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The two performances, by Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall, are unassumingly superb, and the film serves as a uniquely touching tribute to Hujar, who died of AIDS-related complications at age 53 in 1987.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

For nearly five decades, the record-breaking painting unassumingly adorned the walls of a Norwegian hospital, overlooked and undervalued.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2025

Instead, the film depicts people grappling with the untidiness of their emotions through Song’s unassumingly poetic dialogue and luminous imagery.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2023

The overall impression one takes from “Love, Pamela” is of an unassumingly friendly, fun-loving mom.

From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2023

Quietly, unassumingly Rumbold stepped on to the scaffold in faultless morning dress and wearing his favourite flower, the Gladiolus Cruentus.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James