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Those subsequent parts demonstrated her box-office appeal as well as her ability to grippingly portray characters riven by trauma.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2025

The RTS judges called the series "a devastating story grippingly told… a triumph of distinctive writing, great production and fine performances".

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2022

Art responding to the brutality of war, as “Black Angels” does grippingly, will probably never not be timely.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2022

But he was also grippingly virtuosic in tricky, Sarasate-like passages of lyrical double-stops and left-hand pizzicato.

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2021

Yet Bobbie’s words—“bust ’em out”—took hold of her grippingly, and the thought of leaving that unbearable place was like a tonic to the frantic girl.

From Rose O'Paradise by White, Grace Miller