darkly

Art and its flawed creators and fans, time and family and failure all resonate, darkly funny and heartbreaking.

She’s also darkly humorous about her own mortality.

As both a collector and a creator of ephemera, Mothersbaugh’s tastes are darkly poignant.

Written and directed by Mike White, the darkly comic mystery followed the entitled guests and beleaguered employees at a luxurious Maui hotel over the course of an increasingly tense week.

Wambaugh’s characters were morally flexible, heroic, repugnant, compassionate, callous, deeply flawed, darkly comical — in a word, real.