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A more divided reception greeted Emerald Fennell’s glossily mounted but increasingly laborious and empty “Saltburn,” which held its first screening the same evening.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2023

The whole hourlong work, the final installment in a trilogy with “Black Box” and “Black Velvet,” is curiously stylish and sincere, glossily cold and tender.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2022

One reasons why her glossily produced White House Christmas videos are so spooky is this uncanny valley effect—not of a robot that looks too much like a human being, but vice versa.

From Slate • Jun. 18, 2020

Marcus Miller, Miles’s 1980s svengali, scored and glossily produced this late-career set dedicated to South Africa’s liberation from apartheid.

From The Guardian • Aug. 1, 2019

The hair on her arms shone glossily, as if she had used too much palm kernel oil.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie