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noir genre 56 rhyming verse 56 dryly humorous 56 Stuhlbarg 56 protagonist 56 suspenseful thriller 56 Le Carré 56 novelistic 55 Kepesh 55 Elizabeth Meriwether 55 pantomimic 55 finely nuanced 55 sketchily drawn 55 dryly witty 55 wholly believable 55 attraction repulsion 55 affectless 55 Pirandellian 55 comically absurd 55 Dourif 55 narrators 55 expository 55 autobiographically 55 Dercourt 55 overfamiliar 55 Leah Cherniak 55 Conradian 55 documentarylike 55 medias res 55 nameless narrator 55 Feydeau 55 Vindice 55 Keats poem 55 Truffaldino 55 Rashomon style 55 Kristine Nielsen 55 poetic monologues 55 screamingly funny 55 bleakly comic 55 Dostoevskian 55 expository dialogue 55 deliriously funny 55 humor pathos 55 Tirard 55 wryness 55 Father Lankester Merrin 54 Pardoner Tale 54 antiheroine 54 poetic prose 54 absurdist playwright 54 linear narrative 54 Eloise Hawking 54 Blakeson 54 overwrought prose 54 childlike simplicity 54 droll 54 amour fou 54 digressive 54 Transylvanian accent 54 timeless fable 54 unlikeable character 54 Mountstuart 54 flashforwards 54 meta fictional 54 existential anguish 54 Borgesian 54 expositional 54 Inherent Vice 54 Oedipus myth 54 McKellan 54 Nicholas Woodeson 54 Teabing 54 Capra esque 54 Herzogian 54 emotional heft 54 deliciously wicked 54 titular protagonist 54 elliptically 54 Riedelsheimer 54 eponymous heroine 54 labyrinthine plot 54 Chandleresque 54 overly melodramatic 54 gripping page turner 54 delightfully wicked 54 intertitles 54 metafiction 54 terrifically entertaining 54 Breillat 54 Britten opera 54 drollness 54 illuminative 54 intricately layered 54 Belvaux 54 annoyingly smug 54 Alcestis 54 evocative prose 54 tautly constructed 54 needlessly convoluted 54 Michael Siberry 54 Almereyda 54 Director Gregory Hoblit 54 Hallström 54 Loncraine 54 eminently believable 54 Dr. Cal Lightman 54 Mélisande 54 thuddingly obvious 54 Tresnjak 54 unexpected plot twists 53 intertextual 53 melodramatic 53 Diego Arciniegas 53 Begaudeau 53 O'Rowe 53 aria sung 53 absurdist humor 53 Orpheus myth 53 thinly sketched 53 epigraphs 53 Maharidge 53 subtly nuanced 53 deliciously witty 53 knowingness 53 seeming effortlessness 53 Professor Slughorn 53 mawkish sentimentality 53 vaguely autobiographical 53 EL Doctorow Ragtime 53 nonlinear storytelling 53 Captain Vere 53 recognizably human 53 unseen narrator 53 Kavenna 53 Topdog 53 blackly comic 53 plucky heroine 53 Jean Claude Donda 53 authorial 53 omniscient 53 elegant prose 53 Zinnemann 53 Rafe Spall 53 Nigel Farndale 53 sly wit 53 Arnolphe 53 florid prose 53 Kore eda 53 ghostly visions 53 le Carré 53 hamminess 53 empath 53 screwball farce 53 Esther Summerson 53 Tautly directed 53 eponymous protagonist 53 overly preachy 53 stylistic flourishes 53 incantatory 53 chaste romance 53 Hemingwayesque 53 melodramatically 53 mawkishness 53 Flaubert Madame Bovary 53 Faramir 53 nicely underplayed 53 elisions 53 snappy patter 53 blackly funny 53 Poprishchin 53 monologuing 53 poeticism 53 intertextuality 53 grand guignol 53 unheroic 53 morality tales 53 secret sharer 53 Ellen Geer 52 titular heroine 52 unlikable character 52 vérité style 52 Kubrickian 52 wickedly witty 52 descriptive passages 52 Baricco 52 Othello Iago 52 epistolary novel 52 amanuensis 52 allegorical tale 52 suspenseful tale 52 allegorical 52 seriocomic 52 archness 52 Márai 52 absorbingly 52 refreshingly unsentimental 52 Chaplinesque 52 unlikable characters 52 subversively funny 52 Jason Butler Harner 52 epilogue 52 deliciously subversive 52 Hitchcockian suspense 52 veddy British 52 hearer 52 Tom Nelis 52 plotwise 52 pathos 52 uncinematic 52 intermissionless 52 Justin Zackham 52 Eumenides 52 Trigorin 52 Liz Lemon Fey 52 Thereby hangs 52 everydayness 52 Separate Lies 52 titular character 52 Elizabeth Egloff 52 flashback sequences 52 Lady Marchmain 52 Varric 52 unsentimentally 52 deadpan comic 52 quasi autobiographical 52 Udayan Prasad 52 LaGravenese 52 opera libretto 52 David Straithairn 52 lugubrious 52 staginess 52 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Tsikurishvili 51 Kay Eiffel 51 picaresque novel 51 Pelevin 51 implausibilities 51 emotionally constipated 51 Hitchcock Rear Window 51 wonderfully droll 51 hardboiled detective 51 thoroughly engrossing 51 Eloquently 51 intuits 51 sententious 51 talky 51 Iachimo 51 surreal dreamlike 51 Loktev 51 characters 51 Mikael Håfström 51 uproariously funny 51 Cusk 51 Palahniuk 51 Vitellia 51 kitchen sink realism 51 mise en scène 51 Lasdun 51 offscreen 51 ruefulness 51 witty erudite 51 Blackadder Goes Forth 51 Mary Gaitskill 51 poor Yorick 51 Altmanesque 51 exaggerated facial expressions 51 literary allusions 51 revelatory 51 SN Behrman 51 emotional catharsis 51 Von Tunzelmann 51 wordless 51 protag 51 bitingly funny 51 grippingly 51 Twilight Zone ish 51 bittersweetness 51 Donald Corren 51 Sophocles Ajax 51 teacherly 51 unintentionally comical 51 antiheroic 51 supernatural overtones 51 terrifically funny 51 subtly shaded 51 Margolyes 51 expositional dialogue 51 Felliniesque 51 roundelay 51 delicately wrought 51 slapstick farce 51 Purloined Letter 51 Gods Behaving Badly 51 quavers 51 sidelong glance 51 unnamed narrator 51 lingeringly 51 ambiguousness 51 Melville Moby Dick 51 finely shaded 51 unknowability 51 Miéville 51 Kafka Metamorphosis 51 unflinching realism 51 recitative 51 refreshingly straightforward 51 convulsive laughter 51 literalized 51 Johann Kraus 51 Batuman 51 overactive libido 51 Amenábar 51 Biblical allusions 51 finely etched 51 self reflexivity 51 Louis Jourdan 51 discursive 51 Keith Uhlich 51 impressionistically 51 voice quavers 51 ungraspable 51 Patch Darragh 51 autobiographic 51 Honigmann 51 moral ambiguity 51 darkly comedic 51 Téchiné 51 koans 51 La Moustache 51 amusing anecdote 51 Millhauser 51 unbearable poignancy 51 acidulous 51 Parolles 51 graceful prose 51 Scott Glosserman 51 minute intermissionless 51 poetic 51 pulpier 51 Faulknerian 51 overplotted 51 conceit 51 epistolary romance 51 Elinor Dashwood 51 richly imaginative 51 Biff Loman 51 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Larry Bryggman 50 director Mennan Yapo 50 excursus 50 portentousness 50 Holmesian 50 Brookmyre 50 Brangäne 50 touchingly vulnerable 50 uninvolving 50 avoids sentimentality 50 inflects 50 droll deadpan 50 winsome charm 50 tragi comedy 50 Humbert Humbert 50 Marc Forster Monster Ball 50 banally 50 Hugh Nees 50 Drood 50 Benjamin Linus 50 quavery 50 Director Julian Jarrold 50 Kehlmann 50 Ozick 50 Maupassant 50 Zen koan 50 lyrical sensibility 50 starship captain 50 darkly satirical 50 Hamlet soliloquy 50 Mabrouk El Mechri 50 saturnine 50 Gentleman Caller 50 Monsieur Hire 50 journalese 50 Screwtape 50 Passionella 50 Homeric epic 50 Lyndsey Marshal 50 Cavafy 50 poignance 50 Erik Edborg 50 Benito Cereno 50 bitingly satirical 50 fictionalise 50 Pessl 50 Abdel Raouf Dafri 50 Durang 50 Gustav von Aschenbach 50 Cluzet 50 Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary 50 Ulrich Mühe 50 Treplev 50 Mrs. Alving 50 Dana Ivey 50 Kimberly Gadette 50 Bégaudeau 50 mimesis 50 self dramatizing 50 wry 50 sutradhar 50 strain 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drama 50 fading Southern belle 50 autobiographical 50 darkly hilarious 50 Dr. Feelbad 50 Orlandersmith 50 Mattie Fae 50 Premature Burial 50 melancholy 50 meta narrative 50 Friar Laurence 50 quiddity 50 writerly 50 Haruf 50 pointillistic 50 objective correlative 50 elegaic 50 inexorability 50 Eda Holmes 50 tremulously 50 clichéd 50 After.Life 50 Lucinda Coxon 50 Rodrigo Cortes 50 Desplechin 50 rueful 50 hokiness 50 Littlefinger 50 epilogues 50 Monty Woolley 50 terseness 50 Officer Lockstock 50 Oblomov 50 deceivingly simple 50 invigoratingly 50 Daniel Gidron 50 Heather Langenkamp 50 inwardness 50 Shakespearian tragedy 50 whimsicality 50 Rocco Sisto 50 Bezucha 50 Dostoyevsky novel 50 Otherwise Engaged 50 floridly 50 Maev Beaty 50 stagy 50 alternating chapters 50 deux ex machina 50 believable 50 unself conscious 50 theatricalized 50 didacticism 50 charming scoundrel 50 Kate Eifrig 50 formlessness 50 Lawrentian 50 gothic melodrama 50 autobiographer 50 Appelfeld 50 Thiérrée 50 Etienne Comar 50 tonal shifts 50 reformed sinner 50 utterly believable 50 Bryggman 50 Socratic dialogue 50 Colin Stinton 50 ludic 50 Resnais 50 Walt Whitman poem 50 diaristic 50 Ginkas 50 Mirandolina 50 unplaceable 49 epistolary 49 Marinca 49 Mark Palansky 49 unerring ear 49 Jean Claude Carrière 49 Sandrine Bonnaire 49 Darkly comic 49 Leslie Caveny 49 heartrendingly 49 Alec McCowen 49 Herman Melville novel 49 Tarantino esque 49 child's eye view 49 dancerly 49 Schwentke 49 Austen heroine 49 thoroughly unlikable 49 Anton Lesser 49 beginnings middles 49 Pollione 49 jokiness 49 Chauncey Gardiner 49 Deavere Smith 49 ambivalences 49 irresistibly charming 49 Eimbcke 49 Hagar Shipley 49 sonorously 49 Mateo Blanco 49 Yakusho 49 philosophizes 49 unengaging 49 lyrical passages 49 witty prose 49 allegoric 49 heart rendingly 49 Lasse Hallström 49 consummate storyteller 49 De Bankolé 49 ineloquent 49 Laura Odeh 49 fictionalized tale 49 Alvart 49 preternaturally wise 49 Giddish 49 comic interludes 49 witty self deprecating 49 Emily Brontë 49 funniest moments 49 Daniel Gerroll 49 Namita Devidayal 49 emotionally repressed 49 Elliott Movie Parables 49 playwright Christopher Durang 49 eminently watchable 49 lovable scamp 49 interwoven monologues 49 Widow Story 49 rotoscope animation 49 roguish charm 49 Koteas 49 magical realist 49 onscreen persona 49 Dolginoff 49 grandmother Olga Sarantos 49 limn 49 facetiousness 49 Von Rothbart 49 Texan twang 49 fervid imagination 49 Ammaniti 49 Anouk Aimée 49 Euripides Medea 49 interiority 49 Brechtian 49 Rebecca Bayla Taichman 49 Omololu Ogunmade 49 Eldard 49 snappy dialogue 49 Adverbs 49 Decca Aitkenhead 49 Cripple Billy 49 triteness 49 belabors 49 prose poems 49 Danny Scheie 49 brooding vampire 49 Charlotte Brontë classic 49 Mandanipour 49 narrative coherence 49 literary pretensions 49 Finnerty Steeves 49 narrative arcs 49 Raylan Givens 49 Michael Cristofer 49 psychological acuity 49 Grant Nieporte 49 cogitations 49 Lynchian 49 grows wearisome 49 Joan Mankin 49 farceur 49 clunkily 49 Panych 49 sheer silliness 49 playlet 49 Sebold novel 49 X'ed Out 49 comedic flair 49 achingly funny 49 character 49 lucid prose 49 Mary Shelley Frankenstein 49 phantasmagoric 49 Narratively 49 marvelously expressive 49 maudlin sentimentality 49 demonically possessed 49 PLAYBILL.COM S BRIEF ENCOUNTER 49 Tommy O'Haver 49 Nathan Zuckerman 49 baroquely 49 Sergio Di Zio 49 Mrs. Peachum 49 Lovecraftian horror 49 Orlok 49 Jeff Feuerzeig 49 vengeful ghost 49 existential musings 49 charanam 49 slyly humorous 49 Dan Istrate 49 Michelle Monaghan Vera Farmiga 49 unlikeable characters 49 Inspector Lynley 49 Tiresias 49 Imperial Bedrooms 49 expertly captures 49 Reigen 49 juicily 49 epiphanic 49 gorgeous cinematography 49 Hitchcockian 49 Anton Walbrook 49 quavery voice 49 knockabout comedy 49 compellingly 49 endlessly watchable 49 changeling 49 stilted dialogue 49 easeful 49 droll humor 49 Goethe Faust 49 musicalized 49 Cocteau 49 Elina Makropulos 49 Ian Merrill Peakes 49 queerly 49 Victorien Sardou 49 elegiac 49 screenwriter Deborah Moggach 49 Seinfeld ian 49 Juliet Landau 49 Handelian 49 grieving widower 49 Claggart 49 nonfictional 49 profanely funny 49 Ellroy 49 Mahowny 49 Lynda Gravatt 49 Jodhi May 49 witty 49 backstory 49 longueurs 49 Shakespeare Coriolanus 49 Schooling Giacomo 49 impassivity 49 Pagnol 49 Elisabeth Waterston 49 Dr. Pangloss 49 marvelously inventive 49 phantasmal 49 Catherine Corsini 49 Widower Tale 49 Hatosy 49 Emmanuelle Devos 49 Pynkoski 49 Rechy 49 novelist Charles Condomine 49 Capraesque 49 Ira Levin Deathtrap 49 Mary Beth Peil 49 uncanniness 49 overemphatic 49 wisecracker 49 Linda Emond 49 Dvortsevoy 49 Ron Choularton 49 skillfully weaves 49 David Horovitch 49 filmic 49 estimable talents 49 Brooksian 49 cuckolds 49 cliff hanger ending 49 Wellesian 49 Lorenzo Pisoni 49 quippy 49 Sinéad Cusack 49 Anita Brookner 49 almost unbearably poignant 49 sardonic wit 49 taut suspense 49 Bacri 49 Coixet 49 Tom Neven Plugged 49 Kris Lemche 49 uncredited cameo 49 Proustian 49 Hemon 49 narrates 49 Mozartean 49 sitcomish 49 Yellow Bastard 49 overacted 49 Homer Odyssey 49 lyrical prose 49 intimate camerawork 49 Bruno Todeschini 49 Jamesian 49 Agnieszka Wojtowicz Vosloo 49 Enoch Arden 49 mysterious stranger 49 self referential humor 49 Pooter 49 Cosme McMoon 49 Keats Ode 49 boundlessness 49 Trumpkin 49 Blakean 49 Ayckbourn 49 Lost Terry O'Quinn 49 Slawenski 49 beautifully phrased 49 lightly fictionalized 49 shinigami 49 MovieRetriever 49 Kati Brazda 49 courtesan Violetta 49 urbane wit 49 Amiel Gladstone 49 riveting 49 Niall Buggy 49 Count Orlock 49 Dubac 49 skillfully woven 49 Magical realism 49 Grusha 49 Vivian Matalon 49 Sister Clarice 49 naturalism 49 sardonic grin 49 Shakespeare sonnet 49 Udo Kier 49 Tony Takitani 49 utter randomness 49 Janoviak 49 Lord Sebastian Flyte 49 Tesman 49 mordant wit 49 Grimm fairytale 49 deliciously evil 49 Mademoiselle Chambon 49 Moira Buffini 49 Claire Lautier 49 Yvan Attal 49 Downey Jnr 49 Donald Barthelme 49 plot contrivances 49 Intimate Strangers 49 Countess Olivia 49 sunniness 49 Alafair 49 blackly humorous 49 monolog 49 Anakin Skywalker Darth Vader 49 onomatopoetic