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Certain plot points are overexplained; others are left to fall by the wayside.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025
The music’s blaring brilliance rained down self-evidently rather than having to be overexplained by talking heads.
From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2021
Reviewers often found his novels fact-stuffed, overexplained, didactic, and lacking in vibrancy and humor.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019
An attractive, almost too textbook example of a contemporary art film, “After Lucia” works because nothing is overexplained visually or through the dialogue, and the narrative is hinged to a psychologically complex character.
From New York Times • May 27, 2012
The piece is overexplained by a title card from Ono that calls it, among other things, an "atonement" for the sufferings of the 20th century, a syntactical slipknot that implies that she inflicted them.
From Time Magazine Archive
