dreamlike

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As “Alpha” reaches its stylish, dreamlike ending, she hits upon an absorbing final image that suggests the collective sorrow and emotional devastation our recent plague years have wrought.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

He added: "The homely comfy environment like a chip shop that people are familiar with, and nostalgic old-school graphics really helps lean into an uncanny dreamlike feeling."

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

Pablo Santiago’s lighting and Aaron Rhyne’s projections lend the production a dreamlike fluidity, ideal for a play that emanates as much from Salieri’s memory as from his unconscious.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

His obsessiveness and solitude recall the math genius in Darren Aronofsky’s first feature, “Pi,” and “OBEX” has much of that film’s homemade-looking gusto as well as its attractive facility for unpredictable dreamlike twists.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

The voice rose and fell in a rhythmical, dreamlike recital-part enumeration of earthly trials undergone by the congregation, part rapt display of vocal virtuosity, part appeal to God.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison