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“The Holdovers” is a flat, phony, painfully diagrammatic movie masquerading as a compassionate, humane one.

More problematic is the diagrammatic nature of the storytelling.

Omnipresent was the influence of comics minimalist Chris Ware, known for his spare drawing style and his tight, diagrammatic sequences.

One casts shadows, the other is flatter, more diagrammatic, with thread sewn into the canvas; a new proposition about the same thing.

“Watch,” a treasure at the Dallas Museum of Art, is at once a diagrammatic representation of two small timepieces and a deflected self-portrait.