Example sentences for: flick

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  • Good reviews for David Cronenberg's virtual reality flick that covers the same ground as the more popular The Matrix . Jennifer Jason Leigh stars as a video game designer who hides in a game of her own devising.

  • Most critics find little resemblance between German director Wolfgang Petersen's "hokey" action flick and his near-classic Das Boot . Harrison Ford's turn as a U.S. president who goes mano a mano with Russian hijackers aboard his official plane is deemed a "14-year-old boy's fantasy of being president" (David Denby, New York ). Reflecting a general weariness with the summer's Hollywood fare, The New Yorker 's Terrence Rafferty writes, "Let's hope they don't get any sillier than this."

  • Miramax's subsidiary Dimension Films, run by Bob, has made a handful of sci-fi and horror pics aimed at teens, such as Scream 2 , From Dusk Till Dawn , and Mimic (a giant-bug flick).

  • --the replacement of "Sammy Glick" with "Tracy Flick" gives the game away--but told in a way that makes more (or more modern) sense: Its hero--unlike Budd Schulberg's--doesn't remain the voice of moral authority; his envy, self-hatred, and displaced lust makes him self-destruct in spectacular fashion.

  • The bit about the TV Guide summary is a true story, and here's another one: An entertainment reporter here at the paper attended a press junket with Moesha (I mean Brandy) once, and he got to interview her along with the rest of the teen cast of a psycho-murderer horror flick she was in, called, I think, I Still Know What You Did Two Summers Ago , or something like that.


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