1988 November 4, Franklin Soults, “Sonic Youth”, inChicago Reader[1]:
Their big hit at the time was "Death Valley '69," a typical droney,doomy replay of the Manson murders that was about as illuminating as your average TV mini series.
1995, Isabel Fonseca,Bury Me Standing, Vintage, published2007, page29:
Those children playing didn't look likedoomy little criminals, once you knew their names.
2019 May 14, Hugh Montgomery, “HBO's Years & Years and the horrors of the near-near-future”, inBBC[2]:
To getdoomier still, there’s also the pertinent question of whether, given current ecological speculation, the human race will even survive beyond the next century or so – an uncertainty which makes applying one’s imagination to a 22nd or 23rd Century rather academic.
What makesDon’t Look Up such a movie of the moment also makes it less of a functional movie at all, and more of a cranky,doomy, occasionally funny headspace.
2025 May 14, Nicholas Barber, “'A miserable, apocalyptic tract': Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning could be 'the feel-bad film of the summer”, inBBC[4]:
The opposite of an escapist blockbuster, the eighth and apparently final outing for Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt is thedoomiest and gloomiest yet in the action-adventure franchise.
