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It's also a perceptive and bitter — yet still idealistic — inside-Hollywood drama, a warped police procedural, and a study in post-war trauma.

This dissonance is indicative of the show's desire to be two things at once: a tense, moody-broody procedural and a lightly comic, character-driven cozy mystery.

Even with the formal approvals that the Bush Administration ultimately achieved, and even acknowledging the value of getting rid of Saddam, the Iraq war was both a procedural and a substantive disaster.

As the Playlist commented: It's not like they've nominated The Turin Horse or anything, but you still have a micro-budget post-Katrina magic realist indie starring no one they've ever heard of, a violent slavesploitation Western, a 3D meditation on religion, the least Spielbergian film Steven Spielberg has ever made, a near-three-hour spy procedural, and a Michael Goddamn Haneke film.

By The New Yorker August 22, 2011 The surveillance of suspected drug dealers in a provincial Romanian town is the launching pad for "Police, Adjective" (coming to DVD on August 30th), the director Corneliu Porumboiu's dryly comic yet politically trenchant 2009 blend of a police procedural and a cultural X-ray.

Richard Brody added that it's also "a warped police procedural and a study in post-war trauma," and praised its "terrific range of character actors, notably Robert Warwick, as a former silent-era matinée idol now an orotund alcoholic, and Art Smith, as the screenwriter's nurturing agent".

Herzog's film, by contrast, is both an intermittent police procedural and an outrageously diverting celebration of crack mania.

But the court action was seen as mainly procedural and an eventual liquidation of assets was likely, analysts and industry officials said.

Martin's Minotaur, $24.95) by conflating the plots of a police procedural and an international thriller and giving her series sleuths the awkward task of functioning in two different worlds at the same time.

The federal appeal, in turn, was denied "without prejudice," a signal that the disposition was essentially procedural and an invitation to the Bush lawyers to present the question again later.

Orci stated that the series is a combination of a procedural and an "extremely serialized and very culty" series, quoting as examples of each, Law & Order and Lost.