satiric
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She is joined, yet again, by Courteney Cox’s intrusive newscaster, Gale Weathers, who is in all seven films and is meant to serve as a satiric commentary on journalism’s obsession with blood and gore.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
He’s not as unapologetically hammy as Andrew Polec’s Pirelli, the tonsorial con man who adopts a fake mustache and an even faker Italian accent, but he lends the musical a satiric gaiety.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026
The wide, bright, satiric world of “Bottoms,” director and co-writer Emma Seligman’s second feature, expands and contracts as needed.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2023
Vincent Canby, writing in The Times, called it “a satiric expression of the American Dream in the closing years of the 20th century.”
From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2023
All this in a satiric vein, naturally, since Morgenstern hated royalty more even than doctors.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
