Words similar to noir

Example sentences for: noir

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Mel Gibson plays a hard-boiled bad guy intent on recovering some stolen money in this adaptation of Richard Stark's novel The Hunter (which was also the basis for John Boorman's acclaimed modern noir Point Blank in 1967).
But the movie is still a delight, a fascinatingly strange and chaotic ballet set to familiar noir motifs.
Rafelson's take on a Miami family's lust, rage, and greed--"the usual trio of forties- noir emotions"--is "too straight, almost TV movieish" (Denby).
Reviewers praise Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar for abandoning his campy proclivities to make a film noir with social bite.
Its deadpan attitude and traditional plot--thieves heist jewelry and then double-cross one another--are said to hark back to classic film noir.