originality
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However, as Exposito notes, at times, it came at the cost of originality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Judges praised the "originality, innovation, ambition" of Jolly's work which "confronts a topic of immense complexity in a gripping tour de force".
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
That sentiment can often seem true in a market where studio executives favor sequels and drab intellectual property over originality and fresh takes.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026
The film can hardly avoid being described as “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” meets “Enemy of the State,” and that such comparisons are so obvious bespeaks a certain lack of originality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Their only originality lay in the means they used.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
