Words similar to noir

Example sentences for: noir

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Reviewers praise Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar for abandoning his campy proclivities to make a film noir with social bite.
Set in Cuba during the Spanish-American war, the novel is part Western (the main character, Ben Tyler, is an Arizona cowboy) and part noir (he's in on an arms-smuggling scam gone bad).
Nancy (1968) could be a still from a '50s film noir: She looks as if she has just caught sight of a stalker on the stairs.
A few years ago, writer Tim Egan branded as "Northwest Noir" the dark, damp movements that creep out of this moldy greenhouse: grunge music, Twin Peaks , serial killers.
2) Gibson is too chipper for a noir hero: "[H]e's like a chipmunk with a Smith & Wesson" (Stephen Hunter, the Washington Post ). Slate 's David Edelstein calls it "inflated Pocket Books pulp."