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decider

British  
/ dɪˈsaɪdə /

noun

  1. the point, goal, game, etc, that determines who wins a match or championship

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And in a recent Decider essay, the critic Glenn Kenny shrewdly examined “Oppenheimer” alongside Alain Resnais’ elliptical 1959 masterpiece, “Hiroshima Mon Amour,” itself a powerful commentary on the futility of trying to represent the unrepresentable.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2023

However, it was also critiqued for its casting - with Joel Keller of Decider describing everyone on the HBO Max show as "pretty good looking".

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2023

In an interview with Decider, Dominik explained that he visualized the fetus in an attempt to access “Norma’s feelings” about her pregnancies.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2022

Mare of Easttown director and executive producer Craig Zobel recently told Decider, "If we could have gotten to shoot in a Wawa, we would have."

From Salon • May 30, 2021

And 'tis indeed but fit there should be some Dernier Resort, the Absolute Decider of all Controversies.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph