with a strain of intolerance blind to life’s tragicomedy.Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
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In fact, the sequel considerably broadens the scope of the original by focusing on an international pop superstar (played by Naomi Scott) who gets hit with the demonic smiling apparitions while trying to mount a massive comeback tour after a horrible tragedy.Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024
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The manipulation of a person’s untimely passing to drive reach, clicks and views is one thing, but to comment on it without a hint of the ironic commodification of a tragedy is another.Lauren Coulman, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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Gaga would be seen as a key component of what Phillips wants to do with this sequel as well, in terms of integrating old-fashioned musical numbers into the psychodrama.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2024
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Excess, violence, and the kind of family psychodrama that would make Sigmund Freud’s eyes pop — yes, the first full trailer for Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is here.Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2024
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“Musical comedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/musical%20comedy. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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