hyperrealism
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But it wasn’t just the hyperrealism of the scene that made it so striking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
The style is on brand for Weirdo Cult, which often combines elements of internet technology and hyperrealism.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2022
Christian Bale’s bizarrely complete physical transformation into Dick Cheney took the stunt-casting angle to the extreme, while the fractured, gag-laden script abandoned all pretense of hyperrealism and committed fully to absurdity.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2019
Writer Clarisse Loughrey gave it four stars, praising the movie as a "technological marvel of unprecedented hyperrealism".
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2019
In an untitled view of a shuttered Brooklyn Chinatown store in his new show, “Sandpaper Tongue,” this oversaturation of detail achieves a paradoxical kind of hyperrealism.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2018
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