Example sentences for: movies

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

  • Great movies are fewer and farther between (at least in this writer's opinion--at least for the time being), and these days even the media that employ the critics measure a movie's success not by the critics' reaction but by opening weekend gross.

  • The pay movies were no better than the free movies, only somewhat newer.

  • But it is also too rigidly imprisoned in sardonic literary references, or in the movies, or in popular clichés, ever to penetrate its own deepest emotions--which, in any case, are too shameful to be acknowledged.

  • The big Christmas movies have mostly played out their pre-Oscar runs; the television season is already old; football is finished, basketball is still midseason, and baseball is two months off.

  • The second free-spirit-mom-on-the-run-with-teen-age-daughter story in three months receives much better reviews than the first ( Anywhere But Here ): It "impresses with its freshly considered action and total avoidance of the stale and routine" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). British stage actress Janet McTeer's performance as the mother stands out, and the low-budget, genuine feeling of the film results in "one of the few movies ever made that doesn't feel like a movie," in which the characters "throb and course with life" (Stephen Hunter, the Washington Post ). (Click to read David Edelstein's review in Slate .)


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