seriocomic
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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
More of a recognition reel for a fan convention than a movie, it signals a career that’s traveled far from its first evocation of a raw seriocomic intelligence about small-to-bursting lives.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2022
Back in 2011, I reviewed Mat Johnson’s “Pym,” a wildly entertaining seriocomic novel that revisits — and updates — Edgar Allan Poe’s enigmatic, racially charged fantasy, “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.”
From Washington Post • Jun. 22, 2022
Joshua Wheeler detours around them all in favor of his native southern New Mexico in the engagingly chatty and seriocomic "Acid West."
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2018
"I humbly appeal to you all," said Bertram in seriocomic tone, "is my rotundity a mere bagatelle?"
From A Heart-Song of To-day by Savigny, Annie Gregg
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