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But don’t be fooled by the signs of cinematic sophistication: the kinetic Steadicam shots; the numbered chapters; the semi-surreal quasi-musical numbers; the French movie one of the characters goes to see by himself.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2020

Like Chi-Raq, Get Out, Black Panther, Sorry to Bother You, and TV’s Atlanta, this quasi-musical eschews gritty naturalism for flights of fancy that speak to and about injustice in novel, metaphorical terms.

From Slate • Jul. 16, 2018

The 1978 quasi-musical "Thank God It's Friday" is an exception.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2018

The Cohn-Hughes question-and-answer is also the most conventional aspect of the quasi-musical show at Alexandria’s MetroStage.

From Washington Post • Oct. 10, 2017

Woe betide the unhappy aspirant to the honours of public singing who ignores the demand of this quasi-musical Turpin that she should sing his songs.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 12, 1890 by Various