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View synonyms for overlong

overlong

/ ˌəʊvəˈlɒŋ /

adjective

  1. too or excessively long

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Most of this happens in just the first act—overlong at 90 minutes.

“F1: The Movie” may be a thinly veiled, overblown, overlong vanity project, but it’s designed to waterboard viewers with Pitt’s panache until they relent, hoping that we, too, become so exhausted by its end that we can’t help but give in.

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The film may be a thinly veiled, overblown, overlong vanity project, but it’s designed to waterboard viewers with Pitt’s panache until they relent, hoping that we, too, become so exhausted by its end that we can’t help but give in.

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I wish the same could be said about his overlong dream-logic interludes, which tantalize as peeks into Frankie’s psyche but eventually feel like style filler.

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The Hindustan Times newspaper called it a film grappling with "an identity crisis, an overlong run time and a confused mess of a script".

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