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realism 50 Duplass 50 eponymous protagonist 50 stylistic flourishes 50 Stilted 50 Beckettian 50 Hollywoodish 50 Udayan Prasad 50 subversiveness 50 skillfully blends 50 gothic horror 50 Monty Python esque 50 unheroic 50 Eda Holmes 50 Anita Brookner 50 descriptive prose 50 prissiness 50 auteurist 50 cinéma vérité 50 infinite regress 50 hagiographical 50 Oedipus myth 50 Moebius strip 50 wry witty 50 Frank Darabont adaptation 50 tonal shifts 50 Karen Janszen 50 supernatural thrillers 50 unintentional hilarity 50 Millhauser 50 blackly humorous 50 Contrived 50 self consciously arty 50 hilariously absurd 50 grisliness 50 Alexandre Dumas classic 50 antic disposition 50 ironic detachment 50 picaresque tale 50 meta narrative 50 Slyly 50 unexpected juxtapositions 50 darkly comical 50 structuralist 50 disjunctions 50 novelist Neil Gaiman 50 Elmore Leonard novels 50 tweeness 50 Dupieux 50 Ghostwritten 50 cliché ridden 50 Downey Jnr 50 Beanworld 50 Pierre Salvadori 50 comic booky 50 romantic 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Neggers 49 Gaudy Night 49 genre bender 49 Alexander Mackendrick 49 hyper stylized 49 wonderfully eccentric 49 boiled boilerplate 49 comically absurd 49 Director Julian Jarrold 49 utterly baffling 49 mytho poetic 49 semiotic 49 Daniel Taplitz 49 refreshingly straightforward 49 glibness 49 cleverly plotted 49 Gum Thief 49 faddishness 49 deux ex machina 49 knowingness 49 JG Ballard novel 49 ingratiation 49 unobvious 49 charater 49 absorbingly 49 Brooksian 49 utter randomness 49 essentialness 49 become inexorably intertwined 49 fictionalise 49 sly humor 49 evocative prose 49 Dada esque 49 ambiguousness 49 Hallström 49 Hemingway esque 49 Christopher Nolan Memento 49 sweetly sentimental 49 fictionalisation 49 show offy 49 Hieronymous Bosch 49 smarminess 49 hyperstylized 49 Blakeson 49 utterly captivating 49 Hijinks ensue 49 avoids sentimentality 49 jargony 49 schlock horror 49 Captain Alatriste 49 classic Rear Window 49 Emily Brontë 49 Panych 49 ecchi 49 sentimentalize 49 liminality 49 self referentially 49 implausibilities 49 campy spoof 49 postmodernity 49 passably entertaining 49 sententious 49 Narratively 49 rivetingly 49 fictionalize 49 Romeo Juliet 49 Blood curdling 49 masterful storytelling 49 fictive 49 Superficiality 49 sheer silliness 49 delightfully demented 49 Plotwise 49 aptly conveys 49 slickly executed 49 quippy 49 whodunnits 49 vagina dentata myth 49 Emmanuel Carrere 49 ghoulishness 49 wordsmithery 49 Asterios Polyp 49 roman à clef 49 familial dysfunction 49 Jeremiah Chechik 49 overfamiliarity 49 Lynchian 49 snappy dialogue 49 soap opera ish 49 Playfulness 49 wildly imaginative 49 artlessness 49 genre tropes 49 X'ed Out 49 jokiness 49 Tonally 49 overplotted 49 dives headlong 49 Heru Ptah 49 Capraesque 49 Appignanesi 49 Erik Lochtefeld 49 outsiderness 49 Hollywood ized 49 Georgette Heyer 49 Gerard Soeteman 49 Eternal Smile 49 limn 49 Pérez Reverte 49 strangely unsatisfying 49 postmodern 49 wearyingly 49 metaphysical 49 cinema vérité 49 coherent narrative 49 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Samuell 48 fractured fairy tales 48 howlingly funny 48 Lasdun 48 Svich 48 Mieville 48 guffaw inducing 48 shticky 48 Nick Hurran 48 onanistic 48 recognizably human 48 minidramas 48 shakey cam 48 Imperial Bedrooms 48 unlikable characters 48 groaningly 48 dadaist 48 guileless charm 48 similes metaphors 48 grotesqueries 48 Mice Templar 48 Mary Gaitskill 48 picaresque 48 succeeds admirably 48 mythic resonance 48 darkly comedic 48 Doris Wishman 48 elisions 48 Shona Auerbach 48 verite 48 unoriginality 48 Collet Serra 48 humerous 48 Schubertian 48 dreamlike sequences 48 Dashiell Hammet 48 Le Samourai 48 disaffected slackers 48 banally 48 Cthulhu Mythos 48 Inherent Vice 48 Goethe poem 48 Thomas Bezucha 48 Skewering 48 existential anguish 48 Self indulgent 48 lame gags 48 naturalistic 48 Choderlos de Laclos 48 comically exaggerated 48 attitudinizing 48 sardonic humor 48 autobiographic 48 visualist 48 expository passages 48 moral ambiguities 48 mindbending 48 homosocial 48 chop socky 48 visuality 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