comic drama
Example Sentences
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Shot on a handheld digital camera, the film applies an anarchic home-movie aesthetic to a superbly performed, discomfitingly comic drama of darkness within a family.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
The Hollywood Reporter's Stephen Farber said while the movie "is not without its flaws, it is an engaging and often touching comic drama that builds power as it moves toward its immensely satisfying conclusion".
From BBC • Dec. 4, 2023
“The Horror of Dolores Roach,” based on the hit podcast, is a darkly comic drama with a contemporary “Sweeney Todd” twist.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 28, 2023
“Ray can be very still, almost like a cat,” Howard Deutch, who directed him in the 1992 comic drama “Article 99,” once said.
From New York Times • May 26, 2022
A species of comic drama, known under the name of Commedia dell' arte, took its rise in this century.
From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Botta, Anne C. Lynch
