seriocomic
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Which is what makes the seriocomic “The Invite” feel both fresh and something of a throwback — a movie for those who worry about losing their edge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi charmed audiences at Sundance 2020 with “The Mole Agent,” her sly, seriocomic documentary about suspicious goings-on at a Santiago nursing home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2023
Instead, it's a highly stylized and fictionalized seriocomic mystery thriller that employs a slew of heavy hitters, including Jennifer Coolidge, Mia Farrow, Margo Martindale and Richard Kind.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2022
Hanif’s deftness at this kind of seriocomic storytelling has often, almost reflexively now, gotten him compared to Joseph Heller.
From Washington Post ● May 30, 2019
Thus she disposed of the statesman and his seriocomic morality.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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