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(Click for frequent words.) 60 obtuse 59 uncinematic 58 pedantic 58 overdetermined 57 naively idealistic 56 sententious 56 Beckettian 56 literalistic 56 howlingly funny 55 humorless 55 reductive 55 deliberately obtuse 55 melodramatic 55 formalists 55 Swiftian 55 simpleminded 55 fogeyish 54 overfamiliar 54 Dostoevskian 54 pure hokum 54 sentimentalized 54 Godardian 53 literalism 53 pretentious 53 clichéd 53 literary pretensions 53 polemical 53 cloyingly sentimental 53 po mo 53 unaffecting 53 solipsistic 53 solipsist 53 determinist 52 tricksy 52 unamusing 52 Herzogian 52 overly melodramatic 52 sentimentalizing 52 mawkish 52 pernickety 52 lady doth protest 52 lunkheaded 52 visually ravishing 52 ungifted 52 Nabokovian 52 overemphatic 52 didactic 52 hackneyed 52 unpoetic 52 censorious 52 prolix 52 dislikeable 52 antiheroic 52 perfervid 52 self parodic 52 unadaptable 51 emotionally manipulative 51 Borgesian 51 unimprovable 51 dull witted 51 narrative coherence 51 banal 51 unmodern 51 selfconscious 51 sketchily drawn 51 unclever 51 ahistorical 51 bleakly comic 51 literal 51 bathetic 51 Anouilh 51 deliciously subversive 51 auteurism 51 Austen purists 51 blackly funny 51 self reflexive 51 unspontaneous 51 refreshingly straightforward 51 willfully obtuse 51 fitfully funny 51 shticky 51 postmodernists 51 Wildean 51 bromidic 51 talky 51 antic disposition 51 unscary 51 Brechtian 51 existentialists 51 Nietzschean 51 postmodern 51 unreliable narrator 50 trite 50 cloddish 50 metafiction 50 Chandleresque 50 Postmodernists 50 utterly charmless 50 sardonically funny 50 literalness 50 Jamesian 50 metaphysical musings 50 pompous 50 deconstructionist 50 neorealist 50 priggish 50 Dostoevsky novel 50 doltish 50 reductionist 50 morally ambivalent 50 droll 50 eye rollingly 50 darkly satirical 50 po faced 50 unengaging 50 timorous 50 formalist 50 Holmesian 50 Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy 50 unreliable narrators 50 logicians 50 stony hearted 50 screamingly funny 50 bitingly satirical 50 overwrought 50 intellectualising 50 humorlessness 50 subjectivist 50 literalized 50 recondite 50 abstruse 50 tendentiousness 50 mawkishly 50 phallocentric 50 overly didactic 50 aestheticized 50 unfalsifiable 50 moralizing 50 comically absurd 50 rationalistic 50 Sophoclean 50 cliché ridden 50 grows wearisome 50 belabored 50 show offy 50 side splittingly funny 49 dogmatic 49 acutely observant 49 cynical 49 unfilmable 49 dotty 49 neurotic 49 historicism 49 empiricists 49 wordiness 49 emotionally constipated 49 simplistic 49 Niebuhrian 49 Pedantic 49 Pirandellian 49 Ursula Le Guin 49 Kubrickian 49 literalist 49 self consciously 49 literalists 49 subversively funny 49 relativist 49 unevolved 49 meta narrative 49 Gothic horror 49 jejune 49 Melancholy Dane 49 triteness 49 metafictional 49 self referential 49 stagey 49 tautological 49 overly sentimental 49 bewitchment 49 digressive 49 insufferably boring 49 thinly plotted 49 morbidly funny 49 Hayekian 49 humourlessness 49 fey 49 dogmatist 49 woolly minded 49 historicist 49 intellectualized 49 veers dangerously close 49 sneery 49 Kafka Metamorphosis 49 poetic 49 thuddingly 49 Hemingway esque 49 filmable 49 convoluted plot 49 fictionalisation 49 off puttingly 49 thinky 49 paleos 49 allegorical 49 Lacanian 49 dopey 49 overly preachy 49 absurdist 49 overly moralistic 49 onanistic 49 screwball romance 49 character arcs 49 cliched 49 artspeak 49 unlikeable characters 49 primitivist 49 implausibilities 49 pantomimic 49 Wellesian 49 Wordsworthian 49 unbearably smug 49 fussbudget 49 literal mindedness 49 subtextual 49 Almereyda 49 postmodern pastiche 48 moral absolutists 48 ineloquent 48 supernaturalism 48 darkly hilarious 48 racist misogynistic 48 Rafael Yglesias 48 cutesy poo 48 credulous 48 sophistries 48 Mary Shelley Frankenstein 48 diabolically clever 48 hopelessly muddled 48 conceit 48 utterly oblivious 48 sly satire 48 prissiness 48 ingenuous 48 Dr. Preeti Kishore 48 quasi mystical 48 Emily Brontë 48 idealising 48 maudlin sentimentality 48 rebarbative 48 discomfiting 48 formalistic 48 post structuralism 48 filmic 48 Loktev 48 lumpish 48 lugubrious 48 dryly humorous 48 florid 48 sensical 48 Swiftian satire 48 fantastical 48 Socratic questioning 48 uninvolving 48 commonplaces 48 parodic 48 unintentionally comical 48 thuddingly obvious 48 witty erudite 48 densely plotted 48 unhistorical 48 hardboiled detective 48 self flagellating 48 weepy melodrama 48 psychologically astute 48 trepidatious 48 romantic fable 48 Hollywoodized 48 sophist 48 clumsy 48 vulgarized 48 Theists 48 stylistic flourishes 48 Freudian 48 hokiness 48 metaphysicians 48 dystopian sci fi 48 unlikable characters 48 hopelessly naïve 48 irredeemably evil 48 Cinematically 48 tenderhearted 48 unerotic 48 cinéma vérité 48 staginess 48 stylistic tics 48 Greek tragedians 48 anthropomorphism 48 curmudgeonly 48 unlikable character 48 unmusical 48 Victorianism 48 idiosyncratic 48 thinly sketched 48 paraphrase Shakespeare 48 medias res 48 demented 48 descriptive prose 48 blackly comic 48 neo Luddite 48 Dostoyevsky novel 48 downright annoying 48 sentimentalised 48 creepfest 48 epistemologically 48 gauche 48 wonderfully eccentric 48 endlessly watchable 48 Pelevin 48 cinéastes 48 speciesist 48 hokey 48 unromantic 48 Silas Marner 48 schticky 48 omnipotent omnipresent 48 mytho poetic 48 Oedipus myth 48 structuralists 48 gnosticism 48 postmodernist 48 dickish 48 Kehlmann 47 Zen koan 47 ironist 47 uncurious 47 esoterically 47 Shakespearean tragedies 47 expostulation 47 formulaic 47 Sartrean 47 essentialist 47 Vertov 47 Whiggish 47 omniscient narrator 47 Hitchcockian suspense 47 magical realist 47 dyspeptic 47 clunky exposition 47 Andre Bazin 47 dislikable 47 Anathem 47 antiheroine 47 Jacques Lacan 47 overacted 47 maudlin 47 cavils 47 twee 47 exhortatory 47 unentertaining 47 clownishness 47 genre tropes 47 unrelievedly 47 Bieito 47 dualist 47 didacticism 47 syllogistic 47 Misunderstood Masterpiece 47 deliriously funny 47 fractured syntax 47 comic booky 47 caricaturish 47 godless universe 47 expositional dialogue 47 re tellings 47 Director Julian Jarrold 47 clichd 47 Audrey Niffenegger novel 47 woefully misguided 47 gothic melodrama 47 Absurdist 47 readerly 47 poststructuralist 47 unacademic 47 gut bustingly funny 47 unenjoyable 47 flâneur 47 Clichéd 47 bowdlerized 47 Frailty thy name 47 idealizations 47 Zinnemann 47 Overwrought 47 theodicy 47 sardonic 47 hopelessly idealistic 47 Max Beerbohm 47 legalists 47 acidulous 47 transgressive 47 morality tales 47 artless 47 blackly humorous 47 Ovid Metamorphosis 47 ambivalences 47 puniness 47 moralistic 47 Thereby hangs 47 unheroic 47 existential quandaries 47 picaresque tale 47 circusy 47 overly wordy 47 prissily 47 grandiloquent 47 Håfström 47 metaphysical 47 shamelessly manipulative 47 positivists 47 recherché 47 cartoonishness 47 biblical allusions 47 absurdist playwright 47 doth protest 47 exasperatingly 47 wordier 47 earthily 47 neurasthenic 47 Humbert Humbert 47 unabashedly sentimental 47 savage satire 47 textualist 47 stalker ish 47 darkly ironic 47 meta fictional 47 avowed atheists 47 moonstruck 47 conceits 47 quiddity 47 picaresque novel 47 witless 47 plotwise 47 Loncraine 47 Etienne Comar 47 naturalism 47 anthropomorphize 47 self referentially 47 kitchen sink realism 47 credulity straining 47 repressed homosexual 47 cavil 47 anticlerical 47 mirthless 47 acidly funny 47 prolixity 47 authorial 47 Hemingwayesque 47 needlessly convoluted 47 pedant 47 Joyce Ulysses 47 expositional 47 post structuralist 47 Javier Marías 47 belabors 47 paganistic 47 allegorically 47 transcendentally 47 Capra esque 47 meta theatrical 47 blackhearted 47 versification 47 eggheaded 47 elide 47 shlubby 47 fussy 47 wholly unoriginal 47 dim witted 47 unacquainted 47 poor Yorick 47 temperamentally inclined 47 juvenilia 47 Shavian 47 slow witted 47 Benito Cereno 47 scansion 47 aphoristic 47 morally ambiguous 47 dimwitted 47 Aristotle Poetics 47 heteronormative 47 authorial voice 47 overbearingly 47 Monsieur Hire 47 thoroughly unlikable 46 rhyming couplets 46 attitudinizing 46 meta narratives 46 LeCarre 46 misanthropic 46 corny 46 strangely endearing 46 Begaudeau 46 verbose 46 mockable 46 overpraised 46 commonsensical 46 Teabing 46 pulpier 46 relateable 46 structuralist 46 grumbly 46 feminist theorists 46 Hermann Broch 46 bodice rippers 46 utterly humorless 46 protag 46 Sexual Personae 46 Joycean 46 mimesis 46 utterly implausible 46 urbane wit 46 Brontë sisters 46 unbeautiful 46 unpolitical 46 argumentum ad hominem 46 Jean Giraudoux 46 tautologies 46 emotionally stunted 46 faintly amusing 46 presentism 46 Conradian 46 theological treatise 46 deconstructive 46 damnably 46 swinish 46 idealistic 46 self dramatizing 46 philosophising 46 Maupassant 46 Slavoj Žižek 46 priests bullying schoolmasters 46 thoroughly engrossing 46 Tolstoyan 46 mealymouthed 46 swoony 46 wordy 46 Benjamin Markovits 46 Hieronymous Bosch 46 Maritain 46 epicene 46 mordantly funny 46 ponderous 46 charmingly naive 46 postmodernism 46 naggy 46 Mysterious Stranger 46 elicit groans 46 Vinterberg 46 sheer silliness 46 Pascal Wager 46 cold unfeeling 46 melodramatic flourishes 46 ungrammatically 46 tiresomely 46 cretinous 46 eliding 46 perceptive 46 wickedly witty 46 novelistic 46 philosophical ruminations 46 polemic 46 sentimentalize 46 reductionistic 46 tough Philly boobirds 46 allegorical tale 46 pulp noir 46 convoluted explanations 46 mawkish sentimentality 46 Lasdun 46 knob gags 46 nerdy 46 ludic 46 windiness 46 annoyingly smug 46 mismatched buddy 46 nonliterary 46 existentialist philosophy 46 Hitchcock Rear Window 46 hackish 46 Homo economicus 46 Amenábar 46 gnostics 46 intellectual elitism 46 Dreadfully 46 fiendishly clever 46 well intentioned 46 unthinking 46 Brian Helgeland script 46 Aristotelian logic 46 infinitely malleable 46 André Bazin 46 puerile 46 conceptualists 46 Monty Python esque 46 heartbreakingly sad 46 denotative 46 Laurence Sterne 46 pietistic 46 unrelatable 46 horn rimmed 46 opera buffa 46 squirmingly 46 overgeneralizations 46 anachronistically 46 eroticised 46 jargony 46 mordant 46 squeamish 46 cogito 46 Germanic accent 46 omniscient 46 fanboyish 46 scatter brained 46 empiricist 46 prissy 46 Hegelian 46 ingeniously constructed 46 uncannily prescient 46 Richard Rorty 46 absurdist comedy 46 geekish 46 hyperarticulate 46 racist classist 46 polemically 46 Italian neo realist 46 crashingly 46 whimsical 46 pious 46 Duplasses 46 naïve 46 boiled boilerplate 46 Jules Verne HG Wells 46 nit picker 46 leaden 46 Slezkine 46 likably 46 daffy 46 intertextual 46 tu quoque 46 prosaic 46 Elshtain 46 Simplistic 46 mindless repetition 46 Objectivist philosophy 46 esoteric 46 Ingmar Bergman Smiles 46 Hollywood ized 46 masochistically 46 Altmanesque 46 forgivably 46 clever conceit 46 lobotomised 46 comical 46 chaste romance 46 deliciously ironic 46 Gilles Marchand 46 archaism 46 Mieville 46 unenlightened 46 paralyzingly 46 Don Delillo 46 faux naif 46 George Orwell dystopian 46 glib 46 sappiest 46 self mythologizing 46 goofy 46 Dada esque 46 ignorant bigots 46 officiousness 46 plot contrivances 46 Narrow minded 46 na ve 46 Maeterlinck 46 Beckian 46 Kinks Lola 46 musicalized 46 Puckish 46 goony 46 slyer 46 Materialists 46 absolutist 46 Arthur Danto 46 moony 46 vaguely sinister 46 threnody 46 keenly observant 46 sappy 46 overly saccharine 46 crotchety 46 Melville Moby Dick 46 Hubert Dreyfus 46 Moliére 46 slyly subversive 46 schlumpy 45 aperçu 45 unintentionally humorous 45 elegiac tone 45 endearingly eccentric 45 Michael Almereyda 45 sesquipedalian 45 amusing 45 formulistic 45 whimsicality 45 Oblomov 45 cultureless 45 intuiting 45 floridly 45 ungraspable 45 uncynical 45 doctrinaire 45 infernally 45 What Maisie Knew 45 sacreligious 45 insultingly stupid 45 gleefully sadistic 45 cogitations 45 roundelay 45 self referentiality 45 pompousness 45 disarmingly funny 45 overanalyse 45 EL Doctorow Ragtime 45 semiotic 45 dippy 45 vagina dentata 45 snarkier 45 maundering 45 monomaniac 45 Puerile 45 Mircea Eliade 45 supernatural overtones 45 unintentionally funny 45 Orwellian overtones 45 biblical epics 45 Beckmesser 45 richly imaginative 45 Elmore Leonard novels 45 antireligious 45 bowdlerization 45 challengingly 45 preternaturally wise 45 judgmental 45 repressed desires 45 unfunny 45 hedonistically 45 unshockable 45 frail centenarian 45 Hackneyed 45 Donald Barthelme 45 hypochondriacal 45 labyrinthine plot 45 à clef 45 fuddled 45 Ophüls 45 refreshingly unsentimental 45 relational aesthetics 45 I'ma prude 45 subordinate clauses 45 positivistic 45 Dave Spart 45 caricaturized 45 Sigourney Weaver Ripley 45 charming cad 45 sanctimonious 45 sly winks 45 dystopian visions 45 Shakespeare Titus Andronicus 45 romantic comedy cliches 45 rewatchable 45 silly 45 Anita Brookner 45 guileless 45 nouveau roman 45 documentarylike 45 Shakepeare 45 side splittingly 45 Enlightenment rationalism 45 Hillaire Belloc 45 queeny 45 bleakly funny 45 caricatural 45 Happy endings 45 querulous 45 Ionesco Rhinoceros 45 romantic yearnings 45 irresistibly drawn 45 opera seria 45 literary allusion 45 Looney Tune 45 slapsticky 45 noxiously 45 sappier 45 rivetingly 45 Tristam Shandy 45 dispensationalist 45 Fatal Conceit 45 mildly amusing 45 unChristian 45 intellectual snobs 45 wishfulness 45 pretentious twaddle 45 phantasmic 45 wonderfully nuanced 45 Magesterium 45 Dessaix 45 Ford Madox Ford 45 circumlocutions 45 FR Leavis 45 captious 45 objective correlative 45 lyric poetry 45 Magical realism 45 incommensurability 45 addle brained 45 Jesuitical 45 vexingly 45 hyperreal 45 Edmund Gosse 45 bitingly witty 45 intellectually lazy 45 absurdism 45 schlock horror 45 Badiou 45 tiresome 45 grotesque caricatures 45 wincingly 45 self indulgent 45 Miyazaki Spirited Away 45 Lovecraftian horror 45 Randian 45 Soren Kierkegaard 45 inarticulate 45 fanciful 45 turgid prose 45 uncreative 45 Dostoevski 45 swooningly 45 rigidly structured 45 Twilight Zone ish 45 Nabokov Lolita 45 reductively 45 offhandedness 45 trippier 45 lingeringly 45 madonna whore 45 Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre 45 Barnaby Rudge 45 Svankmajer 45 madcap hilarity 45 downright daft 45 Andrew Sarris 45 Comme une Image 45 scrupulously researched 45 archaisms 45 Hegelian dialectic 45 teleological 45 Biblical literalism 45 unfun 45 Flaubert Madame Bovary 45 overlong 45 plotless 45 intertextuality 45 overly talky 45 endlessly fascinated 45 Chuck Palahniuk novel 45 egoistical 45 Feydeau 45 fetishised 45 Lasse Hallström 45 gothically 45 paranoiac 45 Eimbcke 45 hyperbolize 45 recognizably human 45 Oedipal complex 45 miserabilist 45 baroquely 45 universalistic 45 Capraesque 45 achingly funny 45 ham fisted 45 scrofulous 45 viscerally satisfying 45 dilettantish 45 cartoonish villains 45 bien pensant 45 naive 45 lecher 45 hairsplitting 45 Falstaffian 45 Dupieux 45 hilariously absurd 45 escapist fiction 45 sentimentalise 45 sheer perversity 45 cranky 45 religionist 45 unbearably sad 45 Cervantes Don Quixote 45 Byronic hero 45 na've 45 Polanski Oliver Twist 45 fitfully amusing 45 Gentlemen Broncos 45 risible 45 Pelagius 45 Sophocles Oedipus Rex 45 hackwork 45 EK Hornbeck 45 Americanized remake 45 flint hearted 45 trenchant observations 45 unmagical 45 archness 45 etiolated 45 cheery melon bellied 45 pervy 45 masculinist 45 peevish 45 prudish 45 David Mazzucchelli 45 picaresque 45 nonsensical 45 Film Socialisme 45 human fallibility 45 Sappy 45 prose stylists 45 cleverly constructed 45 wearyingly 45 Chekhovian 45 Mere Anarchy 45 Pharisees hypocrites 45 ishness 45 scientistic 45 congenitally unable 45 fart joke 45 fatuous 45 nonlinear storytelling 45 coitus interruptus 45 Skolimowski 45 tendentious 45 rhetoricians 45 creepy 45 Unoriginal 45 stagy 45 Fredric Jameson 45 theatricalized 45 mythologising 45 cockeyed 45 abysmally ignorant 45 essentialism 45 scatological jokes 45 unoriginal 45 shaggy dog 45 Burkean 45 MovieRetriever 45 irreducibly 45 pedantry 45 unexamined assumptions 45 transcendentalist 45 Latinate 45 angsty teenager 45 hagiographic 45 intellectualised 45 Bildungsroman 45 groan inducing 45 Zoë Heller 45 Unfunny 45 engrossingly 45 otiose 45 perverse 45 naturalistic fallacy 45 suspend disbelief 45 Švankmajer 45 melodramatically 44 Imperfectionists 44 vacuous 44 repressed sexuality 44 cunningly crafted 44 Unthinking 44 saccharine 44 grand guignol 44 Heritage Dictionary defines 44 Resnais 44 Stephen Spender 44 self referential humor 44 longwinded 44 intricately plotted 44 tad melodramatic 44 infelicities