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The movie progresses from whimsical to shattering in a masterfully paced series of staged patricidal vignettes—and then, in perhaps my favorite last shot of the year, swings impossibly back to whimsical again.

From Slate • Dec. 30, 2020

Even knowing Tyrion had no part in it, Jaime’s clearly still not in a forgiving mood when it comes to his patricidal brother.

From The Verge • Aug. 14, 2017

It’s tough to know, though, what that means for his evil minions, the patricidal Horseman of War and the imprisoned Horseman of Death.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2014

They are the children of television, the nephews and nieces of Vegas, the grandchildren of baggy-pants burlesquers�and they have turned on their elders with the fury of a patricidal Greek.

From Time Magazine Archive

The States General, indignant at this patricidal conduct, applied to France for aid, according to the stipulations of the treaty, concluded with her in '85.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson