Example sentences for: flicks

How can you use “flicks” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The New York Times ' Vincent Canby says Spielberg has "revived a type of patriotic war movie you might think went out of fashion" after the glut of Vietnam War-horror flicks of the '80s.

  • Is there a federal law that says all basketball flicks must end with one shot that determines everything?

  • Stephen (31) remains consigned mainly to teen flicks (though he won acclaim for his supporting role in The Usual Suspects ). Textbook example: the 1996 comedy Bio-Dome , where he plays opposite ex-MTV star Pauly Shore.

  • The latest in a wash of Scream -bred teen horror flicks is roundly panned as a "disappointing adolescent thriller starring no one you ever heard of" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). Despite a promising premise--high-school students are lobotomized into conformity by a guidance counselor and their parents--the film is said to be packed with clichés (faces in windows, hands on shoulders) and lacking either an ironic or a frightening touch.

  • He appeared in Douglas Sirk's A Time to Love and a Time to Die ; a film by the mildly celebrated German director Helmut Käutner; Sergio Leone's For a Few Dollars More ; and several crisp English thrillers and war flicks.


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