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–noun 

1. the aforesaid; the above; the same (used in accounts, lists, etc., to avoid repetition). Abbreviation: do. Symbol: ″. Compare ditto marks.

2. another of the same.

3. Informal. a duplicate; copy. 



–adverb 

4. as already stated; likewise. 



–verb (used with object) 

5. to make a copy of, using a Ditto machine.

6. to duplicate or repeat the action or statement of (another person). 





　

As a filmmaker, July [favors] episodes over [arcs] and [wry] chuckles over belly laughs. As a performer, she proves compellingly ethereal: evocative where she could have settled for quirky shtick. 



Ditto [for] John Hawkes, of Deadwood fame, who provides a winsome variation on the sort of wounded man-child who pops up in any number of features at Sundance every year. 



Really, there's not a bad performance to be found anywhere in the film. It's the overall tone that's as likely to [annoy] as [enchant]. July makes judicious use of talented composer Michael Andrews, whose previous credits include Donnie Darko and TV's Wonderfalls. 



His compositions help [sustain] the mood of ramshackle momentum and the moments of sudden, tenuous transcendence.





solipsism

Gallo has limited himself to the most proudly [solipsistic] subjects.

And that anguished [solipsism] seems to be, at least in part, the movie's subject.

trope

any literary or rhetorical device as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony

the movie is a veritable scrapbook of [tropes] from the heyday of art film. 

The brief return to Israel at pic's end [contains] one rapid [visual] trope that may pass many auds by.

evict

evince

manifest

yet another movie that [evinces] the filmmaker's obsession with fraternity, not to mention Irene Jacob's face.



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