satire
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The high-concept satire from writer-director Alejandro González Iñárritu, which cost about $125 million to make, sold just $8 million worth of tickets at more than 3,300 domestic theaters its opening weekend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
But the problem with Iñárritu’s approach is that he’s fashioned “Digger” as a satire for a post-satire world, a state of living where every day is almost comically bleak.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
The satire from director Alejandro González Iñárritu about an impending climate change apocalypse has divided critics, yielding very mixed reviews.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
"Erdogan should be open to the art of satire," he said, denying the charges against him and saying none of Turkey's most famous comedians or political satirists had been prosecuted in the past.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
All those Columbia experts can spiel all they want about the delicious satire; they’re crazy.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
The latter film is one of Keaton’s lesser-known but still brilliantly limned stone-faced satires, in this case involving cowpokes and its star’s tender feelings for a milk cow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
The Oscar-laden romantic fantasy launched a thousand pop culture satires, while Bradford marshaled the gay dialect of camp in defense of moral seriousness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2024
But it wasn’t until 2019, when Ms. Auder’s yoga satires began to get some notice, that she thought she might try to sell the book one last time.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
The author was married to Yukari, the sister of late film director Juzo Itami, noted for his satires of modern life, in 1960.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2023
His deformed figure and malicious disposition exposed him to the caricature of the Chian sculptors Bupalus and Athenis, upon whom he revenged himself by issuing against them a series of satires.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
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