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Yet the film’s derivativeness — residents literally fight darkness with light — is countered by strong acting from the two leads and a director who just might be having the time of his life.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2021

Dead Space, released in 2008, is a survival-horror classic, a game whose derivativeness is well balanced by how often it makes you run screaming from the room.

From Slate • Feb. 1, 2011

A similar derivativeness plagues Nira Pereg’s “And Melancholy,” which visits the balconies of the different buildings in Tel Aviv where she has lived.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2010

In another woman he would not have given the na�ve derivativeness a thought; but in her, whom he had felt so full of savour and independence?

From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas