Meanings
adjectivecomic-adjacent (comparative more comic-adjacent, superlative most comic-adjacent)
comparative more comic-adjacent · superlative most comic-adjacent
- Similar to or suggestive of comics.
Some part of Aronofsky may want to evoke the darkly funny mishaps of a vintage crime comedy, but something else keeps coaxing him halfway down dark alleyways, before the movie scrambles back into more comic-adjacent urgency.
2025 August 27, Jesse Hassenger, “Caught Stealing is Darren Aronofsky's funniest film, even if it still turns bleak”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2025
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