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Sterne Tristram Shandy 56 Carl Kolchak 56 suspenseful thriller 56 sardonically funny 56 jeu d' esprit 56 femmes fatale 56 Sophoclean 56 emotionally constipated 56 masturbatory fantasy 56 snappy dialogue 56 epicene 56 femme fatal 56 loopily 56 lunkheaded 56 knockabout farce 56 Bildungsroman 56 gun molls 56 serio comic 56 achingly funny 56 documentarylike 56 gothically 56 Galchen 56 rhymed verse 56 comic misadventures 56 campy horror 56 deliciously wicked 56 archness 56 fervid imagination 56 noir ish 56 quasi autobiographical 56 labyrinthine plot 56 orotund 56 familial dysfunction 56 oafishness 56 Hogarthian 56 satirical wit 56 gun moll 56 rakish charm 56 sybarite 56 smarminess 56 onanistic 56 Sydney Greenstreet 56 jokiness 56 attraction repulsion 56 sensualist 56 zestily 56 absurdist humor 56 literary allusion 56 gumshoe detective 56 acidulous 56 unabashedly sentimental 56 wordsmithery 56 hippie ish 56 rebarbative 56 film noire 55 absorbingly 55 evocative prose 55 Hitchcock Rear Window 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villains 54 Dada esque 54 deliciously perverse 54 kinkiness 54 Toshiro Mifune 54 acutely perceptive 54 emotional catharsis 54 hilariously absurd 54 O'Rowe 54 needlessly convoluted 54 sentimentalizes 54 darkly hilarious 54 vaguely sinister 54 Pinteresque 54 Al Swearengen Ian McShane 54 metafictional 54 soullessly 54 modernday 54 ripping yarn 54 Joseph Cotten 54 dandified 54 blackly humorous 54 flâneur 54 slyness 53 campery 53 deconstructionist 53 zoot suited 53 Vindice 53 plucky heroine 53 Anouilh 53 Hollywoodish 53 Mueller Stahl 53 humorlessness 53 didacticism 53 scathingly funny 53 Altmanesque 53 thuddingly 53 Klaus Kinski 53 grotesquerie 53 antics ensue 53 witty acerbic 53 roué 53 wearyingly 53 Tolkien esque 53 goombah 53 self referential humor 53 absurdist comedy 53 denouements 53 slapstick farce 53 chiaroscuro lighting 53 humor pathos 53 adventuress 53 Georgette Heyer 53 le Carré 53 Laclos 53 Mountstuart 53 Ian Merrill Peakes 53 self lacerating 53 Hugh Nees 53 Hemingway esque 53 contempo 53 Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre 53 disarmingly funny 53 Director Julian Jarrold 53 sentimentalizing 53 Anouk Aimée 53 postmodern irony 53 La Moustache 53 lovably eccentric 53 gorehound 53 priests bullying schoolmasters 53 zanily 53 vulgarian 53 self reflexivity 53 stylizes 53 Tyrion Lannister 53 irreverent wit 53 Yiddishisms 53 theatricalized 53 sententious 53 unvaryingly 53 Doc Sportello 53 Dashiel Hammett 53 unrelatable 53 Dostoyevskian 53 superheroics 53 Sam Spade 53 ironic detachment 53 Rafael Yglesias 53 monologuing 53 Pérez Reverte 53 darkly ironic 53 Maurine Watkins 53 maundering 53 subtextual 53 oft parodied 53 richly imaginative 53 Tarantino esque 53 Eumenides 53 Wildean 53 schticky 53 Fandorin 53 cinéma vérité 53 Kathryn Meisle 53 Parisian courtesan 53 quirky offbeat 53 poetic prose 53 boy's 53 charming scoundrel 53 lit crit 53 Bollywood ishtyle 53 melodramatics 53 neorealist 53 macho bravado 53 psychological thrillers 53 profanely funny 53 femme fatales 53 sly satire 53 gothic melodrama 53 elegant prose 53 elegaic 53 Flo Ziegfeld 53 charming cad 53 Lasdun 53 Inherent Vice 53 devilishly charming 53 rawly 53 onanism 53 rhyming verse 53 bitingly funny 53 film noirs 53 dipsomaniac 53 unpretentiously 53 hackwork 53 Shelley Duvall 53 Coens True Grit 53 tautly constructed 53 banally 53 moonfaced 53 salesman Willy Loman 53 Al Swearengen 53 Solara Mila Kunis 53 unflinching portrait 53 charmingly naive 53 Drama Mex 53 La Boheme Baz Luhrmann 53 Hollywoodized 53 chaste romance 53 off puttingly 53 comedic flair 53 Sportin Life 53 kaleidoscopic portrait 53 Shakesperean 53 unplaceable 53 suspenseful tale 53 suave debonair 53 tragi comic 53 screwball romantic comedy 53 Rod Serling Twilight Zone 53 literalized 53 suitably creepy 53 gangster moll 53 thinly sketched 53 Putney Swope 53 Charles Condomine 53 meta narrative 53 Pietro Aretino 53 twistedly 53 keenly observant 53 clunky exposition 53 sheer silliness 53 sneery 53 psychologizing 53 witty asides 53 sly wit 53 sweetly sentimental 53 drollery 53 verité style 53 philosophizes 53 exegeses 53 Gothic horror 53 Launcelot Gobbo 53 murderousness 53 koans 53 side splittingly 53 grittily realistic 53 Captain Vere 53 filmland 53 screamingly funny 52 gothic vampire 52 weaves tale 52 blowzy 52 macabre tales 52 comically absurd 52 slapstick gags 52 enthrallingly 52 knowingness 52 scenery chewer 52 mordant 52 concupiscent 52 sublime silliness 52 romantic misadventures 52 X'ed Out 52 swashbuckling hero 52 androgynously 52 phantasmagoric 52 Maupassant 52 knight errant 52 titular heroine 52 lollipop sucking 52 ax wielding maniac 52 Le Samourai 52 arch villains 52 dimestore 52 misanthropy 52 Partisan Daughter 52 juicily 52 eminently likable 52 razor tongued 52 farceur 52 wryness 52 ressentiment 52 Margot Nicole Kidman 52 villainously 52 Bram Stoker classic 52 Yasen Peyankov 52 glitteringly 52 Ealing comedies 52 Buster Keaton Charlie Chaplin 52 biodrama 52 humourlessness 52 bone crunchingly 52 mordant wit 52 self dramatizing 52 villainesses 52 Adolphe Menjou 52 Python esque 52 acidly funny 52 folie à deux 52 Mr. Cellophane 52 vodka swilling 52 absurdist 52 thematic threads 52 neurasthenic 52 divertingly 52 recognizably human 52 slapstick comedies 52 dystopian science fiction 52 bitingly sarcastic 52 fitfully funny 52 grotesqueries 52 Biff Loman 52 Bondian 52 impish charm 52 von Stroheim 52 Ari Hoptman 52 vampirish 52 Bobby Dupea 52 hokeyness 52 shticky 52 Godardian 52 Cinematically 52 Shelley Levene 52 Nudge nudge 52 shlubby 52 miserablism 52 poeticism 52 faintly sinister 52 Harlequin romances 52 Sebastian Ben Whishaw 52 diabolism 52 guitar jangle 52 Schubertian 52 Lovecraftian horror 52 St. Urbain Horseman 52 femmes fatales 52 oaters 52 laughless 52 character arcs 52 milksop 52 melodramatic flourishes 52 Falstaffian 52 gratuitous gore 52 soullessness 52 sendups 52 Dame Agatha 52 lank haired 52 Brooksian 52 romantic roundelay 52 EuroTrip 52 gothic novels 52 Absurdist 52 offhandedness 52 cloyingly cute 52 dadaist 52 uninflected 52 Nick Twisp Michael Cera 52 mumblers 52 Rabelaisian 52 moral ambiguities 52 decidedly unsentimental 52 florid descriptions 52 mesmerizingly 52 ironic juxtaposition 52 magic realist 52 dryly funny 52 fading Southern belle 52 baroquely 52 Cockney accents 52 slapstick routines 52 madcap romp 52 moony 52 Thereby hangs 52 fitfully amusing 52 gangsterish 52 lechery 52 lofty oratory 52 insipidity 52 swoon inducing 52 beatnik poet 52 Akira Kurosawa samurai 52 crinkly eyed 52 EL Doctorow Ragtime 52 ladylike silhouettes 52 escapist fiction 52 Nesbø 52 stolidity 52 schlock horror 52 What Maisie Knew 52 demimonde 52 John Tuturro 52 invigoratingly 52 ghoulishness 52 Gilbert Melki 52 stoner slacker 52 ditziness 52 ingeniously constructed 52 easeful 52 guffaw inducing 52 morally conflicted 52 dandyism 52 multicharacter 52 aging Lothario 52 exudes charm 52 cornpone 52 unscary 52 Weimar cabaret 52 Calvitto 52 sleazoid 52 blaxploitation movies 52 beautifully nuanced 52 sublimely ridiculous 52 Faulknerian 52 James Ellroy LA Confidential 52 homoerotic overtones 52 philosopher Colline 52 homo eroticism 52 raffishly 52 Rappeneau 52 commonplaces 52 overly talky 52 Zohan Sandler 52 raillery 52 slickly packaged 52 utterly beguiling 52 prose stylist 52 philosophical musings 52 detective Philip Marlowe 52 ripping yarns 52 Zastrozzi 52 lounge lizard 52 Barnaby Rudge 52 Mephistophelean 52 racist misogynistic 52 Bud Cort 52 hyper kinetic 52 deracination 52 Brian Helgeland script 52 hilarious sendup 52 Lyndsey Marshal 52 inarticulateness 52 winsomeness 52 dystopian sci fi 52 brio 52 Russian Debutante Handbook 52 hedonistically 52 actressy 52 picaresque adventures 52 SN Behrman 52 whiskey swilling 52 slacker dude 52 twist endings 52 glorifications 52 juvenilia 52 Rafe Spall 52 darker impulses 52 garrulousness 52 subversiveness 52 vanishings 52 pathos 51 polysyllabic 51 touchingly vulnerable 51 clichŽs 51 shmaltz 51 escapist fantasies 51 bumbling Barney Fife 51 vagina dentata 51 densely plotted 51 Giacomo Casanova 51 Craig Bockhorn 51 cinema vérité 51 cherchez la femme 51 Unterweger 51 mustache twirling villain 51 bad assery 51 Damon Runyan 51 Pierre Salvadori 51 unadorned prose 51 demi monde 51 acters 51 de Bernières 51 tweeness 51 highborn 51 Cusk 51 gothic tale 51 Ophüls 51 gee shucks 51 florid prose 51 stiff jointed 51 goodfella 51 Monsieur Hire 51 fabulism 51 sentimentalise 51 protags 51 wry asides 51 WASP y 51 mythmaker 51 swoony 51 Dermot Crowley 51 JJ Hunsecker 51 Hitchcockian 51 fustiness 51 darkly handsome 51 overgrown adolescent 51 cinema verité 51 Ben Kalmen 51 naive idealism 51 dislikable 51 Miss Haversham 51 epigrams 51 punkette 51 goofy sidekick 51 Dominique Pinon 51 rom com clichés 51 Alessandro Gassman 51 caustic wit 51 nonliterary 51 gut bustingly funny 51 Macbeth witches 51 vampiress 51 bracingly 51 Lennie Briscoe 51 goatish 51 nasal drawl 51 self referentially 51 cinephilia 51 booze swilling 51 Jeb Berrier 51 Evelyn Mulwray 51 breathlessly paced 51 Hitchcock Vertigo 51 boyishly charming 51 marble mouthed 51 whipsmart 51 cleareyed 51 crime solver 51 anally retentive 51 overbearingly 51 Sganarelle 51 guitar soloing 51 Gloria Grahame 51 Borscht Belt humor 51 buffo 51 satirical jabs 51 Pythonesque 51 Magical realism 51 Macheath 51 perpetually stoned 51 ultraviolence 51 evocations 51 vampiric 51 hyperrealism 51 Mozartian 51 boomer nostalgia 51 teacherly 51 Gedeck 51 viscerally thrilling 51 jarring juxtapositions 51 splatter flick 51 Keven McAlester 51 primally 51 repulsively 51 catharses 51 Miéville 51 doltish 51 aestheticized 51 marvelously expressive 51 Studs Lonigan 51 unself consciously 51 mot juste 51 prose 51 self referential jokes 51 squirmingly 51 excelsis 51 interwoven storylines 51 daffiness 51 Angelica Torn 51 immensely likable 51 psychological acuity 51 Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre 51 comic strip Li'l Abner 51 shenanigans ensue 51 abidingly 51 Oscar Levant 51 Kitty Naomi Watts 51 tragedian 51 Shock Corridor 51 Donald Barthelme 51 slatternly 51 wordplays 51 unforgivingly 51 Ox Bow Incident 51 charmingly eccentric 51 lovable rogues 51 deliciously witty 51 Lispector 51 Orlandersmith 51 novelistic 51 tragedians 51 Santa Sangre 51 Homeric epic 51 pastiche 51 Brecht Weill 51 Twilight Zone ish 51 hipster doofus 51 Honeymoon Killers 51 terminally bored 51 bathetic 51 Jacobean revenge 51 veers wildly 51 visually ravishing 51 Jordan Pettle 51 schlockmeister 51 Blakean 51 counterpointing 51 irresistably 51 unrequited romance 51 essayistic 51 showtune 51 Slapstick comedy 51 '#s psychedelia 51 stylisation 51 sheer musicality 51 David Hirson 51 Judith Krantz 51 compulsive womanizer 51 David Straithairn 51 breakneck pacing 51 endlessly inventive 51 triteness 51 Dashiell Hammet 51 unbearably poignant 51 slackerdom 51 heaving bosoms 51 Lockerbie Unfinished Business 51 Widow Quin 51 Moliére 51 sordidness 51 gore hound 51 uncynical 51 Shakespearean drama 51 neo classicism 51 stageplay 51 Alfredo Narciso 51 phantasmal 51 Götz Spielmann 51 genre tropes 51 Dourif 51 crudities 51 flibbertigibbet 51 Thierree 51 viscerally satisfying 51 ADD afflicted 51 irreverant 51 scenery chewing 51 steaminess 51 roman clef 51 odd juxtapositions 51 screwball antics 51 cultishly 51 likeably 51 Noo Yawk 51 Bielinsky 51 savagely satirical 51 disaffected slackers 51 toweringly 51 pageboy haircut 51 Beneatha 51 gore fests 51 uproarious comedy 51 serialized storytelling 51 Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot 51 medium Madame Arcati 51 Sardonic 51 Rhoda Morgenstern 51 juiceless 51 redheaded orphan 51 Alexander Mackendrick 51 brooding vampire 51 wry understated 51 Tom Nelis 51 omnivorous reader 51 Constance Fenimore Woolson 51 emotionally manipulative 51 Au Hasard Balthazar 51 costumed vigilante 51 pseudo intellectualism 51 homoerotic subtext 51 Hazel Motes 51 unmannered 51 jazz improviser 51 anthropomorphized animals 51 Shakespearean sonnet 51 imaginatively staged 51 groaningly 51 Plot twists 51 gimlet eyed 51 Diego Arciniegas 51 fictionalization 51 Engrossing 51 hardbitten 51 womanizing alcoholic 51 Uncle Morty 51 strangely endearing 51 Mrs Erlynne 51 dramady 51 ludic 51 pure escapist 51 manipulativeness 51 Hardboiled 51 solipsistic 51 grandiloquence 51 hipsterish 51 formalists 51 Foucheux 51 filthily 51 wham bang 51 timeless fable