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Rob Jabbaz’s transgressive zombie film was bombastically directed and exhaustingly gory — in other words, the year’s most gloriously brutal horror-watching experience.

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2022

It was hosted by CNN, and the presentation was so bombastically stupid that it was almost condescending.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2016

Instead of the conventional opening credits, Reese and Wernick come up with a stream of tongue-in-cheek items, with on-screen type bombastically proclaiming "directed by an overpaid tool" and "written by the real heroes here."

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2016

It’s interesting that the bombastically titled foreign film “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared” made the cut above “Black Mass.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2016

"It was splendidly done!" went on Anatole, bombastically.

From The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood by Griffiths, Arthur