offbeat

Their last film together was 2018's "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs", an offbeat Oscar-nominated Western starring Tim Blake Nelson, which followed the 1950s Hollywood-set satirical comedy "Hail, Caesar!" in 2016.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Having previously appeared together in the offbeat comedy “A Different Man,” Stan and Reinsve keep the story from feeling like a dour exercise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Rather it’s in the roster of offbeat characters—among them, an action-film star who has surprising literary talent; Batter’s loving, endlessly optimistic mother, a typeface designer; and Batter himself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

This offbeat con-man comedy pairs the director with Nicolas Cage, an actor who turns out to be an unexpectedly good fit for him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

It’s like when a song changes key, or starts on the offbeat, or shifts its meter halfway through.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

“I’m so sorry, so sorry,” Verlaine sings, offering a desperate apology amid a crossfire of guitars and drums — knife-edged single notes, barbed lines, implacable offbeats — that don’t promise any forgiveness.

From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2023

Danalogue uses 1980s synthesizers for plump bass tones and upward swoops; Betamax mixes drums and drum machines, constantly accenting different offbeats.

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2022

They had a taste for the kind of syncopation that perpetually discovers new offbeats in tracks like Negoleiros do Ritmo’s “Lemba” and Elias Dia Kimuezo’s “Chamavo.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2013

Bass lines lope and skulk, the drums sputter with offbeats, and rhythm guitar and keyboards share a flippant, cackling cross talk, like wiseguys in the back of a high school classroom.

From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2013

Cycling rhythm is pace of life Beats in peace, offbeats facing strife.

From Truth and the Myth : Couplets quips by A. R. Narayanan