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What at first appears to be a run-of-the-mill trauma drama about a family dealing with the eldest child’s anorexia nervosa gradually evolves into something odder and more original, even blackly comic, in Ungrateful Beings.
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Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
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Over the course of the season, Tommy and his father slowly tighten their bond, a process punctuated with darkly comic lines that both puncture and reflect Thornton’s and Elliott’s undeniable chemistry and gravitas.—
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Known for his spare, unforgiving style and darkly comic fatalistic sensibility, along with his penchant for leather jackets, lots of smoking and a deadpan sense of humor, Tarr was a quintessential arthouse filmmaker.—
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That can be forgiven thanks to the film’s evocative imagery and the emotional resonance of its central themes, distressingly familiar to anyone who has ever lost themselves in a relationship.—
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Reports of politically motivated violence are distressingly common – ranging from mass shootings, car-ramming attacks and assaults at demonstrations to assassination attempts, kidnappings and threats targeting mayors, governors, political activists and members of Congress.—
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In October, family, friends and community members somberly walked out of the courthouse, disappointed to learn the resentencing hearing for Rhoades would be delayed.—
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Stafford heard the transmission clearly and nodded silently and somberly.—
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Look pessimistically, and perhaps the inexperience is too much of a barrier.—
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Instead, Republican staffers sullenly reported to messaging meetings to talk about immigration.—
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Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the conservative nonprofit American Action Forum, has watched glumly as Republicans have drifted away from their small-government traditions.—
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O’Farrell’s words skip lightly on some pages, then pace with anxiety, then finally trudge along despairingly.—
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But the presence of these compounds in grapes failed miserably as a diagnostic for smoke taint.—
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Run game continues to lead the way There was a play on the Dolphins’ opening drive where several defenders failed miserably to take down Achane.—
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“Blackly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blackly. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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