A moment of cheap symbolism only, and then I have to bow to the strict rules of realism, which is to say: they can’t see a thing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Who would want to believe that, except in the service of the bleakest realism? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The friars who commissioned his work had, as followers of St Francis, a love of the natural world, and thus a desire for a new realism in art. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

All my life had shaped me for the realism, the naturalism of the modern novel, and I could not read enough of them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor would she have believed it after the aggressive realism with which she revealed to her that the anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The figure’s flattened ears and straining muscles convey her death throes with convincing realism. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

If Samuel craved realism and activity, he got it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And if my friends are idealists, then my realism would feel negative to them. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Dressed in the right language this might have made a fantastic answer—something about the woman’s serenity standing in powerful counterpoint to the general realism of the piece. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Nothing but realism existed then; you have to take that into account.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

"Not cynicism—realism. The trick is to take advantage of them in their own best interest." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Actually, realism is exceptional in the history of art and is not even necessary to its purposes. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The advantage of realism at face value is that it seems easier to understand. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

At its psychological nub, Washington’s inveterate realism was rooted in his commitment to control, over himself and over any and all events with the power to determine his fate. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The crucifix she hung from the wall, fascinated, as she always was, by the realism of the tiny nails lodged in the crockery feet of Jesus. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hasok Chang has proposed the label ‘active realism’ for this double recognition. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Gvasalia’s realism may at times be harsh, but it’s also liberating. Balenciaga put engineers, architects and moms on its runway — to make a statement about power in the workplace 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

What he did possess was an old-fashioned fortitude, and virtually every young director working in realism today, black or white, has benefitted from it. Mourning John Singleton, a Guardian of Black Cinema 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

Writer-director Barnaby weaves a surprising amount of tenderness into the fabric of violence, as well as a good measure of magic realism, to keep the gritty story engaging. 'Rhymes for Young Ghouls' shows the bleak can get bleaker 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

The author’s use of extended dream sequences and rich, figurative language inspired what would become known many years later as magical realism. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

“It’s also drawing from the realism of American filmmaking in the 1970s.” ‘The Bureau’ Is an International Hit. Why Did Its Creator Hand It Off? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

My mind travels back to those self-satisfied film obsessives marveling at male genius, and how they would have praised both Tarantino for his commitment to artistic realism and Thurman for gamely playing along. Twenty years after "Kill Bill" came out, The Bride's bloody rampage cuts differently 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z

Instead, many women will relate to the sarcastic realism with which Donna handles her pregnancy. 'Abortion rom-com' Obvious Child is important – because it's so ordinary 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

It presents a small selection of paintings made over a 26-year period in which she moved through distinct styles, from varieties of Surrealism to a riff on social realism to portraiture. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

It looked ridiculous and undercut the sheen of realism that le Carre typically brings to his work. ‘The Night Manager’ Premiere: Do You Have to Love le Carré to Like This Show? 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

It was the perfect example of Native American realism. Sherman Alexie: “It’s funny that Hollywood would hire an Indian to make white people more likable” 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

He shrugged off the hyperkineticism and the candy-palette of primary colors associated with Superman and his cohort, going instead for something subdued and mature in slightly closer proximity to realism. Unbreakable at 20: the film that finally took superheroes seriously 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

All of this seems to suggest the winsome irrationality of magical realism. The Blind Man's Garden by Nadeem Aslam – review 2013-02-11T07:00:01Z

No wonder the film can’t sustain a tone, wavering between realism and Bollywood hokum. Movie Review: In ‘Highway,’ a Bride Falls for Her Kidnapper 2014-02-20T23:40:13Z

Now we take for granted comedy that traffics in realism and bluntness, that feels a little subversive. 25 Years Later, It Turns Out Phoebe Was the Best Friend 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Her moody, sulky, witty line-deliveries have something self-deprecatingly absurd in them: there is a little of Mae West in Grahame, but with more dark realism. Who is the best Oscar-winning supporting actress of all time? 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

But memorial sculpture did not stop at realism. The Past and Future of Cemeteries 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

This saturated realism may seem to be the default mode for All My Sons, which had its origins in a real-life incident. All My Sons; Henry VIII; Paradise Found 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

He's widely acclaimed for having written the first great novel of the 21st century, but the form of that novel – state-of-the-nation social realism – looks back to Dickens and George Eliot. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z

Goth is realism, says Martin Willis, 23, who is wearing a black leather jacket and black lipstick, and whose green eyes are rimmed for an undead look. Goth at 40: The enduring appeal of bleakness and black lipstick 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

At other times, as with Nick Chevotarevich in The Deer Hunter, he acts with great psychological realism. Christopher Walken: ‘I don’t need to be made to look evil’ 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z

A meticulous realism transcribes in numbing detail every syllable of classroom conversation, alongside a great daily fuss about printing and stapling — the literal pushing of papers. In Two New Novels, the Trouble Is Academic — and All Too Real 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

"Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train" is just the merger of sweaty realism and probing lyricism the American theater needs now. Gritty tale of faith, redemption and prison in 'Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train' 2012-06-21T20:29:06Z

Webb says his commitment to realism was important here too. Marc Webb: the latest director caught in Spider-Man's web 2012-06-21T20:00:01Z

Isabelle Guichot, the chief executive of Balenciaga since 2007, said in a telephone interview on Thursday that the role of a designer in today’s industry demands a quality that she called “creative realism.” An American in Paris, Again: Alexander Wang at Balenciaga 2012-12-07T23:22:34Z

With nods to the trials of freelance employment and workplace bullying, this oddball horror-art movie has a firmer grasp of working life than many sober slices of social realism. Peter Strickland: 'I'm glad British film produces mainstream crowd-pleasers, but I don't want to make one' 2012-08-23T20:00:02Z

Identity, a mystery and a family fortune hang in the balance of a book that combines magical realism with the real world of the close-knit Iranian-Jewish community. Gina Nahai on her new novel, 'The Luminous Heart of Jonah S.' 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

Their decision isn’t believable, but the Farrellys have never let niceties like realism get in the way of their jokes. | 'Hall Pass': Man-Child in the Promised Land, for a Whole (Pant! Pant!) Week 2011-02-24T22:54:48Z

If it borrowed anything from The Simpsons, it was the tone of the Treehouse of Horror episodes, with their inspired grotesqueness, free from fealty to Earthbound realism. The Simpsons-Futurama Crossover: Not a Classic, But Beats Family Guy 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

I call it grit-lit because it's gritty realism through the eyes of some really strong female characters. Mel Sherratt on self-publishing: 'I just never gave up' 2013-07-16T13:20:35Z

And her renderings, despite their realism, are flattened to emphasize their artificiality. Review | In the galleries: ‘Focus Group’ takes a playful approach to life and death 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

Instead, Coates’s fantastical elements are deeply integral to his novel, a way of representing something larger and more profound than the confines of realism could contain. Review | In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer,’ a slave makes a superhero’s journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

But the rewards of “Fences” transcend those of realism. Casey versus Denzel: Oscar's lead actor race is a dramatic study in contrasts 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Best known as one of the leaders of the Dada movement, the French artist veered from Impressionism to radical abstraction to photo-based realism; from painting to performance to poetry. MoMA Plans a Fall Show Centered on Francis Picabia 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Rubens understood, amid unprecedented violence, that the times had turned the excesses of the Baroque into a mode of realism. The Role of Art in a Time of War 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

Her obsession with sharply defined moral points was matched by an obsession with physical and psychological realism; she favored typecasting and, that way, often propelled bit players into leading roles. “A Real Director Should Be Absolute”: Lois Weber’s Prescient Thoughts on Filmmaking a Century Ago 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

Cooke's technique of brushing powdered graphite onto paper yields a slightly softened, stunning realism, rich in tonality. From Fred Stonehouse, haunting portraits and visual poetry 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

“It’s a model of cinematic realism, and its pleasures are obvious yet mysterious.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Why Women Kill’ and a Pair of Batmen 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

“We were really concerned about realism, verisimilitude,” Ms. Dunham said, adding that Jenni Konner, an executive producer, “is always there at my costume fittings to say, ‘That fits a little too well.’ ” On This Hit Show, the Clothes Make the ‘Girls’ 2013-01-02T21:41:52Z

What I'm interested in is that nobody has been able to handle realism. Richard Williams: the master animator 2013-04-19T17:59:00Z

But its wide scope is also its problem: its many stories, and its characters, don’t all seem to exist on the same plane of realism. Sexts from “Hillary”: Political Animals’ Bawdy Alternative History 2012-07-12T12:25:31Z

In fairness, he didn’t care much for it; he preferred realism. Hey Dad, Can You Help Me Return the Picasso I Stole? 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

Understood properly, post-ironists differ from writers of “hysterical realism,” a category the critic James Wood associates with a range of authors including Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Salman Rushdie, Wallace, and Zadie Smith. We had to get beyond irony: How David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers and a new generation of believers changed fiction 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

“Familiar-Altered” addresses various sorts of realism, from Mona Hatoum’s folding screen composed of greatly enlarged cheese graters to a mural by Kara Walker in which silhouetted figures enact a surrealistic dream about Antebellum plantation life. Art Review: Linde Family Wing at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Review 2011-09-22T22:25:49Z

His is a multimedia literature, a modernist twist on the flabby forms of social realism that stitches a collage of press-clippings, newsreels and radio announcers’ voices into the narrative fabric. Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z

It was influenced by Ernest Hemingway and Italy's "news-reel" school of realism, which aimed for an unpolished immediacy of the street. Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 – review 2013-05-29T13:42:12Z

Its loose painterly realism depicts some freshly cut, yellow-orange logs lying among trees with purple trunks. A Less Anxious Edvard Munch 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

But hardly anything is formally or technically startling, and there’s a monotonous sameness to the fictionalized realism running throughout. Art Review: ‘The American West in Bronze’ at the Met 2013-12-19T22:56:12Z

In “One from the Heart,” Francis Ford Coppola tips his hand about the trickery behind realism and the intimate cruelty on which a major production runs. These So-Called Bad Movies Prove the Urgency of Film Criticism 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

How much realism and vocal diversity have some audiobook fans come to expect? Audiobooks were set to destroy books — but instead, they opened a new world 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

In the prints and paintings that he produced from the mid-1960s on, Mr. Barnet ranged between a simplified form of realism and a poetic, visionary symbolism. Will Barnet, Painter, Dies at 101 2012-11-13T23:34:33Z

Combining realism and absurdism has worked for recent Ensemble Studio Theater comedies like “Year of the Rooster” and the Broadway-bound “Hand to God,” The elements join more mawkishly here. ‘Winners,’ a Domestic Comedy at Ensemble Studio Theater 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Both directors, committed to close psychological observation and day-to-day realism, also draw on a rich and variegated native tradition that is evident in their work without being obvious. Critic?s Notebook: Modest Methods, Big Ambitions 2011-03-22T22:58:03Z

The aesthetic telegraphs authenticity and vulnerability, but the special’s stunning final shots reveal the misdirection at work, encouraging skepticism of the performativity of such realism. Bo Burnham’s ‘Inside’: A Comedy Special and an Inspired Experiment 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

Simulated with exquisite realism, the deceptive items taunt the thin Mylar surface on which they’re painted. Review | In the galleries: Immersive exhibit explores a wonderland in blue 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

“Suddenly, a Knock at the Door,” at Theater for the New City, is based on a collection of stories by the Polish-Israeli writer Etgar Keret, a proponent of darkly whimsical magical realism. Review: ‘Suddenly, a Knock at the Door,’ Based on Etgar Keret’s Stories 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

He was wary of Europe politically, but entranced by vision-tickling aspects of its art, like vanishing-point perspective and trompe l’oeil realism. Art Review: A Man of Contradictions, With a Collection to Match 2011-02-03T23:00:07Z

He was talking about the kind of realism you’ll find in “The Golden House,” his new novel. Salman Rushdie on the opulent realism of his new novel, 'The Golden House' 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

The structures are elaborate, with vocal chorales and counterpoint blossoming while instrumental timbres transmute from acoustic realism to a psychedelic shimmer and back. Critics' Choice: New albums by Dr. Dog, Sam Amidon, Laura Bell Bundy and Aaron Goldberg. 2010-04-11T21:37:00Z

By 2015 and 2016, games like Bethesda Game Studios‘ “Fallout 4” and EA DICE’s “Battlefield 1” achieved breathtaking levels of realism, though they also made clear that there remains room for improvement. How “Bambi” paved the way for both “Fallout 4″ and “Angry Birds” 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

His films dramatise this personal tension, creating a singular kind of hallucinatory realism. What Danny Boyle did next 2010-12-05T00:04:00Z

Each exhibits a different mix of realism, cynicism, optimism and delusion, and all of them assess their situations pungently. Review: ‘Now en Español’ Uncovers a Slice of Latino Life in Hollywood 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

He believes that a basic-cable share of 15 for “The Walking Dead’’ “might be the beginning of the end,” an indicator that zombies and dragons are poised to overwhelm reporting and realism. David Simon of ‘The Wire’ finds drama in public housing. But will the public tune in? 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

He said he rewrote “Lights Out” in a similar vein, dreaming up layer after layer of lives in turmoil, “like a 1950s kitchen-sink drama with heightened realism.” Familial Discord? Enough to Back a Boxer in a Corner 2011-01-09T02:34:37Z

It was based on a story by Thomas Pynchon, the American novelist, and featured “my usual mix of violence, jokes and realism,” Mr. Rau said. Is Milo Rau Really the Most Controversial Director in Theater? 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

Oswalt seems amused by the recent influx of artists creating music for mindfulness apps, comparing it to asking a painter trained in realism to make something abstract. Meditation Apps Want Us to Chill Out. Musicians Are Happy to Help. 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

Atkins would probably justify this on the grounds of realism — that his characters are ignorant lowlifes who simply reflect the way countless others across the country speak. ‘The Redeemers,’ by Ace Atkins 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

The forms are abstract, but the Baltimore artist strikes a note of simulated realism by painting shadows under some of the squiggles, producing the sense that they hover above the rest of the image. Review | At the galleries: How humans threaten the natural world 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

Her novels, when they began arriving in the late 1960s, were unlike the button-down realism that then prevailed. A Warm Biography of the Fantastical, Feminist Angela Carter 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

I also find myself missing Simon Cowell, a bit of British realism. TV review: The Glee Project; The Apprentice 2011-07-13T21:04:00Z

The flamboyance and intemperance of his movies were all the more notable coming at a time when British cinema and television were still largely known for the kitchen-sink style of social realism. Ken Russell, Controversial Director, Dies at 84 2011-11-28T11:22:23Z

The fantastical and absurd can sometimes yield more insight than realism. Theatre’s Superpower 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

Chalk it up to post-World War II realism, demographic changes, bravado, freedom, permissiveness, the Beats, the 1960s, hip-hop, the Internet, the decline of Western civilization or all of them at once. On the Pop Charts, Singing the Unspeakable 2011-03-15T16:00:06Z

Overall, though, it's a subject probably most associated with authors bedded firmly in contemporary realism, such as Jacqueline Wilson. Can teen fiction explain mental illness to my daughter? 2011-08-24T10:18:56Z

This is partly a consequence of Kushner and Spielberg’s commitment to realism and historical nuance, and in some ways it works to the movie’s advantage. ‘West Side Story’ Review: In Love and War, 1957 Might Be Tonight 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

The tone, perfectly conveyed in Edith Grossman’s virtuoso translation, is amused and theatrical — realism that never asks the reader to forget it has been neatly contrived. In Politics if Not Art, Realism Trumps Magic for Mario Vargas Llosa 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

Still, she said, full realism is not always possible and is sometimes less important when entertainment is the goal. Assassin’s Creed Has a New Mission: Working in the Classroom 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

Struggles over private identity can function allegorically in the superhero universe, where realism doesn't ruthlessly exert its gravity. Cloclo sends its cultural superhero on the same old personal journey 2012-06-20T13:11:52Z

So how do you go about injecting realism into a superhero movie? Marc Webb: the latest director caught in Spider-Man's web 2012-06-21T20:00:01Z

Sitting in a traditional movie screening—even a good traditional movie screening--felt deficient after even a few minutes of a VR short, like someone had drained the experience of light and realism. Sundance 2015: The perils and pleasures of VR cinema 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z

With her debut effort, Arnold announced herself as one of British film’s biggest talents – taking social realism, and thickening it with something deeper and darker. Other stories: why now is the time for a new movie canon – chosen by women 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

Extra points for the realism of the cops busting each other, complaining about working past shift, etc. ‘The Night Of’ Series Premiere: Fate at the Wheel 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

It’s a Christmas special with talking animals, one of whom is a sabre-toothed tiger who for some reason does not try to eat all his companions, and that’s the level of realism it’s happy at. Turkey Day TV: Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas 2011-11-24T12:32:04Z

But his canvases impressed some reviewers and like-minded friends, including Eugene O’Neill, who shared his commitment to realism. Children's Books: ‘George Bellows,’ by Robert Burleigh 2012-07-04T15:00:00Z

Simon is an artist of granular realism, and the lived-in middle-to-working-class Jewish New Jersey he creates gives the series its power. Can It Happen Here? In ‘The Plot Against America,’ It Already Did 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z

There are similarities, but Friedkin and Letts are after something crazier and less controlled, something that veers from all-out farce to social realism to shocking brutality to unknowable mystery and even hints of the supernatural. “Killer Joe”: Matthew McConaughey’s comeback gets creepier 2012-07-26T15:00:00Z

At one point, he lies down in a camper that drifts into the air and mysteriously settles among the treetops like a caught balloon, a lovely moment of magical realism. Critic?s Notebook: ?Views From the Avant-Garde? Film Series at Lincoln Center 2011-10-06T22:58:09Z

"If it is a floral, then it's photo realism floral, and that seems very different," Holley said. Bold looks at NY Fashion Week turn up the volume 2012-09-13T20:16:13Z

Despite the apparent realism of Brooks’s ending, it plays like a smiley face stuck on a death mask. Richard Brooks’s “Fever Pitch” Never Got Its Due 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

DALL-E 2 offers a significant leap in the quality and realism of the images. Give this AI a few words of description and it produces a stunning image – but is it art? 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

The extraordinary realism of Marian’s chapters can make the broad strokes of Hadley’s sections feel light in comparison. Review | Maggie Shipstead’s ‘Great Circle’ is a soaring work of historical fiction and a perfect summer novel 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

The Nobel academy praised her "finely tuned storytelling, which is characterised by clarity and psychological realism". Alice Munro wins Nobel Literature Prize 2013-10-10T12:51:40Z

The film shows touches of Latin American magical realism, spectacular car crashes and a colossal, computer-generated monster - but the effects are pretty much an afterthought to the imposing, theater production. Keaton on form in Venice festival opener 'Birdman' 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

In his teens and after he made creditable sketches and watercolors of New York, mostly in a style aligned with Ashcan School realism. Review: An Aching Ode to Jerome Robbins’s Lost New York 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

It’s as if the magical realism that gives the power of speech to dogs draws the line at letting people understand them. A Dog’s Purpose? To Speak on Film, So to Speak 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

The Sienese style they collectively shaped was defined by the interplay of two seemingly antithetical preferences, one being descriptive realism and the other abstract decorative patterning. Art Review: ‘The Adoration of the Magi’ at Museum of Biblical Art 2012-08-10T04:40:08Z

It attempts to present a broad canvas informed by social realism, a kind of pageant depicting black life in the South in the first part of the 20th century. Review | Met Opera offers a ‘Porgy’ of its time that speaks to ours 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

“Mozart in the Jungle” has its share of absurd moments, including several attempts at magical realism that threaten to verge out of control. A Pop-Cultural Moment for Classical Music 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

Still, Adrian's idea of realism in costume is not quite our own. Hollywood Costume – dressing the part 2012-10-12T21:55:14Z

It’s a complicated conspiracy thriller crossed with an office comedy, and it lightly dusts grungy realism with off-kilter, absurdist touches that only occasionally misfire. ‘Slow Horses’ Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Failure 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

A little more realism would be welcome, along with more Northwest gardens in this California-dominated book. Gardening books worth a look 2014-04-23T04:00:00Z

“An Occupation of Loss” similarly draws on themes of government bureaucracy and social realism. Taryn Simon’s Varieties of Mourning 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

Hers is the kind of blunt historical realism that scares an Oscar voter into more “Gandhi,” and more “Green Book.” The Mystery of the Oscars: How Do You Really Vote for a Script? 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

For designers determined to tell a whimsical story or challenge the prevailing wisdom, an audience must suspend disbelief, as with a novel that indulges in magical realism. Perspective | A normal person’s guide to understanding a Fashion Week runway show 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

One way of describing this kind of immediacy is to say that a film is like a documentary, or to invoke variations on the fuzzy term “realism.” New York Film Festival Offers Quiet Treasures and a Little Jazz 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

She portrays psychic powers and past-life regressions with a kind of realism; she recognized that even a supernatural evil must have a human heart. I Know What I Read That Summer 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

Its strength is in the strange, hallucinatory air that undercuts the period realism, although it is a quality that alienates as much as it intrigues. Sea and Land and Sky ? review 2010-10-15T21:01:00Z

This gorgeous and complex work of Caribbean literature dips into magical realism but is deeply grounded in the reality of today – specifically, the effects of colonialism and exploitative tourism. Disney’s Black mermaid is no breakthrough — look at the literary subgenre of Black mermaid fiction 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

The litter on the streets as well as the dinginess and decay inside the buildings can be chalked up to an emphasis on realism as well as visual metaphor. The dirt on "The Deuce," David Simon's next great HBO drama 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

Through careful exposition, he shows us that Gabriel Ferreira’s “Sweeter Than the Milk of River Toads in the Mating Season” offers far more than the usual South American magic realism. Review | Is it a memoir? Is it a novel? A shadowy writer toys with our expectations 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

He saw symbolic realism while the more polite critics saw colourful kitsch. Chinese gold 2013-03-20T18:07:48Z

The whole production, which takes place on a set by Michael Yeargan that blends gritty realism with the requisite poetry, frames one of the season’s great performances. Theater Review: Judith Ivey Brings Grit to a Tennessee Williams Jewel 2010-03-25T02:29:00Z

Nazis and Soviets alike condemned modernism, favouring nationalistic conservatism and social realism respectively; Shostakovich shines for steering a tricky path through Stalinist aesthetics without losing his style. TV highlights 19/02/2013 2013-02-19T06:59:01Z

Steinem said she regards the Emmy Award-winning drama "Mad Men", which is also set in the 1960s as "a net plus, because it shows the world of the early 1960s with some realism." Gloria Steinem hopes for TV boycott of "Playboy Club" 2011-08-09T20:29:55Z

Their brief stories are laced with magic realism, uncanny coincidences, metaphors taken literally and idioms come to life. Balancing sweet and tart, it's an 'Almost' happy holiday 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

For the next 25 years a primary goal of the video game industry was improving realism by incorporating shadows, texture, increasingly detailed geometry and ever more complex lighting effects. How “Bambi” paved the way for both “Fallout 4″ and “Angry Birds” 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

In this “Fille,” realism and naturalness exist with ceremony and classicism. Review: Dancing Chickens and a Real Pony in American Ballet Theater’s Comic Pastoral 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

But like Colson Whitehead’s “Underground Railroad,” the story’s bracing realism is periodically overcome by the mist of fantasy. Review | In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer,’ a slave makes a superhero’s journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

“She definitely added an element of realism,” said Isaiah Johnson, the actor who plays Mister. Heather Headley’s 15-Year Intermission 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

There's a realism to this, especially as women journey farther into middle age and find, as Charlotte does in "A Hundred Years Ago," that losing weight gets harder as we grow older. "And Just Like That," Charlotte reminds us of the longstanding fatphobia in "Sex and the City" 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z

Although the American University Museum show is the first exhibition of such artwork in the United States, much of it is as recognizable as old-fashioned magazine-illustration realism, albeit on an epic scale. In the galleries: Norman Rockwell would have recognized these socialist images 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

But Ms. Lloyd’s intention seems to be to create an in-between art: between stasis and movement; between realism and abstraction; between artificial and personal; between video, photography and sculpture. Art in Review: HILARY LLOYD 2011-08-04T22:00:07Z

Their jokes burst the boundaries of realism; in fact, they’re often about bursting the boundaries of realism. Riff: ?The Hangover? and the Age of the Jokeless Comedy 2011-05-28T03:33:02Z

The source material here is Mexican author Laura Esquivel’s beloved novel — an epic love story with recipes and a sprinkling of magical realism. Review | GALA’s uneven ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ offers sweet moments 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

I don’t entirely believe in the reality of realism. This Week in Fiction: Mohsin Hamid on the Migrants in All of Us 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

If anything, Jenkins’s version of “The Underground Railroad” is most startling for its implacable realism. Perspective | With ‘The Underground Railroad,’ Barry Jenkins looks squarely at Black trauma. And doesn’t blink. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

The discovery of ancient Roman art probably sharpened the painter’s inclination to realism. Art: At the National Gallery, Art That Made the Leap to Real Life 2011-04-29T11:57:27Z

Smith treats them with empathy and realism, embedding into her narrative the myriad insights of the historical record, which she has carefully studied. George Eliot’s brief marriage got off to a really, really bad start 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

It was a remarkably staged scene, unusually theater-like for a series that operates in the language of cinematic realism. How Failure Made ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Great 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z

Television shows are getting so good at relevance and realism that it’s always worth reminding ourselves that they’re still works of fiction. Review | ‘The Chi’ is best when it gives life to a community known mostly for its killings 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

When the camera follows him around, looking over his shoulder, it doesn’t add realism to the story; it adds flab. ‘Piranhas’ Review: Junior Mafia 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

He told me that, even as a young, short-lived member of an underground communist cell, he was "prepared to accept the most incredible idiocies – but not social realism". Llosa's life should not eclipse his work 2010-10-07T16:30:00Z

For more than five decades, he has carried the torch for British social realism; that fine tradition of everyday, usually working-class drama that has produced some of the most powerful, important cinema of our times. Beyond Ken Loach: where have the social-realists in cinema gone? 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

It combines the frenzy of farce with the creeping incremental detail of kitchen-sink realism. Review: ‘Toast’ Blends Farce With Kitchen-Sink Realism 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

Taking the perspective of narrative realism, season 3 of “The Handmaid’s Tale” should not exist. Weaponized white feminism in "The Handmaid's Tale" and "When They See Us" 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

For Kienholz and for so many other artists here, the Baroque had become a kind of realism. High Drama, High Contrast: Finding the Baroque in Contemporary Art 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

Its loosely painted realism owes something to both news photos and the Ashcan School. Painting From the 1980s, When Brash Met Flash 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

The border between the United States and Mexico has long been a place for vital cinema — a site for suspense, melodrama and tough-minded realism. Film Series in NYC This Week 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

In many ways, Milch was the precursor of this late golden age, bringing a previously unseen depth and realism to the police procedural with "NYPD Blue," which ran on ABC from 1993-2005. The future tense of joy: "Deadwood" creator David Milch recaptures memory in "Life's Work" 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z

One of the most striking aspects of “Beasts,” given its pedigree, is the way it blends realism and fantasy, allegory and observation. The Oscars Issue: ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ Shares Something With ‘Lincoln’ 2012-12-28T16:51:45Z

Why do we sometimes persist in applying the strictures of realism to a platform on which characters interrupt conversations to break out in show tunes? Perspective | More actors of color are being cast in roles traditionally played by whites — while feeling extra pressure to succeed 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

"Like all songwriters, he was a master storyteller, but it was the realism in his rhymes that captured so many." Notorious B.I.G. to Posthumously Receive ASCAP Founders Award 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

A reporter at The Wall Street Journal, Chen excels at gritty realism, vividly portraying the widening gap between China’s haves and have-nots. Short Story Collections for an Ever-Changing World 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

Still, the set tries for something beyond the stiff realism that, despite the generally strong cast, hampers the staging. Theater Review: ?Rutherford & Son? at Mint Theater 2012-02-29T00:18:13Z

Known for her Detroit cycle, including “Skeleton Crew,” which just completed its debut Broadway run last month, Morisseau typically opts for realism and traditional, chronological storytelling. Review: ‘Confederates’ Talks Race in Double Time 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z

The result is unlikable heroes, appealing villains and an emotional realism that studio tentpole films rarely achieve. IMAX Cannot Contain 'Game of Thrones' 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

We suddenly see the landscape from above and hear an ancient folk tale in a woman’s voice, and the film takes a double swerve, into harsher realism and more explicit magic. ‘Happy as Lazzaro’ Review: This Modern Fairy Tale Is an Instant Classic 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

Mr. Douglas complained to Cooper that his director, David Miller, was uncommunicative and focused on realism. Kirk Douglas’s Film ‘Lonely Are the Brave’ 2012-07-28T22:47:18Z

So, working from the photographs, Thomas deconstructs and reconstructs the images, creating extraordinarily intricate compositions with engaging tensions between realism and abstraction, depth and surface, and the viewer and the viewed. Seattle Art Museum’s ‘Figuring History’ a powerful look at who is represented in art 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

With the data, a studio’s animation team matches characters’ movements with their dialogue to create an added layer of realism. Familiar Faces Lend Star Power to Video Game Voices 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

What the realism helps with is that people think they know exactly where they are. ‘I Want to Live in That Room’: Designers on Their Broadway Sets 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

The speaker seems at one moment to be jokingly exaggerating, and, at another, connecting to the fine, hard grain of realism. Poem of the week: Hymn of Hymns by John Rodker 2013-04-29T16:24:03Z

And blood there is, gushing and splattering, in a story that combines Grand Guignol levels of sanguineous spectacle with raw realism. | 'The Yellow Sea': ?The Yellow Sea,? From South Korea - Review 2011-12-02T00:20:58Z

Such realism is what Zeitlin calls making this film "humble to the elements that you're using" in order to tell the story. Beasts of the Southern Wild: 'I didn't expect people to like it' 2012-10-11T20:00:03Z

Nearly everything here is in a mode of three-dimensional illustrative realism. Art Review: ‘The American West in Bronze’ at the Met 2013-12-19T22:56:12Z

Fourth Grader Disappears; Exotic Quest Ensues “Bureau of Missing Persons,” a new play by Lila Rose Kaplan, is sprinkled with bits of absurdity and magical realism and other charms. Theater Review: ‘Bureau of Missing Persons,’ a Play by Lila Rose Kaplan 2013-06-20T22:04:17Z

It’s the way he violates ordinary notions of cinematic realism or perspective, often violently, to bring us into the psychological and emotional landscapes of his characters. Todd Solondz: I’m Judd Apatow’s dark side 2012-06-06T00:00:00Z

Few movies really succeed as both realism and entertainment. How Hollywood Gets the Publishing Industry Wrong 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

Scene by scene, with understated realism and lightly gritty visuals, Hittman has been bringing you close to Autumn, whose face rarely betrays her. ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ Review: A Woman’s Heroic Journey 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

Thanks in part to years of exposure to the Expressionists, who valued process over polish, and mixed realism with abstraction, his style had changed, loosened up. Review: The Darkness and Light of Edvard Munch’s Work 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

But The Sims 4, released by the game developer Maxis in 2014, expanded the depth and realism of how players can interact with food. How The Sims Became the Internet’s Most Exciting Place to Eat 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

For more fleeting uses of news networks in scripted series, creating a network avoids the need to recruit actual news personalities and to get permissions, while still presenting the veneer of realism. Sorkin?s Newsroom Plans Premiere, Adds to Vast History of Fake TV Networks 2012-02-08T17:27:12Z

“We wanted to put a level of realism back into horror films,” said Mr. Sanchez, who’d bonded with Mr. Myrick as film students at the University of Central Florida. ‘Blair Witch’: Shaky Cams That Left Audiences Shaking 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

One film trucks in gritty realism, the other in soaring fantasy. 2010-02-12T05:15:00Z

At a certain point, Mr. Norris forsakes realism for theatricalized fantasy, and “Broken” ultimately loses its stylistic cohesion, if not its humanity. Movie Review: ‘Broken’ Brings Kitchen-Sink Realism to Today’s Britain 2013-07-18T21:30:52Z

He’s after a kind of realism rarely found in recent American movies, which often seem to think that audiences will be confused or offended when the silly and the serious collide onscreen. Review: ‘Manchester by the Sea’ and the Tides of Grief 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

This feature is the impeachment of my realism, the challenging of the facts of life as put down by me in that story. Peeved, Irritated and Annoyed: Early Letters to the Editor 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

At the close of the last millennium, when the American literary establishment was focused on a particular kind of white domestic realism, much fiction aspired to timelessness. Planned Obsolescence 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

What we said: “The Truth starts as a droll tale but then morphs into something else, something stranger and more elusive, something with a hint of fairytale magic realism.” The best films of 2020 so far 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

Any visual artist fated to be a one-hit wonder would be beyond lucky if that hit were as marvelous as “The Fulbright Triptych,” Simon Dinnerstein’s overlooked masterpiece of 1970s realism. Art Review: Rediscovered at the Altar of Art 2011-08-11T21:34:13Z

Whatever happened to the "new neurotic realism", an entirely made-up movement that never went anywhere? Charles Saatchi's art gift to the nation: as generous as it seems? 2010-07-01T16:26:00Z

You don’t expect total realism in a fashion shoot for a magazine that’s called Glamour. You don’t breastfeed like Olivia Wilde 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

But the promiscuous mix of genres, and liberal use of poetry, music, humor and magic realism, makes it trademark Gardley. Marcus Gardley’s ‘The Box: A Black Comedy’ Comes to Brooklyn 2014-04-13T21:56:13Z

Viewed up close, the seamless illusions fall apart into myriad patches of colored paint; the magic partly is in how your eyes and mind flip between seeing the realism and seeing the abstraction. Review: ‘Richard Estes: Painting New York City’ Features Works in Abstract Realism 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Critics are desperate to get away from the usual run of dramatic realism and into the realm of imagination, but they’re also snobbishly sick of the people’s fantasies—namely, superhero movies. The Petty Laments of Yorgos Lanthimos’s “The Lobster” 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

Through a bit of magical realism, Ms. Camuzet turns into a sparrow, and flits through most of her segment as such. Toronto Festival 2014: The Downey-Duvall Show 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

The effect is subtly eerie despite the conventional, painterly realism. Art by Milton Avery, Joe Bradley and Chris Martin 2010-03-11T21:54:00Z

Haigh’s gift is for seriousness, and for a careful, credible realism that gives his work a richness no matter how quiet or seemingly straightforward the action may be. Review: In ‘The North Water,’ There’s Blood on the Ice 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

Grazia Montalto’s “Girls in Bikinis” is a modern scene drawn in the style of an ancient Mediterranean mosaic, and painter Marley Kinkead employs watery realism for the earthy subject of women in bathrooms. Review | In the galleries: Multiple works by Black artists create a vision of authority 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

But it lends a touch of realism to an otherwise fantastical Big Boys Adventure Story. Many Sinners, Very Few Saints 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

The novel, still studied in classrooms today, ushered in an era of realism for YA lit, right down to the language young readers used. Review | How ‘The Outsiders,’ ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘The Hunger Games’ transformed YA fiction 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

"Skins" producers have boasted of its gritty realism. That uproar over 'Skins': A blessing for the show 2011-01-22T01:01:09Z

Set in the land of magical realism, “Encanto” follows Mirabel Madrigal, a teenage girl frustrated by the fact that she is the only member of her family without magical powers. Oscars 2022: Sebastián Yatra calls ‘Encanto’ a gift from God 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

“My inner life,” he wrote, “is far more real than the hideous realism of this land, the war-zone.” Siegfried Sassoon’s World War I Diaries Become Available Online 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

The New Wave was a quest for personal filmmaking but it was also a cinema of observation, a heightened realism that embodied inner experience. What to Stream This Weekend: Agnès Varda’s Chronicle of a Parisian Pop Star’s Dread-Filled Afternoon in “Cleo from 5 to 7” 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

His dramatic realism, he says, is more appreciated in the US. 'I used to be a raving lunatic' 2010-09-02T20:00:00Z

But enough time has passed for realism, if not quite disillusionment, to set in. Art Review: ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography 2012-09-20T22:48:21Z

Turner overturned 19th century conventions, challenging the boundaries of realism and abstraction with a boldness that foreshadowed Impressionists such as Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. Turner's Rome masterpiece to go under the hammer 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

The vivid characters provide a spark of realism to this engrossing and sad tale. Review: Buckley's `Invisible' is enthralling drama 2012-12-10T16:04:11Z

Colombia's central bank will print banknotes to honor the country's most celebrated writer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who died in April and who is renowned as the father of magical realism storytelling. Colombia to print Garcia Marquez banknotes in tribute to writer 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

Some kinds of simulations demand that we pretend they're not simulations, in the interest of supposed transparency or "realism." Love and loss in "Asteroid City": Wes Anderson's intoxicating alien-invasion meta-movie 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z

There are several instances in the book in which you turn to magical realism. ‘I Came From Nothing’: An Undocumented Writer Defies the Odds 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

Pauline Lord, who originated the role of Anna on Broadway, was renowned for the hushed quality of her tragic realism. 'Anna Christie' habors but a spark of greatness 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

For all its realism, “Band of Brothers” was veined with an almost romantic infatuation with just war and noble warriors. Television Review | 'The Pacific': First Marine Division in Gruesome World War II Battles 2010-03-11T23:25:00Z

Still, their work is unified by a sense of realism. Parsons Graduates Its First M.F.A. Students 2012-05-23T20:41:24Z

But even so, you can hear the pure realism in narrative dialogue as easily as you can drive a horse and cart out of a Corot painting. The unreal art of realistic dialogue 2010-03-18T10:54:00Z

And in terms of regular-guy realism, this thriller reveals a major clue when David and his dad try to fix the leak behind a bathroom sink. Books of The Times: Caught - By Harlan Coben - Never Look Away - By Linwood Barclay - Mom and Pop Thrillers 2010-03-25T22:42:00Z

Anderson's realism is a highly unorthodox one that often slips into myth, a quality transmitted directly into the work of Eudora Welty. A brief survey of the short story part 51: Sherwood Anderson 2013-07-24T15:15:19Z

These very different stories attest to Mr. Klay’s ability to shift tone and mood with fluency, moving from ferocious realism to more meditative ruminations to “Catch-22”-like black humor. Books of The Times: ‘Redeployment,’ Iraq War Stories, by Phil Klay 2014-02-26T20:45:37Z

My mom was a spectacularly misplaced New York City socialite fallen on magical realism strange times indeed. Luis Alberto Urrea: By the Book 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

The team, including the set designer Scott Pask, had already started moving away from the original scenic designs, which Page described as attempting to land the show too much “in the world of realism.” ‘1776’ in 2022: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of a Dual Reality 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z

Thuso Mbedu and Aaron Pierre, who star in the wrenching depiction of U.S. slavery combined with elements of magical realism, are potential nominees. ‘The Queen’s Gambit,’ ‘Ted Lasso’ vie for Emmy nominations 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z

For me as an actor, the key element was those actors played the realism of what would happen if. James Wolk: Zoo is TV's Answer to Jurassic Park 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

Still, although realism is generally a virtue in fiction, it can be overdone. ‘The Redeemers,’ by Ace Atkins 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

Worlds away from the sober dark comedy of “Transparent,” “Mozart” seems at first glance to be a fanciful exercise in magical realism. ‘Mozart in the Jungle,’ an Amazon Series 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

He was known as the leading author of magical realism for his novels "100 Years of Solitude," "The General in His Labyrinth," "Love in the Time of Cholera," "The Autumn of the Patriarch" and more. Get your Gabo on: Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive opens at University of Texas' Ransom Center 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

He nimbly avoided the pitfalls of yahooism, academicism, social realism and surrealist kitsch and, in so doing, forged a style that was exemplary for its technical and expressive economy, if not for daring imagination. Art Review: Testing the Waters of Abstraction 2011-08-04T22:02:30Z

Macedonia was annexed by Rome in 148 A.D., but what recent discoveries reveal is that Macedonian realism greatly surpassed the Roman version for the subtlety of its psychological probe. Art: Macedonia's Riches Before Alexander 2011-10-21T12:30:08Z

Befitting the novel’s emphasis on the aesthetic, her style here is painterly: As in Oudry’s composition, attention to detailed realism is everything. ‘Still Life With Monkey’: A Mischievous, Gluttonous Primate 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Alden is going for psychological, not scenic, realism, and once I made the adjustment, I was swept up. Music Review: Britten’s ‘Billy Budd’ at the English National Opera 2012-06-25T22:16:47Z

The show said it worked with mental health experts to achieve realism. BBC defends soap's bipolar story 2012-06-27T15:59:02Z

It was a so-called red-figure kylix, a style in which the reddish figures are set against darkened backgrounds and have finer facial details — innovations that introduced greater realism to Greek art. The Kylix Marvel: Why Experts Distrust the Story of an Ancient Cup’s Rebirth 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

Its combination of precise realism and outsize scale encapsulates the conundrum of Hay’s art: It is both commanding and modest, stately and slightly comic. Alex Hay, Comeback Painter 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

To achieve this result, Hermanis uses the tools of Russia’s psychological realism tradition. Human Most of All: In Moscow, a Theater Stages ‘Gorbachev’ 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

The Nazis forced the Bauhaus out of Dessau in 1932, and in the same year the Soviet Union dissolved independent artists’ unions and promulgated the single style of socialist realism. Picasso in 1932: Ingenious, Exhausting, Relentless 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

His impeccable, carefully ordered realism was less a style than a deep understanding of our place in the workings of the world. Review: Paintings by George Stubbs Travel to the Met 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

It tends to moves on an axis between realism and abstraction. "Flee": Animation is a powerful medium for documentaries about conflict and refugees 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

The copperplate lines are so exact they mimic the individual venation of feathers; the neck of a gyrfalcon takes on all the ripply realism of moiréd silk. The Original Birders Gave Photography a Run for its Money 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z

As he’s done in past collections, “Fly Already” applies magical realism to the angst that claws at the insides of his characters. Review | A master of the short story finds humor in the darkest places 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

There is, too, another strand, almost a film in itself and a source of both fun and realism, in the presence of three political fixers, Washington lobbyists before the term was coined. Lincoln – review 2013-01-27T00:06:12Z

With unforced realism and a graceful visual style — punctuated by a series of fluid, intimate walks — the Bulgarian director Ilian Metev beautifully captures the ebb and flow of one family’s everyday life. 11 Movies You Need to Know at New Directors/New Films 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

The talented Morano, whose work on the TV series “The Handmaid’s Tale” shows a knack for shuddery grim realism, sometimes seems to want to subvert the espionage-action genre by bludgeoning the pleasure out of it. ‘The Rhythm Section’ Review: The Semi-Reluctant Assassin 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

Close Encounters” still strikes me as an amazing creation—a one-off fusion of blockbuster spectacle with the disheveled realism of nineteen-seventies filmmaking. Listening to “Star Wars” 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

Magical realism threads each episode — there are psychedelic dance parties, animation interludes, and a bubbly maelstrom of puppet chaos. Netflix's zany "Waffles + Mochi" is helping heal my eating disorder 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z

Yet the story is grounded in absolute realism — it lacks even the faint whiffs of magic that appear in the previous volumes in the trilogy. Kate DiCamillo’s New Novel May Be Her Finest Yet 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

A Veteran, Damaged by War, Is Befriended by an Evangelical Christian One of the two main characters in R. Alverson’s “New Jerusalem” is well served by its sparse realism. Movie Review: ‘New Jerusalem,’ With Colm O’Leary and Will Oldham 2012-11-30T02:02:36Z

In a broadcast landscape full of slick, self-consciously campy melodramas, ABC’s turn to social realism is worth applauding. Here Are the Best TV Shows of 2016 So Far 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

But fiction these days is up against a culture that practically fetishizes “it really happened” realism. On TV, the Truth Hurts 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

These ingredients align the film and novel with magical realism, a catchall label for a branch of Latin American and world literature, in which mundane events merge with otherworldly occurrences. It’s Story Time at Ballet Theater, With a Best Seller Twist 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z

“Our job,” he wrote, “is to create what is best described as ‘realism’ — the impression and effect of being real — which may be very different from plain unadorned reality.” Orrin Keepnews, Jazz Producer and Record Executive, Is Dead at 91 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

And then, right after the public opening on June 18, came a scandal that has overshadowed the glorious ferment of energies, harshing everyone’s mellow with a sharp dose of historical realism and contemporary Germany politics. Documenta Was a Whole Vibe. Then a Scandal Killed the Buzz. 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

I wanted the gritty realism of films like “The French Connection.” John Hillcoat Narrates a Scene From ‘Triple 9’ 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

While attempting to create a kind of fable about the lingering effects of maternal neglect and racial self-hatred, Morrison ends up instead with characters who keep phasing between skimpy realism and overwrought fantasy. Toni Morrison’s familiar, flawed ‘God Help the Child’ 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

Green is indeed unflinching when it comes to the manifestations of their conditions, and this may be why the novel has been praised for its realism. Teen fiction and the shadow of cancer 2013-01-26T10:00:01Z

“I’ve long joked that if I’m a student of any school of acting, it’s follicle realism,” he said. Paul Giamatti Had a Busy Year of Mad Guys and Bad Hair 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

This almost abstract style, Ms. Berliner said, was a philosophical reaction against the tradition of realism. How ‘Bambi’ Got Its Look From 1,000-Year-Old Chinese Art 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

A blend of realism, sarcasm and dark humour gets me through life. Helena Christensen: ‘When I’m on trips I listen to recordings of my dog snoring’ 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z

The book’s action, however, is gritty, gruesome and imbued with all-too-convincing realism. A young Irishman falls into the horrors of the American Civil War 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

He’s too openhearted a filmmaker to punish us with unleavened realism. Review: 'The Florida Project' Is a Magical Ode to Childhood 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

The acuity of his visual style is complemented by his sensitive work with his actresses, whose unforced performances deepen the movie’s emotional realism. Movie Review: ‘Starlet,’ With Dree Hemingway 2012-11-09T01:27:15Z

The show has been greeted warmly by critics and fans for its raw depiction of new motherhood, and in its second season Bell and Scheller wanted to dial up the darkness and realism. Mothers who have abortions: what to do with TV’s third rail? 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z

So too, do several of the other action set pieces but the film is not concerned with realism. Brad Pitt hops aboard the ridiculous, rollicking "Bullet Train" packed with gleefully violent stars 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

"The Corpse Exhibition" masterfully demonstrates that gritty realism is not the only response to war's unreal reality, and war is just as real for those who don't sign up to fight. Veterans' new fiction adds needed perspective on war zones 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

This “hard realism,” as Mr. Pearlstein called it, broke decisively with the torrid emotionalism of the Abstract Expressionists, embracing an art that was, he asserted in a statement to ARTnews in 1967, “sharp, clear, unambiguous.” Philip Pearlstein, Whose Realist Nudes Revived Portraiture, Dies at 98 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z

There is a strain of magic realism that emerges in “Lodge 49,” but just the barest amount, like a smudge of gold dust. Review: ‘Lodge 49,’ Where Beautiful Losers Join the Club 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

The painting, with its ambiguous blend of fantasy and realism, is a transitional work but a brilliant one, partly thanks to a technical miscalculation. Artworks That Shine in New York Museums 2013-01-04T00:50:22Z

The characters are treated with odd touches of realism and their sophistic arguments are stingingly psychologized. 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

The realism of her role brought a different kind of attention. ‘Kids,’ Then and Now 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

But most of Bennett's theatrical work, with the exception of Getting On, is an attempt to escape the comforting paraphernalia of realism. Alan Bennett: a quiet radical 2012-10-12T09:38:00Z

It's good to see some realism, though, because duelling was just socially licensed murder for toffs. The Duellists: it takes two to tangle 2010-10-28T09:00:00Z

Indians are more expressive and emotional in real life, and gritty realism should incorporate that. ‘Masaan’ and Other Indian Films Steer Away From Bollywood Escapism 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

The National’s version is starker: a stylized take on a wooden ship’s hull, which, as Anthony Tommasini observed in his review in The New York Times last week, aims for “psychological, not scenic, realism.” Critic’s Notebook: Britten’s ‘Billy Budd’ Has the Gay Closet as Its Subtext 2012-07-03T21:36:04Z

Eisenstein was never terrorised by Stalin in the way other artists were, and was arguably as complicit as any apparatchik, but he was certainly later compelled to abandon his experimentalism for Stalin’s favoured “socialist realism”. Hallucinating history: when Stalin and Eisenstein reinvented a revolution 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

It remains one of the great works of postwar Italian cinema, a film whose poetic realism influenced Martin Scorsese as well as the young Bernardo Bertolucci, at that time Pasolini's cameraman. Pier Paolo Pasolini: No saint 2013-02-22T11:01:01Z

Blending historical fiction, magical realism and a lyrical sense of place, her recent work confounds neat distinctions of genre and has established her as a leading voice in global anglophone literature. Painting a vibrant and lush portrait of the 16th-century Ottoman empire 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Such merciless dedication to realism pervades the film, resulting in a revenge story that is ultimately more unsettling — and more successful — than many of its predecessors. ‘Violation’ Review: The Trauma of Vengeance 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

How do you walk the line between realism and drama? T Magazine: 'Gladiators in Suits': The Fashion of 'Scandal' 2013-01-14T22:01:18Z

Lubezki strove to use practical lighting to add to the realism of scenes — that is, when he wasn't using stage lights to create subjective atmospheres. Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki aimed high on 'Birdman' 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

"Jones was aspiring to realism and verisimilitude and objected to the sanitisation of his novel," she said. Censored gay sex in From Here to Eternity restored for new edition 2011-04-05T15:20:59Z

Television offers plenty of realism, as long as it stays within the United States. | 'Off the Map': Doctors Operating Abroad, With Lots of Body Language 2011-01-12T00:12:29Z

He’s criticizing fantasy and prioritizing realism, which isn’t the same thing as reality. What Ethan Hawke Gets Wrong—and Right—About Superhero Movies 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

Putting Fitzgerald on screen is a thankless business — his infinitely delicate realism withers in the light, and if you can’t capture the texture of his prose, there’s really no point. Amazon’s Literary Forays for TV: ‘The Interestings’ and ‘The Last Tycoon’ 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

Of course, Pariah doesn’t intend for us to confuse Bob’s bonkers backstory for literary realism. What exactly is Sean Penn’s role in the mysterious ‘Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff’? 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

And the novel’s final moment provides a brilliant blending of realism and mythology, a poignant acknowledgment of the limits of female power — and its boundless potential. Review | Mark Haddon’s ‘The Porpoise’ sounds like homework. It’s actually fantastic. 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

“Male characters pull me back into a sort of realism that I naturally try to escape from, whereas female characters instantly slot into the sort of storytelling that interests me,” he said. When did you last see a man begging for his life in a horror movie? 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Ritual movements that balance Martin’s magical realism dominate in David Schweizer’s staging in the round, and Nancy Leary’s costumes are gently Celtic. ‘The Love Potion,’ Staged by the Boston Lyric Opera 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

When I was in grad school — I went to Michigan for my MFA in the ’90s — traditional American realism was in vogue. “The World Without You” 2012-06-29T20:06:00Z

Where once images in the play were received as being heightened almost to the point of absurdity, now they have the smoke of realism about them. Sarah Kane's debut play Blasted returns 2010-10-24T20:31:00Z

The tales navigate a framework of stark realism, embossed with flecks of treasured or upsetting memory, illuminating the experience of a Black woman growing up in a nation of maddening inequality. Review | Online festival highlights the powerful plays of undersung dramatist Adrienne Kennedy 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

In his Harper's essay Franzen defined the fiction he admired as "tragic realism", an antidote to "the rhetoric of optimism that so pervades our culture". Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z

But the film’s uninflected realism and unforced beauty alone make it worthy of exploring and revisiting, as does the simple truth that love is too often an elusive subject in contemporary cinema. | 'Everyone Else': Maren Ade Puts Love Under the Microscope 2010-04-08T22:54:00Z

How can a writer like Rankin, who prides himself on his realism, justify Rebus's return? Ian Rankin and a fear of page 65 2012-11-06T00:19:55Z

It was the first masterpiece done in the new medium of oil, and the first to portray the stark realism of the everyday world. Getting around the medieval yet very modern city of Ghent 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

Ryder provides the realism, but the rest of Stranger Things is faked with loving care. Review: 'Stranger Things' Is Nostalgia That Works 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

A professor of philosophy and law brings insightful realism to the task of reexamining our restrictive and therefore divisive notions of who we are. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

Studying under Shostakovich in the late 1930s and 1940s, Ustvolskaya, too, dabbled in socialist realism. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

It tells of a simple realism, true in Lazio in 1903 and in Brooklyn today—a realism that the parenting books and Facebook posts invite us to deny and defy. Fatherhood Apart 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

The usual language of realism doesn’t quite apply to Mackenzie’s methods, which aim for visceral, nerve-jangling authenticity. ‘Starred Up’: Father-son story set amid chaotic prison life 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

What used to be paranoia — the idea, say, that your electronic appliances are spying on you — looks nowadays like blunt realism. Review: ‘Snowden,’ Oliver Stone’s Restrained Portrait of a Whistle-Blower 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

The expected adjective is "humped" but "hunched" both suggests the characteristic shape, and, in a stroke of realism, shows us animals huddled together on the sand, at rest, because it's night. Poem of the week: An Arab Love-Song by Francis Thompson 2012-12-17T10:52:15Z

This has already been a big year at Cannes for formally inventive cinema that breaks loose from realism. Cannes: Tilda Swinton's "We Need to Talk About Kevin" is a grim shocker 2011-05-12T15:15:00Z

If so, that certainly clashes with the ugly realism of Harry’s murder, not to mention the woman pushed under the subway train. ‘Killer, Come Hither,’ a legal thriller set amid New York’s upper crust 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

It is also the most telling example of Austen’s remarkable ability to combine wish fulfilment with social realism, and fairy-tale romance with biting cultural critique. In Jane Austen, fairy tales meet biting feminist critiques 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z

While Leigh employs a style of so-called kitchen-sink realism so gritty you're spitting gravel for a week however, Mills – while clearly paying homage – prefers a more effervescent approach. Absolute beginners 2011-07-15T23:03:00Z

Things happen, though often quietly, creating a flowing, crystalline ordinariness that, in its very naturalness and in its lack of dramatic inflection, strengthens the realism. ‘Drive My Car’ Review: A Director Takes Your Heart for a Spin 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Its popular spin on magical realism was untimely, especially in an era when, once again, the validity of the novel as a genre was up for reconsideration. How “Life of Pi” anticipated 9/11 2013-04-28T19:00:00Z

If realism is what a crisis calls for, the conditions could hardly be better, which is to say worse. Sleazy bosses, exploited barmaids: US cinema finally discovers the left behinds 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

Then again, reason does not always govern immediate or lasting impressions when it comes to transcendent masterpieces like these, any more than realism does. ArtsBeat: When Expectations Mix With Reality 2011-04-16T11:50:33Z

Which is not to say that Nicole and Charlie are confined to the shabby, somber stagecraft that so often passes for realism. ‘Marriage Story’ Review: Dance Me to the End of Love 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

How did you balance your desire for realism with the special effects that transport the viewer? A New Pinocchio Film Returns to the Tale’s Dark Origins 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

It’s increasingly clear the key difference between network and cable dramas is realism and specificity. Realism held hostage in NBC’s new drama ‘Crisis’ 2014-03-14T20:24:38Z

We crave some element of departure from the world's woe, but prestige habit also dictates that the writing gives us enough realism to hold onto. "The Expanse" shows the dangers of treating extremism as a joke 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

Writing magic realism “snuck up on me,” Telgemeier told me recently. “Ghosts”: Raina Telgemeier Returns 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Tarantino also spat in her face in another scene, each for the sake of artistic realism. Reality bites: How reckonings and the post-truth age ruined pop culture anniversary nostalgia 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z

“There are a lot of films made in the name of realism that are exploitative, or too anthropological, or too lyrical.” Film: Indie Filmmaker?s Seat-of-the-Pants Solutions 2011-02-12T06:33:51Z

In place of realism, Mr. Netanyahu offers melodrama — a fervent talk between undressed lovers, a late-night confrontation between husband and wife. Review: ‘A Happy End,’ Iddo Netanyahu’s Play Set in 1930s Berlin 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

The art-focused section of the space features permanent collections by Ms. Hughes, who describes her signature style as “abstracted realism,” and selected works by local and regional artists. Five Places to Visit in Greenville, S.C. 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

The small picture, previously unrecorded, offers a striking mixture of careful realism and subtle psychological probing. Old Masters Rush In to Save the Day 2010-12-10T12:42:00Z

You need to go back to people like the Kabuki or these other theaters that recognize theater is not realism. For a Pioneering Artist, the Joy of Having Done the Work His Way 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

The work is in assorted media and ranges from sheer abstraction to meticulous realism. In the galleries: Using heat to create several kinds of artworks 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

His red-cheeked flame typically burns too bright for realism, though he does sometimes adapt to a slightly lower voltage, as in the fact-based political drama “Oslo.” Review: In This Solo ‘Christmas Carol,’ the Night Is Never Silent 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

“You feel the flatness and abstraction, but also realism and layers, and I guess you could say a soul.” ‘Oh, I’ll Show You’: Paul Taylor and Alex Katz’s Long Collaboration 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

"A Boy in France" is a stark, bruised piece of battlefield realism that sees Babe removing a blood-drenched blanket from a dead German soldier's foxhole. JD Salinger is best revealed in his work 2011-01-31T13:08:28Z

Baraka is as adept with spare, imagistic lines as with lyrical realism. The best new poetry books for March 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

By then they tended to make you wish for more deviations from realism, which begins to feel like an easy, crowd-pleasing way out. Real, or Too Real? A Dazzling Show Goes the Way of All Flesh 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

In “Chhichhore,” he shows a fluid visual style and an engaging if flickering sense of realism that sets up expectations the movie doesn’t fulfill. ‘Chhichhore’ Review: In Mumbai, Good Old-Fashioned Rules Days 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

Didactic as it is, “One Way or Another” can be taken for socialist realism, but if so, it is a highly original and even critical variant. A Feminist, Neorealist, Communist Film, and a Plain Great Movie 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z

The narrative is enlivened by an element of magical realism, Russian-style: The lives of Yarik and Dima and their countrymen are being overtaken by a billionaire’s futuristic scheme to build the world’s largest greenhouse. Modern Russian fable superbly drawn 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

The magical realism of “Hummingbird” and its uncomplicated romance with rural America are tempered by Moore’s “Holler of the Fireflies,” also set in Appalachia. Magic Mountains: Novels of Appalachia From Natalie Lloyd and David Barclay Moore 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

There are various ways to characterize the argument: between reason and superstition; between doubt and faith; between realism and magic. ‘Magic in the Moonlight’: Another Woody Allen Odd Couple 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Every line is treated as stark poetic realism, writ large and funny. A gothic 'Cripple' in Chicago straight from Galway 2011-03-17T14:32:10Z

It's obvious from the immediacy and realism of these paintings that he got models to pose for him. Titian and the National Gallery's other 'dirty old men' 2012-07-16T13:30:21Z

The fairy-tale reference is revealing because "God Help the Child" invokes a loose element of magical realism, perhaps to make up for its lack of depth. The magic is missing in Toni Morrison's 'God Help the Child' 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

A few stories take fantastical turns, but the author excels at realism and vivid portrayals of the widening gap between China’s haves and have-nots. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

Happily, once realism has been pulped like the first print run of a fraudulent memoir, the fun can begin. How Hollywood Gets the Publishing Industry Wrong 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

“It’s an updated magic realism, taking these ideas into new terrain in the medium of installation art.” Bright Colors, Dark Subjects: Hew Locke’s Unsettling Pageant 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

But even clowns must draw the line somewhere, and too much realism will sicken the toughest audience.” ArtsBeat: A New Honor for the Hatchet Job 2012-01-30T20:18:52Z

The Sterkarm Handshake/The Sterkarm Kiss: Susan Price These books cross effortlessly between science fiction and fantasy, depicting life as it might have been in the primitive past with rare and enthralling realism. Best children's books: 12-years-old and over 2010-05-12T07:00:00Z

Not matter the original language of his work, any good translation show the power of magic realism, that is so characteristic of Latin America societies. Readers (and Another Novelist) Respond to Vargas Llosa's Nobel Victory 2010-10-07T20:01:00Z

Simpson explains that he was committed to the realism of the scenario. Jessica Jones: shattering exploration of rape, addiction and control 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

One key trait of magic realism might be called a sense of proportion, in that the magic fits in the daily world; it is not exaggerated, or dreamy, or funny. ‘The Merman’ review: A magical fish story that’s this big 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

All this realism serves to help diverse young viewers see themselves, an experience Manzano remembered never having as a small child. In ‘Alma’s Way,’ a Young Latina Thinks for Herself, Like Her Creator 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z

Do you think “Heartstopper” is aiming for realism, or is it depicting an aspirational world? L.G.B.T.Q. Teens on ‘Heartstopper’: ‘I’m Fine With It Not Being Perfect’ 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z

“This lack of realism was allowed because it was for children,” Mr. Mikhailovsky said. Not Just Propaganda: A New View of Soviet Artists 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

It had a terrific reception, but I hesitated about beginning it because of reading that it has some elements of magic realism. Calvin Trillin: By the Book 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

But, for art’s sake and an obsessive pursuit of realism, the director was prepared to endanger a stuntman’s life, a new book claims. Stanley Kubrick 'risked stuntman's life' making 2001: A Space Oydssey 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

But “Default” proves less interested in realism or current events than in mind games. In ‘Default,’ Somali Pirates’ Demand Is for Coverage 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

“And the alphabet is the alphabet of magical realism.” ‘Encanto’ May Be Accurate, but Can It Carry a Whole Country? 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

But a disconnect between cause and effect is inevitable in a culture that wallows in fantasy and favors reality television over realism. The TV Watch: Where Alcoholism Drinks in the Laughs 2010-12-02T23:21:00Z

Hamaguchi’s realism is as constructed as that of any Sundance selection, but what distinguishes his work is his attention to ambiguity and to everyday moments, and his general avoidance of dramatic or melodramatic inflection. ‘Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy’ Review: What We Talk About 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

The 10 international members of the jury praised Almond's "deeply philosophical novels that appeal to children and adults alike, and encourage readers by his use of magic realism". David Almond in running for prestigious children's book prize 'double' 2010-03-18T12:42:00Z

We do not know how the transition was made from the Baroque phase to the realism of the first century and the question is not even raised in the exhibition book. Art: Macedonia's Riches Before Alexander 2011-10-21T12:30:08Z

His success as a writer seemed miraculous to him and perhaps contributed to his unique blend of realism and mysticism. Iakovos Kambanellis obituary 2011-04-04T17:23:29Z

My new novel is a complete break with realism and with everything I’ve done before. This Week in Fiction: Ian McEwan on Literary Crimes 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

He was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize for literature and was known for bringing fantastic elements into literary fiction, a genre labeled "magic realism." Gabriel Garcia Marquez e-books coming soon 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

The film is more ambitious – adding elements of magical realism to his cinema of emotional verité – and having a trusted group of actors on board was surely a help to the young director. When big-screen reunions work … and when they don't 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

First performed in 1987, “Lilies” quickly sloughs off realism to present the play not as a true performance but as a kind of living memory. ‘Lilies’ Review: A Queer Romantic Drama That Wilts Quickly 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z

Aparicio became so invested in the role that when tragedy strikes her character, she suffers with agonizing realism. Yalitza Aparicio of ‘Roma’ and the Politics of Stardom in Mexico 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

That was especially true following Charlotte's final-season miscarriage, an absolutely gutting injection of harsh realism. Imperfect conception: From "Friends" to "Trying," what TV gets right (and wrong) about infertility 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z

In league with Antonin Artaud, Samuel Beckett and other theater visionaries, Brook shifted modern drama away from the illusion of detailed realism. Peter Brook on his ‘Suit,’ tailored for its Seattle dates 2014-03-12T19:32:39Z

Because social realism really gets on my tits sometimes. Peter Mullan: the swot who lost the plot 2011-01-19T21:31:00Z

He also looped, echoed and multiplied fragments of the performances, time-warping the stark realism of vocals and guitar. Making Beautiful ?Le Noise? Together 2010-09-26T22:08:00Z

And everything should be as believable in its own terms as the grittiest realism. Urgle by Meaghan McIsaac – review 2013-06-01T09:31:01Z

Mostly, though, it’s a labored device that works against Mr. Doremus’s sometimes persuasive groping for realism. | 'Like Crazy': ?Like Crazy? From Drake Doremus ? Review 2011-10-27T22:04:03Z

The show acknowledges this, winkingly, as brute realism gives way to something closer to magic. Review: ‘Are We Not Drawn Onward to New Era’ Stages a Disaster in Reverse 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

“I like realism you can get lost in,” he said. Mark Ryden: Drawing a Dividing Line 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

As an alternative to formalism, Soviet musical bureaucrats championed socialist realism: a style of art that would be intelligible to everyday people and promote national values. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

The makers promise the product can deliver “extreme realism” for when “you want to get really kinky.” For the love of artificial hymens: 10 of the weirdest sex toys for women 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

One midwife described it as "so far from realism it will be the last time I will watch this programme." EastEnders complaints top 3,400 2011-01-04T15:42:42Z

It’s not unpleasant, but it’s not realism either. The Tragedy of the English Country House 2012-05-02T10:45:56Z

As Birthday has shown in various ways, realism, in the theatre, has to be carefully – well, handled. Why can't theatre cope with too much reality? 2012-07-03T12:22:08Z

His technique occupies an uneasy middle ground between realism and impressionism; the background, which appears to be the U.S. Trump propaganda painter Jon McNaughton: "Greatest" artist of our time? 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

In some ways that scene highlighted the biggest change in the second series of Friday Night Dinner: a broader, more slapstick approach that has replaced much of the nuance and realism. Have you been watching … Friday Night Dinner? 2012-11-07T12:22:15Z

There’s a healthy realism from a blind man who says scaffolding makes it more difficult to get around the city. The Best Half-Hour of Comedy in 2020 Is About … Scaffolding? 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

This is a highly stylized genre of musical theater that dispenses with realism to convey beauty and truth through pantomime, acrobatics and costume drama. Mei Lanfang Jingju Troupe Begins a Rare Tour 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Like “Broadchurch,” “The Missing” skillfully portrays the pain and panic associated with such an occurrence, to an almost unbearable degree of emotion and realism. ‘The Missing’: A smartly conceived treat for mystery fans

There is always a lot of latitude in such a claim, and no one would accuse this mild, soggy romance of excessive realism. Movie Review: ?The Vow,? With Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum 2012-02-09T22:50:56Z

In eight stories, Murakami’s classic first-person narrators meditate on music, sports, memories of youth and more, often pivoting between realism and a deeper, philosophical wisdom. New in Paperback: Haruki Murakami and Richard Thompson 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

Somewhere between social and socialist realism – and remember Charles Dickens was also a campaigner who used fiction to promote reform – her book is a 500-page indictment of a culture that is divided, unequal and cruel. EL James, JK Rowling, Hilary Mantel … the women who dominated publishing in 2012 2012-11-30T22:55:17Z

Now, in my 60th year, class distinction is once more legitimate, its brusque "realism" scarcely bothering to disguise the erosion of the rights of citizenship among the poor. Diamond jubilee: writers reflect on growing up Elizabethan 2012-06-01T21:50:02Z

On the surface it’s about the rap scene in Atlanta, but it weaves in magical realism and fantasy and absurdism. Insiders’ TV: writers and producers share their tips 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

Welsh carries realism to its limits and sometimes beyond. Irvine Welsh is back with another brazen novel: ‘A Decent Ride’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

Unfortunately, this sort of trivial television realism dominates more of the work than it should; Ms. Driscoll may know how to organize her chaotic scenes, but they remain formulaic. Dance Review | Faye Driscoll: Faye Driscoll?s ?There is so much mad in me? 2010-04-01T21:48:00Z

The piece’s most audacious element is its shrieking cinematic realism. Review: Trinity Wall Street and Julian Wachner Play Carnegie Hall 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

Within a few years the stifling censorship of the theatre by the lord chamberlain had been abolished, and a gritty realism emerged in British cinema and drama. The trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover 2010-10-22T11:00:00Z

Were you ever worried of taking all this magical realism and pushing it too far over the edge? Scott Pilgrim and Shaun of the Dead Director Edgar Wright 2010-08-13T09:05:00Z

The range of media and styles is wide, but the default mode is neoclassical realism. In the galleries: Lines are clearly drawn in ‘Art as Politics’ 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

A cruel and extremely powerful novel with striking realism. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z

“The French Connection” injected realism and violence into hard-boiled thrillers like the “Dirty Harry” films and television police series like “Hill Street Blues,” while “The Exorcist” changed critical attitudes toward horror films. William Friedkin, Director of ‘French Connection’ and ‘Exorcist,’ Dies at 87 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z

Or at least a style that wildly departs from realism. Bob Newhart, Master of the One-Sided Conversation 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

“I consider Pop Art capitalist realism,” he said, “and I detest it the same way most aesthetically minded people detest socialist realism.” The Artist Ben Morea Returns to the Site of the Revolution 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

In this season it’s another tick on the count of occasions where realism is tossed out the window in favor of duh-doy! melodrama. It's tough to explain what makes the aggravating "Morning Show" mess appealing 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z

There’s a long literary strain of science fiction and fantasy that draws on African and African-American folklore, from masters like Ben Okri and Octavia Butler, and a deep tradition of magical realism in African-American literature. Nnedi Okorafor and the Fantasy Genre She Is Helping Redefine 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

The actors ace the dialogue's acute, stuttering realism, under director Katjana Vadeboncoeur and seize upon the script's slender flickers of repulsion, regret, remorse. Review: 'reasons to be pretty' at ArtsWest asks some ugly questions about the importance of looks 2010-09-17T23:50:00Z

He is interested neither in conventional realism — he drifts further away from it with each film — nor in equally conventional displays of self-consciousness, but rather in staging collisions between those two styles. Movie Review: ‘In Another Country,’ Starring Isabelle Huppert 2012-11-09T01:11:30Z

It has the requisite cast of explorers attempting to survive in the uncharted and inhospitable Alaskan wilderness in the late 19th century, but it is also lush with magical realism. ‘To the Bright Edge of the World’: A terrific tale of Alaskan adventure 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

But 'Fargo' demands a different level of realism. TCA 2014: FX chief says 'Fargo' can work without a big star 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

Houdyshell, another acting great of modest profile, makes her company shine all the brighter for her fine-grained realism infused with sneaky humor and subtle pathos. A race for the record books: Can anything stop 'Hamilton' from making history at the Tony Awards? 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

And what was wonderful is that I think in the Western literary context we talk a lot about the magical realism aspect. Wayétu Moore on writing the immortal heroine of "She Would Be King": "She grew as I grew" 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

He offers nuanced observations of character, family and society, lightly seasoned with a Pacific Northwest brand of magical realism. ‘Temple Grove’: war over Olympic Peninsula’s old trees 2013-05-22T23:10:19Z

These days, I find, literary novelists are much more interested in plot and much less interested in plausibility, or in realism, than literary critics are. Literary Revolution in the Supermarket Aisle: Genre Fiction Is Disruptive Technology 2012-05-23T10:45:11Z

He’s not dealing in realism but a type of expressionism. ‘He Raises the Bar for Me’: 4 Artists on the Influence of Bob Thompson 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

This isn’t to say that there’s no way to imagine wedding American crisis and magic realism. 8 Ways a Modern Civil Rights Movement Moved the Culture 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

Second, the man has long since moved beyond realism. Dean Koontz’s ‘Ashley Bell’: A colorful tale that veers toward the otherworldly 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

The commitment to C.G.I. realism is so potent that when a triceratops herd traipses through a dark cave, it’s portrayed in faux night vision, with grayed-out colors and glinting eyeballs. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Some scenes, like a talk show sequence, are played for realism. ‘Complicity’ Review: A Muddled #MeToo Drama 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

The composer then extracted the essence of sounds and rhythms common to Mexican music, filtered them through his sophisticated orchestral imagination and came up with a nine-minute gem of magical musical realism. Muti's return to CSO leaves hall abuzz with the excitement of old music and new 2011-05-06T16:26:00Z

In Paris, he fell in with avant-garde artists who favored Courbet-inspired realism and a brand-new style, Impressionism. Francisco Oller Exhibition Explores Impressionism and the Caribbean 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

Postlethwaite's sense of his own personal responsibility here, combined with his wry realism, confirm what many already suspected: this was a man with real heart and humour, as well as tremendous talent. Pete Postlethwaite: in clips 2011-01-03T13:25:29Z

As a young man, Goethe loved the plays for their rawness and realism. Political comparisons of Shakespeare are odorous 2013-04-19T20:00:21Z

Photograph: Channel 4 For once largely eschewing social realism, there's more than a hint of Tales Of The Unexpected about the latest offering in Jimmy McGovern's drama series. TV highlights 28/08/2012 2012-08-27T19:00:02Z

Ms. Murphy, dancing the duet with Mr. Stiefel, finely judged the nuances in which this work shifts from cartoon to sober realism. Dance Review: At Met, Ballet Theater?s Modified American Plan 2010-06-10T21:43:00Z

It is a mixture of fantasy and realism. Group reviews: a selection 2013-05-18T14:00:00Z

“Slaughterhouse Five” is a comically-dark novel that combines both fantasy and realism. 35 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

“The Chambermaid,” Lila Avilés’s quietly stunning debut feature, is a work of closely observed workplace realism, but at times it achieves the strangeness and intensity of science fiction. ‘The Chambermaid’ Review: Amid Luxury, an Entrancing Drudgery 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z

The Gone-Away World": "It's an adventure without the faintest attempt at realism. 'Angelmaker': A clock repairman tries to stop the world's end 2012-03-14T19:55:04Z

As Davies, Amanda Seyfried, her face ringed in blond curls and seemingly illuminated by a private spotlight, adds glamour to the movie, and realism too. ‘Mank’ Review: A Rosebud by Any Other Name 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

Both are robust stories of realism without a scrap of myth or an urge of magic about them. For ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Fans, an Audiobook That Celebrates Madeleine L’Engle 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

The description magical realism has been used about him, but I think that is belittling him – this isn't something he's picked up from Gabriel García Márquez, but something which is very much his own. Mo Yan wins Nobel prize in literature 2012 2012-10-11T11:38:19Z

But there's a fundamental lack of realism to the scenario. Rereading Stephen King: week four – Rage 2012-07-03T12:59:44Z

Part of that is the sense of realism underpinning them; it’s clear that at least some of the sketchy images are derived from photographs. In the galleries: Artist’s glass has life of its own 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Maybe realism isn’t important; these are the fantasies we are watching, the interior made exterior. Madness in the movie: in defence of going gothic 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

One woman's bad magic, of course, is another's finely spun gossamer cocoon of social realism. JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy has critics in a muggle of magic metaphors 2012-09-28T14:39:19Z

And again, Sandler channels a hangdog torpor, almost a melancholic air, in a performance that bristles with comic realism. Adam Sandler Grows Up (Mostly) 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

The dramatic accuracy and realism is second to none. We’re watching the same impeachment hearings, but seeing vastly different TV shows 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

What he concocted is strange and transporting, a story that approaches but never enters the realm of magical realism. A Debut Novel. A Tiny Press. A Pulitzer Finalist. 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

Slate’s collection of nonfiction vignettes — sprinkled with magical realism — explore the actor-comedian’s emotions and world view, plus death, honeysuckle, rabbits and electromagnetic energy fields. The 18 books to read this fall - The Washington Post 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

In its slightly blurry, photographic realism, the painting presents an implacably empirical view of the world. Perfect Poise, Pulled From Jaws of Distortion 2010-12-30T22:46:46Z

But eventually I came to feel that the luridness was an act of realism. Nazi Comb-Overs 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

The avant-garde work of the 20th century echoes ice-age art – not to mention African masks and Oceanian statues – because artists like Picasso chose to emulate whatever freed their minds from western realism. Ice Age Art at the British Museum: 'Not even Da Vinci surpassed this' 2013-02-05T16:44:01Z

Chadha is aware of the poor track record of British films when it comes to portraying Indians with realism and dignity. End of empire: why Bollywood needs to grasp India's story 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

These and other gaps in credibility would trouble a production of “Bethany” aiming for realism. ‘Bethany’ at ACT: A mom whose life has crashed — hard 2014-04-19T03:40:16Z

Features gritty social realism and occasional high jinks. Open thread: After the Spice Girls, which other groups should have musicals based on their songs? 2012-06-27T16:34:44Z

And the film’s riotous climax deftly turns grim social realism into action-slapstick revenge farce. | 'Looking for Eric': Steve Evets and Eric Cantona in Ken Loach?s Film 2010-05-13T22:40:00Z

Balzac, one of the fathers of literary realism, was a pioneer of what a later century would call the systems novel, and his explanatory zeal, far from didactic, is almost always delightful. ‘Lost Illusions’ Review: The Sweet Smell of Success 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

Many accounts of punk accentuate its social realism, but it also had a very strong science-fiction element – projecting into a conceivable nightmare future. When Bowie met Burroughs 2013-03-09T09:01:00Z

A historian taking a strict view of history would not sacrifice realism, she said. Assassin’s Creed Has a New Mission: Working in the Classroom 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

Wallace couldn’t return to conventional realism, though, suspecting it to be the most banal and uninteresting of shams. David Foster Wallace vs. Jonathan Franzen: Finding truth and authenticity in an age of irony 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z

Her belief that abstraction was, in her words, “the true realism” never wavered — nor did she ever run out of ideas over her 40-year career. Alice Trumbull Mason: America’s Forgotten Modernist 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

Completed in 2009, it retells a Hans Christian Andersen story, here set in a postwar Polish village and shot in black and white reminiscent of 1970s Eastern European realism. Art: Gallery Week, With Zwirner, Nolan, Petzel and More 2010-05-06T22:23:00Z

The Underground Railroad perfectly balances the realism of its subject with fabulist touches that render it freshly illuminating. To Understand America, You Have to Ride the Railroad 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

And it shares a similar penchant for mapping terrain midway between the boldly colored world of fable and the more shadowy, shaded world of realism. Books of The Times: ‘And the Mountains Echoed,’ by Khaled Hosseini 2013-05-20T22:26:11Z

Mirroring Mr. Russell’s fantastic criminal antics, its abnegation of persnickety realism to track its own zany-sentimental orbit is one of its charms. | 'I Love You Phillip Morris': A Winning Smile Makes the Scamming a Breeze 2010-12-03T00:00:00Z

Life for these characters is messy, contradictory and unresolved — a straightforward realism that exists even in Tesori’s more mainstream projects. 'Fun Home' composer Jeanine Tesori hears the music in everyday life 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

The creator of the series strives for emotional realism. How "Euphoria" challenges viewers’ expectations of what a television show should be 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

Familiar to some, exotic to others, the term refers loosely to an unlikely fusion of parts: Egyptian and other non-Western mythologies, mysticism and magical realism with Afrocentricity, modern technology and science fiction. Afrofuturism: The Next Generation 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

But from the point at which Richard and his hunting chums show their true misogynistic colours, realism is no longer on Revenge’s menu. How the 'rape-revenge movie' became a feminist weapon for the #MeToo generation 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

With irony and finesse, his works portray objects and spaces with a deadpan realism that is undermined by sheer impossibilities.• Cy Twombly, Ren? Magritte and Thomas Struth ? the week in art 2011-07-08T16:17:00Z

Mr. Cusack’s sardonic, understated portrayal of Rat, who is not quite what he says he is, grounds the movie in a wistfully cynical realism. Movie Review: In ‘Adult World,’ a Naïf Dreams of Literary Glory 2014-02-13T23:21:16Z

He drew life as it was, beauty and realism together. Garth Williams, Illustrator of American Childhood 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

It's immediately recognisable as a Shane Meadows picture both through the harsh, handheld, in-your-face aesthetic, indebted to the realism of Ken Loach and Mike Leigh, and the now familiar, unprepossessing mug of Meadows himself. Britain's best film directors show some early promise 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

But Mr. Issacharoff said the cast needed to meet only the threshold of realism for an Israeli audience, not of survival behind enemy lines. ‘Fauda,’ an Israeli TV Hit, Lets Viewers Escape — Into the Conflict 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

Similarly, Nicholas Christopher builds a surrealist fable, touched with a trace of Latin American magic realism, out of “Rooms by the Sea,” a haunting late masterpiece. What can fiction writers bring to Edward Hopper’s paintings? 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

“Rabbit Hole,” on other hand, about a married couple grieving over the death of their young son, is written in the style of old-fashioned realism. A Return to Southie, by Way of Broadway 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z

But the common qualification is that we do not see them coming – not even Charlie's – because the writers prioritized realism over maximizing emotional impact. Our big issue with "And Just Like That..." has nothing to do with the 911 debate 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

Its realism is shot through with a constant dull ache. ‘Burning Cane’ Review: Poverty and Despair in Rural Louisiana 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

The light has begun to fade and the trees lining the road obscure the sky, darkening the scene and shifting the texture of the realism. ‘Intregalde’ Review: Oh, Be Good! 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

That movie used a sort of magical realism — a teenager’s impossible wish mysteriously granted — to achieve a disconnect between its heroine’s perception of herself and what the rest of the world saw. The Vow: How Many More Movie Romances Does Rachel McAdams Have In Her? 2012-02-10T15:47:36Z

Yet even when you see the thought behind his images, the gentle disorder of his characters’ lives, with their patched walls and messes, creates an inviting informality that strengthens his realism. Review: A Man and a Woman (and Another Woman) in ‘Lover for a Day’ 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

"Applause" may present as gritty European realism, but the struggle inside Thea is almost theological in scale, and worthy of Milton or Kierkegaard. Pick of the week: The amazing Paprika Steen in "Applause" 2011-01-20T23:50:00Z

Plenty of series channel the hardships of the world in ways that are compelling and balance realism with optimism, and fortitude. Smart Watch: This week’s TV heroines who nevertheless persist 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Seidl’s stylization feels more like a distrust of familiar realism than artificiality for its own sake, or a mocking freak show. Review: ‘In the Basement,’ What Lies Beneath in Austria 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Gowar’s mermaid is this vividly realistic novel’s touch of magic realism, and its genuineness is teasingly ambiguous. The Malevolent Little Mermaid: Not Your Usual Fantasy Heroine 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

Maybe you heard that Cassavetes, a critical figure in American independent film, had ushered in a new era of realism in movies. Find Cassavetes Confusing? Start Here 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

They should be warned, though, that the price of contemporary realism is a story that includes layoffs, bickering and unpaid bills. | 'Ramona and Beezus': Mismatched Sisters 2010-07-22T23:11:00Z

Mercier stylizes the destruction: Domestic realism transforms into something veering close to expressionism. In 'Head of Passes,' a mother comes to terms with a storm, a secret and God 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

The realism of these landscapes, in his loose confident lines depicting farm buildings, tents, fences, power wires and treelines, is unsettled by what looks to be invented and fantastical sculptural elements. Soot, Spit and Paper: James Castle’s Transfixing Worlds 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

As long ago as 1993, he and Mr. Sellars oversaw a production at the Dutch National Opera that turned its wispy symbolism into gritty realism. Review: Berlin Philharmonic’s ‘Pelléas et Mélisande’ Boldly Stretches Boundaries 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

Provincial realism it may be; to suggest it's nothing special is too modest by half. Worthless Men by Andrew Cowan – review 2013-02-22T21:45:01Z

This mesmerically imagined work of realism tells of an outbreak of polio in Newark, New Jersey in the 1940s. A plague in both these novels: why does disease make such infectious fiction? 2011-01-12T17:28:16Z

Younger filmmakers were creating realistic and daring movies, with more subtlety and less dependence on formula, contributing to a cinematic renaissance and a move toward realism and location shooting — and, sadly, more problems with animals. Animal penises’ amazing evolution 2012-06-12T15:40:00Z

What happens when he returns to Mississippi is unflinching in its realism and brutality, as the local white nationalist community turn on him with venom, despite his service for their country. Meet the new hotshots of American film-making 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z

But that scene was crucial to establishing the tone, placing it in a register well removed from anything resembling social realism. 'I'm indigenizing zombies': behind gory First Nation horror Blood Quantum 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

Dr. Contino, who specialized in the visceral, unsentimental realism of Italian verismo opera, was also a music professor and vocal coach, but was best known as an acclaimed conductor. Fiora Corradetti Contino, Opera Maestra, Dies at 91 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

Surrounded by lovingly detailed people and animals, and punctuated throughout by gold, it’s a rousing mix of contemporary realism and historical fantasy. Review: ‘Maestà,’ Piecing Together Part of a Lost Legacy 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

But it is also blunt in its language and its depiction of the cruelties of slavery, the kind of historical realism that is being erased from educational curriculums in some schools and libraries today. James de Jongh, Who Put Stories of Slavery Onstage, Dies at 80 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

Much of the thrill of the four books lies just in this elastic back and forth between realism and hallucination. Elena Ferrante’s New Book: Art Wins 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

Leverage, a frothy US caper that's Ocean's 11-lite meets Hustle, isn't exactly committed to social realism, but it's energetic and fast-paced. Watch this 2010-07-28T07:00:00Z

He brought to these still-lifes a particular sensibility, based on his passionate belief in realism, which lent them an extraordinary, intensely observed vibrancy. A Maverick Master, Revisited 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

“Many of these current works that leave the bounds of reality are called ‘magical realism,’ especially when they come from Latin America. For Latin American Women, Horror and Fantasy Capture Everyday Struggle 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

Are we really arguing the realism of the physical manifestation of a ghost? A Second Look At: American Horror Story 2011-12-01T14:30:02Z

“I saw his artwork and it’s like that imperfect perfectness. I felt like I got permission from Jacob,” said Yanover, who abandoned realism in her work, “Zephyr.” Seattle-area young people create ‘31st panel’ for SAM’s Jacob Lawrence exhibit 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

His portrait is idealised, but strong details lend realism. Poem of the week: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray 2011-01-17T10:17:14Z

He sees his farm simply as an ideal place to watch life in its essentials and to try a thing-in-itself way of conveying this — which he considers a new kind of realism. Farm to Gallery: Peter Nadin?s Comeback 2011-07-03T05:30:29Z

The forlorn realism and mock-ballad-form of "When that I was…" make it unique among the seven songs in the play. Poem of the week: When that I was and a little tiny boy by William Shakespeare 2013-04-01T09:33:58Z

A slice of realism that goes delightfully surreal, it involves characters who go to the cinema and end up watching a movie featuring people just like them. Lois Weber, Eloquent Filmmaker of the Silent Screen 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

In Mo, Channel 4's biopic of politician Mo Mowlam, realism is the operative word for Walters's performance as the "People's Politician". Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z

Martial arts enthusiasts love its realism, but even fans of cerebral cinema admire its style, the economy of Reeves’ athleticism and his subtle emotionality. Why do women love John Wick? (It's not just the puppy) 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

It captures him at a moment of crisis, when he almost embraces social realism and abandons his dreamy style, only to discover his unique art. Newly Published, From Water Statues to the Supreme Court 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

Over his long career, he increasingly combined realism with surrealism in his plays, introducing elements of myth and dream. Iakovos Kambanellis obituary 2011-04-04T17:23:29Z

Another is a fetishistic attachment to realism that too often takes the form of style for its own sake, or directorial ego. Perspective | The ‘Rust’ scene that Alec Baldwin was rehearsing strikes a familiar and played-out chord 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

Here is the “poetic realism” of the French cinema of the period, suddenly in full flower a very long way from home. DVD: ?The Great Waltz? and ?Moses and Aaron? on DVD 2012-02-03T19:25:15Z

This performance confirms her position as the most boldly captivating actress of her generation and certainly the one who thrives best in realms outside ordinary realism. Cate Blanchett brings an extravagant fierceness to 'The Maids' 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

I’ll let you call it whatever kind of realism you like! Todd Solondz: I’m Judd Apatow’s dark side 2012-06-06T00:00:00Z

The novel’s magical realism contrasts poignantly with its depiction of the too-real pressures of assimilation, which the modern Trung sisters face. In a Debut Novel, a Family Legacy of Resistance 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z

The Nobel citation praised Mo as a writer “who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary.” The prize is worth 8 million Swedish kronor, or about $1.4 million. Chinese Novelist Mo Yan Receives Nobel Prize. But Is He Politically Correct? 2012-10-11T14:50:27Z

“Being able to compare these sites allowed us to analyze the body of work with how much realism is actual underpinning his impressionism,” said Austen Barron Bailly, Peabody Essex’s curator of American art. The quest to retrace the tracks of seascape painter Childe Hassam 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

Her trademarks — terse dialogue, dark humor and a realism that makes sex seem gynecological and romance a throwback to the '50s — are the ties that bind. 'May We Be Forgiven': tough times and atonement in suburbia 2012-10-03T21:59:04Z

In the history of American movie realism, you might place Mr. Lumet between Elia Kazan and Martin Scorsese. Arts & Leisure: Urban Realist With a Humanist Streak 2011-04-13T13:29:51Z

Glee only occasionally gets accused of realism–musical, dramatic or otherwise. Glee Watch: The Mature Thing 2012-10-05T11:11:32Z

What I had remembered as fast, grimy realism now felt languid, gentle and unmenacing: the baddies were like cartoon characters and the violence really wasn't very violent. Your next box set: Shoestring 2012-06-28T15:45:01Z

Each show was brought to network television in the early 1990s with the help of “Hill Street Blues” alumni, building on that show’s realism and sense of place. A Brief History of the Police Procedural in 6 Shows 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

This is the sole moment where realism is ruptured fully, and something elemental bursts through the film's compartmentalised floorplan. Busting Tabu 2013-03-26T17:14:38Z

Instead, realism is reserved for the passages of the book that directly recount the experience of Argentinian soldiers in combat – passages informed by interviews Gamerro undertook with veterans. Falklands war novel by leading Argentinian author comes to Edinburgh 2012-08-22T14:43:01Z

This tension between madness and sanity, between idealism and realism, powers the story, which is thin on plot. Review: 'Don Quixote' makes for a gratifying night at Seattle Opera 2011-03-01T00:35:42Z

“Milk,” a production of New Georges and New Feet Productions at Here Arts Center, blends realism with a touch of the fantastic. | 'Milk': Emily DeVoti?s Barnyard at Here Arts Center 2010-05-06T21:23:00Z

At 25, her ingénue days were over — just as well, as it turned out, because sound and the stock market crash had introduced a new element of embittered realism to the movies. DVD: Dorothy Mackaill?s ?Safe in Hell? and Others on DVD 2012-01-08T01:38:11Z

And to think that magic realism used to be the genre of the developing world. Brits in Spandex and girl power: movie trends that will keep us talking in 2013 2013-01-03T16:35:05Z

“His realism butted up against his romanticism even as the existentialist in him looked for ways to coexist with the politician. He was half ice, half fire.” From Bare Knuckles to Idealism in ‘Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon’ 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

Turner, the 19th-century British prodigy who moved from realism to a sort of impressionism. In the galleries: Moving toward the transcendental 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

And for all the soulful Irish realism, false notes ring everywhere in the cutesy dialogue. Once Too Often: A Wrong Turn on Broadway 2012-03-21T10:45:18Z

The magical realism of it is interesting—intriguing, even. “It’s Always Sunny” and “Man Seeking Woman”: Why this is the most mismatched back-to-back lineup on TV 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

It’s a self-conscious nod, from Guettel and Lucas, to their uncommon fusion of operatic melodrama with the psychological realism of contemporary musical theater. ‘The Light in the Piazza’ Review: Outside, Looking In at Love 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace This hilarious and terrifying account of a Caribbean Luxury Cruise is scrupulous documentary realism but also a contemporary fable. Michael Foley's top 10 absurd classics 2010-04-21T05:00:00Z

In place of the drab realism that the regime demanded, Hrabal offered dizzying embellishments and dazzling augmentations. The Violent Insights of Bohumil Hrabal 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Then we can happily read it, however fictitious, as a brand of magic realism. Poem of the week: Of Many Worlds in This World by Margaret Lucas Cavendish 2012-07-02T10:52:13Z

Looking back, social realism has often functioned as a stepping stone for British film-makers. Beyond Ken Loach: where have the social-realists in cinema gone? 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

But this show eschews the heightened humor and slapstick of those other shows to lean emphatically into situational realism. Evolving "Hair Love" into "Young Love": Matthew A. Cherry's "live action-feeling" animated comedy 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z

In “The Surrendered,” Mr. Lee moved beyond the domestic realism of his earlier books to create an ambitious, symphonic novel that addressed the emotional fallout of the Korean War. Books of The Times: ‘On Such a Full Sea,’ Chang-rae Lee’s Tale of Dystopia 2014-01-13T20:24:34Z

Mr. Andrews emphasized that Genet advances this idea through poetry, not social realism, however. Interpreting ‘The Maids’ Through a Shifting Societal Lens 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

The term, which was coined in 1994, describes a cultural movement that pulls from elements of science fiction, magical realism, speculative fiction and African history. "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" continues the series’ quest to recover and celebrate lost cultures 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

Now the practice known as "street casting" is taking hold in cinema, as film-makers hope that actors not schooled in the overtrained mannerisms of the drama school will supply their work with authenticity and realism. Street casting: the next big thing 2011-02-10T22:15:01Z

His – mostly – live-action short Silence Is Golden is another unsettling work that blends a jolly 70s aesthetic with some bleak social realism. Clip joint: British shorts 2013-02-07T16:11:03Z

The lesson, again and again, is how much artifice and calculation goes into realism. Exhibition Review: When Pictures Leap to Other Screens 2011-01-13T21:55:50Z

“That’s one of the funny things about mythological realism, or whatever it is that I write,” she said. Circe, a Vilified Witch From Classical Mythology, Gets Her Own Epic 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

Alluding to antique paintings representing Jesus’ deposition from the cross, it resonates with the often brutal, grotesque and nearly hallucinogenic realism of artists like Hugo van der Goes and Matthias Grünewald. Art Review: Behold the Anonymous Downtrodden 2011-06-02T21:57:17Z

In this sense merges the European modernism of its influences with some of the traditions of British realism. The Man Booker 2012 shortlist: the authors on their novels 2012-10-12T21:54:02Z

Or, if you like magical realism and vintage appliances, try “Ice Age,” about a lost civilization inside an old freezer. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

He stages violent scenes with such graphic realism – the film's first frame is a close-up of Charlie's bleeding, pulped face – that we cannot help but be revolted. The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman – first look review 2013-01-23T17:14:22Z

While it is nothing new to combine abstraction and representation, Ms. Schutz, as usual, adds realism to the mix. Art in Review: Dana Schutz: ‘Piano in the Rain’ 2012-06-07T22:46:18Z

Their polyglot charisma, rather than detracting from the realism of this drama set in mid-19th-century Sicily, somehow deepens its historical resonance. 8 Cannes Film Festival Prizewinners We Love (and 3 We Don’t) 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z

Ashleigh, Lacey and Alexis have managed to catapult over what you usually find in the Catskills with hobbyist artists, weekenders and watercolorists, that is to say a kind of realism tied to the landscape. Hurricane Irene, one year later 2012-08-27T16:42:00Z

“The problem was to find a director who wasn’t afraid of bringing cinematic realism to it.” ‘Les Misérables’ on Film, Cameron Mackintosh’s Dream 2012-12-22T20:56:53Z

He says that people are not required to know the history of literature and movements before taking a book out of the library, or require knowledge of kitchen sink realism before going to the cinema. Tate Britain: On the move 2013-05-03T18:40:01Z

Trollope liked to give some of his characters obtrusively symbolic names, wilfully violating the conventions of realism. David Lodge: rereading Anthony Trollope 2012-12-14T22:55:04Z

It’s less that Mr. Cedar blends realism with absurdity than that he refuses to acknowledge any distinction between them. Review: Richard Gere as ‘Norman,’ an Aspirational Jewish Fixer 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

His first two novels won him early praise for compressing the psychological realism of Flaubert and James into delicately structured stream-of-consciousness miniatures. ‘B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal,’ by J.C. Hallman 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

But the scene stayed in, adding a new layer of complexity and realism to an early 2000s show that was initially centered on pitting cops against drug dealers. How Michael K. Williams Made Omar Little His Own on ‘The Wire’ 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

House of Cards was a dark comedy-drama, influenced by Jacobean drama, while Borgen belongs to the genre of contemporary domestic realism. House of Cards meets Borgen, literally 2013-04-08T18:32:19Z

In the 21st century, American foreign policy “has bounced from crisis to crisis with uncertain aims and little or no long-range outlook. Henry Kissinger’s philosophy of realism provides both.” How Do You Explain Henry Kissinger? 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

In using both realism and surrealism to show difficult realities, through both its narrative and audiovisual styles, "Euphoria" does not heed any thematic or artistic constraints. How "Euphoria" challenges viewers’ expectations of what a television show should be 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

On the other hand, it is refreshing to see a travel piece with a bit of realism rather than relentless positivism. The Florida Keys by Camper Van, With Baby 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Well, no one watches soap operas for realism, I guess. Kathleen Turner on her soap opera days: “My character was so incredibly dumb” 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z

These early forays into social realism are, consequently a number of things all at once – disguised autobiographies, economic clarion calls, successful attempts to extend the English novel's social range. David Lodge on HG Wells 2011-03-11T10:00:01Z

It was the realism that offended Dickens and many others, with Mary shown as a simple peasant woman, "horrible", he thought, "in her ugliness". Saints and sinners 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

Yet there's something intriguing about its puzzling mix of realism and absurdism, which are ultimately reconciled in the dazzling display of Albee's fearless theatricality. 'Delicate Balance' teeters slightly but always fascinates 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

However, Comyns's brilliant eye for the grotesque is nowhere more perfected than in The Vet's Daughter, a masterly example of suburban gothic meets magical realism. Sisters By a River; Our Spoons Came from Woolworths; The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns – review 2013-07-28T09:30:00Z

"It's far away from the naturalism or even the realism of 19th-century opera and emotionally it is cooler in some way." Is New York ready for an ugly Baroque swamp nymph? 2014-04-01T14:04:58Z

The movie’s industrial realism and sexual candor made it somewhat ahead of its time, and its gritty story was deepened by the authenticity of the performances. ‘A Kind of Loving,’ at Film Forum, Shows a Fumbling Romance 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

Such pictures as “Still Looking Over” shift from abstraction to realism as the loosely painted foreground leads toward a more solid sense of place. In the galleries: Artist takes a detour on her journey to the past 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

DALL-E 2, however, "is an amazing shortcut because it's so good at realism. And that's key to helping others bring possible futures to life – whether its satire, dreams or beauty." Give this AI a few words of description and it produces a stunning image – but is it art? 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

Brutal realism is offset by romanticism, idealism, even a flawed human grandeur. What films have you been watching? 2012-11-05T17:03:19Z

And on the sitcom that leads into New Girl, Brooklyn 9-9, the diversity is very conscious, not for p.c. reasons but simple realism. New Girl, Brooklyn 9-9, and Breaking the “One Black Friend” Pattern 2013-11-07T14:39:15Z

Both are synonymous with film adaptations of William Shakespeare, delivering lines with implausible realism, and earning accolades for their troubles. 'Marilyn' actor Branagh parallels his character 2011-12-23T12:01:11Z

The aim was realism in the inflatables’ corners and bevels but with distortion and accentuation in certain curves. A New Kind of Model: Giant, Inflatable, Aggressively Sexy 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

This is not to say that “Chicken With Plums” is a work of realism. Movie Review: ‘Chicken With Plums,’ About Contemporary Iran 2012-08-16T21:53:48Z

It is a work of "magic realism" that demands to be read playfully, not literally. Salman Rushdie not first novelist to suffer assassination attempt by someone who hadn’t read book 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z

This is not realism or memoir or satire, but a very far-out-on-the-branch species of—what? Richard Pryor, Flame-Thrower 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

But the tonal slipperiness of Mr. Monkman’s art, with its compound of anger and absurdity, social realism and serious camp, comes through. A Cree Artist Redraws History 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

His music is post-proletarian punk, his poetry is lyrical, and his novels recall William Burroughs and the Beats, with the occasional intrusion of Latin American-style magical realism. The Bard of Eastern Ukraine, Where Things Are Falling Apart 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

His plays come closer than most to an under-advertised aspect of Cooke's Court project: an interest in breaking free of social realism and exploring the experimental tradition of Ionesco and Beckett. Narrative; Cannibals; Once – review 2013-04-13T23:06:25Z

His heightened realism propels actors into symbolic settings with totemic objects, recurring obsessions, and operatic violence. Like Sundance in Brooklyn, Except Better 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

By contrast, Fireflies follows siblings struggling to survive the second world war with unsentimental realism. The Hangover Part III, Something In The Air, Epic 3D: this week's new films 2013-05-25T05:00:09Z

Heist movies work best when there is a hint of realism. Ocean’s 8: lazy gender swap or feminist felony victory? 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

Surrender now, because when it comes to narrative cinema featuring ballet dancers, genre wins over realism every time. Before Black Swan: ballet and the movies 2011-01-07T12:38:10Z

In the process, it sacrifices the moody, vaguely depressing realism of the first installment. This Is the Biggest Change in Magic Mike XXL From the Original 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

Rather, he combined realism and Cubism in paintings of farm buildings in rural landscapes and the industrial architecture of Paterson. Art Review: Montclair Art Museum Shows: ‘Oscar Bluemner,’ ‘New Spirit’ 2013-04-25T20:48:24Z

However, the Guardian's crime fiction reviewer Laura Wilson seemed less eager to renounce realism without caveats – understandably, as her period novels draw on detailed research. The truth about crime fiction 2013-01-26T09:00:51Z

Because so many creative types will be drawing on the same shared experiences with the pandemic, and fascism, a dead economy, and other things it could all be too grounded in social realism. "We in America have actual fascists marching in the streets": Ed Brubaker on releasing art right now 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z

How did you strike the balance between realism and more issue-driven themes, like single motherhood and women’s health and aging? Pamela Adlon Wanted ‘Better Things’ to End With a ‘Sense of Hope’ 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z

The Pulitzer committee praised “The Underground Railroad” as “a smart melding of realism and allegory that combines the violence of slavery and the drama of escape in a myth that speaks to contemporary America.” Colson Whitehead wins the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for 'The Underground Railroad' 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

The Swedish Academy, which selects the winners of the prestigious award, praised Mo's "hallucinatory realism" saying it "merges folk tales, history and the contemporary." Chinese writer Mo Yan wins Nobel literature prize 2012-10-11T12:40:17Z

Hysterical realism is basically synecdochic: it substitutes the finite part for the infinite whole. What Ever Happened to Hysterical Realism? 2012-07-11T14:00:31Z

Why did Shakespeare reach for rhyme in his most romantic play, despite blank verse being favoured from the 1580s for its realism? How to teach … Shakespeare 2013-04-15T17:45:01Z

She also argued that the focus should not be on “diversity” but on “authenticity and realism.” The Writer Behind a Muslim Marvel Superhero on Her Faith in Comics 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

I decided to shoot in black and white because I wanted to make an art film for young people, and black and white gives a quality of poetic realism. How we made ... Francis Ford Coppola and Stewart Copeland on Rumble Fish 2012-08-13T16:34:00Z

But then she had to eat some heaping plates of realism in public, like defending Obama’s nonintervention in the genocidal Syrian civil war. What Samantha Power Learned on the Job 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

A stylish, meticulous realism begins to insinuate itself, negotiating various truces with abstraction, often through the drawing process. Art Review: Lines That Kept Moving and Knew No Boundaries 2011-10-06T22:45:51Z

Interweaving factual reporting and magic realism with meditations on myth, history and the quicksilver nature of truth, Mr. Martínez’s two most famous novels explore the lives of Argentina’s two best-known and most enigmatic figures. 2010-02-06T07:20:00Z

It’s probably unfair to point out that a stage musical can’t capture the realism of a movie. Sting's "The Last Ship" Needs A Stronger Rudder on Broadway 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

If some unfairly criticised the original series for a lack of historical realism then its new incarnation verges on fantasy, as Kathryn Hughes's Comment is free article explains. The new Upstairs, Downstairs is more period than drama 2010-12-27T12:00:00Z

Even as a young teenager, I didn’t mistake “Eve” for a work of realism. Falling in Love Again With ‘All About Eve’ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

What happens next slightly compromises a film previously marked by uncomfortable realism. The best films of 2018 … that you didn't see 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

It is a crowded, complex crime story that is also a tale of sexual awakening and an understated exercise in kitchen-sink realism. | 'A Brighter Summer Day': ?A Brighter Summer Day,? by Edward Yang - Review 2011-11-24T21:00:30Z

“No realism,” the French playwright Yasmina Reza indicates twice in the opening pages of her new play “James Brown Wore Curlers,” which had its world premiere this past weekend in Munich. Review: In a New Yasmina Reza Play, a Superfan Becomes Celine Dion 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

It’s not that these movies don’t address race, racism and the complexities of African-American identity, but that they ground those themes in the nuances of realism and personal vision. Hollywood, Separate and Unequal 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

But realism started to become like a dead end. Mumblecore grows up 2011-05-04T00:47:03Z

Known for his politically charged social realism, Loach turns his attention to an obscure historical figure, activist Jimmy Gralton. 'Jimmy's Hall' is a subdued story of Irish activist Jimmy Gralton 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

What’s more, you’re pretending to build a world grounded in realism that is completely devoid of one of the core elements — and joys — of the human experience. Perspective | Sex is disappearing from the big screen, and it’s making movies less pleasurable 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

Aiken’s favorite literary terrain was the blurred border where nineteenth-century realism begins to slip into folklore and fantasy. The Practical Magic of Joan Aiken, the Greatest Children’s Writer You’ve Likely Never Read 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

The filmmaker's commitment to the world — he filmed in an abandoned prison — adds to the picture's heightened realism. The poignant resistance of "Great Freedom" found in a German prison where gay men are criminalized 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z

Skellig by David Almond Almond's books contain stories of great beauty and hope – magical realism for young people, written in graceful, accessible prose. Melvin Burgess's top 10 books written for teenagers 2010-06-17T13:46:00Z

Inspired by both the best and worst that cinema has to offer, Substance.com presents a chronological list of the 10 most notable drug scenes in cinematic history, meticulously rated for realism. 10 most awesome drug scenes in movie history 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z

Yet today’s horror movies rely more heavily on intense realism — often gory — than ever before. New Plays Like ?The Little One? Put Scary Onstage 2010-06-26T02:39:00Z

Told as realism, without the element of romantic fantasy, the story of a woman driven insane by her brother’s ham-handed treatment becomes almost unbearably bleak. Review | ‘Lucia’ unvarnished, Handel unbound: Opera Philadelphia festival strikes again 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

Few phrases in the English language conjure dread quite like "low-budget gritty social realism", it being almost invariably shorthand for cartoonish rubbish that will make you eat your own fists in embarrassment. Plan B: 'I love directing. But does my art change lives? I don't think it does' 2012-06-07T19:00:08Z

But it brings an emotional realism to this stylized backdrop, especially McKenzie, who was excellent as an officer on Southland. Review: Gotham: No Batman? No Bat-Problem! 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

But where film encourages realism, theater can embrace allegory and abstraction. Review: In ‘Amour,’ Putting a Palme d’Or Winner Onstage 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

The scene is reflected through the prism onto the paper, creating a kind of virtual realism. The Kimbell captures 'Painter's Eye,' but it can't elevate Caillebotte 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

“Young, working-class British actors get funnelled either into soaps or TV drama or, if they make it into films at all, a very specific kind of social realism,” says Leigh. Gemma Arterton: ‘It’s easier to conform and shut up’ 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

Paradoxically light and melancholy, it hews to the border of fantasy but stays in the land of realism. Review | Children burst into flames in Kevin Wilson’s ‘Nothing to See Here’ 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

If now and then her voice is patchy, this just lends realism to her powerful singing. Music Review: ‘Dialogues des Carmélites,’ at Metropolitan Opera 2013-05-06T22:35:02Z

She wisely grounds the magical realism by adding in a few quotidian details, like the woman’s disgust when her husband has a piece of food stuck between his polished teeth. Review: In ‘Sleep,’ a Wakeful Woman Faces Long, Surreal Nights 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Mr. Neizvestny’s style, a blend of socialist realism and expressionism, with nods to Jacques Lipchitz and Henry Moore, walked a fine line between orthodoxy and heresy. Ernst Neizvestny, a Russian Sculptor Who Clashed With Khrushchev, Dies at 91 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

Depicting a farm couple from Woodstock, where Bellows summered during the last several years of his life, the Wase portrait’s dry, honest realism is justifiably seen as a precursor to American scene painting. Art Review: ‘George Bellows,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-11-15T23:23:38Z

Ms. Willard traced her weaving of fancy and realism to her upbringing. Nancy Willard, Prolific Children’s Book Author, Dies at 80 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

I tend to think opera works better when its creators embrace this quality, since it’s probably inescapable: If opera is real, its realism is magical. The Emails Behind the Opera ‘Eurydice’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

A more obvious reason to eliminate the face, though, is that doing so removes the whole problem of the contrast between realism and abstraction. De Kooning exhibit highlights tension between portraiture, abstraction 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

The realism is jolting, and so brilliantly realized and understated that it would be easy to overlook. Movie Review: Linklater’s ‘Boyhood’ Is a Model of Cinematic Realism 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

And McDormand's performance, under former Seattle Rep head Daniel Sullivan's deft direction, is a model of nuanced realism and acute empathy. This season, Broadway flouts its grit (and some glitz) 2011-06-03T18:24:03Z

No, because social realism tries to compete with sociology and history. Mario Vargas Llosa: a life in writing 2012-06-15T21:55:18Z

They strike up a friendship tinged with elements of fairy-tale supernaturalism, magical realism and time travel. At the Telluride Film Festival, Both Magic and Normalcy 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

This date marks the point at which Machado metamorphosed from a writer of romantic trifles into a master of psychological realism, seemingly overnight. A brief survey of the short story part 47: Machado 2013-03-01T15:28:24Z

It’s that same realism that she finds appealing about Tina on “The Bear.” Liza Colón-Zayas Swears by Brené Brown, ‘Hacks’ and Hugs 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

But it would take courage and a rejection of those who define “realism” as the acceptance of the status quo. Letters to the Editor 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

“Peanuts” — and specifically the 1966 Halloween television special, “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” — has always teetered on the brink of magical realism. Snoopy is the true star of "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z

Witness more lyrical recent British films such as God’s Own Country, Ray & Liz, The Levelling or Bait – all of which gave us the up-to-the-minute “social” without so much of the “realism”. Beyond Ken Loach: where have the social-realists in cinema gone? 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

I would be pleased if readers considered Annie’s levitation merely a literary sleight of hand, a sort of late-stage magic realism. John L’Heureux on the Mystery of Grace 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

Perhaps in this novel, Paling himself is announcing his readiness to portray the "big moments" and, in doing so, depart from the comfort zone of realism. Nimrod's Shadow by Chris Paling 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z

A lot of recent books fall into this microgenre: climate-aware, speculative poetry, mixing the fantastical with what you might call dystopian realism. In Defense of Poetic Nonsense, With a Character Who Shares Your Frustration 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

Despite the strong undercurrent of documentary realism and the plucky female protagonist, this is ultimately a crime thriller. "Winter's Bone": American film of the year? 2010-06-12T23:01:00Z

She quickly wrote three chapters of what she imagined would become a novel about children and magical realism. Meet Yrsa Daley-Ward, the Bard of Instagram 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

“Now and then,” a reviewer for The Chicago Tribune wrote, “there are flashes of insight and self-understanding amid sordidness and frequently unnecessary obscene realism.” Leonard Kriegel, 89, Dies; Wrote Unflinchingly About His Disability 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z

Fictional lives dissolve into the fantastical details of our real history, but the future reads as utterly believable realism. ‘Golden Age’ review: Jane Smiley brings America into the age of terror 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

“One is a kind of utopianism like ‘Promised Land’ by Joe Smooth, and on the other hand there’s the realism you would hear in a record like ‘It’s a Cold World’ by Jamie Principle.” The Black Madonna, an Activist D.J., Wants to Turn Dance Music Upside Down 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

In Europe, such films would be readily classified as “realism”, in the vein of the neorealist cinema of 1950s Italy or the “social realism” of Ken Loach and Mike Leigh in the UK. Sleazy bosses, exploited barmaids: US cinema finally discovers the left behinds 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

“Cloud Atlas,” which like its predecessor mixes a vivid realism with dystopian sci-fi and fantasy, tells six stories, all variations on the same plot but stretching from the 19th century to a remote future. David Mitchell Brings His Novelistic High Jinks to the Swinging ’60s 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

His drawings from that time - showing a different kind of realism - are also on display in Athens. Stirring portraits of communist Albania's women recall different reality 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

And Austen's work is everywhere so fresh, just because she's at the beginning of this new realism, before it's worn into its cultural groove. What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan – review 2012-06-15T21:55:14Z

Old-school northern realism may sound like a busted flush; The Kitchen Sink is everything but. The Kitchen Sink – review 2012-11-09T16:51:41Z

Helman spent more than two years working on the film to find the right balance of gritty realism and family-friendly action comedy. How the New Ninja Turtles Got Their 'Realistic' Look 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

By opposition, the “New York Diary” is about direct, spontaneous and reduced portraiture, something like a principle of bare realism around the subject only. After Fashion, Hedi Slimane Turns to Photography Full Time 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

Consider, for instance, that this early-19th-century writer pioneered the New World frontier, sea adventure, spy, war-romance and polar-exploration genres; allegorical and satirical fantasy tales; and works of urban and rural realism. James Fenimore Cooper — not just your grandpa’s favorite author 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

And their realism is gilded with a sense of fantasy. Books of The Times: ‘A Place in the Country,’ Essays by W. G. Sebald 2014-02-09T22:17:26Z

"I think a bit of realism in a football song is necessary," Chuitar says. Football songs – what's your favourite? 2012-06-06T22:02:01Z

It's a diverse, mostly urban audience, some of whom want more rural realism and others who would quite happily ditch the agricultural storylines altogether. Fans of The Archers should prepare for a shock, says Vanessa Whitburn 2010-12-13T07:03:00Z

Indeed, Mathews mentions the movies repeatedly, which shakes the reader out of whatever realism has been generated and casts a spotlight on the constructedness of his narrative. ‘The World of Tomorrow’ captures swirling New York in 1939 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

Ms. Sherald, who is 46, rose to the occasion, holding down an enormous space with just seven new portraits, also of black subjects, that took her formally distinctive, beautifully painted realism to a new level. Best Art of 2019 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

Many doctors were painted with that same realism and empiricism in Renaissance Italy – as if a portrait of a doctor should be clinically exact. A picture of health: art's warts-and-all view of doctors 2013-01-08T15:54:05Z

There's a kind of bluff realism in the language and attitude, suggesting independence from dogma. Poem of the week: The Shortness of Life by Francis Quarles 2013-01-07T10:21:04Z

But I'm not suggesting that selfishly - I think an exploration of any faith would add texture and realism to a story, or a show. Where Is God on the Small Screen? 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

There are poetic elements that avert an exacting realism, such as the original music composed by David Coulter, who plays the saw on stage. For 'A Thousand Splendid Suns,' a well-timed journey from the page to the stage 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

That defiance of realism, of course, is part of puppets’ potency. Give Them a Hand: Puppet Artists Are Having a Moment 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

Early scenes are problematic too, suggesting a magical realism that is mostly abandoned later. Movie Review: ‘Simon and the Oaks,’ From Sweden 2012-10-12T17:00:07Z

The novel straddles domestic realism and speculative satire. ‘White Noise’ Review: Toxic Events, Airborne and Domestic 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

McDowall's latest play Brilliant Adventures, a bold drama fusing gritty realism with time travel fantasy, earned glowing reviews at the Royal Exchange in Manchester and has now moved to Newcastle's Live Theatre. Playwright Alistair McDowall: Anything can happen 2013-06-05T07:53:11Z

For all his conspicuously realistic theatrical artifice, Bergman overcomes it, in “The Silence,” with a realm of highly inflected images that owe little to dramatic realism. Ingmar Bergman and the Risk of Ridicule 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Flowing gracefully from historical fiction to contemporary realism to science fiction, linked stories imagine Thailand’s lush past — and climate-changed future. 50 notable works of fiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Interestingly, and Wagner, both forward-thinking pioneers in their day, constantly fought for greater theatrical realism for productions of their works. Theatrical Nuance on a Grand Scale 2011-03-25T14:26:57Z

Mixing a pleasant ordinariness with a low-key magical realism, the show dramatizes the lessons learned by Gortimer and his friends Ranger and Mel as they grow up in the leafy environs of Every Suburb, U.S.A. Thanksgiving TV: Plan Your Other Binge 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

A cautionary note is sounded though by the fate of the stage adaptation of Les Parapluies: a glinting gem of realism on screen, it lost its sparkle in the theatre. Is hit Hollywood film La La Land about to become a stage show? 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z

“Let’s scrap the word diversity entirely and replace it with authenticity and realism,” she posted. Marvel Comics May Have Slumping Sales, but Don’t Blame Its Diverse Heroes 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

There was something in her story and drawings that reminded me of both the magical realism of Colombia and the symbolism and mysticism of Chagall, whose work I love. ‘I Feel an Abundance’: A Composer Dips Into the Dance World 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

Gervais and Merchant made a great television classic in The Office which, with miraculous subtlety and realism, tackled the realities of work as it is really experienced by real people right now. Cemetery Junction: Film review 2010-04-15T11:30:00Z

A work that defies easy labels, “The Madwoman of Chaillot” delivers insightful social criticism with sharp-eyed realism, then veers abruptly into a whimsical utopian fantasy. At A Noise Within, 'The Madwoman of Chaillot' is the resistance to a self-serving president 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

You always hear the word realism with superheroes but it never really is. Kick-Ass: changing comic book films in a single blow 2010-03-29T13:41:00Z

“The Souls of Black Folk,” like much of DuBois’s work, is infused with the kind of pragmatic realism embedded in “The Talk.” A fear not shared by all Americans: The privilege of knowing you’ll never be a police brutality victim 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

“Mr. Costner and Mr. Paxton acquit themselves well, and Mr. Reynolds gives the ambushes and shootouts, filmed in Romania, a shambling, ugly realism,” Mike Hale wrote in The New York Times in May. DVD: New on DVD: ‘Jean Grémillon During the Occupation’ 2012-07-29T03:13:01Z

“He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box” is arguably less abstract than Ms. Kennedy’s early works, but hardly a work of realism. Adrienne Kennedy, Playwright: Still Quiet, Still Bold, Still Furious 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

At a time when realism wasn’t necessarily at a premium for sports movies, Little Big League bucked the trend. Little Big League: The Most Underrated Baseball Movie of All Time 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

Here he's using some of fiction's least fashionable attributes, social realism, pointed action and thematic ambition, to brilliantly dissect America's love affair with violence. T.C. Boyle roams the American psyche in 'The Harder They Come' 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Petit is a clear, effective dance storyteller partly because he doesn’t muddy the waters with complex characterization or relationships; instead, he distills narrative to its essentials, often blending realism and fantasy. Roland Petit: A French Choreographer, Most Savored in France 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

It, too, is tinged with magical realism as the "ashes" are a tiny baby that makes the sad moment all the more heartbreaking. Surrender to Alejandro Iñárritu's Netflix movie "Bardo," a surreal "chronicle of uncertainties" 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

But his realism came at a cost: his disregard for the conventional pieties led to his reputation for amorality. 'Tony Blair called back to see if I had blown myself up' 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z

The writing style which blended realism, poetry and philosophy so effortlessly? Teen book club: what makes The Fault in our Stars so good? 2013-01-25T12:00:00Z

Bobb-Willis is interested in how these artists applied a sly sense of abstraction in their portraiture, pushing representation beyond realism and stereotype. Black Beauty: Photography Between Art and Fashion 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

In other hands, these themes could have made for gritty social realism. Taika Waititi: 'You don't want to be directing kids with a swastika on your arm' 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

Along with multiple narrative threads that involve the concrete dramas of war, poverty, birth and death, the story dips into magical realism. Lovely ‘Midnight’s Children’ crams in birth of a nation — and 2 boys 2013-05-09T20:50:32Z

It’s a model of cinematic realism, and its pleasures are obvious yet mysterious. Movie Review: Linklater’s ‘Boyhood’ Is a Model of Cinematic Realism 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

It was horror but of a totally different kind: a horror of realism, of emotional torment, of the mystery of illness, of real-world pain. Rereading Stephen King 2012-07-17T11:00:32Z

This constantly mutating show dips into magical realism, marital drama and gritty power struggles. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘American Crime Story’ and ‘Riverdale’ 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

Gay then builds on this feeling by the clever use of magical realism. Roxane Gay's new book 'Difficult Women' proves her power 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

There is no apology, and the tone maintains its realism. Poem of the week: St Brenhilda on Sula Sgeir by David Wheatley 2010-12-13T12:26:00Z

His words were of justice and kindness, and from the moment I read them, I believed that talking animals in literature might deepen the concerns of realism. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z

"It was a sad but necessary moment of realism," Ebert wrote in his blog. Ebert puts 'At the Movies' on hiatus 2011-12-01T11:44:00Z

Exhibition curator Keith Hartley places Bellany firmly in the "realism" tradition of Scottish art and northern European painting, with big, bold canvasses and striking imagery. Art of Scotland's John Bellany colors with age 2012-11-16T18:05:09Z

Karam says he’s drawn to “the strangeness in people” who live in a state of dread; it’s the psychological realism of the everyday, it seems, that fires his imagination. How a humane playwright made it all the way to Broadway 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

This was a turning point — away from realism or classical notions of respectability. Celebrating the Fast-Moving, Bug-Eyed, Wily World of Hip-Hop Mixtape Covers 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

Such collisions of hallucinatory images and dour realism—the waltzing priest, the marital argument—are common in Dylan’s work, yet here the literary touches seem less an artful device than a form of extreme emphasis. Bob Dylan’s Masterpiece Is Still Hard to Find 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

Because of his soft-edged realism and attraction to generic locations, Young is sometimes compared to such bards of the everyday as Edward Hopper. In the galleries: A photographer’s accident yielded artistic results 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

But just when they’re on the homestretch, their carefully nurtured science-versus-superstition quest is derailed by elaborate pyrotechnics and a bathroom brawl of such punishing realism that I feared for Mr. Murphy’s cheekbones. Movie Review: ‘Red Lights,’ With Robert De Niro and Sigourney Weaver 2012-07-12T23:20:03Z

But too often the plot veers off into overwrought tangents that clash with the bleak realism of the story. Television Review: ?Boss,? With Kelsey Grammer on Starz - Review 2011-10-20T20:03:50Z

Some actors go the extra mile for realism, eschewing the falseness of makeup for real, physical transformation. Patience and prosthetics: what were the most punishing actor transformations? 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

This hypnotic film features more dance than song — Millepied is, after all, a choreographer — as well as moments of magical realism. "We have to do it in Spanish": Melissa Barrera on dance-filled "Carmen" reimagining set in Mexico 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z

In fact, she cites her most powerful influence as Ken Loach: "I adore him and that kind of social realism." New Africa: the film-maker exploring feminism in Algeria 2012-08-24T23:05:17Z

So I wanted to capture the realism of that. Taylor Sheridan: 'The big joke on reservations is the white guy that shows up and says: "My grandma is Cherokee"' 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

With this pithy study of a pit-man's marriage in crisis, Lawrence invented social realism 50 years before drama routinely began to include the kitchen sink. The Daughter-in-Law – review 2013-03-05T18:18:23Z

Part microwave and part dishwasher, this ingenious invention is sci-fi sculpture at its best: 99% preposterous but too chilling in its realism to dismiss. L.A. artist Carl Cheng's darkly amusing supply kits for the apocalypse 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

It’s a solid gotcha moment, but the reason it works as well as it does is its low-key realism, which underscores the absolute ordinariness of the sexism she’s calling out. Review: Advantage, Bobby, but Game, Set, Match, Billie Jean 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

“I think he would be good at the kind of quiet, humorous realism required for ‘The Marriage Plot,’” he said. The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: Jeffrey Eugenides 2012-01-31T22:27:19Z

But realism was still a long way off, in large part because of the limitations of foam latex, the industry’s preferred prosthetic material. How Christian Bale Became Dick Cheney (and Other Tales of Transformation) 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

It was really a standoff, where realism in the book clashed with magic. Q&A with J.M. Sidorova, Seattle author of ‘The Age of Ice’ 2013-08-09T21:33:45Z

This piece of magical realism seems to be Inarritu and his co-writers' gift to us, their means of leavening the hardships of the rest of the movie. Biutiful Review: Overdosing on the Tragic Human Condition 2010-12-22T19:25:00Z

Even during the darkest of night, Prince-Bythewood anchors you both in the battlefield and the ensuing chaos of the fight, which tethers you visually and, by extension, strengthens the movie’s realism. ‘The Woman King’ Review: She Slays 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

“I’m trying to create a world that is true and truthful. I wanted it to be conversational. Not naturalism, not realism, but a kind of verisimilitude: not real, but truth.” Seeing 2016 election insecurities through the eyes of one family 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

There’s the ludicrous dialogue, the fact that its idea of period realism is playing the Lumineers’ “Scotland” over and over for half the pilot episode, the imagining of Nostradamus as a hot young hunk. Reign’s Royal Scandal: What’s So Shocking About Masturbation? 2013-10-15T14:51:02Z

But if one begins a novel with that belief and then arranges the scenarios to prove it, the result isn’t realism. Perspective | How Tom Wolfe’s ‘I Am Charlotte Simmons’ sounded the death knell for New Journalism 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

In these dutiful charcoals of men and women, Schiele skillfully imitated the anodyne realism preferred by academies all over the Western Hemisphere. ‘Egon Schiele: Portraits’ at Neue Galerie 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

But also like The West Wing, it tends to idealize its subject, sometimes at the expense of the realism of its characters, who could use a few more dings and nicks. Dead Tree Alert: Smash: Broadway?s West Wing, or Its Studio 60? 2012-02-02T15:31:12Z

But the distinction doesn’t really matter, since the movie’s chief investment is not in the fates of any of its characters, nor in anything like realism, but rather in its own cool. Review: A ‘Good Time’ Was Not Had by This Critic 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

His subject is the working out of divine providence, however problematic divine providence might become when introduced to an art form that generally relies for its effects on realism and irony. DJ Taylor on the Catholic novel 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z

Scorsese’s realism is a hallucinatory realism, and the most extravagant moment in “GoodFellas” captures the mind-bending force of violence on Henry Hill himself. Scorsese’s Achievement with “GoodFellas” 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

That more or less sums up the aesthetic of “Preacher,” which packs apocalypse, horror, religion, dirty realism and dime-store westerns into its glass jar, then sets the whole bloody mixture on purée. Review: ‘Preacher’ Goes to Heaven, Hell and Texas 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Literature, politics, class struggle, sex — it’s all here in a seething, perpetually surprising epic that obliterates the distinction between realism and fantasy. Best Movies of 2020 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

For Magnum’s mid-twentieth-century pioneers, black and white was the palette of a radically immediate documentary realism. Nothing but Pictures: Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin’s “Congo” 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Buscemi plays Khrushchev with persuasive realism, and he certainly looks the part, with his bald head and boxy clothing. Review: The Slapstick Horror of ‘The Death of Stalin’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

For all his apparent and avowed classicism of characterized drama, for all his devotion to the realism of Balzac and Dreiser, Bellow is a modernist despite himself. Catching Saul Bellow's Mind in Constant, Roiling Action 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

Grete Stern’s Weimar photomontage meets magical realism, at the Buenos Aires gallery Vasari, does the trick. Art in Review: AIPAD Photography Show New York 2011-03-17T23:28:34Z

Takes fiction from the dull puddle of realism and "page turning" plot. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z

Yanique makes it clear from the beginning that she is not interested in the framing and cornicing of realism. The Virgin Islands, Rewritten 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

Variety critic Alissa Simon called it an “exciting, intelligent mix of romance, Nordic noir, social realism and supernatural horror that defies and subverts genre conventions”. Weird romance 'Border' wins Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

A seamless blend of documentary realism and hair-raising poetry, Ms. Yass’s film inspires awe for the wonders that people are capable of building, literally as well as metaphorically. Art In Review: CATHERINE YASS: ?Lighthouse? 2012-02-16T22:48:41Z

Some of it is in an academic tradition of realism. 10 years of Tate Modern 2010-04-24T23:07:00Z

Its blend of love story and documentary-style realism made it a commercial and critical success. Pat Jackson obituary 2011-07-12T18:12:54Z

Though the acting in this interpretation is variable, the play still emerges vividly as a singular blend of psychological realism, naturalistic detail and lurid, black-magic-shadowed sensationalism. Theater Review: ?The Witch of Edmonton?: A Supernatural Subject with Human Urges 2011-02-04T17:00:53Z

"The Price" isn't always meticulous in its realism and the characters often speak to one another as though they were appearing before a jury, but there's an enthralling uncertainty to the dramatic proceedings. Arthur Miller's 'The Price' bursts into meaning at Mark Taper Forum 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

Martens sings and acts as though she’s pulling the earth through her feet; she dispensed with operatic artificiality to bring a realism that seemed out of place in the form, given its grandness. Theatre, Film, and Culture of 2014 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

A prolonged exercise in deliberate disorientation, the production comes tricked out in a visual vocabulary that will be familiar to those who know Mr. Jones’s longstanding penchant for tilting stage realism off its axis. Mind and Body, Wracked 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Or, at the very least, it needs these to be a comic exercise in realism. In Aziz Ansari’s ‘Master of None,’ a new definition of Netflix-and-chill 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Mainly he seems to pay painstaking attention to complex aspects of reality and realism. ‘Degas’s Little Dancer’ Spotlights a Seminal Sculpture 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

The second sale includes about 20 paintings and drawings by Thiebaud, who combined formalism, Pop and realism with notions of consumerism and nostalgia. Inside Art: Sotheby?s Strategy: One Offer for Two Sales 2011-03-31T22:50:36Z

“I learned how you use your art for the service of people, struggling people, to whom only realism is meaningful,” she later said of this period. Elizabeth Catlett, Sculptor With Eye on Social Issues, Dies at 96 2012-04-04T02:45:28Z

Both films use magical realism to give viewers a pleasurable respite from small, sad moments we know too well from daily life, to much different ends. The Screening Room: “People Are Becoming Clouds” 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

These two novels, so spare and rigorous, so artistically correct, so thorough in their psychological realism, are the highest expression of the triangular purity of their author’s strange and beautiful esthétique. Françoise Sagan, the Great Interrogator of Morality 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

As the Depression deepened, some in the group encouraged an aesthetic of social realism, believing that a documentary approach to photography could reveal social ills and also effect change. Review: ‘Group f.64,’ by Mary Street Alinder celebrates photography’s revolutionaries 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Mixing high school comedy and magic realism, American pop and African djembe drums, she suggests a world filled with piquant specifics yet one that remains, in essence, universal in place and time. Review: Beauty, Blackness and Beyoncé, in ‘If Pretty Hurts’ 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

Joshua Oppenheimer, 39, Copenhagen, Denmark: The documentary filmmaker merges realism and invention to explore difficult and often controversial themes. Meet MacArthur's new 'genius grant' winners 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Of course I am not dancing, but I think this is not a realism play. Baryshnikov takes the US stage in native Russian 2012-04-12T19:36:08Z

His sixth novel, “Anthem,” out this week from Grand Central Publishing, is an exploration of contemporary America laced with magical realism. Noah Hawley Keeps Changing Lanes 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z

Those drawings are among the best-known works in Mr. Dinnerstein’s long career, in which he remained devoted to figurative realism and resisted the Abstract Expressionism that was starting to flourish in the early 1950s. Harvey Dinnerstein, Proudly Realistic Painter, Is Dead at 94 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

It heightens rather than solves the play's inherent problem, which is its move from realism into poetic symbolism. The Bacchae/Blood Wedding – review 2012-06-04T11:25:27Z

Brooks’s adaptation has an eerie realism; it was shot largely on location, including on the farm where the actual murders took place, and was made to have a documentary feel. What’s on TV This Week: ‘In Cold Blood’ and ‘The Black Church’ 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

And when an artist is also beautiful, it naturally lends dramatic richness and theatrical realism to a performance. New York Times Critics Respond to Glyndebourne ‘Fat’ Reviews 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Tears, separations and texting ensue in this low-key slice of American indie-film realism. | 'Like Crazy': ?Like Crazy? From Drake Doremus ? Review 2011-10-27T22:04:03Z

Cinema has more responsibility in this regard precisely because of its heightened realism, its ability to burrow into our collective consciousness and memory, where the myth has a tendency to overpower settled fact. Film fact-checking is here to stay. So let’s agree on some new rules. 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

Often it translated into a rather dreary, unimaginative if sometimes brightly colored social realism. Thrilling new exhibition shows modern Mexican art is bigger than murals 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

The multifarious cast members combine raw psychological realism with Dickensian grotesqueness. Review: Hungarians Bare Their Dark Side in ‘Our Secrets’ 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

In another, the traders marvel at the realism of Nintendo’s Duck Hunt as they snort white lines off the gray plastic gun. ‘Black Monday’ Mines ’80s Excess for Comedy and Commentary 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z

"I don't think it is ever too early to introduce children to the concepts of magical realism, social justice and dreaming big!" Monica Brown's Latino focus inspires kids 2011-11-05T04:46:37Z

Every animal we had had a model or hero - a real animal for us to learn from, to observe for realism. The Carpetbagger: Ang Lee on the Digital Characters Who Can't Argue Back 2013-01-10T17:40:12Z

In his Pulitzer-winning “The Underground Railroad,” Whitehead infused a sad era of our nation’s history with science fiction and magical realism to remind us that the shadow of slavery still hovers over us. Review | The 10 books to read in July 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

Part of the weirdness of this film lies in the fact that the tense North Korean situation in the real world gives it no realism or satirical edge, or prophetic authority of any kind. Olympus Has Fallen – review 2013-04-18T14:29:02Z

There is a reason why blood trickles down roads and heads roll out from under bushes in Latin American literature: this is not magical realism. Bolívar by Marie Arana – review 2013-06-15T15:00:01Z

In dramatizing the oblivious frivolity at the core of the American command, it takes on some of that frivolity, fluctuating in tone between antic comedy and earnest realism, and achieving neither with any uninhibited precision. Brad Pitt’s “War Machine” Stays on the Surface of American Politics 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

While more grounded in the conventions of realism, “This Land Was Made” demonstrates Sampson’s fascination with how social constructs shape imbalances of power. For Her New Play, Tori Sampson Revisited Her ‘Black Power Household’ 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

It’s an ingenious blend of desolation and a strange kind of hope, told in rich prose with more than a trace of myth and magical realism thrown in. Eerie visitor, string of murders haunt B.C. logging town 2014-02-19T20:14:55Z

The Lubakis’ watercolors, often of animals or leaves, fall somewhere between realism and fantasy, while Djilatendo’s geometric patterns hover between traditionalism and modernism. Exploring a Century of Art From Congo 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

He's a reminder of the privileged white middle classes, happy to buy into a bit of ghetto realism, but slow when it comes to realising social change as well as quick to decry bling. Artist of the week 107: David Blandy 2010-09-29T15:01:00Z

This somewhat ramshackle affair is packed with action, is handsomely photographed, and has enough realism and danger to keep the lurking sentimentality at bay. Africa United ? film review 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z

This may be the harshest thing that Smith says about “Netherland,” and about lyrical realism generally, suggesting, as she does, that “literary language” is a kind of covering or embroidering over of tragedy. The Long Shadow of “Two Paths for the Novel” 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

But much was accomplished by the vehement magical realism of Tilson Thomas' conducting. Benjamin Britten triumphs in San Francisco 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

This made a departure from the designer’s more familiar Roman baroque and added to the sense of realism. Special Report: Fashion: A Question of Brand Identity 2011-03-07T19:22:15Z

Released late in the war, “Objective, Burma!” abandons patriotic exhortations — by then, the public didn’t need to be convinced that the war was necessary — in favor of cleanly filmed action and relative realism. DVDs: On DVD, Errol Flynn and Raoul Walsh War Movies 2010-08-06T21:12:00Z

There, they meet assorted gentle eccentrics, each further enhancing the nubby realism. ‘3 Faces’ Review: On the Road in Iran (and Off It, Too) 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

Pavlova twirls on occasion, including during a charming, folksy frolic on a beach, complete with a shaking tambourine, but, for the most part, she delivers a heightened version of silent-era realism. Lois Weber, Eloquent Filmmaker of the Silent Screen 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

With its opulently garish sets and knee-jerk realism, the production dwarfed the cast, no matter what stars were singing. Opera Review: A Modern ?Traviata,? Where Time Keeps Ticking 2011-01-02T17:15:26Z

His personal life, meanwhile, remains an exquisite abstraction — close-ups of his mournful wife, scenes of domestic bliss and of horror — with none of the visceral realism of his fights. Movie Review: ‘The Grandmaster,’ Wong Kar-wai’s New Film 2013-08-22T21:24:54Z

Greek drama and mythology, naturalism, even magic realism are employed in this semi-marathon of a production, in which Parks’s characters luxuriate in long, sometimes elliptical conversations. Suzan-Lori Parks examines notions of freedom in ‘Father Comes Home’ 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

The anti-literal aspects of “The Future” might be described as surrealism, magic realism or Jabberwockian nonsense, but none of these terms quite capture her ability to blend whimsy and difficult emotion. | 'The Future': Is That All There Is? Milking Life for More 2011-07-28T22:44:40Z

The realism is disrupted by the occasional touch of surrealism, most especially a sequence in which a statue of Christ comes to life for the hallucinating hero, a recurrent trope of Catholic movies. Neds ? review 2011-01-23T00:05:53Z

His realism and regionalism provoked feelings of pride and pain; his art gave expression to the contradiction of the ordinary life in all of its glory, tragedy and, on most days, tedium. Who owns patriotism, the left or the right? American artists know the answer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

This level of realism exists thanks to advances in C.G.I. technology that can help with replicating buoyancy. Creating the Exiled Sea Creature of ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z

There’s a strong emphasis on realism and the familiar portrait mediums of painting and photography. At Tacoma Art Museum, portraits that reach out and touch you 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

This means that realism in art, which the West tends to view as its distinctive accomplishment, developed independently in Africa, though there, with so many other rich options available, it was only sporadically esteemed. Art Review: ?Heroic Africans? at Metropolitan Museum of Art - Review 2011-09-22T22:00:39Z

This self-involvement is akin to the turning away from realism by novelists that Tom Wolfe, in a much-discussed 1989 essay in Harper’s, bemoaned as an abdication of both responsibility and power. Photographing Life as It’s Seen, Not Staged 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

Subsequent such as The Noodle Maker and Stick Out Your Tongue developed a style that blended internal landscapes with flashes of magic realism and surreal comedy. The Dark Road by Ma Jian – review 2013-05-02T11:00:02Z

The presence of legendary pulp scribbler Jim Thompson as co-screenwriter probably ensured this level of coruscating cynicism and brute realism, and the stark visuals surely hark back to Kubrick's experiences as a news photographer. The Killing: No 13 2010-10-17T10:43:00Z

“The King of Lighting Fixtures,” includes flash fiction, speculative fiction, magical realism and more traditional stories; what unites the work is a sense of place. Daniel A. Olivas on his short story collection 'The King of Lighting Fixtures' and more 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

Handcrafted with high-quality woods, it is unparalleled in accuracy and realism. The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia 2014-03-06T18:12:27Z

If Ayer’s pictures all combine ultra-violence, tough-minded realism and masculine sentimentality, at least the blend is distinctive, and bears little or no resemblance to the teen-oriented action fantasies that dominate Hollywood production. “Fury”: Brad Pitt brings the macho back to WWII in this relentless battle flick 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

This book is not psychological realism but more like a very physical prose, describing the characters’ body reactions in their interference with the world. Talking with Naja Marie Aidt about her short story collection 'Baboon' 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

But in trying to combine this with a brand of sober American realism they fell between stools. Review | Art of fanatical efficiency that has more to do with your Facebook feed than you think 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

“Bengal Tiger,” a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in drama, portrays the occupation with a mix of harsh realism and surrealist philosophizing. Star Power Meets War?s Firepower 2011-03-23T22:13:44Z

In the UK there's a tradition of realism and humour and domestic storylines, Mike Leigh-style. Absolute beginners 2011-07-15T23:03:00Z

The following year, Arab graffiti artists who had been hired by the producers to add realism to the set of Syrian refugee camp wrote: “Homeland is racist.” Claire Danes on the end of Homeland: 'It was so nice to play such a badass' 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z

In his movies, which feature some of the most thrilling action sequences of recent years, he strove for realism. Filmmaker Tony Scott ('Top Gun') dies 2012-08-20T16:49:10Z

It's a form of black comic realism that works better when the misfortune befalling his characters seems the product of a sensibility that is tragic, rather than masculinity wounded into crankishness. The dazed brutality at the heart of Roman Polanski's films 2012-12-28T22:55:16Z

The film has a quiet, mumbly realism about it, and the girls exude a sincerity that likely couldn’t be found through a casting call. The Flourishing of Skate Culture in a Sellout Era 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

The commitment to realism had a range of implications. A Brief History of the Police Procedural in 6 Shows 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

The result is not so much a work of traditional magical realism as a 471-page object lesson in the uncanny. Growing Up With a Revolution, and a Mystic Grandmother 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

What defines kitchen sink realism is its investigation of social issues: from race and sexual orientation to working conditions and, crucially, housing. Will the lockdown trigger a new wave of kitchen sink cinema? 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

“The stainless is like video, with all the realism and information, and the silver is like cinema, it’s warm and emotional,” said Mr. Ray, 64, who is known to all as Charley. Charles Ray, Walking a Fine Line With a Hungry Lion 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z

The professor, who is from Colombia, said accuracy was not necessarily a concern or a goal in magical realism. ‘Encanto’ May Be Accurate, but Can It Carry a Whole Country? 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

“The People v. O. J. Simpson” was a tightly packed, almost indecently entertaining piece of pop realism, a Dreiser novel infused with the spirit of Tom Wolfe. Review: ‘O.J.: Made in America,’ an Unflinching Take on His Rise and Fall 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Only the critics and writers who scorn realism imagine that realist writers believe they’re transcribing some “real life” outside the story—of course there’s no possibility of such an “innocent” transcription. This Week in Fiction: Tessa Hadley 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

The realism and the brutality were very intense. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Talks 12 Years a Slave and The African Americans 2013-10-22T17:35:56Z

The pit, more than stage, is where most of the magical realism is realized. 'Florencia en el Amazonas' a culture clash solved by orchestra 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

It's a level of realism, the everyday realism of everyday life, that rarely reaches the screen. Woody Allen: 'My wife hasn't seen most of my films... and she thinks my clarinet playing is torture' 2011-03-13T00:05:42Z

The plot tests the limits of realism in ways that are sometimes interesting and sometimes unconvincing. Movie Review: Sheldon Candis’s ‘Luv,’ About Becoming a Man 2013-01-17T22:51:52Z

It’s startling how seldom you see that kind of realism in American movies, which are more comfortable with separate spheres and with a cautiously sentimental view of heterosexual domesticity. Will the Oscars Get as Nostalgic as Hollywood Did in 2019? 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

In the 1940s, they take off from documentary realism to reach the heights of noir extravagance, before falling back into a gently unexciting worthiness. The Boulting brothers: holy fools 2013-07-26T13:00:19Z

The imagery is purely abstract, although pictures such as the mirrorlike “Double Vision” contrast soft shapes and methodical layouts in a manner akin to that of painters who dissect realism. In the galleries: Where did all the humans go? 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

In a Q&A afterward, Mr. Trevorrow talked about how he blended the sci-fi and feel-good aspects of the film – “The Goonies” and “Back to the Future” were reference points – with a sense of realism. The Carpetbagger: Sleepwalking and Time-Traveling at Sundance 2012-01-27T18:43:33Z

Serious and seriously entertaining, they married Shakespeare to contemporary Indian reality as artfully as they wedded a heightened realism to Bollywood showmanship. | '7 Khoon Maaf': A Black Widow Tale 2011-02-19T00:14:13Z

The ballet's pantomimic minor characters and ensembles hark back to a default 19th century; but in the love story that engages his five central characters, he aspires towards a much more contemporary realism. Onegin – review 2013-01-21T18:17:00Z

Martin's world is at least more rooted in realism than the planet of Pandora or indeed Middle Earth. Game of Thrones 2010-03-24T15:40:00Z

But unlike “Pass Over,” “Until the Flood,” “Kill Move Paradise” and “Scraps,” the style here is neither surreal nor poetic; it’s ticktock realism, deployed in real time. Review: ‘American Son’ Puts Kerry Washington in a Maternal Nightmare 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

His brand of mythic realism lent an irresistible luster to “The Four Wise Men,” a retelling of the biblical tale of the Three Magi. Michel Tournier, French Novelist Who Fused Myth and Philosophy, Dies at 91 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

At best the detour seems frivolous; at worst, it threatens to dissolve the observational realism the previous four seasons were built on. When good TV goes bad: how The Wire lost its spark 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

Polenov himself introduced a new and sometimes controversial realism into both his landscape and religious works. Special Report: Art in Perspective: Artist's Family Home Sustains Legacy 2010-05-28T12:00:00Z

Instead, he works a complex riff on formal questions such as scale and realism, treating memories as if they were readymades. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z

Hoffman, who once studied anatomy by dissecting cadavers alongside medical students, approached the project with a meticulous realism, using different patinas to subtly suggest skin tones. ‘Races of Mankind’ Sculptures, Long Exiled, Return to Display at Chicago’s Field Museum 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

For the last three decades, Panahi, now 62, has made playful, smart and politically bold movies that ingeniously meld day-to-day realism about Iran with sly meta-cinematic perspectives. What to Know About Jafar Panahi, the Imprisoned Iranian Filmmaker 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

The greater problem is that Murphy’s production is overly literal, hewing to realism when the script seems to suggest something more abstract. Review: ‘Belfast Girls’ Set Sail, but This Isn’t a Pleasure Cruise 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z

Both shows also faced jeers for their apparent lack of realism. How “The Big Bang Theory” Normalized Nerd Culture 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

Liatoshynsky, a composer with an intensely volatile style, wrote music that didn’t comply with the Soviet Union’s aesthetic of socialist realism. Review: Protecting and Defending Ukraine’s Cultural Identity 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z

Like the paintings of Vermeer, computer games were finally able to achieve the realism of accurate perspective, and keep the images flowing in real time with the gameplay. How “Bambi” paved the way for both “Fallout 4″ and “Angry Birds” 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

With the expanses of black peeking through the bright color, these works hold abstraction and realism in a new tension, as confirmed by a display case with military regalia like von Freyburg’s. Marsden Hartley Gets His Due in Berlin 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

But for its cover this year, the magazine has decided to dispense with even the pretext of realism, by trotting out a bloodless, nearly 55 year-old female who’s a collection of fake body parts. Sports Illustrated’s absurd, trolling Barbie cover 2014-02-13T18:49:00Z

At the same time, touches of contemporary realism bring Ms. Smith’s women into the secular present. 2010-02-12T23:56:00Z

He seems more like something straight out of the withdrawal delirium of William S. Burroughs' "Junkie" or "Naked Lunch" rather than the ultrapoetic realism of McCarthy. Cormac McCarthy – the greatest Western writer ever – didn't actually write Westerns 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

Christie: 'A detective story is an escape from the realism of everyday life.' Agatha Christie: why I got fed up with Poirot 2012-09-28T21:55:06Z

Nonetheless, I sensed a greater amount of realism without sacrificing style. On the Runway Blog: It's a Street Party (or Fashion's Night Out) 2011-08-19T14:51:23Z

As vocal jitters calmed and the show unfolded with cinematic polish, the hollow realism of this production became apparent. Review: Puccini’s American Opera Needs a New American Vision 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

While it raided the histories of both Italian and American film and gangster mythology for its look and style, it felt distinctly European, with an operatic realism unlike anything on American TV. The Best TV Shows of 2016 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

This sliver of a play, small in construction but big in heart, transposes some of the poetic realism of the great Russian writer to an English country garden in the 1970s. Early Days – review 2013-06-19T16:23:44Z

There’s great attention to realism and at the same time there’s a fable-like abstraction, which is one of the things that fascinated me the most when I read the book. A New Pinocchio Film Returns to the Tale’s Dark Origins 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

With the fairy-tale aesthetic ascendant in popular culture, Aimee Bender’s coy brand of magical realism has lost some of its novelty. Robert Boswell’s ‘Tumbledown,’ and More 2013-08-28T19:05:14Z

How are skill and quality evaluated in a form that holds both meticulous realism and exuberant abstraction and in an art world that sometimes values concept over craft? CoCA’s group show demonstrates the continued power of painting 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

It was all laid out in front of me, and suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year 2013-01-06T19:57:18Z

If you like unsentimental cop shows, ensemble dramas, realism or overlooked gems, this is a show for you. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘All in With Cam Newton,’ ‘Jurassic Park’ and ‘Southland’ 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Notes of magical realism are threaded through the movie. Review: In ‘Being 17,’ 2 Boys Teeter Between Animosity and Attraction 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

This approach added gritty realism to the Death Wish films, the first of which appeared in 1974. Obituary: Michael Winner 2013-01-21T15:27:33Z

Rather than choose between abstraction or realism, Lawrence deftly navigated between the two. Exhibit of iconic Jacob Lawrence series, reunited for first time since 1958, opens at Seattle Art Museum 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

Behind his down-home magical realism is an underlying benevolence: In “Overdue,” he sings, “I’m learning to forgive you baby/Would you forgive me too?” Playlist: Roots Rock and the Funk of the Firmament 2010-02-19T21:40:00Z

He funneled his generation’s mix of spiritual yearning and disillusioned realism into his art. Art Review: Picturing a Mind-Blowing World Made of Drugs 2010-10-07T21:19:00Z

In Wilson’s brand of poetic realism, characters talk bluntly about the dollars-and-cents of living, the exact costs of food, rent, refrigerators. Playwright’s working-class roots inspired Seattle Rep’s ‘Good People’ 2013-03-07T20:19:42Z

Neorealism meets magical realism in this marvelous, surprising movie about an impoverished Italian man, his sprawling tribe and a radically transformed way of life. The Best Movies of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

“So the goal is to be so confident and so insistent upon the realism of it that they are brought into something that perks their attention instead of repulsing them.” Christoph Waltz, Directing Opera, Moves From Tarantino to Verdi 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

It's often suggested that these works are merely depictions, yet even in the respect of realism this art is superb. Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind – review 2013-02-10T00:05:45Z

“Swimming Pool,” François Ozon’s first English-language film, “is simultaneously a thoroughly mannered, mischievously artificial confection and an acute piece of psychological realism,” A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Amazing Race’ and Some Beachy Diversions 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

“The Old Drift” is an impressive book, ranging skillfully between historical and science fiction, shifting gears between political argument, psychological realism and rich fabulism. Salman Rushdie Reviews a Sweeping Debut About the Roots of Modern Zambia 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

This shift spawns a borderlands odyssey that blends noir and magical realism, meditations on religiosity and human cruelty, and social commentary on guns, the drug trade and resurgent racism. Gabino Iglesias, a Writer of Noir, Explores the Texas Underworld 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z

The presence of Jean-Baptiste, an actor who brings an honest edge of realism to all her work, is an inspired bit of casting, but also a great piece of misdirection. ‘In Fabric’ Review: The Dress Is Possessed. But It Was on Sale. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Its realism shows white colonizers preparing for an attack by natives, but the absurdist composition reveals the injustice of their cause. ‘Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century’ Review: Trying to Corral the Uncorralable 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

Short link for this page: http://gu.com/p/39pj2 Hans Holbein’s mesmerising, waxen realism preserves this woman’s features forever. Portrait of a lady: Hans Holbein's Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling 2012-08-20T14:18:37Z

He began his career in the 1930s as a muralist inspired by the social realism of Diego Rivera. Delayed Philip Guston Show Opens, With a Note From a Trauma Specialist 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z

Now is the time for realism and planning, when caring for our gardens during the warmest summer on record is still recent memory. As autumn leaves fall, here’s your checklist 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

In fact, one of the most enduring fruits of social realism in the US was the Farm Security Administration, set up as part of Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal in the mid-30s. Sleazy bosses, exploited barmaids: US cinema finally discovers the left behinds 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

But both shows were groundbreaking in their emotional realism and power. The “Parenthood” Finale and TV’s Emotion Revolution 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

For the past 75 years, since Marlon Brando introduced the Method to generations of acting students, psychological realism and raw emotional expression have been the prime goal of acting for the camera. Why music biopics so often fall flat 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

The stiff acting and stilted dialogue inch Blue Velvet just past the realm of realism into a space without signposts that gets more disorienting the longer you stay in it. “David Lynch should be shot”: Looking back on the madness and chaos of “Blue Velvet” and Ronald Reagan’s ’80s 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z

He described his journey from the Dominican Republic to Aruba and ultimately to New York City, a tale that was part magical realism, Gatsby and Greek tragedy. On an Island Hunt for Pieces of My History 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

Season 2 of “Espookys” leveled up its winsome magic realism with a serial story that combined presidential politics and beauty-pageant intrigue, and Ana Fabrega continues to give one of TV’s great screwball performances. Best TV Shows of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

The name is a subversion of socialist realism, the stifling official style promoted in the communist east. Sigmar Polke obituary 2010-06-14T17:40:00Z

There is so much life and personality here, a truthfulness that bursts out of the narrow conventions of realism and turns into something else. Why ‘Do the Right Thing’ Is Still a Great Movie 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

As in his films, the focus is not on realism per se so much as on a heightened set of circumstances. On his birthday: Samuel Fuller, novelist? 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

While never underplaying the misogyny that triggers Jennifer’s ordeal, Fargeat abandons realism in favour of mythic fantasy, archetype and superhuman endurance. How the 'rape-revenge movie' became a feminist weapon for the #MeToo generation 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

In The New York Times, fault was found with my realism. Peeved, Irritated and Annoyed: Early Letters to the Editor 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

But that’s the effect of this clever writer who undulates so eerily from phantasmal excess to psychological realism. Review | In Sadie Jones’s “The Snakes,” parents are more venomous than reptiles 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

The two characters are on a collision course throughout “Kafka on the Shore,” which is a metaphysical journey filled with magical realism. 35 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

In a style he labels “realism that hovers over the surface of realism,” he began penning probing, humanistic works such as “A Bright New Boise” and “The Whale.” ‘A Great Wilderness’ has world premiere at Seattle Rep 2014-01-15T21:32:35Z

Video of images by the Cuban artist Raul Speek provided a dizzying, kaleidoscopic background to the music: his style is vividly exotic, verging on erotic, and best when its fantastic realism becomes surreal. Afrodisiac ? review 2010-10-18T21:45:00Z

This story-driven approach to franchising – whether or not you think blockbuster material really needs the psychological realism and gravitas involved – is growing in influence. The Dark Knight and Marvel: the blockbuster franchise comes of age 2012-11-14T12:42:52Z

But a younger generation of postapartheid photographers is embracing color, and rejecting the stark dualities and documentary realism of black-and-white photography. Art Review: Zwelethu Mthethwa at Studio Museum in Harlem 2010-07-15T21:40:00Z

"Attack the Block" is a British alien-invasion thriller that ingeniously blends two disparate strains of Anglo cinema, or maybe three: working-class realism, social comedy and science fiction. "Attack the Block": Aliens in the hood, London-style 2011-07-29T19:30:00Z

Mr. Banks’s writing developed from a self-consciously experimental style in his early books to the gritty realism that brought him renown. Russell Banks, Novelist Steeped in the Working Class, Dies at 82 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z

Although we wound up making up some characters and events, by Hollywood standards our screenplay was a triumph of gritty realism — essentially, a documentary. Gene Weingarten: the Opie-Changey thing 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Despite its unflinching portrayal of Canadian law enforcement, “Three Pines” has won praise from some Québécois police officers, who have commended its stark realism. ‘Three Pines,’ Based on Louise Penny Books, Tackles Indigenous Suffering 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z

Her interest in geography, and the power that places exert on the people in them, is where Barker's gritty, wayward realism is tugged towards something otherworldly, supernatural. A life in writing: Nicola Barker 2010-04-30T23:13:00Z

Here, Shanley casts off the strictures of realism to mount a seriocomic, freewheeling attack on geopolitical intransigence. 'Dirty Story': combative couplings in Intiman festival's opener 2012-07-12T15:38:04Z

Like the designs, his staging is an odd mixture of realism and cartoon. Review: New York City Ballet Performs Bournonville Classics at Spring Gala 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

Yet despite its surrealist tone, the show is grounded in emotional realism and the all-too-familiar experience of navigating today’s fraught, technologically mediated romantic landscape. Simon Rich on “SNL,” “Black Mirror,” and dressing Bill Hader as Hitler 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Now Stoppard is mulling a play on moral realism, whether good and bad are objective truths, rather than subjective attitudes. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

Like "The Dreaming Jaw, the Salivating Ear," a story about a blogger killing a troll who sullied the fiefdom of her blog, they do not have any special affection for realism. 'Lucky Alan and Other Stories' is Lethem at his bizarre best 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

To try to reproduce that world according to the canons of 21st-century movie realism would be to diminish and falsify his narrative, which ascends through cultural and social detail into a realm of universal emotion. Movie Review: ‘Anna Karenina,’ From Joe Wright, With Keira Knightley 2012-11-15T20:25:23Z

One could easily mistake “Little Girl” for a fictional drama that tends toward observation and realism. ‘Little Girl’ Review: Growing Up and Seeking Peace 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

It’s fantasy, not magical realism, and consists of stories that form a tapestry of an elaborate imaginary land. Review | Spanish-speaking writers are producing ambitious science fiction and fantasy. Let these books be your introduction. 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

Her prodigious output was, at best, uneven, but the ideological certainties that fuelled Chinese contempt for the impassioned realism of her fiction have crumbled away. Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck's Life in China by Hilary Spurling 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z

While men like Joe almost certainly do exist, no one watches "You" expecting dramatic realism — it is, like so many other TV shows, a form of escapism. Between the measles and COVID, "You" makes a bizarre creative decision that doesn't make sense 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z

The film’s foray into Paw Paw’s mind is one of several journeys beyond the boundaries of realism. Arts & Leisure: Debated Movies: ?The Tree of Life,? ?The Future,? ?The Help? 2011-08-25T15:03:08Z

In this autobiography, Barack Obama’s adviser and United Nations ambassador wrestles with the need to balance her youthful idealism against the sober realism of her responsibilities as a policymaker. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

As Burwell himself noted, to have placed conventional music into the film at any juncture would have completely destroyed the values that made it such a tour de force of rawboned realism and anxiety. Is the success of a movie score measured only on screen? 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

“We Own This City” is still a very good show, with granular realism, a sly sense of humor and fine acting top to bottom. ‘We Own This City’ Review: Baltimore Police Problems, Rewired 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z

Why does fantasy allow you to do as a writer that realism can’t? N. K. Jemisin on Diversity in Science Fiction and Inspiration From Dreams 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

But the play’s episodic structure creates diffuseness, certain plot twists are strained, some psychological epiphanies are too tidy, and the narrative treads an uneasy tightrope between realism and symbolism. Review | ‘Mother Road’ is often a slog despite burnished production at Arena Stage 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

He agreed that it would look cool, but he felt it pushed the episode out of realism and into fantasy. He Makes Archie Deep and Sabrina Dark. Meet Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

It reads like 19th-century realism, except for the brutal, morally complex clarity with which the narrator examines her surroundings and herself. Readers Share Their Favorite Books of 2022 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z

In an article for The Times, Jason Zinoman called the film an “indie gem,” writing that the “contentious mother-daughter relationship is rooted in such heartbreaking realism that it evokes ‘Lady Bird,’ plus witchcraft.” What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Trump and Taxes’ and ‘Pyewacket’ 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

In addition to the American traditional style, he incorporated black-and-white realism there. Tattoo you: Freddy Negrete, the black-and-gray style and an L.A. museum's new interactive exhibition 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Minutely observed social realism rubs shoulders with a strand of poetic, image-driven fantasy reminiscent of The Yellow Wallpaper. Jane Rogers's top 10 cosy catastrophes 2012-07-05T08:22:05Z

But her writing, which is for the most part so careful in its realism, could be more precise in these crucial junctures in the battle for custody. 'Luna Gale' a grimly rich study of the fight to protect a child 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

But Mr. Fanaka’s work is known for eschewing the poetic realism associated with the movement in favor of genre work. Film Series in NYC This Week 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

To my mind he is triumphantly entitled to work this way, for the humanity, realism, and humour of the film far outweigh occasional slowness and a few tiny technical imperfections. Kes reviewed: drawing the curtains on Barnsley - archive, 20 November 1969 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

The show’s magical realism sometimes lent a buoyant and surprising silliness, and at other times created a sense of unease. Best TV Shows of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

There was never much chance that "Birdman" — with its magical realism, dark humor and innovative cinematography — would become a mainstream hit. 'Birdman's' best picture win at Oscars may give film a box-office boost 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

As the body is ceremonially stripped and washed, the whole scene becomes a parody of Lawrentian realism that is punctured only when the prostrate figure visibly and vitally stiffens. Alan Bennett: a quiet radical 2012-10-12T09:38:00Z

As such, it ended up being just the shot of fresh indie realism the mainstream needed. Greenberg star Greta Gerwig steps from the shadows of mumblecore 2010-06-04T23:08:00Z

This unrelated series explores similar terrain, highlighting films that blur the line between candid realism and self-dramatization. 4 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

Now: True is not a doctor, and “Better Things,” for all of its realism, is still a fictional series. TV's changing view of the change: The menopause conversation is getting better, finally 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

Despite some absolute realism, there is a magical realist quality to your film, which creates ambiguity and becomes open to interpretation. "Undine" is an exquisite, romantic reimagining of an underwater myth using a phallic CGI catfish 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

This scene from Four Weddings and a Funeral might count as a rare instance of realism in a Richard Curtis script, except that surely nobody could prefer Andie MacDowell to Kristin Scott Thomas. Clip joint: unrequited love 2011-02-09T17:08:16Z

The man known for numerous novels written in his style of "magic realism" died in Mexico City two years ago. Colombia issues 50,000-peso note with writer Garcia's image 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

While Ms. Gall’s rich anecdotes from interviews with Afghan villagers, Taliban fighters and officials of many governments provide poignant realism to the book, they also highlight one of its few drawbacks. Books of The Times: ‘The Wrong Enemy,’ by Carlotta Gall 2014-04-09T20:24:47Z

But there were also signs of a new realism, with investors seeking out the expertise needed to turn their pipe dreams into reality. Don’t censor the school-lunch blog 2012-06-15T16:15:00Z

Ballet, as an art form, exists at a remove from realism. Megan Abbott’s Latest Crime Thriller Links Ballet and Sex 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

Before filming Air Force One, several members of the production team were invited on to the real presidential aircraft so that they could imbue the film with an air of authenticity and realism. Clip joint: plane disasters 2013-01-31T12:58:00Z

By focusing on hope and the characters’ attempts at understanding the world, The Leftovers, possibly the best example of magical realism ever broadcast, solidifyed its place in the pantheon of prestige television. Rip it up and start again: why so many shows press reset for their second season 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

The Albanian soprano, 48, has won over audiences on both sides of the Atlantic with the depth and authenticity of her performances, especially in the realism of “verismo” works by Verdi and Puccini. Ermonela Jaho ‘Can Sing Your Music’ 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z

One testament to the physical realism: Amell fractured two of his vertebrae while attempting one move, keeping him off stunt work for some time. ‘Heels’ Is a Family Drama, With Body Slams 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z

A few stories are in a familiar mode of straightforward realism. The Stories About Abu Dhabi That Are Rarely Told 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

But for all of the merits that Gewen identifies in Kissinger, realism, too, is no guarantee against delusion. How Do You Explain Henry Kissinger? 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

These works are in a sense an eccentric kind of photorealism that goes beyond both photos and realism. Art Review: Recent David Hockney Work at the de Young in San Francisco 2013-12-23T23:10:14Z

“The values behind my films are equality, consent, creativity, realism, and above all, sex that is being enjoyed,” she says. “Women like sex just as dirty as men” 2015-05-09T04:00:00Z

And with the addition of an adolescent giant, she even seems to flirt with magical realism. Review: Edie Falco shines in touching 'The Madrid' 2013-02-27T03:46:04Z

He sees all his work as part of a continuum, from the straightforward realism of Climbers to the "argy-bargy" of the Kefahuchi Tract. M John Harrison: a life in writing 2012-07-20T21:55:12Z

Sweeping back and forth across the years, her narration shifts nimbly to reflect the tenor of the times — from the shared legends of tribal people to the candid realism of the modern era. Review | ‘The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois’ is the kind of brilliant epic that comes around only once in a decade 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

In the novel, the scariness emerges from a subtler emotional realism. The Leftovers: Tom Perrotta's Rapture 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

This is, I suppose, an offense against documentary realism. If House Hunters Is Wrong, I Don’t Want to Be Right 2012-06-13T15:40:09Z

“Snow White,” Disney’s first animated film and the first full-length movie with every frame drawn by hand, was heralded for its realism. How “Bambi” paved the way for both “Fallout 4″ and “Angry Birds” 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

Some of the shenanigan plot lines go too far afield, but they’re saved by the show’s emotional grounding and perfect casting, its sense of intimacy and realism. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

It then glides forward in time and style, first towards socialist realism; then, more contentiously, towards Warhol and beyond. The Portrait - review 2011-02-03T16:56:25Z

Stanley Lewis’s riveting paintings of scruffy residential backyards involve improbable amounts of built-up paint and intensely detailed realism. Art Review: ‘See It Loud,’ at the National Academy Museum 2013-12-26T22:02:57Z

The ending movingly balances the open-endedness of the character’s story with some unspoken realism about the challenges he will continue to face. The 'Curious Incident' of a young detective set loose to find life's truths 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

But I always appreciate this kind of moment more, possibly because I began my career in reportage; there is a realism about it that is beautiful. Dinner, dusk and dancing Russians: my best winter shot 2012-12-16T17:59:01Z

Critics of the day gave it the label expressionistic realism, but the directness of Neel's art now looks like a form of free speech. Alice Neel: Painted Truths 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles aims to be "the Sundance of Indian cinema" according to festival director Jasmine Jaisinghani, with films that contrast Bollywood's often glamorized escapism with vivid realism. Move over Bollywood: U.S. festival spotlights independent Indian films 2014-04-08T22:58:47Z

Surrealist automatism, neo-classical realism, semi-abstract forms of various weights and degree of geometries: there is very little that Walter could not inspire. What?s Blooming Indoors 2011-04-21T22:57:20Z

“She says that the ‘strongest argument’ in favor of some of the most fantastical sounding measures tends to be a sober realism: ‘What’s the alternative?’ 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

She deservedly won a Bafta in 1989 for the role, imbuing what could have been a stereotype with affection and realism. Maggie Smith: five best moments 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

Ludicrous contrivances of that sort spoil an otherwise deft sense of realism and place. Movie Listings for Aug. 5-11 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

In her group portrait of the Nuremberg defendants she departs uncharacteristically from her usual realism: the back of the courtroom merges into the smoky ruins of the city. Laura Knight: The unashamed illustrator 2013-07-06T08:01:40Z

Northern Stage placed it in the tradition of stark, European expressionism; Matthew Dunster's recent version at Manchester Royal Exchange was vivid social realism. 1984 2010-09-28T20:29:00Z

Instead of her trademark silhouette technique, Ms. Walker is deploying a more traditional, full-bodied realism. Kara Walker: Art Can’t Solve the Nation’s Racial Problems 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

For most of its running time, the movie embraces a familiar if somewhat stylized realism only to abruptly veer into full-blown symbolism. At New Directors/New Films, See the World Through Perceptive Filmmakers’ Eyes 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

It was that realism and honesty — realistic characters, realistic friendships and, yes, a realistic look at the possible options a pregnant woman faces — that propelled the film from funding to filming to distribution. How Do You Make a Romantic Comedy With an Abortion? Inside "Obvious Child" 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

A student of movie traditions high and low, he draws his inspiration here less from the gritty, downbeat realism of ’70s New Hollywood than from that decade’s good-time populist genre hybrids. Review: ‘Logan Lucky’: Steven Soderbergh and His Motley Band of Thieves 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

Set in the 1980s, this downtown gem, full of minor-key revelations and offhand epiphanies, roots its quirky charm in an earnest and surprising realism. | 'Buddy Cop 2': Debate Society?s Offbeat Play Has Chemistry 2010-06-03T22:23:00Z

That commitment to realism was demanding on the cast, which mixes veteran actors with amateurs from a basketball background. How ‘Swagger’ Raised Its Game 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

“The Golden House” has been billed by its publisher as Rushdie’s return to realism. Salman Rushdie’s Prose Joins the Circus in ‘The Golden House’ 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

The “Cinema Novo” movement of social realism commented and pushed back against this political shift, but in that same year, a singular iconoclast mounted a grimier, bloodier form of rebellion newly relevant to our present. Hidden horrors: our writers on the scariest movies you (probably) haven't seen 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

Something about the strangeness of the people and the harsh indifference of the nature that surrounds them feels real, even if realism in the conventional sense may be the last thing on the filmmaker’s mind. Review: The French Countryside Holds Surprises in ‘Staying Vertical’ 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

All this realism was utterly new in Tuscany 700 years ago. Hull will go to heaven for this: gallery acquires Lorenzetti's glowing Christ 2013-07-16T16:24:38Z

There was a push for a gritty realism in those days in filmmaking. Animal penises’ amazing evolution 2012-06-12T15:40:00Z

A blandly villainous emissary from the government descends, forcing the ensemble to adapt Soviet-style socialist realism. ‘Cold War’ Review: Love Without Borders 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

The increased realism and more elongated figures continue in two unusual crowd scenes from a Book of Hours executed toward the end of the Claude Master’s career. Religious Miniature and Nature Drawings at the Morgan 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

His realism calls to mind limewood carvers of late medieval Germany. Art Review: Metro Show and Editions/Artists’ Book Fair 2013-01-24T22:27:36Z

It was a small touch, but one that was greatly appreciated by female moviegoers and lovers of realism alike. 8 Reasons Women Ruled the Summer Box Office 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Leone had asked the actors to do their own stunts, to create a sense of gritty realism. Eli Wallach dies: Character actor known for ‘The Magnificent Seven’ was 98

She doesn’t need a time machine, magical realism or a freak glitch of nature to go back to her 20s. Review: In TV Land’s ‘Younger,’ a Woman Cheats the Clock to Land a Job 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

In the main, Cal’s speeches seem contrived to push the story into another storytelling register, away from grounded psychological realism and into something approaching the mythic. ‘Montana Story’ Review: A Domestic Drama in Big Sky Country 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

McCarthy, who spent 10 years on "Gilmore Girls," said she signed on for "Mike & Molly" because she was intrigued by the script's humor and its realism. Hollywood weighs in on fat people 2010-09-16T12:22:00Z

It was grueling even before the realism went too far and Mulligan was briefly in actual physical danger. On ‘Promising Young Woman,’ consent, and a harrowing ending 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

“What interests me about fiction,” he said, “is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a story lets in some other sort of light.” Ben Lerner Imagines ‘Different Futures’ in His Novel ‘10:04’ 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

Her commitment to realism was absolute, a matter of moral principle. The Brief, Brilliant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

Some of us would argue that when cynicism is borne out time after time it qualifies as realism. Letters: Politics and propaganda on the screen 2013-01-18T21:00:13Z

The story has what might be called a realistic narrative – there is no magic, no aliens – but the frame of the trial that it uses isn't realism. Mohsin Hamid on his enduring love of the second-person narrative 2013-03-22T07:00:02Z

Directors such as Elia Kazan, Sidney Lumet and Spike Lee dealt with serious moral questions, and made urban realism riveting. Down and dirty in city hall 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

He studied law and architecture in Europe before making a reputation in France as a production designer and a pioneer director of the style that became known as poetic realism. Went the Day Well? 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

"Pericles": William Shakespeare's “Pericles” is one of his most fantastical plays — meaning, realism it is not. Save the Seats 2014: We've got your ticket for New Year's Eve 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

Gotham is not big on realism; the sets look like sets, in a good way, reminiscent of comic panels. Review: Gotham: No Batman? No Bat-Problem! 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Unlike later animators like Mr. Burton and Nick Park, who used stop-motion in highly stylized ways, Mr. Harryhausen strove for realism. Ray Harryhausen, Cinematic Special-Effects Innovator, Dies at 92 2013-05-07T18:31:15Z

Because – as magic realism showed us – great writing ensues when conventions are overturned. Does the Booker longlist show that we're expanding our literary horizons? 2012-08-03T23:30:18Z

The Swedish Academy, announcing his win this lunchtime, said that "with hallucinatory realism", Mo Yan "merges folktales, history and the contemporary". Mo Yan wins Nobel prize in literature 2012 2012-10-11T11:38:19Z

Boots Riley describes his directorial debut as “an absurdist dark comedy with magical realism and science fiction, inspired by the world of telemarketing.” "Sorry to Bother You" speaks the hidden truths of "white voice" out loud 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

“She writes about their lives, not only with force and anger and realism, but also with great beauty and quite experimentally,” said Smith, herself a translator of Korean writers. Her Antenna Is Tuned to the Quietest Voices 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

Much of that framework comes from the way Martin constructed his novels, which include elements of his favorite medieval fantasy literature and historical fiction — with a particular focus on “realism.” Reveling in the darkness: “True Detective,” “Game of Thrones” and the missing critique in TV’s cult of gritty realism 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

The flashbacks play out in a mock-heroic style with tinges of magic realism — a leopard emerging from the forest at an opportune moment, a gang boss punishing his enemies in a particularly crushing manner. Review: The Criminal Life in Mumbai in ‘Sacred Games’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

He likes to smush dissonant things together: comedy and drama, realism and caricature, sincerity and cynicism. Dead Tree Alert: Murphy’s Lawlessness 2012-10-26T13:04:53Z

While most of his fellow artists wrote him off as a joke, Abbott believed that his devotion to realism made him “a Balzac of the camera.” Berenice Abbott: She Was a Camera 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

In all of it there’s a furious sense of social realism, oriented toward an audience that the standard gallery and museum system wasn’t capable, or willing, to address. When Dawoud Bey Met David Hammons 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

“Stop the Pounding Heart” transcends both the red state-blue state split and limited, didactic ideas of cinematic realism. ‘Stop the Pounding Heart’ Reveals Minervini’s Texas 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Then it leaps from jokey realism into a more unusual premise. Theater review: 'On the Nature of Dust' is moms, daughters and monkey business 2010-05-19T22:36:00Z

It's as if he's playing Nigel Planer's "I an Actor" as postmodern realism. Extreme Fishing Challenge; Food & Drink – TV review 2013-02-26T07:00:05Z

The result feels like a fusion of Andron’s and Singleton’s sensibilities, a crime thriller that’s sharply attuned to the realism of a city in transition. With FX’s ‘Snowfall,’ John Singleton returns to 1980s South Central L.A. 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

Punctuating the film’s placid surface are mysterious touches of magical realism. Review: In ‘Tu Dors Nicole,’ the Daughter Loafs While the Parents Are Away 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

If the movie tells an old story, its unvarnished realism lends it poignancy and depth. | 'Come Undone': Guilt, Anxiety, Obstacles: Adultery Is Hard Work 2010-12-03T00:22:00Z

Spanning centuries, he aims to scare by presenting his vampires with an unsentimental realism that makes them seem almost human, without soft-pedaling the brutality and violence. New Plays Like ?The Little One? Put Scary Onstage 2010-06-26T02:39:00Z

Anadol is not the first post-painting artist to toy with perspective, updating a technique originally meant to enhance realism so that it instead produces psychedelic visions. Review | In the galleries: Artechouse’s ‘Infinite Space’ has waves of natural influences 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

The resulting portrait grids, with their serial repetition of images, contain elements of Minimalism and Pop Art, as well as of the filmic realism of ’70s auteur directors like Robert Altman. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

Auden praised the realism of the imaginary world they describe. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

Of greater interest, however, is the show’s veneer of staggering realism and its sense of timeliness. “This is the anti-Christ of ‘Law & Order'”: Stars and creators of “The Night Of” weigh in on the making of HBO’s engrossing crime drama 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

The experimental avant-garde writers, meanwhile, released literary form and content from the stranglehold of socialist realism. Mo Yan's Nobel prize in literature should help China overcome its Nobel complex 2012-10-11T15:40:18Z

Dukakis succeeds by balancing the over-the-top comedy with the right dose of realism. Comedy for hypochondriacs: It's A Noise Within's 'The Imaginary Invalid' 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

In shades of comedy and tragedy, realism and fantasy, these contemporary authors dig up a lot of old conceits and, like Dr. Frankenstein, zap them to life with mixed results. Review | Does living forever sound ideal? These 5 new books will change your mind. 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

It would be too easy to call what Ishiguro is undertaking “fantasy” or “magical realism.” Review: Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Buried Giant’ defies easy categorization 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

The stage cannot compete with cinema or television for realism. For a Pioneering Artist, the Joy of Having Done the Work His Way 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

One of the things I admire about French cinema is the unflinching bourgeois realism; or is it perhaps the lack of inhibition about where they find inspiration? French films glow with confidence and culture. Ours should do the same 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

Pan makes the surreal events hover somewhere between magical realism and hallucination, with lush details of Leigh’s time in Taipei providing an expansive look inside Taiwanese culture. Dark Magic and Other Escapes in These Summer Y.A. Novels 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Without them, and to some extent with them, the movie often feels more creaky than chipper, as it tries to find an emotional tone that combines bouncy sexual humor, domestic melodrama and psychological realism. | 'Tamara Drewe': More Sex, Please, We?re British Rustics 2010-10-07T23:18:00Z

They believe that there is a form of “realism” available to metaphysics, even when mucking in the world of what will always be unknown to human consciousness. HP Lovecraft, pulp philosopher 2013-04-11T20:22:00Z

In the years between the two World Wars, German painters reacted to the prevailing trends in abstract expressionism, turning once again to realism in their work. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

It doesn't make him any less a victim, but it is realism. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 7: Of Love and Sacrifice 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z

Influential 70s director Sidney Lumet, usually known more for his gritty realism than fantastical musical numbers, was responsible for the production. The Wiz Live! Everything you need to know to enjoy NBC's latest camp classic 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Her untethering from reality is echoed in the film’s matter-of-fact departure from realism, and her inertia is the expression of an overwhelming sorrow. Review: Kristen Stewart Is Entrancing as a Haunted ‘Personal Shopper’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

“But if ... you push it, you snap the connection of the photo realism of the image that you’re seeing with behavior that is of a different sort ... It was a very tricky thing.” Keeping it real: a behind-the-scenes look at 'The Lion King' visual effects 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

In the 1960s, people believed that documentary realism could change the law, like Cathy Come Home. Margaret Thatcher: the Iron Lady of British film 2013-04-09T07:00:06Z

The realism of watching these family dynamics ebb and flow is absorbing, but the direction can be too self-conscious. A superb ensemble anchors "The Humans," showcasing an anguished, claustrophobic Thanksgiving dinner 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Despite the realism of its milieu and the events, this film is highly stylized. Review: ‘Where Is Kyra?’ Portrays a Descent Into Poverty 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

David Shanks, chief executive of Penguin USA, praised Clancy's "genius for telling a story with exceptional realism and cutting edge authenticity", and his "frighteningly real scenarios". Tom Clancy heroes join forces against terror menace 2010-04-08T11:03:00Z

That’s one way to describe this deft mixture of cinéma vérité, ethnographic documentary, feminist social realism and class-conscious revolutionary romance. A Feminist, Neorealist, Communist Film, and a Plain Great Movie 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z

Part of the book’s appeal was its apparent realism about the sordid details of international espionage. Adapting John le Carr? Novels for the Movies 2011-09-18T00:03:03Z

Sometimes the middle stuff, by virtue of its honesty and realism, resonates more strongly than a joke joke—it hits us in a different and better place. Judd Apatow’s Guidebook for Comedy Geeks 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

The focus on bleak lives, and the insistence on pushing the characters to their breaking point, would seem to situate “Tyrannosaur” in a tradition of British kitchen-sink realism that has often tipped into miserablism. Paddy Considine Directs ?Tyrannosaur,? Starring Peter Mullan 2011-11-12T22:00:05Z

Her drinking problem evaporates without a tremor, which ought to be another sign that what we’re seeing is too good to be true to the filthy realism of the show’s general outlook. How the “Sharp Objects” Finale Sums Up the Show’s Excellent Feel-Badness 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

She is in summer school, learning about magical realism when all she wants is to be seen for who she is. Ann Beattie doesn't settle for easy solutions in 'The State We're In' 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

“To paraphrase something the poet Mark Strand once said about my work, the way I light things is somewhere between glamour and realism.” 2010-01-28T21:30:00Z

Here they discuss genre, gender and the politics of “realism.” Writing to genre stinks: Two debut novelists on the hard line between fantasy and realism — and why it doesn’t make sense 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

Pictorial realism, with its artificial mirroring of nature, is absent. Art Review: When Picasso Changed His Tune 2011-02-10T22:50:56Z

But to a modern viewer, all this yields a captivating interplay of realism, abstraction and psychological mystery. ‘A Shared Legacy,’ at the American Folk Art Museum 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

In the eighteenth century, he goes on, moral realism was challenged by the new ideas of moral Romanticism, whereby the self was exalted rather than distrusted. David Brooks’s Search for Meaning 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

“Andrew Wyeth has always been central to our understanding of American realism in the 20th century,” said Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, curator of American art at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia. All the Andrew Wyeth No One Has Seen 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

A film that breaks with Bollywood and delivers an atypical dose of social realism that left its leading actor feeling depressed during shooting is India's only contender at this season's Cannes festival. In break from Bollywood, India's Cannes contender tackles Delhi's darker side 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

The underlying absurdity of those shows was redoubled through his lens, occasionally in the form of magical realism. The genius of Louis CK can fit in your pocket now 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z

That is not to say, however, that it lacks realism. Rereading: Memento Mori by Muriel Spark 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

Gradually, Ellison began searching for the deeper realism of fiction. Buck Ellison’s Great White Society 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

Israeli military dramas are typically constrained by shoestring budgets compared with those of American productions and defined by a gritty realism. ‘Tehran’ Is the Latest Israeli Thriller, Emphasis on Thrills 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

Delnon is aiming not for psychological realism, but for the artificiality of Baroque opera in his production. An Opera Composer of Intimate Spareness Returns to Myth 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

The multi-generational family tale, published in 1967, is widely considered one of the most influential novels of the 20th century and an early example of the magical realism style embraced by other Latin American authors. 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' coming to Netflix 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

The Wire met with nowhere near as much fanfare as The Sopranos, and was a far bolder project in terms of its realism, educational aspect and demanding subject matter. The Wire re-up: season five, episode seven ? The Wire v The Sopranos 2010-03-29T23:15:00Z

Yet Pialat’s aesthetic style is no throwback; his realism avoids facile diagnoses of his characters’ turbulence or its societal roots. The Misunderstood Maurice Pialat 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

"You buy the crazier elements by giving the audience more realism," the director told British television cinema channel Film4. Britain's 'kitchen sink' cinema finds dark new twist 2013-10-07T13:34:55Z

The year is 1944, the setting is a small New Mexico town, and magic realism reigns. ‘Bless Me, Ultima’: Choppy coming-of-age tale blessed with well-cast actors 2013-02-21T23:13:19Z

Mr. Lelio’s film is also a work of trenchant social and psychological realism. Best Pictures, Maybe, but Telluride Is Not About Oscars 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

I couldn't think of it this way at the time, but I had seen how realism may be bolstered by the actual. Ian McEwan: when faith in fiction falters – and how it is restored 2013-02-16T08:30:12Z

“I’m very self-conscious about the idea of realism,” he said. Film: Indie Filmmaker?s Seat-of-the-Pants Solutions 2011-02-12T06:33:51Z

"It never works in terms of its realism, it functions on the level of dream and imaginary." Alain Resnais fuses art forms in new comedy at Berlin festival 2014-02-10T21:25:50Z

I thought there was a tough realism about her work. “Lover, Beloved” is Suzanne Vega’s tribute to Carson McCullers and it is only the beginning 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

Well, I suspended my disbelief in good faith – and my scepticism about "magic realism" also – and Lee's brilliant digital work made that easy. Life of Pi – review 2012-12-20T21:30:02Z

But the fantasy is deeply rooted in realism. Turning Back Time on ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

The actors all navigate with elán the tricky border of psychological realism and satire. Review | ‘Slave Play’ is a funny, scalding, walk along the boundary between black and white in America 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

How do filmmakers hope to attain a credible degree of realism when the actual American president has systematically dismantled the notion of reality itself? Perspective | Trump’s exit may be too late to save the presidential movie 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

Making Marco Polo dumb fun would be just as legitimate as making it weighty historical realism. REVIEW: Khan Job: Netflix's Ludicrous Marco Polo 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Illustration of the followed an evolution from the courtly pastoral to ethnographic realism and from there to stylised fantasy. The Arabian Nights: a thousand and one illustrations 2011-03-12T00:06:32Z

But Mr. Sellars’s concept, which presents the story with vivid realism and fanciful style, is unaltered. Music Review: President and Opera, on Unexpected Stages 2011-02-03T17:34:09Z

It’s good to see other melted people” — she’s maintained her sense of humor and realism. “Star Wars” lets Princess Leia age realistically: Is this an alternate Hollywood universe? 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

Eastwood admired the musical and just tried to "open it up, give it a certain realism," in the film. 'Jersey Boys' director Eastwood puts high value on cast, script 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

The push for realism extended beyond speed bags. Familial Discord? Enough to Back a Boxer in a Corner 2011-01-09T02:34:37Z

The poisonous tea party the sisters plan for their employer contains aspects of absurdist comedy, but the play’s extravagant language pushes well past the bounds of realism into the realm of the stylized. Theater Review: ?The Maids? by Jean Genet, From Red Bull Theater 2012-03-16T02:00:00Z

So we’re watching characterizations removed from close realism — and yet how vivid, how detailed, it is. Mark Morris’s Party With Robots, Barbie and a Nutcracker 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

Even at Christian Dior, currently in limbo between designers, an attempt was made to “free” volumes and explore a “new realism.” Atelier Versace and Dior: The New Abnormal Normal? 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

At this point you can imagine Frey developing a more and more refined realism, but instead she went the other way, toward robust, archetypal simplification. 2010-02-16T22:40:00Z

That doesn’t mean the selection of work by six Marylanders, one Virginian and one Washingtonian includes much conventional realism. Review | In the galleries: Autobiographical pieces prevail at the Trawick Prize 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

“Everything is overly detailed. There is almost a magical realism.” Alexis Rockman Portrays the Great Lakes in Glory and Decline 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

Hopen packs in so much that “The Orchard,” which began as heightened realism, soon pushes well beyond the point of plausibility. A Sheltered Teenager Moves to Miami and Learns a Few Things 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

The ending is nearly indescribable, a phantasmagorical display of apocalyptic magic realism. ‘I Am Radar,’ by Reif Larsen 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

The weaving of rural roots and modern realism helped him to become the most acclaimed Irish poet since William Butler Yeats, who was awarded the Nobel prize in 1923. Ireland mourns 'keeper of language' poet Seamus Heaney 2013-08-30T17:44:08Z

The movie is blunt in presenting the patients’ emotional ups and downs, and shows the sometimes weary realism of the researchers. ‘The Human Trial’ Review: The Race for a Diabetes Cure 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

The artist employs a sort of photo realism, crisp yet sometimes blurry edged, that emulates Internet imagery. Review | In the galleries: Putting flat art into perspective 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

Her infatuation with McCarthy’s stems from a desire to do away with a realism modeled on authenticity and novelty. Literary realism is dead 2012-10-20T21:00:00Z

Elizabeth Wood’s “White Girl” is closer to urban social realism mixed with a cautionary drug-abuse fable. Bad girls, big trouble: The self-destructive young woman as feminist archetype 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

The story also converts its magical realism into lyrical allegory and raises poignant questions about the nature of refugee identity. Review | Studio Theatre’s ‘Flight’ soars by tackling big issues with miniature models 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

Describing Almond as "a creator of magical realism for children", the jury praised his "unique voice" and said that he "captures his young readers' imagination and motivates them to read, think and be critical". David Almond wins Hans Christian Andersen medal 2010-03-23T16:00:00Z

But Fellini’s early realism also included depictions of people having fun, falling in love, or simply growing up. Federico Fellini: 5 Reasons He Still Matters 2013-10-31T17:35:27Z

“The Young Pope,” debuting Sunday, Jan. 15, on HBO, lets Mr. Sorrentino once again use his trademark style — saturated Technicolor, a hint of magic realism — to explore some of his recurring preoccupations: power and loneliness. In HBO’s ‘The Young Pope,’ the Vatican Gets an Eccentric New Resident 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

Each begins with an origin story, a legend of his or her people's creation that sets a tone of magical realism. 'Confession of the Lioness' is a somber dance of hunter and hunted 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

Though “Desperate Characters” is a work of realism, a fierce symbolic current courses through it. Rereading Paula Fox’s “Desperate Characters” 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

His only full-length feature is an entrancing essay in modernist romanticism, rooted equally in realism and the language of dreams. Europe in 25 films: the critics’ choice 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

Mr. McMurtry was the son of a rancher, and the realism in his books extended to the Texas he knew as a young man. Larry McMurtry, Novelist of the American West, Dies at 84 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

“The creaking floors and the fireplace felt necessary to conjure for a sense of realism, like you’re eavesdropping. Then that’s in concert with these leaps of fantasy.” Anne Washburn Just Wants Her Trump Play to Be Irrelevant 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z

In time, magical realism may be seen as a self-imposed variant of orientalism, complicit in the exotic expectations of outsiders. The Blind Man's Garden by Nadeem Aslam – review 2013-02-11T07:00:01Z

Nowadays, though, he's just the latest rapper to have burnished his reputation thanks to judicious deployment of the online mixtape, last year's releases earning him praise for both his rhymes and his realism. Freddie Gibbs: Str8 Killa 2010-09-30T22:59:00Z

In interviews, Yuknavitch has said that, in conceiving the novel’s characters, she rejected “psychological realism,” and instead “selected a moment or two of emotional intensity and put those emotional intensities in motion.” The Wild, Remarkable Sex Scenes of Lidia Yuknavitch 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

The fears you are gripped by may appear selfish and slightly obsessive, but there’s also a degree of realism there. I dread a baby coming between me and my husband | Mariella Frostrup 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

This hard edge of realism keeps the novel from feeling overly writerly or twee. ‘Weathering’ review: A haunting debut set in the British countryside 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

Farhadi wanted the realism to be even more profound than in his other films and considered casting only non-actors at one point. Asghar Farhadi’s new film grapples with the idea of heroes 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z

And yet, all of this — the everyman quality, the realism, the vexed relationship to his own success — makes him ideal for Willy. Wendell Pierce Fulfills His American Dream: Playing Willy Loman 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

Roth is grateful to have grown up in 70s London, when a generation of writers were responding to Britain’s post-industrial decline with visceral social realism. Tim Roth: ‘As messy as your life can be, there has to be a window you can escape through' 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z

I do recall the unwise excursion into magic realism. AL Kennedy on her first book, Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains 2013-01-01T17:00:09Z

It offers a fresh model of how opera and music theater can successfully tackle contemporary issues: not with documentary realism — television and film have that covered — but with ambiguity, obliquity, even sheer confusion. ‘The Source,’ an Oratorio About Chelsea Manning’s Leaks 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

The cast are almost exclusively newcomers, which lends the film an almost sickening degree of realism. Cannes Film Festival 2013 2013-05-16T20:23:54Z

In his review, he wrote that the book “has created its own genre” of “unfiltered sexual realism.” The Young Queer Writer Who Became Greenland’s Unlikely Literary Star 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

He plays with tones, realisms and ideas in “Three Billboards,” including the sentimentally redeemed white racist, a character that suggests — despite the rage and invective — that Mr. McDonagh holds out hope for humanity after all. Review: On Violence and the Pain of Others in ‘Three Billboards’ 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

She brought a realism and truth to the role. The J.J. Abrams Interview: Inside Super 8 2011-06-06T10:25:00Z

Mr. Bailey used to be more sensitive to realism. Fashion Review: Young Designers Lead the Way at London Fashion Shows - Fashion Review 2011-09-21T17:58:26Z

It’s filled with faces that have life etched in them, which helps deepen the realism. ‘Bacurau’ Review: Life and Death in a Small Brazilian Town 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

His path was never straight from material realism toward greater abstraction. Critic?s Notebook: Paris Rediscovers Monet?s Magic at Grand Palais 2010-10-05T01:41:00Z

In 1963, during a crackdown on writers and artists, he was reprimanded by Khrushchev himself for “formalism,” which ostensibly violated the uplifting style of socialist realism. Andrei Voznesensky, 77, Celebrated Russian Poet, Dies 2010-06-01T20:19:00Z

Proust's series captured the experimentation of modernism while drawing upon the realism that defined mid-nineteenth-century fiction. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z

I think that the importance is not really whether it's realism or not, but rather that the movie is trying to make a statement by comparing the people who have and the have-nots. Netflix's Thai film "Hunger" was supposed to make you feel "uneasy" and grossed-out says director 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z

It's got an uplifting feel, almost like a gospel song, but it's also got a very hard realism about it. Paul Weller and Bruce Foxton on Town Called Malice 2012-11-12T17:33:06Z

You see that in “Bombshell,” which strengthens its realism and is finally more impressive than the prosthetics she wears that, with a husky scrape in her voice, turn her into Kelly’s uncanny double. ‘Bombshell’ Review: Blind Ambition and Blond Sedition at Fox News 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

But there is nothing inherently childish about the overlapping of the natural with the supernatural, and many novels written for adults even in the heyday of realism involve that overlap. Among Others by Jo Walton – review 2013-03-30T10:01:01Z

Roth’s book, by contrast, is a work of deep realism, much of it the thinly veiled autobiographical story of a family in midcentury Newark, N.J. A Different Kind of Dystopian Novel 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

Still, for all of the new realism of Polish cinema, even “Reverse” succumbs to the very contemporary need, in this age of insecurity, for myths and heroes, both in Poland and beyond. Polish Film's Amoral New Wave 2010-06-14T12:30:00Z

Dietze's staging isn't all that smooth, and there are a few clumsy moments when the play breaks with realism, but she elicits pungent performances from her cast. Lily Knight sets 'A Small Fire' aglow with her performance 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

Picasso did amazing things to the surface of his pictures that Leyendecker’s crisp realism couldn’t match. J.C. Leyendecker: The ‘Arrow Collar Man’ Who Hid a Radical Idea 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

He endorses Kissinger’s realism, but he is not an absolutist. How Do You Explain Henry Kissinger? 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

Hauntings, and the conflation of the natural with the supernatural, are hallmarks of magic realism in "One Hundred Years of Solitude," "Like Water for Chocolate" and many of the movement's important works. 'Three Messages': Mexican stories of the fantastic 2012-02-01T19:23:08Z

He challenged the boundaries of realism and abstraction with a boldness that predated Impressionist greats such as Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. Turner's Rome masterpiece breaks records at London auction 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

The bus rolls along wide, leafy streets, giving Nowa Huta a surprisingly parklike feeling despite block after block of drab, gray buildings designed in a form of architectural propaganda known as socialist realism. A former communist neighborhood showpiece offers a history lesson in Krakow, Poland 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

As a kind of diary of her inspirations, Fujii’s music troubles the divide between abstraction and realism. Satoko Fujii, a Pianist Who Finds Music Hidden in the Details of Life 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

She lumps the absurdism of Eugène Ionesco in with the realism of Ibsen, Shaw, Miller and Williams. 'Stella!' is a backstage portrait of acting guru Stella Adler 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

“It’s not about this completely realistic portrayal,” Davis said, before comparing the work to magic realism. ‘It’s Anthony’s Time’: A Composer Gets His Due 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

Lee isn’t writing magical realism per se — she is conjuring up a locale where the power of superstition still holds sway. Review | In ‘Red Island House,’ an American woman is enchanted, then repelled, by her time in Madagascar 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

Mo was hailed by the Nobel committee for merging "folk tales, history and the contemporary" with "hallucinatory realism". Mo Yan's Nobel nod a 'catastrophe', says fellow laureate Herta Müller 2012-11-26T13:36:08Z

Such contrivances spoil the sense of realism and place that Mr. Caple, who wrote the script, often so deftly evokes. Review: In ‘The Land,’ Fast Money Brings Friends Deep Trouble 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

It shattered conventions of realism and beauty, and, with its cutting up and rearranging of ordinary things to create multiple perspectives, it altered perceptions of time and space. Modern Is Modern Is ... 2011-06-03T20:27:28Z

Set during the Gold Rush with elements of magical realism, it focuses on two orphaned siblings who are fending for themselves in an American West where tigers roam. How a Chinese-American Novelist Wrote Herself Into the Wild West 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z

The film sometimes piles the pathos on a little too thickly, but it ends on a note of stark realism. Television Review: ?The Sound of Mumbai: A Musical? - Review 2011-11-22T23:20:20Z

So maybe what differentiates the occasional fan from the serious fan is the realism of the serious fan. Simon Critchley on football, philosophy and his new book 'What We Think About When We Think About Soccer' 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

Its power lies in how it confronts racism and white supremacy with a realism that dilates to contain the surreal nature of American life. Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

Etro’s show was all about magical realism: fabrics so beautiful in their paisley patterns embedded in plush velvet that they did not seem to belong to this harsh modern world. Happy Hybrids: High Tech Meets Heritage 2013-01-16T18:46:42Z

The majority of "Robin Hood" movies are much softer than Scott's because violent realism wasn't an existing style at the time they were made. How Robin Hood became a socialist 2010-05-11T21:01:00Z

These characters dominate the works at the Modern, where we see Degas’s realism softened and liberated, or conquered, by his prints. The Modern Degas You Haven’t Seen 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

And that fablelike quality, which absolves “Phoebe in Winter” from any demands of realism, sometimes tips it over into abstraction or silliness. Theater Review: ‘Phoebe in Winter,’ by Jen Silverman, at the Wild Project 2013-06-11T19:21:07Z

Fox and Mantell bring an unforced realism to their opening scenes. In 'Model Apartment' at the Geffen, family scars are skin deep — and to the bone 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

But the cinematic energy, fierce comic spirit and unflinching realism of Lee’s best work is already on display in this formative effort, which also inspired a recent Netflix series adaptation. Stream These 10 Movies Before They Leave Netflix in August 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

Schulz instinctively allowed just the tiniest bit of realism back into their proportions and postures, and somehow, I think, ineffably shaped them within the idiosyncrasies of his own handwriting. The Debt That All Cartoonists Owe to “Peanuts” 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

Webster, the director, makes sure to deliver the magic and the realism both. ‘Life of Pi’ Review: A Boy and a Tiger, Burning Brightly 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

Living in a communist bubble, writers had to toe the party line, embracing socialist realism and revolutionary romanticism. 2009-12-31T18:18:00Z

But Pi is a giant leap forward, outward and upward in expanding the resources of the evolving medium of movies. Magical realism was rarely so magical and never before so real. Ang Lee's Life of Pi: The Next Avatar 2012-09-29T00:40:28Z

The show is an overview of precisionism, the modern American movement that fetishized factories, ball bearings, silos and skyscrapers in an attempt to merge American realism with European abstraction. Review | Art of fanatical efficiency that has more to do with your Facebook feed than you think 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

Herrin's production, designed by Max Jones with meticulous realism, is disturbingly well acted. Review 2010-07-20T23:05:00Z

Maybe this is mythmaking or wishful thinking, but having spent a few days here in the dark I prefer to regard it as hardheaded realism. Cinema Is Dead? Telluride Says Not Yet 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

Old-fashioned because the dominant mode of stage realism today is argumentative: Characters squabble loudly over exactly what they want. Review: In ‘The Traveling Lady,’ Hope and Regret Run Neck and Neck 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

The diktats of social realism do not allow for the supernatural on stage. Ismail Kadare Grapples With the Supernatural 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

She practices not quite magical realism but a chaotic blurring or collapsing of the real and the imaginary, as if characters are simultaneously experiencing and dreaming everything that occurs. Lauren Groff’s Stunning New Collection, “Florida,” Unfolds “in an Eden of Dangerous Things” 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

And later, when Ibsen makes realism his prime mode, there is always a strong element of symbolism on display. Henrik Ibsen: the demon inside A Doll's House 2012-07-16T15:08:37Z

There is a glaring contrast between the art of Renaissance Florence, with its passionate recreations of classical myth and history, and the raw realism of northern European portraits of businessmen. The Medicis: money, myth and mystery 2011-08-10T16:36:28Z

The most memorable scene, one done many times on screen but rarely with this level of harrowing realism, depicts a comedian walking onstage and telling jokes while no one laughs. | Comedy : ‘Louie’ and ‘Sleepwalk With Me’ 2012-06-21T21:39:32Z

As the famous "Saturday Night Live" parody, "Don Draper’s Guide to Women," astutely pointed out, his magnetism — despite the show's historical realism — is a James Bond fantasy. Why "Mad Men" is bad for women 2010-07-23T11:01:00Z

Some elements of Mr. Audiard’s style — off-center close-ups, restless camera movements, natural light and naturalistic sound — align him with the strain of austere, somber, ethically engaged European realism that often dominates the film festival circuit. Review: ‘Dheepan,’ About Sri Lankan Refugees, Looks Like a Prophecy 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

“Claudine,” the story of a romance between a garbage collector and a single mother on welfare, is a potent, tender, unjustly neglected work of ’70s social realism. You Know These 20 Movies. Now Meet the Women Behind Them 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

These quick recalibrations—from contemporary realism to suspense to epic—convey bravura, a giddy sense of possibility, a love of story. In Mark Haddon’s “The Porpoise,” Storytelling Is an Instrument of Violence and Solace 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

But given the extraordinary everyday realism of the scene, he can't just laugh it off or ignore it either. Louis C.K. is a boldly honest TV dad on 'Louie' 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

Equally they could be the imprudently expressed justification of an escapist drama, with no pretensions to realism, of a reasonable man who knows his market. Beware the jolly journalists who add a splash of mischief to their interviews 2011-03-20T00:05:20Z

In contrast, the “Cultivated Landscape” section reveals that Munch’s painterly realism could become generic when he turned to farm animals, like horses. A Less Anxious Edvard Munch 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

The “24” franchise is not known for maintaining any shred of realism, and “24: Legacy” does little if anything to correct that. New hero, same old day: “24: Legacy” returns a time-worn franchise to TV with a fresh face 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

It's not a crisis, but it should mark the end of illusions about youth, and the onset of realism. Diamond jubilee: writers reflect on growing up Elizabethan 2012-06-01T21:50:02Z

Once again, Gownley deftly combines humor and realism to create a thought-provoking story guaranteed to resonate with readers, who also will appreciate his wonderfully drawn illustrations. Corner: Graphic novels for youngsters that rise above kid stuff 2010-06-16T19:02:00Z

Forced to weigh in on the conversation, she expressed a bold realism that I found refreshing. Modern Love: What Is Carved in Stone 2011-05-27T17:29:32Z

One slogan of an earlier era of student revolt was “be realistic: demand the impossible,” and Ms. Keshavarz’s indifference to some of the sober conventions of realism is very much in this spirit. | 'Circumstance': ?Circumstance,? Directed by Maryam Keshavarz - Review 2011-08-25T21:59:50Z

It is almost naive, with some echoes of Latin American magical realism, and completely apolitical. Gritty police film a hit in Brazil 2010-12-14T09:19:34Z

In a brief and perceptive introduction, Sadie Stein describes Comyns’s style as “unsentimental magical realism” that is “uncanny yet matter-of-fact, spooky yet gentle.” Evil Stepmother, Reimagined 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

But by the time of Mikhailov’s youth, socialist realism had become the only permitted style, and imagery of the revolution had decayed into Stalinist kitsch. The Life’s Work of Photography’s Great Trickster, and Ukraine’s Greatest Artist 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

Paul Smithyman’s production design is, like so many of the greatest horror movies rooted, in a grim realism. ‘Killers: A Nightmare Haunted House’ at Clemente Soto Vélez 2012-10-03T20:25:37Z

Once the balls are introduced, Jiménez’s play becomes even less interested in realism, employing fantasy as a literal way of getting these characters out of their situations. Review: ‘Bruise & Thorn,’ a Gay Fantasia at a Laundromat 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z

But as the paintball scene helps establish early, the series forgoes the usual reductive clichés about reservation life — the show is neither pitying, nor mysticizing — in favor of a nuanced and comic realism. ‘Reservation Dogs’ Uses Humor, Not Magic, to Conjure Native Culture 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

Yet because much of the rest of the story is so underdeveloped — notably Claire’s intimate life with her frustratingly generic children — the character overwhelms everything, including the fragile realism. ‘Who You Think I Am’ Review: A Woman of Feeling, in Bed and Out 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Life is cheap on TV, or rather death is–it’s plentiful, showy, devoid of realism or consequence. Dead Tree Alert: How TV Does, and Doesn’t, Deal With Death 2013-10-24T14:59:19Z

The film’s title is an apt description of its commitment to lightly exaggerated, comically inflected realism. Movie Review: Lake Bell Stars in Her Directing Debut, ‘In a World’ 2013-08-08T22:02:17Z

“That was a moment when realism was something that artists were moving toward,” Talbot said. Degas exhibited only one sculpture in his lifetime; now 70 have gone on view 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

Fay says Hollywood movies, even those like the Academy Award winner "The Hurt Locker" that was praised for its realism, portray soldiers as action heroes. War film documents grim Afghan reality for troops 2010-08-06T16:40:00Z

Mattila’s character appears in just two scenes early in the opera, but the grim realism of her death from cancer can leave an impression that lingers until the tragic conclusion. Painful death scene doesn’t deter soprano Karita Mattila 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Mesches moved from straightforward realism to a more idiosyncratic style, with surrealistic touches that infused his social panoramas with a dreamlike, often nightmarish, quality. Arnold Mesches, Artist Who Was Recorded by the F.B.I., Dies at 93 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

This absence results in a certain unopposed homogeneity dominated by a fairly academic quest for realism. Crystal Bridges, the Art Museum Walmart Money Built ? Review 2011-12-26T15:29:45Z

Blending sweetness and darkness, tragedy and domestic comedy, abstract art-school cinema and documentary realism, "Putty Hill" is a fresh, vital and emotionally engaging indie breakthrough. "Putty Hill": An off-the-radar indie breakthrough 2011-02-18T21:20:00Z

And in “Pyewacket,” a recent indie gem, the contentious mother-daughter relationship is rooted in such heartbreaking realism that it evokes “Lady Bird,” plus witchcraft. Home Is Where the Horror Is 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

The metaphor may be heavy handed, but it is a moment of magical realism that works here because of what the characters reveal to each other in this scene. “The Relationtrip”: A movie that is equal parts romance and road trip hits the skids 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

“The whole premise of baseball-umpire camp is to perpetuate naïve realism,” Rosin said. “Invisibilia” Returns—with Timely Concepts 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

The prevailing fashion in mainstream American comics at the time Morrison's "Doom Patrol" began was grim post-"Dark Knight Returns" realism; by the time his run ended, the biggest superhero comics were incoherent muscles-and-pouches spectacles. 'Doom Patrol Omnibus' shows Grant Morrison's master plan 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Welch’s blend of lyricism and sadness and magical realism and hilarity—it just felt real. Sherman Alexie: “It’s funny that Hollywood would hire an Indian to make white people more likable” 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Against their illustrative realism and patriotic myth making, Marin sought an equivalence between the energy of nature and the formal and material vitality of painting. Art Review: Testing the Waters of Abstraction 2011-08-04T22:02:30Z

This new novel offers up a rich selection of domestic realism, gothic fantasy and apocalyptic speculation, stretching around the world from the Margaret Thatcher era of the 1980s to the Endarkenment of 2043. Review: ‘The Bone Clocks,’ by David Mitchell

Penkov's story "so ambitiously and successfully united personal and political life, joining inner and outer worlds through its deployment of different kinds of realism: social and magical and folkloric," she said. Miroslav Penkov wins BBC international short story award 2012-10-03T12:22:33Z

I was pretty blown away by the realism of that insane beast. Q. and A.: ‘Game of Thrones’ Actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau on Jaime Lannister’s Charge 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

As the details gather, thickening the story, what seemed like drift is revealed as textured realism. Review: In ‘Support the Girls,’ Sisterhood Is Funny, Essential and Sweet 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Such realism is also reflected in Greenwood's insistence on dialogue faithful to the Salfordian-Mancunian dialect. Rereading: Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z

But it never feels like medicinal social realism, because the clock is ticking and Ree's got to find her no-account dad somewhere in this world of terrifying and dangerous backwoods thugs. "Winter's Bone": American film of the year? 2010-06-12T23:01:00Z

“Brooklyn’s Finest,” despite Mr. Fuqua’s canny use of real locations, mainly in Brownsville, is hardly a work of realism. Movie Review | 'Brooklyn?s Finest': When Troubled Cops Cross the Thin Blue Line 2010-03-04T22:53:00Z

It is hard to dispute the long marriage between fantasy and realism. ‘The Magician’s Land,’ the final volume of Lev Grossman’s Magicians Trilogy

A classic of American realism, it follows a year in the lives of three generations of a Jewish family in cramped quarters. An Asian-American Theater Company Cuts a Fresh Casting Trail 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

There’s a sense of realism that Craig T. Nelson brings to Bob Parr, almost an honesty as he lives his life as a father and husband of a superhero family. 11 Great Vocal Performances in Pixar Movies 2013-08-13T09:45:16Z

The twist that got him to Season 3 — big spoiler alert here, if you aren’t caught up — was a particularly egregious departure from the meticulous naturalism and psychological realism he mostly employs. Review: ‘The Fall’ Returns, but Will the Deadly Hunt Continue? 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

The filmmakers also prioritized realism in another area: A more realistic depiction of female bodies. ‘Lilo & Stitch’ at 20: How It Broke the Mold Long Before ‘Moana’ 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

Critics praised its blend of contemporary realism and village legend, with Ron Charles of the Washington Post highlighting its "refreshingly un-American" treatment of the subject of death. Obreht youngest winner of UK's Orange fiction prize 2011-06-08T18:17:33Z

“Veronica,” by Nicholas Christopher, is noir magical realism about love and jazz and Tibet, which shouldn’t work but does. Jennifer Weiner Used to Read Her Father’s Medical Textbooks for Fun 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

Plays that mix realism and absurdity can be difficult to stage effectively. Review: In ‘Hunter Gatherers,’ a Couples’ Dinner Grows Increasingly Bizarre 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

But the overly broad performances, especially in the zippy courtroom scenes, drain the movie of nuance and blunt its realism, and the contrapuntal his-and-her flashbacks add little. Review: In ‘Marshall,’ a Legal Pioneer Gives History a Shove 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

She brings a convincing realism to the most preposterous situations or maybe she’s just an actor with limited range. ‘M3gan’ Review: Wherever I Go, She Goes 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

Her mixture of feminine and feminist realism underpins the speaker's own cool self-confidence. Poem of the week: Relational Epistemology by Heather Phillipson 2013-05-07T10:35:31Z

This angry film is a forceful slice of life, clearly indebted to the realism of Ken Loach, in whose My Name Is Joe Mullan starred, and to whose Kes it nods. Neds ? review 2011-01-23T00:05:53Z

Great, I thought I was adding a touch of realism to the show, but I was just being used to appeal to the all-important “blue state over 56” demographic. Political Cameos on 'The Good Wife'? Donna Brazile Likes Them. 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

This focus on the Union is not a matter of political realism. Exhibition Review: ‘The Civil War in America’ at Library of Congress 2013-01-10T20:02:01Z

But setting half of "Call of Duty: Black Ops II" in the year 2025 could be the riskiest gambit yet for the successful shoot-'em-up series known for its relentless past-and-present realism. 'Call of Duty: Black Ops II' aims toward future 2012-11-09T14:52:09Z

The only realism that matters here is the inner terrain of the characters. Love, trickery and the drama of uncertainty: It's 'Heisenberg' at the Taper 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

American realism has seeped into the world's cultural reservoir through movies and television, yet our artists have been a little too content to stick to their own patch of ground. Tony Awards 2015: Yet another British invasion of America 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

The script may be over-explicit at moments, and it takes time to adjust to characters written as larger-than-life figures in a tale that, though inspired by history, proceeds with a fable-like disregard for realism. Tragic 'Twenty-Seventh Man' brings power of the pen to bear 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

Her hymn to the power of resistance, perseverance and enduring love in dark times employs a character of ancient magical realism, the golem. Alice Hoffman Brings Magical Realism to the Holocaust Novel 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

For an industry and art form that put a premium on realism, authenticity and distinct voices and visions, the path forward couldn’t be clearer: This is what crews look like. Perspective | ‘Inclusion rider’ might be a new phrase, but the idea has been working for a while 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

“They opted for the strongest dramaturgy at the expense, maybe, of realism.” ‘The Bureau’ Is an International Hit. Why Did Its Creator Hand It Off? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

The vaunted realism of Kazan’s films can seem downright sentimental compared with “Wanda,” which has an honesty about marriage, work, sex and class that still feels radical and raw. You Know These 20 Movies. Now Meet the Women Behind Them 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

He includes two sharply critical pieces — a review of Paul Auster and his famous takedown of “hysterical realism,” the hectic, information-besotted novels of the early aughts, including Zadie Smith’s “White Teeth.” In ‘Serious Noticing,’ James Wood Closely Reads Chekhov and Others — Including Himself 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

Vaughan’s incredible universe is made credible through Staples’s realism. The Best of New Sci-Fi and Fantasy, From an Intergalactic Love Story to New York City Under Water 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

This allowed for a full flowering of realism, naturalism and impressionism — those “arrested forms” that he found still evolving in Myanmar. Cultured Traveler: Burmese Artists Look to New Horizons 2011-10-21T18:50:00Z

That is a different kind of realism, one more in tune with what Manet, and Velázquez’s other later fans, would call the painting of modern life. Velázquez’s Infinite World in a Handful of Portraits 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

The game plays down the realism, allowing you to hurl even the lowest-slung Italian sports car over rocks and dales, perhaps while listening to Bach’s Air on G String on the in-game radio. The Best Video Games of 2018 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

Louis CK’s Louie has never been too interested in neatness: not in its narratives, its protagonist’s psyche, its relationships, its realism or lack thereof. Rape, Relationships, and a Messy (for Good and Bad) Louie Season 4 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

In the 1980s he pushed it in the direction of realism, generating rocks, then plants, then people. Harold Cohen, a Pioneer of Computer-Generated Art, Dies at 87 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

Ms. Brown’s acrid palette and stylized, often grotesque figures signal a departure from her earlier, more sedate realism. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

In the next months, the project was called, among other things, “a sickening story” and an example of “neoliberal magical realism.” What Happened After Mexico’s Greatest Architect Was Turned Into a Diamond 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

In its realism, Mr. Robot resonates in a way that a mystery about a murderer who wears a bird mask and burns out his sex-addicted victim’s eyes with acid cannot. 'Mr. Robot' Is the Antidote to Your 'True Detective' Blues 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

There’s no soundtrack, for instance, until the third act, and even then, Brian Williams’s score sounds less like music than like an unsettling alien soundscape, more appropriate to sci-fi than to psychological realism. Paul Schrader, the writer of ‘Taxi Driver,’ shifts gears with ‘First Reformed’ 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

"I loved that… Hugh's instinct was smart: he understood that achieving a shocking level of realism would help to bed-in the live singing." Tom Hooper: 'At 12, I swore I'd have my own film in the cinema' 2012-12-29T22:01:20Z

As always with Gotham, the production — directed with a sure blend of realism and stylization by Rebecca Taichman — was well prepared, though the chamber orchestration’s clarity was necessarily muddied by the outdoor amplification. Music Review: Gotham Chamber Opera Offers ‘Hija de Rappaccini’ Outdoors 2013-06-21T19:28:50Z

Some of Mr. Schwimmer’s realism was in evidence at the Daily Grill. Out of Character, in the Director?s Chair 2011-03-25T18:45:10Z

It is an act of terrible spiritual violence, and like all violent acts it is shocking to witness — as is, I might add, the physical violence George inflicts on Martha, depicted with gut-churning realism here. Theater Review: Tracy Letts in ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ 2012-10-14T21:52:14Z

That gave me comfort, both for its utopian vision and for Killmonger's realism. Before John Boyega became "Star Wars" hero Finn, he was far more revolutionary in "Attack the Block" 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

Other writers have left the constraints of realism behind. Why doesn't fiction deliver birth scenes? 2012-08-05T18:00:01Z

I appreciated the realism of seeing Ellie bring the penicillin back to the unconscious Joel and having no idea how to give it to him. ‘The Last of Us’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap: There But for the Grace 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

The characters are exactly the New York types who pore over current events, and the complete absence of any mention of Democrats and Republicans somewhat undermines the film’s psychological realism. Movie Review: ‘In Our Nature,’ Directed by Brian Savelson 2012-12-07T01:21:09Z

This year, more than a few selections also incorporate fantastical interludes — from brief hallucinations to alternative worlds — that productively complicate and on occasion destabilize their realism. At New Directors/New Films, See the World Through Perceptive Filmmakers’ Eyes 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

Her own sister and father had died a year apart, and she figured the show, which operates with an unusual degree of realism, might as well mirror that. ‘Somebody Somewhere’ Celebrates a Life With Tears and Jokes 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

An unsentimental and unpatronising portrayal of an unhappy marriage, it struck a new note of sombre and sensitive realism. Stan Barstow obituary 2011-08-01T19:06:48Z

Indeed, much to the dismay of our audience, we abandoned our own realism and shot to the moon with “A City by the Light Divided,” produced by Dave Fridmann. ‘Flora and Son’ and the Unspoken Truth About Songwriting 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z

But oil paintings from these years that in their realism or cropping look “photographic” were in all likelihood drawn without any such aids. ‘Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting’ Review: An Unclear Creative Influence 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

For all we know, this is really what it felt like in Hoxha’s Albania, and “The Accident” may be less a parable than a kind of topsy-turvy realism. Books of The Times: Power Struggles and Riddles, in Romance and Political Intrigue 2010-11-23T23:27:00Z

The shift is dramatic: Murillo-style realism one year, the equivalent of psychedelia the next. The Picasso Museum Reopens in Paris 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

It's when the icy waters of scepticism start to rise round the skirts of realism herself that I know my long night has begun. Ian McEwan: when faith in fiction falters – and how it is restored 2013-02-16T08:30:12Z

Mr. Shindo’s body of work was known for its vast stylistic diversity: over six decades it ranged across social realism, horror, sex comedy and documentary. Kaneto Shindo, Filmmaker, Dies at 100 2012-06-01T15:03:10Z

She says that the “strongest argument” in favor of some of the most fantastical sounding measures tends to be a sober realism: “What’s the alternative?” Electrified Rivers and Other Attempts to Save the Environment 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

Other writers use dialogue in the same way they use formal narration: to express profound ideas in complex language with scant regard for realism. The unreal art of realistic dialogue 2010-03-18T10:54:00Z

One of the most striking features of “Undertow” is that despite a strong element of magic realism surrounding the topic of death, the story ends up feeling strangely natural. Director Helps Put Peru on the Film Map 2010-09-28T11:41:00Z

It had an epic stature and invited us to share the characters' sense of outrage. , on the other hand, is a quiet, understated picture, an exercise in what might be called stoical realism. London River 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

If you know “Streetcar,” you may remember Blanche’s famous cry: “I don’t want realism. I want magic!” ‘Asteroid City’ Review: Our Town and Country 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

Just five years later, in “Bambi,” the studio was making conscious decisions to avoid realism in the artwork. How “Bambi” paved the way for both “Fallout 4″ and “Angry Birds” 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

Slipping the bounds of narrow realism, Tiffany's production was joyous, raucous and inventive. John Tiffany: from Black Watch to Peter Pan 2010-04-05T20:35:00Z

Its stylistic and psychological realism calls to mind Dutch contemporaries like Rembrandt and Vermeer. Art Review: Italian Paintings From the Feigen Collection, at Yale 2010-06-10T21:43:00Z

These installments also introduces hints of Japanese mythology and the Shinto religion that washes the story with a fraught animism and magical realism. Brit Bennett's "The Vanishing Half" and 4 more must-read novels out in June 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

The stress of outperforming realism in works of speculative fiction sometimes risks a dangerous rise in the literary mercury. Review | Most novelists avoid all mentions of Donald Trump. Mark Doten went the other direction. 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

In the Newark painting he makes a critical point covertly, by using Western realism to depict an African ruler who had the powers of a god, and a world-conquering god at that. Art Review: Some of Simon Ottenberg’s Gifts in ‘The Art of Translation’ 2013-08-15T21:58:16Z

I'm sure that my work isn't typical of Argentinian literature, or of South American literature – a little bit of tango, a little bit of magic realism. Why Martin Kohan won't tango 2010-09-17T15:20:00Z

The novel hovers awkwardly between farce and psychological realism. The most pleasant novel about pornography you’ll ever read 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

Bypassing Italy’s long tradition of pictorial realism, she had nothing to unlearn but everything to invent. Paola Pivi’s American Moment 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

“I would say this is linked to a Latin American, Caribbean idea of magic realism, which is about the convergence of reality, history, myth and the imaginary,” he said. Bright Colors, Dark Subjects: Hew Locke’s Unsettling Pageant 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

“The idea was to stretch realism as much as possible, so that everything could happen, but that nonetheless the sensation of the strange is very strong,” Schweblin said. For Latin American Women, Horror and Fantasy Capture Everyday Struggle 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

He argues that, from Biblical times right up until the mid-nineteen-forties, a culture of what he calls “moral realism” prevailed. David Brooks’s Search for Meaning 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

It may not convert, or convince, but it is certainly arresting: not magic realism exactly, but rather the director's very own brand of magic naturalism. Biutiful ? review 2011-01-27T15:00:01Z

Benton, however, did not change, or changed in the wrong, retrograde direction, going from experiments with vanguard modes, including abstraction, to the nativist realism that briefly made his name. ‘Thomas Hart Benton,’ by Justin Wolff 2012-06-29T22:17:16Z

I think hyper-realism can only exist in contrast to a kind of realism that is fairly flawed. On the Runway: Q & A: Philip-Lorca Di Corcia 2011-02-11T15:44:28Z

"Crazy, Stupid, Love" mirrors the type of movie Carell wants to pursue, particularly its blend of comedy and drama, and its focus on character-based realism. Out of 'The Office,' Steve Carell turns his focus to film 2011-07-27T22:32:04Z

Arriving at the proper balance between theatricality and realism is tricky with Beckett's work. Beckett classic 'Happy Days' on superb ground at Boston Court 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

But no artist of the time painted women with greater empathy and psychological realism then did the egregiously overlooked Isabel Bishop. Art Review: ‘Swing Time,’ Reginald Marsh Show, Focuses on ’30s New York 2013-07-04T17:36:22Z

If the first-person yarns of “Jesus’ Son” struck some readers as documentary realism, they were anything but. Remembering Denis Johnson: A struggle with fate, faith, America and imagination 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

He’d published 14 previous novels, often fantastical works that blend history and politics with elements of magical realism. Salman Rushdie Has a New Book, and a Message: ‘Words Are the Only Victors’ 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z

The realism of cinema converges mesmerizingly with the representational schema of the stage. Review | This gutsy new ‘West Side Story’ is unlike any you’ve seen — and it’s exhilarating 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

The decision to shoot on 16mm rather than digital pays splendid visual dividends, lending richly colourful texture to the proceedings as they slip effortlessly between grainy realism and fantasy. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-02-10T00:05:14Z

“First Reformed” wrestles with contemporary reality, but it isn’t a work of realism in the way that term is conventionally understood. Review: ‘First Reformed’ Is an Epiphany. Ethan Hawke Is, Too. 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

For caricature to exist in the first place there has to be a tradition of mimetic realism in place. Art Review: ?Infinite Jest? at the Metropolitan Museum - Review 2011-09-15T21:19:50Z

She does well with waggish material, like the delightful writing-workshop comedy “Seminar,” but her attempts at realism don’t feel real. Evan Cabnet Directs Theresa Rebeck’s ‘Poor Behavior’ 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

This movie might as well be set in Czarist Russia or on the Ice-Diamond Planet of K'Znorg, for all the realism it provides. "Sex and the City 2's" incomprehensible badness 2010-05-27T00:20:00Z

The basic elements are rough, ground-level realism; a sparsely-populated mountainous landscape; and a small group of Western soldiers dealing with a wary, sometimes hostile, population. Review: ‘Neither Heaven Nor Earth’ Engages the Horrors of War 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

The duo is probably best known for crafting 2009’s 500 Days of Summer, an honest dramedy that presents romantic realisms instead of romantic clichés. Here’s How to Make a Breakup Less Painful 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

It conveys the current American condition of inequality in a flurry of emotion and realism. 'Blade Runner 2049 is a roaring achievement': readers on the best films of 2017 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

McCraney's work, a gumbo of myth, poetry and musical fragments, registers an impatience with realism even when capturing a moment with just the right messy detail. Keeping the faith in Tarell Alvin McCraney's 'Head of Passes' 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

One is the urban realism of Reginald Marsh, George Bellows and other American painters who flourished in the early 20th century before the ascension of Abstract Expressionism. Review: ‘Art Bastard’ Depicts Robert Cenedella, a Rebel Artist 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

But if hitwoman movies were concerned with realism, they wouldn’t make their female assassins charismatic stunners. Assassins in stockings and stilettos: is it time movies killed off hitwoman cliches? 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z

And it's only in the second act, as all realism is blown to the winds, that this Giselle becomes the great, shivering drama it's meant to be. Mikhailovsky ballet – review 2013-03-27T18:20:14Z

His work holds in balance the tensions between visionary revelation and realism, design and colour, painting and sculpture, showing the ambiguities of his world, on the cusp of the middle ages and modernity. Jan Gossaert's Renaissance ? review 2011-03-04T10:52:10Z

Effortlessly composed, rendered in small, exquisite prints, the images both document and romanticize a harsh life lived close to nature with a memorably strange and lyric realism. Art in Review: DEFINITIONS: Shalva Alkhanaidze, Natela Grigalashvili, Guram Tsibakhashvili 2011-09-29T21:51:41Z

No one thinks of Mae West as a purveyor of social realism, but perhaps people should. Mae West Vamped and Winked. She Also Blazed a Trail We’re Still Following. 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

These kinds of anomalies could be explained as simply the conventions of 19th-century ballet, where realism is hardly a priority. Guillaume Bart’s ‘La Source,’ From Paris Opera Ballet 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

“Northwest Highway,” named after a road nobody in Chicago takes very far, is a wise and moving play, produced with the right mixture of yearning and realism, qualities very much in evidence in Jefferson Park. 'Northwest Highway' Moving up or movingly stuck in place 2011-06-08T00:39:21Z

Varga, a bulimic loan shark with decaying teeth and far-right political leanings, has been a hilariously chilling aspect of this season’s exploration of “alternative facts” and magical realism. Actor David Thewlis on the ‘Fargo’ Season Finale, V.M. Varga and Greed 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

Alcaraz mirrors this dynamic with his mash-up art: The historical figures are typically rendered with a certain cartoon realism, while much of the rest of the action is drawn in a simple, iconic style. ‘A Most Imperfect Union,’ a retelling of U.S. history by Ilan Stavans and Lalo Alcaraz

The Swedish Academy, which decides on the award, said the novelist's "hallucinatory realism" merged folk tales, history and the contemporary, and created a world reminiscent of those forged by William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez. Mo Yan's Nobel prize for literature sparks celebration in China 2012-10-11T18:33:56Z

Among the genres traversed are farce, adventure, social realism, puppetry, Japanese drama and YouTube documentary. Review: ‘A Room in India’ Overflows With Astonishing Visions 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

“They both brought such pain and realism to that loss that they were both responsible for.” 'The Americans' Showrunners on That Shocking Death From Season 3's Premiere 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

It has also been praised by critics for its terrifying psychological realism. Roy Ward Baker, Prolific British Filmmaker, Dies at 93 2010-10-08T05:43:00Z

Here, the Bond glitz was displaced by Saltzman's other favoured ethos, kitchen sink realism, and some kind of 60s circle was made complete. The name's Saltzman, Harry Saltzman 2012-09-28T16:00:00Z

This is where “Crisis” begins to flunk the realism smell test. Realism held hostage in NBC’s new drama ‘Crisis’ 2014-03-14T20:24:38Z

The world they inhabit is fleshed out with unassuming, sensitive realism, even when the story falters. ‘Close’ Review: This Boy’s Life 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

The comedy paid dearly for it; viewership dropped by nearly a third between the first and second season finales, even as many critics heralded the writing’s realism and sensitivity of Cash’s performance. “You’re the Worst” returns at its best: Finding comedy in depression and the rocky road to wellness 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

In general, Billions chooses furthering the plot over fealty to realism just about every time. Review: 'Billions' Is Bullish on Drama, Bearish on Insight 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

And it delivers all the spectacle of a sports feature with the intimacy and social realism of nonfiction — an even truer, grittier “Blind Side.” The Carpetbagger?s 2012 Oscar Predictions 2012-02-24T00:38:40Z

Sculptors in Spain went for more perishable media, like wood and ceramic, and for expressive realism, the more naturalistically detailed and colorful the better. With Splendor and Saints, Hispanic Society Shows Its Treasures 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Your use of werewolves, zombies and other mythical creatures is always married to a sense of realism. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Manuel Gonzales on His Story Collection 'The Miniature Wife' 2013-01-24T14:30:39Z

Last week I worried about the show’s tendency toward realism at the expense of comedy; that continues here, but at least the payoff is a searing critique of the very mind-set that fuels this place. 'Silicon Valley' Recap: How Will Pied Piper Be Any Different? 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

“Spare Parts,” the serviceable but uninspired inspirational film by director Sean Mc­Namara, is a modern-day version of “Stand and Deliver,” minus the grit and realism. ‘Spare Parts’: Tale of robot-building teens doesn’t quite deliver 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

On designer Robert Selender’s detailed set, the doings between two dovetailed back porches unfold with poetic realism, wry humor and a surging erotic charge. William Inge's 'Picnic' finds the universal in a small Kansas town 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

This schism between realism and cartoon amplifies the absurdity of his story lines, letting him sneak in his social criticisms. Shigeru Mizuki’s War-Haunted Art and Life 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

But she added something confidently her own at every stylistic stop: whether realism, social realism or abstraction. Looking Twice at Renoir and O’Keeffe (Ida, not Georgia) 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

In these tiny pictures from the early 1920s, he defines the lasting tension in his art between American-derived realism and European-derived abstraction, between populism and classicism. Stuart Davis, Heady Abstract Realist, at the Whitney 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

I don't personally respond to the design in "Beowulf," "Polar Express," "Christmas Carol," "Final Fantasy" or anything that skews toward realism. Best and worst animated characters, explained 2011-02-09T21:15:00Z

But for its cover this year, the magazine has decided to dispense with even the pretext of realism, by trotting out a bloodless, nearly 55-year-old female who’s a collection of fake body parts. Sports Illustrated’s absurd, trolling Barbie cover 2014-02-13T18:49:00Z

Ms. Hurt’s Jeanette, Will’s embittered but caring mother — who like millions of older Americans faces an uncertain economic future with diminishing resources — nurses an abiding disappointment along with a stoic realism. | 'Lebanon, Pa': In a Small Town, Big Life-Changers 2011-04-29T04:03:01Z

Bartlett’s work inspired her think about her work in relationship to a larger tradition of American realism, looking for ways to tell African American stories within that tradition. Perspective | Painting Michelle Obama brought Amy Sherald fame. Now, the artist wants to make works ‘to rest your eyes.’ 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

Born in the shadow of entrenched realism and naturalism, Céline ripped up the textbook. Céline's journey to the cutting edge of literature 2013-06-15T11:01:00Z

Cain's fiction is passionate and sometimes lurid -- noir traits for sure -- but it also owes a great deal to social realism. "Mildred Pierce" is a quiet, heartbreaking masterpiece 2011-03-24T14:43:00Z

But its treatment of these subjects is perhaps undercut by its conventionality, which even extends to the movie’s left turn into a kind of magic realism late in the story. Review: In Search of a Dying Tongue in ‘I Dream in Another Language’ 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

One response is the raw social realism of Fish Tank and Shane Meadows's Dead Man's Shoes. French films glow with confidence and culture. Ours should do the same 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

It is neither tacky nor tasteless, and if tawdry, that’s an essential part of its disturbing realism. A 'Carmen' in San Francisco breaks down barriers 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

The comparison makes sense, in a way--it is a new format that can enhance the realism of films and television. Sundance 2015: The perils and pleasures of VR cinema 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z

The artworks were maligned for not depicting the “Aryan values” and artistic realism that the Nazis coveted. German Art Rejected by Nazis Is Embraced in Israel 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

“I think it always adds an element of realism when you can shoot in the actual place, and you’re not constructing soundstages,” he said. Television: AMC?s ?Rubicon? Offers Spies and Paranoia 2010-07-23T20:51:00Z

It’s a welcome shift, though, when she dispenses with magic for realism. What Constitutes a Foreigner? Two Story Collections Explore 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

“For all its sorrowful realism, ‘The Crying Game’ believes in the kind of redemption not often seen in movies since the 1930s and ’40s,” Vincent Canby wrote in his review for The New York Times. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love’ and ‘The Eleven’ 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

King’s restrained prose explodes in an ending that combines contemporary realism with cosmic horror reminiscent of H.P. Book review: ‘Revival,’ by Stephen King

But the play challenges Carmela and la Perdida to negotiate realism, fantasy and everything in between, a challenge they giddily accept, occasionally finding genuine poignancy even in the midst of the irrational and bizarre. ‘Notes on Killing’ Review: For These Puerto Ricans, Promises Never Kept 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z

As African writers and even black spec writers from across the world began to be published by the Western context, they would lump it in with magical realism. Wayétu Moore on writing the immortal heroine of "She Would Be King": "She grew as I grew" 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

Every few seconds, the image glitches, apparently for added realism. ‘Zero Contact’ Review: A Token of the Times 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

In his bourgeois portraits, we can admire the verve, inventiveness and psychological oddity; in his religious works, we can find searching anatomical realism and sense the storm clouds of the Reformation. Bronzino's Medici portraits ? review 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z

In the scenes filmed outdoors in New Zealand, Bradshaw added that the high frame rate style had "immediacy and glitter" and brought "an almost documentary realism to the fable". Critics mixed on Hobbit film 2012-12-11T11:33:19Z

This is a refined realism of the sort Flaubert himself championed, storytelling that accrues detail by lean detail. A Portrait of a Stalwart Life, and of America Itself 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

This is what Hoffman turns to, mixing brutal realities with magical realism. Alice Hoffman Brings Magical Realism to the Holocaust Novel 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

It is a role that could easily have been clichéd but in Peake's hands it acquired depth and realism. Maxine Peake: 'People go to therapy. I've got a hoover' – interview 2013-03-24T00:02:01Z

It’s fatally sentimental and, at times, improbable, even as it labors for realism. The Idealized, Introverted Wives of MacKenzie Bezos’s Fiction 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

Ceylan infuses the film with elements of absurdism and magic realism, sprinkling dream and fantasy sequences into the drab, naturalistic atmosphere. ‘The Wild Pear Tree’ Review: A Gambler and a Writer at Odds 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

Some episodes are full-on parodies; others include flashes of magical realism. I Watched ‘Fleabag.’ I Watched ‘Insecure.’ What’s Next? 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z

It chops off heroes’ heads so we, too, harden our hearts and learn to prize cagey realism over something more noble. “Game of Thrones’” overstuffed finale 2012-06-04T15:26:00Z

While Mr. Hunter’s early works trafficked in absurdist comedy, his plays have steadily moved toward realism, with the comedy now more embedded in character and situation. Samuel D. Hunter Climbs the Ladder With ‘The Whale’ 2012-10-21T03:00:19Z

Patrick Hadley was briefly on the staff when Morris retired; he staggered up from Cambridge in a state of delightful disarray, indiscreet and erratic, but was a tonic in realism and practical attitude. Stephen Dodgson obituary 2013-04-15T15:52:17Z

A Brooklyn-based director best known for the hit Off Broadway production of Jaclyn Backhaus’s “Men on Boats,” Davis is going less for realism than evocation in conjuring an Austin of the imagination. ‘Spamtown, USA’ Looks at a Bitter Strike Through Children’s Eyes 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

I was then and am now a mix of progressive optimism and cynical realism. My obsessive quest to solve the mystery of a missing Virgin Mary 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

European literature doesn't need to borrow magic realism and fantasy from Latin America. Nobel-winning Portuguese author Saramago dies at 87 2010-06-19T02:24:00Z

Although the book brings them to life in ways that sometimes spill over into the supernatural, she politely rejects the label of magical realism some will impose on it. After a Long and Painful Absence, Writing Her Way Home Again 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z

Granted, no one would accuse "Friends" or "How I Met Your Mother" of dead-on realism. "Romantically Challenged" not likely to win hearts 2010-04-17T00:30:00Z

People will often say they wish it hadn’t happened, or they wish they could go back, but there is a realism that they know they can’t. My mentally ill sister 2012-06-02T00:00:00Z

There’s a certain level of realism in the book on that count, but you also put forth some truths about how the wine world can be gendered in certain ways. Hacking the wine list: How to see beyond the B.S. and drink like a pro 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z

The goal of this artifice is realism, bringing the visitor to an imagined spot, granting a glimpse of the natural world without humans. Exhibition Review: Giants on Tiptoe at a Los Angeles Museum 2011-07-19T16:30:28Z

The influence of his allegorical realism was beginning to give way to more contemporary styles; the Abstract Expressionists were just gaining traction. Jane Wilson, Artist of the Ethereal, Dies at 90 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

Baroque and rococo styles, the neo-classical and romantic revolts, realism in the 19th century and modernism at the birth of the 20th – all bonded artists and intellectuals and publics from Poland to Denmark. Europe has been building a secret community of culture 2010-11-23T20:00:00Z

What better way to set up the next chapter than with a manufactured cliffhanger, confected not from narrative logic or credible realism, but a cockamamie plot twist? Perspective | Trump’s bizarre post-election behavior isn’t a tantrum or a coup. It’s fan service. 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

Bratby's own "kitchen sink realism" was a grubby rebellion against the glamour and flashiness of modern art. Not flushed with success 2011-07-18T07:59:05Z

Part of Picasso’s fluidity was his ability to go back and forth: between media, to shift between painting and sculpture, but also within his approach to painting — from Cubist to realism and back again. 10 Artists on Picasso’s Enduring, Confounding Influence 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z

The vibrantly colored paintings of her Soviet-era childhood, rendered in an appealing combination of social realism and cartooning, were a “knockout,” Roberta Smith wrote in The New York Times. Lessons From the Plagues, Painted for Passover 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

This isn’t about historical accuracy, or even realism; it’s about genre. ‘The Harder They Fall’ Review: A New Look for the Old West 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

He’s adept at creating different realisms and textures for each story line, variations that add layers of meaning. Review: ‘Nocturnal Animals,’ Brutality Between the Pages and Among the Fabulous 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Gray’s still and poised realism seems to shatter from moment to moment with a nearly surrealistic spontaneity and subjectivity. The Front Row: “The Immigrant” 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

“Where Is Kyra?” operates in the realm of begrimed realism — its dark depths are purgatorial, if not outright hellish. Review: ‘Where Is Kyra?’ Portrays a Descent Into Poverty 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

Any lack in accuracy was always more than made up for with the realism of the animals – they looked and moved like real creatures. Dinosaurs on film – fun, fiction and failures 2013-05-16T16:12:00Z

Several of the stories in Clare Beams’s debut collection are infused with a subtle form of magical realism, in which bent rules are hinted at more than fully established. Books by Clare Beams, Hans Herbert Grimm, April Ayers Lawson and Kelly Luce 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Interpreting lyrics from an actor’s perspective has always lent Ms. Molaskey’s musical performances an uncompromising psychological realism along with an element of surprise that few singers bring to their material. Music Review: Jessica Molaskey Sings Joni Mitchell for American Songbook 2014-02-21T22:16:37Z

The production, directed by Art Manke, manages to break with realism without completely severing ties to reality. And you thought your contractor was bad. Meet 'The Monster Builder' at South Coast Rep 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

In character-driven comedies, funny people say funny things and fall into funny situations, but it’s all contained within the realm of plausible realism; nothing absurd or unbelievable occurs. Riff: ?The Hangover? and the Age of the Jokeless Comedy 2011-05-28T03:33:02Z

In the middle, da Silveira’s feminist message toggles between despairing realism and ultra-dark comedy, making for a smart, if repetitive, takedown of religious extremism. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

With such a flimsy story and no attempt at psychological realism, the script cries out for more jokes. Cannibal Women of Mars – review 2013-07-11T17:57:00Z

It's a manhunt thriller that exceeds the margins of realism, and shimmers with the eerie force of a nightmare or hallucination. Essential Killing ? review 2011-03-31T21:51:00Z

It is not just a matter of realism, it is also a manipulation of the reader's sympathies. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 2012-06-29T21:55:11Z

If transgender fiction leans to heightened narratives, it doesn’t exclude kitchen-sink realism. The Coming of Age of Transgender Literature 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

But the realism of the writing is observed with an unstudied grace. Resilience and dignity are the rich, bluesy music of 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Brown was part of the figurative movement that art historians recognize as a period during the mid-20th century when artists moved away from extreme abstractionism and included some realism in their portraits, landscapes and still-lifes. Painter William Theophilus Brown dies at age 92 2012-02-10T09:01:04Z

Magical realism is unusual on television, and it is deployed here gently and judiciously, though the mesmerizing effect is sometimes dashed by the characters’ apparent inability ever to put their phones on silent. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Edwards has brought a sense of realism and even majesty to a script and story that unfortunately does not deserve it. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Godzilla’ bigger, louder than predecessors 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Smith could navigate a thin line between sentimentality and clear-eyed realism but alas, this production feels less like complicated life than a diorama of it. ‘Becomes a Woman’ Review: A Girl Gets Wise in Brooklyn 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

All that changed in the ’60s with the emergence of Pop Art, Conceptualism, new kinds of realism and all sorts of politically disputatious art. Art Review: Montclair Art Museum Shows: ‘Oscar Bluemner,’ ‘New Spirit’ 2013-04-25T20:48:24Z

This time, it was about magical realism with the support of the mighty Miyake studios in Tokyo, which did three years of research on a fabric so light it suggests a ghostly apparition. Special Report: Fashion: Life on the Ocean Wave 2010-10-01T18:50:00Z

But if magic realism were just magic, it wouldn’t matter. Essay: Gabriel García Márquez’s Work Was Rooted in the Real 2014-04-21T18:37:38Z

I thought it was the perfect moment to use magical realism. ‘I Came From Nothing’: An Undocumented Writer Defies the Odds 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

Where the introductory plot seized our attention by combining explosive realism and concentrated feeling, the second invites us to sit with the soul of this heroically grubby Chicago spot and understand its people. A new season "The Bear" marinates a great show into a superb exploration of purpose 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

Lieber, a personal financial columnist for The New York Times, brings a broad-minded and humane realism to his book. How to Pay for College (and Not Lose Your Shirt) 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

These nominees suggested a range of approaches to a volatile subject, from allegory to melodrama to various kinds of realism. Film: Hollywood?s Whiteout Year: Few Blacks on Silver Screen 2011-02-12T06:53:01Z

A few weeks later, Mr. Bhardwaj met Mr. Peer in New Delhi, and they began collaborating on the screenplay, drawing on Mr. Bhardwaj’s mastery of Shakespearean adaptations and Mr. Peer’s journalistic realism. ‘Haider’ Angers Hindu Nationalists but Excites Film Critics 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

Several beautiful portraits of mothers nursing their babies deliver both a tender realism and a broad-stroke abstraction of the visceral connection between mother and child. At the Frye: sublime cross-cultural influences 2014-03-12T21:52:00Z

In this novel, his writing veers close to magical realism but halts at the farthest edge of plausibility, especially during the Great Mango March. New & Noteworthy, From Black Utopias to a ‘Little Women’ Tribute 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

So begins the mythology of Gabriel García Márquez, the magus of magical realism, a Nobel laureate who blended truth and fiction to fit the outsize reality of Latin American life. The Essential Gabriel García Márquez 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

While not directly addressed in the exhibition, Mr. Hanses’ extremely simple concept invites thinking about realism and complexity versus abstraction and simplicity in toys. Review: ‘Swedish Wooden Toys’ Mix Ingenuity and Education 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

There’s a certain crudeness and aggressiveness to the label “hysterical realism.” What Ever Happened to Hysterical Realism? 2012-07-11T14:00:31Z

Filmmaker Stephen Low said he uses a filming technique different from Hollywood's to create a stereoscopic-vision effect that allows images to jump out, add realism and yet avoid the potential for disorientation and dizziness. 'Legends of Flight': Documentary on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner soars 2010-06-17T20:18:00Z

I like the quality, the realism, the professionalism. Buzkashi Boys shoots for Oscar with tale of Afghan child dreamers 2013-02-15T18:28:28Z

The book's quietly irreverent humour and delicate use of magic realism are unusually sophisticated for a young audience. Top 10 books on the ancient world 2010-09-29T12:08:00Z

Because the centrality of racism to American history has often been obscured, revisions adding racial realism are urgently needed. Was the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms Designed to Protect Slavery? 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

Amid a story told with plenty of naturalistic acting and scenic realism, the formal classicism and intense musicality of the dances turn the drama into high poetry. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater Presents ‘A Month in the Country’ 2013-05-22T21:48:48Z

But what imagery is there has a realism to it, and its accessibility only deepens its appeal. How Stanley Tucci's Big Night helped kick off an American dining revolution 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z

But these manifest as everyday magic, the kind that seamlessly rises from the loose sort of realism practised by this novel, which encompasses a crime story, an addiction-recovery narrative, and a family drama. Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende – review 2013-05-30T07:01:01Z

An element always in short supply around pop music is emotional realism as salve, rather than as shock or cudgel or propaganda. An Appraisal: Love with Staying Power 2011-08-23T22:31:26Z

This is a “Roots” that has studied the powerful effects of magical realism on fact-based fiction, especially in its yearning to represent a cultural authenticity. History’s engaging new ‘Roots’ is faithful to the original and woke to the present 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

And no wonder, since such verisimilitude was already in force, in Mughal realism, nearly 300 years earlier. Art Review: Putting Names to the Greats of Indian Art 2011-09-29T22:39:43Z

The juxtaposition of starkness, abstraction and realism might have worked well had Mr. McVicar left it at that. Review: At Met Opera, ‘Pagliacci’ Goes Vaudeville as ‘Cavalleria’ Turns 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

In the interests of realism, he says, I have to say a few things. 'It's always high drama. It's somebody's life at stake': inside British rape trials 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

These two new translations bring another opportunity to enshrine the singular talent and mischief of this writer, whose late novels are insurrections against the novel itself, against its tendencies toward banal realism and earnest piety. A Playful Masterpiece That Expanded the Novel’s Possibilities 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the grittiest realisms could use a little light rebranding, granted – but even when money's tight, surely there should be a place for poetry ... The view: The arts funding cuts are no problem - British film is best when it keeps it real 2010-05-28T11:39:00Z

The Russian novelists, oddly, those with the biggest reputations for psychological and historical realism, quite often took to the chat of animals in order to strike for imaginative gold. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z

And writers continue to treat the show as though realism were its goal. On Finally Watching “Girls,” a Different and Better Show Than I’d Been Led to Imagine 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

A six-film strong box set of oppressive realism from the Belgian siblings. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2012-12-22T00:05:12Z

It traffics, superficially, in realism, though the budget sets, lighting and costumes are only vaguely verisimilar. Review: In ‘Georgia Mertching Is Dead,’ a Road Trip Takes Detours 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

For now, it’s worth noting that it is a work in a peculiar form: faux realism. Preview: Highlights from the First Week of the New York Film Festival 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

This, maybe despite itself, is the unflinching realism of “The Exhibit.” Another Once-in-a-Lifetime Chance at an Art Career 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

Her performance is impressively naturalistic yet fleet enough to handle the stylistic challenges of a work that refuses to play by realism's rules. Tony Awards 2015: Yet another British invasion of America 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

Yet the film is not presented as magical realism, nor even overt satire. The Guccis Are Really Not Happy About ‘House of Gucci’ 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

Other critics have suggested that "Down Terrace" resembles "The Sopranos" as created by Mike Leigh instead of David Chase, or a Coen brothers film infused with British kitchen-sink realism. Pick of the week: "Down Terrace" 2010-10-22T11:01:00Z

The other echoing influence is the refined technique of Dalí, who single-handedly reversed the Surrealist aversion to meticulous realism and the old masters. Art Review: ‘Drawing Surrealism’ at the Morgan Library and Museum 2013-01-24T23:00:37Z

There, in the birthplace of Gabriel García Márquez’s magical realism, are the city’s most refined restaurants, its museums and balconies that spill over with flowering bougainvillea. 36 Hours in Cartagena, Colombia 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

In these moments, when it’s unclear where the dreams end and real life begins, Ijames’s use of magical realism elevates the drama. Review | Constellation Theatre’s ‘Moon Man Walk’ stumbles through a cosmic voyage of love and loss 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

Spiritual vision and acute realism are mystically at one. Spiritual vision and realism converge in the work of Hugo van der Goes 2011-08-01T17:24:40Z

This escalation from small laughs to big ones helps establish an inaugural breeziness and serves as a reminder that, as a filmmaker and a performer, Mr. Eastwood has long put myth into play with realism. ‘Jersey Boys,’ Eastwood’s Take on Showbiz Myth 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

The show bypassed the kitchen-sink realism of “Hill Street Blues” and the operatic fatalism of “Homicide: Life on the Street.” Television: How ?Law & Order? Helped New York Tourism 2010-05-28T19:57:00Z

Their brand of everyday-people realism clearly rubbed off on their students, who made it their own in varying ways. Art in Review: ?PEGGY BACON AND HER CIRCLE? 2011-08-04T22:00:07Z

It would also tragically conceal the genuine joyfulness and freedom of the early days of hip-hop, removing the fun and humanity from the story in the name of “realism.” Bring back camp! Why “The People v. O.J.” and “The Get Down” point to its possible — and much-needed — rebirth 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

In a way, I still feel that this is something to be proud of: the story’s realism, and Margot’s perspective in particular, were things I had worked very hard to perfect. What It Felt Like When “Cat Person” Went Viral 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

They also were infused with a magical realism. W.P. Kinsella, Author of ‘Shoeless Joe,’ Dies at 81 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

The Dardenne brothers, twice winners of the top prize at Cannes, practice an austere and democratic style of realism. ‘Two Days, One Night,’ From Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

We can see Imagism clearly as a mode of art-making in which the big art-historical battles concerning realism and abstraction mean nothing, but where the little rules of care and craft mean everything. ‘3-D Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art, 1964-1980’ Review: A Celebration of the Weird 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

The Popecoat, then, arrived at a moment of clear and justifiable alarm over AI-generated imagery, and when its realism had advanced perceptibly even from their capabilities a matter of weeks ago. An AI-generated ‘Balenciaga pope’ fooled us all. How much does it matter? 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

She is surely right, although it’s pointless to pretend that “Olympia” is a work of gritty urban realism. Review | Two revelatory exhibitions upend our understanding of black models in art 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

But in Velázquez’s portraits, of slaves and royals alike, the easy handling of paint goes along with a penetrating psychological realism, and their rejection of idealization only elevates their subjects further. Velázquez’s Infinite World in a Handful of Portraits 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

During his lifetime, Florence came under the spell of Northern European painting, with its brilliant colors and meticulous clarity and realism. Piero di Cosimo, a misunderstood master, at the National Gallery of Art 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Written by Ms. Granik and Anne Rosellini, it follows a fairly straight narrative line that occasionally heads down seeming detours that subtly enrich its realism. Review: ‘Leave No Trace’ Is a Very American Story About Survival 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

This year’s program of movies, many gleaned from the international festival circuit, runs the gamut from the glorious to the grim and includes works of socially conscious realism, historical fantasy and experimental documentary. 11 Movies You Need to See at New Directors/New Films 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

“Never Fear” is sprinkled with scenes shot outdoors that deepen its textured realism, including a picnic for the patients, their friends and others. Review: Revisiting a Film from Ida Lupino, Hollywood Star Turned Director 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Was he repenting of raw realism in favor of dramatic gloss? Joe Swanberg’s Decade of Revolution 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

He was an actor's director, known for eliciting nuanced, moving and daring performances and imbuing his films with a stark social realism. 'Most Violent Year's' J.C. Chandor on the Sidney Lumet link 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z

The stylized face of the fitted mask is far removed from Roman realism and the headdress is of the type known as Phrygian. When Art World's Gain Turns Into a Country's Loss 2010-10-15T13:30:00Z

His presence in the crowd verges on magical realism, taking the fantasy world of the stage and offering it as an up-close reality. As Objects Fly Onstage, Stars Become Part of the Audience’s Show 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z

The graphics are boxy, and nothing looks particularly real—but realism, of course, was never the point with de Chirico. Enter Giorgio de Chirico’s Unusual Cityscapes in the Video Game Surrealista 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

She pays homage to, and undercuts, the tropes of documentary realism – apart from the Thatcher portraits, her book is all about a profound sense of place and the ghosts that linger there. How Margaret Thatcher's HQ turned into Chateau Despair 2013-02-28T17:24:00Z

This is a technique Hemingway would employ throughout his career to inject realism into his stories, to ground them with gravity of facts and experience. Hemingway’s First Short Story Found in Key West 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

His version of social realism was, of course, Romantic and unspecific. Art Review: ?Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum,? a Retrospective 2010-04-29T22:48:00Z

Working with Ms. Rame, he wrote sketches that introduced a note of gritty realism and biting social commentary to a show previously considered light entertainment. Dario Fo, Nobel-Winning Italian Playwright, Dies at 90 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Here her challenge is almost insurmountable: grounding Margaret’s character in some kind of emotional realism while her acting partner is bouncing off the walls of a different, crazier movie. Review: Tim Burton Paints by Numbers in 'Big Eyes' 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

But as the lights slowly brighten, it becomes clear there is too much furniture, haphazard and oddly placed, for realism. Review: Absent for 29 Years, Pina Bausch’s ‘Macbeth’ Dance Returns 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z

Writing back to the empire, asserting its independence in "chutnified" Indian English, this masterpiece of magic realism borrows the device of the storytelling scribe from the "Mahabharata," an ancient Indian epic. 5 books and films that tell the story of the trauma of the Partition of India and its aftermath 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z

It’s also kind of cute to see a show so dedicated to delivering only gratification for its audience at the expense of realism or focus on its characters. Review: Fuller House's Forced Nostalgia Is Bad News For TV 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

And it heralded a new development in animation: a shift away from visual realism, and toward abstractness. How “Bambi” paved the way for both “Fallout 4″ and “Angry Birds” 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

He plays a frazzled farmer in Dark River, a new slab of balletic social realism from The Selfish Giant director Clio Barnard, which also stars Ruth Wilson and Sean Bean. From Alden Ehrenreich to Zazie Beetz: the 40 rising film stars of 2018 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

It seemed to be a match made in heaven: Lost and Dark Tower both merge realism with magical elements. Why It Took So Long to Make a 'Dark Tower' Movie Happen 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

So just as painters abandoned realism once photography arrived, Instagrammers, Hipstamaticians et al now seek ways of creatively degrading their imagery so that it looks different, arty or just plain cool. Internet titans who see a rosy future… in our love for nostalgia 2013-05-25T23:05:52Z

Old friends sometimes lose their dominance while new arrivals have the attraction of novelty and contemporary realism. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z

Far more interesting — and crucial to the argument — is why DuVernay made the choices she did, whether in the name of realism, symbolism or narrative concision. After 100 years, we still don’t know how to actually watch a movie 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

This is not a matter of realism — come on, now — but of imaginative discipline. Review: ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’: Still Angry After All These Years 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Posen’s style gelled in the art world’s consciousness because of how it blended the color and everyday subjects of Pop with realism. Stephen Posen Knows How to Fashion a Line. So Does His Son. 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

The confines of its realism mask narrative sleight of hand. “The Girlfriend Experience” Is Not an Experience 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

Like “Riot in Cell Block 11,” it was made in the wake of several well-publicized prison riots and praised for its perceived realism. ‘Riot in Cell Block 11’ and ‘The Big House’ on DVD 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Warehouse parties, acting, Eartha Kitt adoration, her recent turn toward writing and directing short films with a magical realism bent: “It’s all the same, all just about being alive and feeling free,” she said. ‘Bold Enough to Go Full-Tilt’: Gabby Beans Is Playing to the Balcony 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

I was also struck that, in the same conversation, Penhall made another point about realism and theatre. Why can't theatre cope with too much reality? 2012-07-03T12:22:08Z

The juxtaposition is vintage Lee: a blend of satire, realism and in-your-face political commentary. Spike Lee Takes on the Klan 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

In the final phase the top Nazis, Hitler included, were veering between a sense of realism and a sense of illusion. A life in writing: Ian Kershaw 2011-08-17T11:00:01Z

Like their traditional counterparts, they draw on old mythologies and folklore, but are rooted in realism and the sense of the ordinary disrupted or made extraordinary. Kate Mosse's top 10 ghost stories 2010-10-27T10:24:00Z

Like many other writers for young children, Minarik believed that universal appeal was more important than realism. Else Holmelund Minarik obituary 2012-07-19T14:10:50Z

When illness struck, Nachume’s art tilted away from realism, sliding into visionary works. A Flood, a Boxcutter and a Son’s Pursuit to Keep His Father’s Legacy 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

The critic James Wood describes the realism we expect from literature as “lifeness” — that is, “life on the page, life brought to different life by the highest artistry.” Review | How do we know if Lorde is keeping it real? 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

Plausibly, the survival advantage of vision gave rise to our reflexive bias for believing that the world is as we perceive it to be, an error that psychologists and philosophers call naive realism. Pop neuroscience is bunk! 2013-06-08T15:30:00Z

Torres, a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, is especially good at creating a sense of heightened or supercharged reality — it's not surrealism, quite, or magic realism — without destroying his story's verisimilitude. Justin Torres' 'We the Animals': a childhood unforgettably drawn 2011-10-25T16:22:04Z

The change from such youthful idealism to mature realism is a process that many undergo. Books for Art Lovers 2012-11-22T20:15:43Z

In nearly every case, neo-Classicism gives way to realism, which yields to the reductive or abstracting tendencies of Modernism. Art Review: ‘Fine Lines,’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2013-04-18T21:31:41Z

These meld Tolkien’s romanticism and his desire for realism with some of his more wild artistic impulses. Tolkien’s World: An Exhibition Transports Us to Middle-earth 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

The Oxford University graduate began his film career in what was known as "kitchen-sink" realism. Ken Loach wins Berlin's Golden Bear 2014-02-14T13:57:24Z

This dialogue also tackles white privilege, but from a place of greater realism rather than scattershot satire. ‘53% Of’ Review: Zinging Pro-Trump Women, and Everyone Else 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

This movie has a lot of the stylistic and content hallmarks of what passes for committed realism in contemporary world cinema. Review: In ‘Jesús,’ a Delinquent Teenager in Trouble Too Deep to Handle 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

The Vegas, having pared their script to the bone — there are no speeches and not a line of exposition — hew to the less is more school of art-film realism. | 'Octubre': The Difference a Baby Can Make 2011-05-06T05:23:01Z

His objection to realism was never an objection to realism so much as an objection to deadened use of the words “realism” and “experimentalism.” Ben Marcus: Jonathan Franzen’s cultural commentary is really embarrassing 2014-02-10T01:00:00Z

So I settled in eagerly for the magic realism that is Julia’s life. Mariane Pearl: Revisiting the Cuba of My Youth 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

The problems encountered by readers of this novel are drawn from its strict realism. Critical eye: reviews roundup 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z

There are also obvious parallels to the magical realism in "Twin Peaks," which debuted the same year as "Northern Exposure," though is decidedly darker in tone. 30 years on, the magical realism of "Northern Exposure" is a gentle balm for our cabin fever 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

Any TV series worth sticking with melds stark realism with fantasy and the denial of that reality. “The Bold Type,” “Dietland” and fashion: The feminist army is assembling (literally) in t... 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

She wrote, however, during a period of ascendant realism, a literary moment that was all restraint and strangled epiphanies arrived at on wall-to-wall carpeting, with prose that read like Hemingway boiled down to the bones. Fairy tales, fantasy and dangerous female desire: Celebrating Angela Carter, the literary link between Bros. Grimm and “50 Shades” 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

It’s only to say that the movie’s no-frills realism derives from common aesthetic strategies like hand-held cinematography and nonprofessional acting. Movie Review: ‘Teddy Bear,’ With the Danish Bodybuilder Kim Kold 2012-08-21T21:47:54Z

Has the concept of realism in literature been defined by a very narrow, predominately male-dominated literary culture? Writing to genre stinks: Two debut novelists on the hard line between fantasy and realism — and why it doesn’t make sense 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

It's magic realism, but it's one of the best scenes I've ever written, and I had no experience of anything like that at all. Tim Pears's 'small acts of resistance' 2010-03-18T14:00:00Z

His first novel, "God Says No," about a young African American Christian man coming to terms with his attraction to men, garnered critical praise for his original mix of biting humor and emotional realism. James Hannaham discusses drugs, slavery and 'Delicious Foods' 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

He does so with a thousand details, which add to the lyrical realism of the novel. The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally – review 2012-11-09T22:50:01Z

Not surprisingly, social realism was the reigning style. Part Traditionalist, Part Naturalist, Part Dissident 2010-02-19T21:56:00Z

“Mildred Pierce” was a departure from Cain’s claustrophobic earlier novels, and some reviewers complained about the odd mix of social realism and melodrama. Television: ?Mildred Pierce?: A Mother?s House of Love and Hurt 2011-03-20T02:30:05Z

Who do you consider your biggest influence who doesn't work at all in the vein of magical realism? ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Manuel Gonzales on His Story Collection 'The Miniature Wife' 2013-01-24T14:30:39Z

One is toward a kind of blunt, unmediated realism, an urge to collect incidents and “explain them plain.” New Fiction Traces the Anguish of Lost Young Men 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

A work of bawdy sensory realism, led to a suspended prison sentence for Pasolini on blasphemy charges. Pier Paolo Pasolini: No saint 2013-02-22T11:01:01Z

More persuasive is Clinton’s contention that presidential politics, especially compared to parliamentary politics, favors arena-filling showmanship rather than the quieter, detail-oriented realism she prefers. Hillary Clinton Opens Up About ‘What Happened,’ With Candor, Defiance and Dark Humor 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

Yet the glossy hermeticism and theatrical realism of many older, ostensibly classic movies have dated terribly and reflect the very exclusions and compromises of the system that produced them. The Misplaced Nostalgia for Movies Like “The Graduate” 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

Even those of us who resist magical realism might accept, maybe even celebrate it in this beautifully crafted, poetic book. A Novelist Asks White Tourists to Picture the Brown Lives They Overlook 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

All of these tragedies and obstacles are drawn with stark realism and deep emotional resonance. Review | Lily King’s ‘Writers & Lovers’ delivers pure joy 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

“What realism has, and what painting has in particular, is the power of slowing down all of these images that are bombarding us to a full stop, so we can look and think,” he said. Rauschenberg Foundation Gallery Opens as a Big Tent 2012-09-26T21:48:32Z

This is the first stop on the eight-city tour, and anyone who cares about the art of sculpture should pay them a visit, for each is a small masterpiece of stone carving and humanist realism. Last Chance: ?Mourners,? Many Faces of Grief, at Metropolitan Museum 2010-05-12T21:46:00Z

“That developed into a touch of magical realism.” The ‘Trust’ Equation: Wealth and Power Equals Misery 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z

"Expression, emotion and a certain psychological realism get into a portrait." The paradox of 'Power and Pathos' at the Getty: Disasters rescued these ancient bronzes 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

Either they went to a traditional pantomime or to one of Stuart Paterson's Christmas shows: big-hearted fables that preferred psychological realism to slapstick and narrative complexity to stock plots. The Snow Queen ? review 2010-12-07T23:30:00Z

Instead, he abandons the sharp realism of his previous novels, such as “Capital,” and gives us a fable about a wall. Review | ‘The Wall’ imagines the wall of Donald Trump’s dreams 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

With the stabs at realism came the fantastical. ‘Dynasty’ or ‘Dallas’? Squaring Off in the Lily Pond 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

Equal parts Latin American history and magical realism, “100 Years of Solitude” is a barometer for envelope-pushing. Ten books that explain the complicated nostalgia of being a child of diaspora 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

Ma writes about the darker side of Chinese adoption, her social commentary less jaunty and sentimental than Dickens, more like Dreiser in its harsh realism. ‘The Year She Left Us,’ by Kathryn Ma 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

He has never been remotely interested in conventional realism and favors heightened, even extreme stylization. Film: Young and Restless Never Gets Old 2011-01-14T20:17:09Z

Her confession that she craves a "naive realism" is a clue to her eventual fate. John Mullan on Sweet Tooth – Guardian book club 2013-06-29T07:00:23Z

Still, realism was always the focus for Kutcher, who watched "hundreds of hours of footage," listened to Jobs' past speeches and interviewed several of his friends to prepare for the role. Kutcher takes on tech idol Steve Jobs in `jOBS' 2013-01-26T19:01:05Z

Movie romances are not supposed to follow the strict conventions of realism, and Ms. Prince-Bythewood’s script contrives enough twists, coincidences and tearful confrontations to produce the necessary gasps, giggles and sniffles. ‘Beyond the Lights,’ a Diva’s Romance 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

This book, which is full of magical realism, depicts the village of Macondo and its residents. 35 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

Some critics disparage Nabokov's straddling of 19th-century realism and modernism as clumsy. A brief survey of the short story part 28: Vladimir Nabokov 2010-08-25T09:05:00Z

I didn’t write realism until I was 35.” Writer Races to Victory From Way Off the Pace 2010-12-16T21:39:33Z

This access enhances the realism for the filmmakers, while Godzilla’s status as a powerful force of nature allows troops to be scrambled without seeming to promote Japanese militarization. Godzilla Returns to Japan 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z

Under Peña’s direction, the shifts between time periods, and between realism and fairy tale, are not always fluid. In ‘Once Upon a (korean) Time,’ Bedtime Stories to Keep You Up at Night 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

“All the books are lousy,” said Mr. Harnisch, 59, who called the Dahlia case “a magnet for crackpots,” but who was impressed with the video game creator’s efforts toward realism. Video Game to Play in Vintage Gumshoes 2011-05-06T20:13:40Z

That’s sort of my style anyway, but we felt like, specifically in this instance, it helped provide realism and authenticity to the film. Tom McCarthy Narrates a Scene From ‘Spotlight’ 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

First published in English in 1957, this story of a slave surviving the violence of the Haitian revolution is considered a masterpiece of Caribbean literature and a stunning early example of magical realism. New & Noteworthy 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

Ironically, economic adversity could actually be a factor in the scarcity of US realism. Sleazy bosses, exploited barmaids: US cinema finally discovers the left behinds 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

“Emotional realism is what matters and if we deviated from that, the whole thing would fall apart,” Mr. Somerville said. Emma Stone, Jonah Hill and the Art of Keeping Viewers Off-Kilter 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

Interiority he mostly left to Thomas Eakins, his junior by eight years and his partner in pioneering American realism. Winslow Homer: Radical Impressionist 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

But when Valerie finally decides to share a ghost story of her own, Klein's emotional narrative brings a poignant realism to her character. Review: Haunting, effective revival of 'The Weir' 2013-05-24T17:12:08Z

In fact, the story owes less to magical realism than to histrionic crime dramas. From Isabel Allende, a Novel of Three Immigrants and a Brooklyn Misadventure 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

Smith and Wallace both come up against the new, worried that it’s impossible to build solid novels, let alone the future, with lyrical realism’s rusty old tools. Literary realism is dead 2012-10-20T21:00:00Z

In contrast, realism, dating app-savy instincts, and social media sleuthing are baked into the deliberate, relatable and deeply self-aware humor of "FBoy Island." The tired "Bachelor" franchise needs to step up or step aside for the likes of "FBoy Island" 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

With safely distant authors Virginia Woolf and Harper Lee on the reading list, there is little danger of any social realism close to home threatening the creaky mechanism of the comedy of manners. Bookworms 2010-06-04T21:45:00Z

Yet even as Winocour piles on too many complications, she retains an appreciable astringency — call it a sense of emotional realism about what it means to actually survive — that keeps bathos at bay. ‘Revoir Paris’ Review: Recovering Fragments of Memory 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

She hadn’t planned to write anything in particular, but what emerged, she said, were the beginnings of “a story of magical realism, very Southern Gothic, something about the dress being animated and beginning to move.” Home Alone With the Ghost of Emily Dickinson 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Among the movies purporting to have captured the essence of Generation X's identity, "Reality Bites" probably has the highest name brand recognition and one of the lower levels of realism. Reality bites, so of course Generation X was always going to sell out and vote Republican 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

And Louie explained it–Janet’s mother was white–like you might do on any other show with the typical constraints of realism and continuity. REVIEW: Louie Watch: Going All In 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

To change the subject, I can't let this episode go by without mentioning one major exception to The Wire's attempts at social realism: Omar. The Wire re-up: season five, episode eight ? the Dickensian aspects 2010-04-05T23:15:00Z

He wanted to paint representationally, even though he disliked the constant refinement that realism entailed. Benny Andrews: A Life in Portraits 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

Here is a strange film whose strangeness is disguised – though only at first, and not for long – by the mannerisms of documentary realism. Film review: Ivul 2010-07-22T21:43:00Z

These fictional folks are rendered with near-documentary realism and just a hint of impressionist license. In the galleries: Many ways to express ‘Light & Movement’ 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

It’s a world view that expresses realism and reassurance together. Garth Williams, Illustrator of American Childhood 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

What it is, is a story of characters in highly unlikely situations who react to those situations with psychological realism and consquences. Homeland Watch: Tunnel Vision 2012-12-10T14:37:36Z

The case for 3-D is often framed as a case for realism: 3-D seems truer to life than flat 2-D. The Medium: What?s in a Dimension? 2011-01-23T06:45:09Z

For reasons perhaps explicable only to himself, Avary adds touches of magic realism to the mix. ‘Lucky Day’ Review: A Revenge Film That Won’t Grow Up 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

It likes to give us the idea of a realism, and I’m not really interested in doing that. The Carpetbagger: A Crime Tragedy, not a Crime Drama 2012-02-16T14:11:26Z

In any case, the sculpture is a marvel of early Renaissance realism. Art Review: The Enduring Power of an Icon 2011-03-31T21:48:50Z

But this extended solo wasn’t his only dancing moment in the film; what made the role fun for him, he said, was the way he used his physicality to shift from realism to fantasy. ‘Beau Travail’ Finds the Rhythm of Life (and Dances Away the Pain) 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

Even films that are otherwise exemplary models of realism do this, such as Girl, Interrupted. Madness in the movie: in defence of going gothic 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

For one, it enables its writers to personalize viciousness in ways that could never be accomplished in contemporary realism. Riff: The Bleak ?Game of Thrones? Needs More Light 2011-04-17T03:00:17Z

A federal court ruling in any of the cases could have a ripple effect among sports video games, which emphasize realism. Athletes Don’t Own Their Tattoos. That’s a Problem for Video Game Developers. 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

But be patient; the verbal mumbo-jumbo lends the story a necessary gloss of realism. Movie Review: ‘Price Check,’ a Comedy by Michael Walker 2012-11-16T01:05:39Z

She has this kind of, Yes, I’m with Jesus and I’m his bride, and this and that, but she has not lost her view of realism. Paul Verhoeven Has Made a Film About a Lesbian Nun. Jesus Is Next. 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

“I honestly feel he has taken the legacy of August Wilson — the poetic realism — and made it his own,” Mr. Taccone said. Marcus Gardley’s ‘The Box: A Black Comedy’ Comes to Brooklyn 2014-04-13T21:56:13Z

Like Rushdie's previous novels, the book utilizes magical realism, a style where the world is presented realistically except for elements of magic or the supernatural. The long controversy around Salman Rushdie, and his refusal to stop speaking up 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

Still too little known here, Antonello was among the first Italians to adopt the Flemish innovation of oil paint, whose slower drying times permitted unprecedented realism. Times Critics’ Top Art Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Director Kelsey Mesa keeps this tale of Transcendentalists light enough to accommodate flickers of magic realism, even briefly featuring a glowing dress for Fuller. Plays with divergent tones work well at Taffety Punk

Here and there realism is tinged with the parallel worlds of “1Q84,” particularly through dreams. Haruki Murakami’s ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’ 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

In classic mysteries, dazzle is what counts, and realism tends to be inversely proportional to ingenuity. Why ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ still thrills — even if you know whodunit 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

Army Rangers and armed civilians in Mogadishu, Somalia, this movie is filled to the brim with Scott's trademark detail-fetish, adding a level of realism not seen before or since in military films. Scarecrow Video recommendations for "Transformers 3" 2011-06-27T22:27:06Z

Lee Brackstone asks in a recent blog for Faber, bemoaning the dominance of realism and naturalism in contemporary . Where did the decadent novel go? 2010-09-29T08:30:00Z

His strong links with French realism and post-impressionism will be drawn on, and comparisons with painters such as Camille Pissarro and Georges Seurat established – "though Lowry is tougher and cruder and deliberately so," said Clark. Tate exhibition to pay homage to LS Lowry 2013-01-15T19:16:15Z

There are surreal moments and scenes of magic realism. "This is a dead wife movie" that isn't maudlin says "The Secret Art of Human Flight" filmmaker 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

The goal is convincing realism, though the set, designed by Paul Zoller, was stylized, featuring a large, handsome box seemingly constructed of large-grain wood, with sliding walls continually closing in on the doomed characters. Baroque Operas, Under Reconstruction 2012-07-27T14:43:55Z

But Scandal could aim for the level of realism of CBS’s The Good Wife, a different kind of show about lawyers, politics and making problems go away. TV Tonight: Scandal 2012-04-05T12:51:33Z

One emphasizes the texture and realism of Pierce’s acting. Wendell Pierce Fulfills His American Dream: Playing Willy Loman 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

Mann’s movies are distinguished from less sophisticated and more conventional modes of realism by the feeling that they’re not like filmed screenplays but like filmed blueprints, filmed armatures. The Stylish, Empty Realism of Michael Mann 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

It plays with magical realism without fully committing to the logic of that kind of storytelling. The Most Important Decade for Movies About Black Lives 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

It's the most lighthearted work in years from the master of gritty social realism, and a change of gears from his last film, the bitter Iraq War drama "Route Irish." Loach in Cannes with spirited 'The Angels' Share' 2012-05-22T15:44:09Z

Famous as the novelist who invented "magic realism", Marquez commented that he was just telling stories like his grandmother used to do. Simon Mason's top 10 fictional families 2011-07-29T10:37:00Z

It’s down-to-earth, not trendy; it prizes realism over artifice; it’s steeped in traditional values — old-time religion, the old folks at home, Old Glory. Arts & Leisure: Brad Paisley?s Country Underground 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z

For whatever reason, however, the “realism” of the scenarios in the series isn’t reflected in the characters that populate the world of the show. Revisiting The West Wing: A Stirring, Comforting Fantasy 2013-04-19T18:50:47Z

It’s a symphonic work about transience and loss, related in artwork that has some of Edward Hopper’s moody, light-struck realism. ‘Here,' Richard McGuire’s New Graphic Novel 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

The Swedish Academy, which selects the winners of the prestigious award, praised Mo’s “hallucinatoric realism,” saying it “merges folk tales, history and the contemporary.” Chinese Writer Mo Yan Wins Nobel Literature Prize 2012-10-11T11:10:26Z

As big-ticket Hollywood movies increasingly embrace a cartoon aesthetic and draw back from dramatic realism with frankly phony computer-generated effects, smaller independent films are moving in to fill the gap. Tribeca Film Festival: 12 Days, 132 Films, 38 Countries 2010-04-16T00:04:00Z

In her review for The New York Times, Manohla Dargis wrote that “the realism is jolting, and so brilliantly realized and understated that it would be easy to overlook.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Love Trip: Paris’ and American Idol 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z

Not that the movie, a carnival of mayhem and period detail — visually suggesting Walker Evans, “Bonnie and Clyde,” “Miller’s Crossing” and “The Beverly Hillbillies” — exactly insists on realism. Movie Review: ‘Lawless,’ With Shia LaBeouf, a Film by John Hillcoat 2012-08-28T12:00:00Z

Chop blocks, helmet-to-helmet hits and other illegal plays are not permitted in the video game — even with accompanying penalties — despite the other efforts at realism. Capturing Football’s Snaps, Crackles and Pops in Madden NFL 2014-01-28T22:55:42Z

We like both kinds of fiction around here, but our picks this week decidedly, and determinedly, range beyond the bounds of conventional realism. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Floating somewhere between realism and fabulism, “The Wall” doesn’t fully harness the benefits of either mode. Review | ‘The Wall’ imagines the wall of Donald Trump’s dreams 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

But there are not many signs that the show is taking a turn toward anything better — more realism, more audacity, less sentimentality. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Smash,’ NBC Musical’s 2nd Season, With Jennifer Hudson 2013-02-04T23:16:15Z

Born in the Colombian town of Aracataca in 1927, he gained worldwide  fame with his novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude," which ushered in the era of magic realism. Gabriel García Márquez's collection of signed books — from Clinton, Castro — goes to the Ransom Center in Texas 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

Ms. Stevens is in the process of mastering a loose, somewhat photographic realism that may reflect an admiration for the paintings of Edward Hopper and Eric Fischl. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

The Greene series raises the question of what constitutes realism in the Robin Hood firmament. How Robin Hood became a socialist 2010-05-11T21:01:00Z

Think about a prenuptial agreement – realism does not have to be anti-romantic. ‘We're very close. We couldn't not be’: the secret to a friendly divorce 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z

For one thing, in contrast to, say, the CGI-laden blockbuster, social realism has always been something British cinema is actually good at. The view: The arts funding cuts are no problem - British film is best when it keeps it real 2010-05-28T11:39:00Z

Into this braided world, a place filled less with magical realism than magical thinking, Erdrich adds one other strand, Romeo, a sad desperate wedge driven into the heart of this drama. In Louise Erdirch's 'LaRose,' parents make an impossible bargain 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

I would have loved to see such an “Anne”—especially now, when we need hope and realism together. How Not to Adapt “Anne of Green Gables” 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

After recasting the superhero genre with a dark realism in the "Dark Knight" Batman trilogy and dissecting dream manipulation in "Inception," director Christopher Nolan is tackling the final frontier. A Minute With: Christopher Nolan on his 'Interstellar' challenge 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

British Chekhov tends to offer variations on the realism of Stanislavski. Uncle Vanya – review 2012-11-06T17:51:55Z

The aria will be a fleeting — but important — moment in the new season of “Mozart in the Jungle,” which combines screwball comedy and magical realism to tell the story of a fictional New York orchestra. An Aria for the Long Island Lolita on ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

I think many writers and readers adhere to a hard line in literature between fantasy and realism, a border that’s never made much sense to me. Writing to genre stinks: Two debut novelists on the hard line between fantasy and realism — and why it doesn’t make sense 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

Together they coined the term “capitalist realism” for their work, a West German foil to the style of Socialist Realism in the East. Part Exhibitionism, Part Surveillance 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

This is followed by a brief concluding flashback to Lincoln's second inaugural address a month earlier, with its cautious message of hope and realism. Lincoln – review 2013-01-27T00:06:12Z

From the 1950s to 70s, kitchen sink realism suffused art, theatre and film, contemporaneous with the “angry young men” movement. Will the lockdown trigger a new wave of kitchen sink cinema? 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

Nikita Dolgushin’s elegant staging of this Romantic ballet startlingly contrasts the earthy realism of the first act with the ghostly setting of the second. Mikhailovsky Ballet Makes Its U.S. Debut at Lincoln Center 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

Ms. Sherald also starts with realism, but softens and abstracts it. Obama Portraits Blend Paint and Politics, and Fact and Fiction 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

All eight contributors are photographers or videographers, but their modes range from realism to symbolism to abstraction. Review | In the galleries: At U-Md. space, “UN/Sustainable” contemplates the environment 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

Much of Lawrence’s appeal, as SAM director Kimerly Rorschach noted at the preview, resides in “the tension between the realism and the abstraction.” SAM hosts rare reunion of Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Migration Series’ 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

"If I Forget" may end in "magical realism" but there is no magic for real families. Review: ‘If I Forget,’ Clashing Currents in Jewish Identity 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

The Swedish Academy, which selects the winners, praised Mo's "hallucinatoric realism," saying it "merges folk tales, history and the contemporary." A glance at the Nobel Prize for literature 2012-10-11T11:54:11Z

“I joke, I feel like we are potentially entering an era of socialist realism without the genocide.” At PEN America, a Complicated Centennial for Free Speech 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

A: There are doorways in “Lucky” that you slide into — revealing an acceptance of idiosyncrasy — that are not realism. ‘Lucky’ director John Carroll Lynch on life, death — and Harry Dean Stanton 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

“Surviving Autocracy” faces the problem that most anti-Trump books do: How to conclude in a way that strikes the right balance between realism and hope. In ‘Surviving Autocracy,’ Masha Gessen Tells Us to Face the Facts 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

The best thing about the show continues to be the emotional realism of the relationship between Alicia and her children, and it wouldn’t hurt to see more of it. ArtsBeat Blog: 'Good Wife' Watch: The Return of Cuddy, Er, Lisa Edelstein 2011-10-10T05:00:28Z

I suspect that the success of “Frozen” may have persuaded the company to modify its traditional formulas to allow more realism and ambiguity, which is all to the good. ‘Into the Woods,’ Disney’s Take on the Sondheim-Lapine Classic 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Conceptually, breaking open the world requires the breaking open of language and the conventions of realism.” Does H.P. Lovecraft belong in the canon? 2013-05-08T22:07:00Z

To write the truth of war, Kingston said that she always used realism but that there is always an underlying layer of myths and archetypes. Authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Maxine Hong Kingston dish on war and peace 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

The genre for which she was best remembered was dubbed film noir, which inclined toward hard-boiled realism, emphasizing the shady underside of human society, replete with ambiguity, cynicism and the ever-present possibility of betrayal. Lizabeth Scott, sultry femme fatale of Hollywood’s film noir, dies at 92 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z

Those views of Lake Tahoe and the Donner Pass — a complex story of realism and idealism — lie at the heart of a new exhibition and book organized by the Nevada Museum of Art. In 'Tahoe: A Visual History,' realism and idealism intertwine 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

But it worked as a piece of magic realism. Coronation Street blasts into the future on its 50th birthday 2010-12-06T07:00:00Z

Ross’s landscapes—many inspired by the Alaskan mountain ranges that he loved—represent a curious combination of realism and imagination. In Search of Sleep, with Bob Ross 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

The film-geek fun that Porumboiu so deftly indulges serves as an implicit rebuke to those who reflexively associate Romania with stripped-down, tough-minded realism. ‘The Whistlers’ Review: From Bucharest With Ambivalence 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

I was sitting close enough to see her facial expressions, and they registered the cinematic realism of a great actress. San Francisco Opera looks backward with the World War II-set 'Two Women' 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

Xie traced and retraced his own drawings too, aiming not at raw realism but at developing a lexicon or visual vocabulary of standard motifs from which to construct larger pictures and paintings. 2010-02-15T06:00:00Z

The realm they inhabit is one where reality and a digital interface, imbued with a magic realism, intersect in tactile ways. With ‘Neptune Frost,’ How to Make an Afrofuturist Sci-Fi Musical 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

Paulsen expressed the same thought, with a dose of necessary realism. Nickelodeon’s 360-degree nostalgia machine: Making shows that never go out of style 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z

Previous incarnations of black characters on television have mainly been overlit sitcoms or overly gloomy slices of realism. It’s lit! How film finally learned how to light black skin 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

The most vividly drawn secondary character is the woman who runs the sisters’ favorite diner — another potential sitcom element treated with delicate realism. Review: ‘Our Little Sister,’ or What We Found at Dad’s Funeral 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Jackson gives novel spin to Lear’s resonantly irrational remarks to Johnson’s Gloucester in their apocalyptic Act 4 encounter, but there’s more rhetoric than realism in the old king’s “reason in madness.” A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Hardship and poverty often go hand in hand with realism, and not just in front of the camera. Sleazy bosses, exploited barmaids: US cinema finally discovers the left behinds 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

But if “Sky Boys” doesn’t offer absolute realism, it never fails to entertain. | 'Sky Boys' : A Boy and a Building Help Shape Each Other 2011-02-22T22:02:27Z

I found that concreteness allows for the abstraction to coexist with realism. At home in exile: Vi Khi Nao on her experimental novel 'Fish in Exile' 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

Just crank the central heating up to max for desert realism. Five-thousand-year-old Egyptian tomb opens for virtual tour 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

The style of the painting might be described as a mix of Romantic realism and deadline-Impressionism: The whole thing was finished, in what seem to have been long, beer-fueled sessions, in a matter of weeks. A Victory for the Civil War ‘Cyclorama’ 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Lear requires a modern actor to ascend in his imagination to an overwhelming reality without the banister of realism. Searching for the next King Lear: A critic shares his casting notes 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

“The Apology” is not a creation of psychological realism so much as an act of therapeutic imagination. Review | Eve Ensler waited decades for an apology from her abusive father. She finally wrote one herself. 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

After the taut first act’s strikingly effective reveal, the second half loses focus, lurching between hard-hitting plausibility, subjective introspection and magical realism without quite committing to what it wants to be. Some strengths but no surprises in this 'Tiger by the Tail' 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Other reviewers are welcome to embrace the anodyne realism of The Kids Are All Right and Blue Valentine. Sucker Punch Review: Don't Drink the Kool-Aid 2011-03-25T11:45:00Z

That realism is part of the power of Bausch’s work and its ability to confront the viewer with the unflinching truth of experience. Review: Pina Bausch’s ‘On the Mountain’ in Paris 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

It focuses more on a high-concept plot with a strong sense of realism rather than deep character studies. 'Damaged': Alex Kava's eighth Maggie O'Dell thriller 2010-07-30T23:28:00Z

Don’t get me wrong: The changes contemporize the tale and varnish it with another layer of realism. ‘Christmas Carol’ Review: Brooding Scrooge Gets Ghosted 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

The Chicago Tribune's Michael Phillips is less impressed, calling "Fury" "a mixture of sharp realism and squishy cliches that combat movies don't really need anymore." 'Fury': Brad Pitt tank drama carries out its mission, reviews say 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

“For the studios, these are tales from a new world, presented with an often harrowing, if occasionally hyperbolic, realism.” Black films matter – how African American cinema fought back against Hollywood 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

The drab, mumbly realism with which the director Edgar Wright depicts that city is offset — subverted, enlivened, thrown into crazy do-it-yourself pop-art relief — by images and situations drawn from arcade video games. | 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World': Michael Cera in an Adaptation of Bryan Lee O?Malley Novels 2010-08-12T21:50:00Z

Undergraduates often reduce the British novelist, whose stories are known for their magical realism and striking female characters, to a mouthpiece of feminism. An overdue biography of Angela Carter 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

It’s written with the stripped-down grace of early modernist realism, and its literary aspirations are worn in its title, taken from a Wallace Stevens poem about the uncommon flaring of imagination in a conventional world. “Tigers in Red Weather”: Massachusetts gothic 2012-07-15T21:00:00Z

Instead, he shaded toward realism, but only just, creating soft, flat, crowded compositions of cartoon steaks spilling out of iceboxes and rubbery superheroes with snaking limbs. Peter Saul Doesn’t Want Any Advice 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

But their psychological insights and uninflected realism are more Northern than Italian. Art Review: Rediscovering an Earthy Master 2010-10-07T21:50:00Z

The English writer Tom McCarthy has been waging a one-man war against literary realism, or as he sometimes calls it, “the middlebrow commercial novel,” for coming on 20 years now. Reality According to Tom McCarthy 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

The legal jargon in “Supreme Ambitions” can be dense at times, and drama is often sacrificed for realism. David Lat’s ‘Supreme Ambitions’ Is a Thriller for Lawyers 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

The kind of fine-grained realism that Mr. Trier is attempting — and that he succeeded in creating in his earlier features — depends on a density of implication. Review: In ‘Louder Than Bombs,’ a Father and Sons Grieving 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Why not instead argue for policies based on realism and restraint, pragmatism and prudence? Where Does American Foreign Policy Go From Here? 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

Daniels, in a virtuoso turn blending manic guilt and narcissistic defensiveness, gives us realism at a fevered pitch. And the winner is ... the ensemble cast: How Broadway's best acting was a group effort 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

As produced by the Movement Theater Company at the Harlem School of the Arts, “Bintou” dabbles in a range of styles — hard-edged street poetry, magical realism and various other approaches are sampled here. | 'Bintou': Adenike Thomas: Rebel Girl Clashes With Her Clan 2010-07-05T21:18:00Z

Her last story, “The Man at the Door,” is an exceptional work of magic realism. Review | Lily King’s ‘Five Tuesdays in Winter’ is as beautiful and tender as ‘Writers & Lovers’ 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Compared to the larger-than-life, at times cartoonish, more physically demonstrative performances delivered by Pitt and especially Robbie, Calva is relatively tamped down and reactive, which brings his turn closer to contemporary notions of realism. ‘Babylon’ Review: Boozing. Snorting. Grinding. That’s Entertainment!? 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

Martel ever-so-gently nudges the story from realism to surrealism, from the antiseptic office of a pathologist to the fecund universe of Isaac Bashevis Singer. Yann Martel’s ‘The High Mountains of Portugal’ is his best since ‘Life of Pi’ 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Sidney Fortner’s costumes reinforce the production’s period realism, as does the language. Owen Davis’s ‘Icebound’ Evokes All Kinds of Bitterness 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

“Those Who Knew” takes several stabs at magical realism. A Timely Dystopian Thriller With Sexual Assault and Political Corruption at Its Core 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

The play has been directed with minimal fuss by Anne Kauffman, a specialist in adventurous theater, but it falls between the schools of realism and what might be called theatrical existentialism. Review: In ‘A Life,’ Lonely and Looking to the Stars for Answers 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

His newest work abandons realism for dream visions and monologues. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

It’s all part of the how the female shape, no matter how it’s depicted — abstract or in full-on realism — can be a journey for both the artist and the viewer. This Thai Artist Marries the Sacred and the Sensual 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

Formally, Morgan marks the moment when British social realism moved into a surrealistic depiction of inner psychological states. Jon Savage celebrates the film Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment 2011-02-10T21:45:01Z

He doesn't shoo the flies that crawl on his face, creating a sense of realism. Zac Efron is worth his weight in "Gold," a harrowing thriller about greed and survival 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

It was funny when it wasn’t almost upsetting in its psychological realism. Good-bye, Elaine Stritch: Why every fan should watch her “30 Rock” episodes 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

If the “The Pushcart War” sounds like crudely didactic socialist realism, that’s because, to some extent, it is. The Enduring Appeal of “The Pushcart War” 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Her latest collection spotlights a comic voice that is growing sharper and more engagingly offbeat, whether she is rendering “snack realism,” menstrual huts or plucky Icelandic ponies. Best graphic novels of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

For a while they maintained an interest in realism, but seemed to shift the emphasis from the human figure to the natural world. ‘Age of Empires’: How 2 Dynasties of Art Forged China’s Identity 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Insofar as Ma studied Chinese brushwork, it was of the Lingnan school, a Cantonese genre influenced by Western realism. Ma Jir-Bo's Hong Kong 2010-09-16T13:40:00Z

It’s a stirring example of — and a passionate argument for — the kind of humane realism that keeps movies alive, and that never goes out of style. Sundance Wrap-Up: 6 Movies We Like and One We Disagree on 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

The blend of realism and abstraction creates an aura of fantasy, hinting at the absurd expectations of propriety surrounding race and gender. At Tacoma Art Museum, portraits that reach out and touch you 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z