comic drama
Example Sentences
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Shot on a handheld digital camera, the film applies an anarchic home-movie aesthetic to a superbly performed, discomfitingly comic drama of darkness within a family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
The Hollywood Reporter's Stephen Farber said while the movie "is not without its flaws, it is an engaging and often touching comic drama that builds power as it moves toward its immensely satisfying conclusion".
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2023
“The Horror of Dolores Roach,” based on the hit podcast, is a darkly comic drama with a contemporary “Sweeney Todd” twist.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2023
“Ray can be very still, almost like a cat,” Howard Deutch, who directed him in the 1992 comic drama “Article 99,” once said.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2022
If Vanbrugh was not born in France, it is certain that he spent many years there, and there acquired the taste and handling of the comic drama, which then had its halcyon days under Molière.
From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppee
