mysterious

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Or is it simply about “trauma and the mysterious workings of the unconscious,” as New York Times critic Beatrice Loayza says?

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026

“In our version the truth is more complicated, the past is more mysterious and both the family and the monster are more complicated,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

From the friendly alien at the heart of E.T. to the mysterious visitors in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, some of his most celebrated films have explored humanity's fascination with life beyond Earth.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

His 2011 album, “Smoke Ring for My Halo,” brought him a wider audience, and at this point his music was slightly mysterious, his voice heavily treated with reverb.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

It was a lush and mysterious landscape, a dense wood of dizzyingly tall fir trees that covered the rolling mountains like a living blanket of green.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood