artistic license

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Christopher Nolan’s movie mixes diligent research with artistic license.

From Slate • Jul. 19, 2023

While “Queen Charlotte” is a conscious work of historical revision that takes clear artistic license, many details about the characters and the world they lived are drawn from fact.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2023

I mean, you could do a biopic about somebody who lived a hundred years ago, but they're not around, so I'm sure you have a lot of artistic license to do whatever you want.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2023

The excessive artistic license taken with the adaptation is part of the fun of it, said Desmond Thorne, a film programmer at Nitehawk.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2023

Poetic and artistic license allows a few slight exaggerations.

From The Madcap of the School by Salmon, Balliol