riveting, epic, suspenseful, uproarious, melodramatic, spellbinding, overlong, portentous, anticlimactic, thrilling, enthralling, climatic, danse macabre, sophoclean, grand guignol, cinematic, implosive, talky, pantomimic, engrossing, deus ex machina, overdetermined, dramatic, wordless, titanic, mesmerizing, opera buffa, stagy, captivating, dies irae, titular, tearjerking, orgiastic, elegiac, adrenalized, filmic, overfamiliar, poignant, balletic, mawkish, memorable, cataclysmic, slapstick, apocalyptic, seriocomic, dostoevskian, wagnerian, taut, operatic, bathetic, exhilarating, hilarious, campy, stagey, goosebump, moonstruck, overwrought, unaffecting, transcendent, breathless, eeriest, penultimate, interminable, comical, sanguinary, dirgelike, pulpier, epochal, esque, frenetic, con brio, fugal, tremulous, spotlit, tragicomic, chilling, farcical, queen mab, sicilian vespers, wrenching, goose bump, rapturous, baddy, propulsive, beethovenian, revelatory, mise en scene, frenzied, overdramatic, enrapturing, cremaster, surreal, unforgettable, harrowing, manic, expository, raucous, riotous, decrescendo, dullish, declamatory, lachrymose, f1nal, final, fmal, decisive, momentous, pivotal, fateful, last, bloodiest, first, frustrating, interpolated, tragic

apogee, climax, culminate, culmination

climactical, high, peak