Whether a requiem is due for rom-coms or not, in the meantime there's at least a conveyor belt of cringe to feast upon.
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Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
6 Mar. 2025
The funeral procession begins with a sorrowful requiem but transitions into a celebration of life — reminding us that life extends beyond death, that grief is not the absence of love but an extension of it.
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Mathew Holloway,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Feb. 2025
Prominent among these are baseless critiques of the NAEP itself (lauded as the gold standard of achievement measures) and a lament that the science of reading — recently endorsed by more than 40 states — has failed.
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Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Apr. 2025
In classical terms, this begins as an Adagio in D minor — a slow lament led by a solo cello, that accelerates into a chaotic swell of strings.
Returnal Returnal was one of the first exclusives of the PS5 generation; a fabulously grotesque sci-fi horror dirge, and still worth your attention today.
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Luke Winkie,
Vulture,
1 Apr. 2025
On the final night, one of the regulars hired a Scotsman in a kilt to play a bagpipe dirge.
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