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.
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).
"[T]he best film of its type since Chinatown ," says Todd McCarthy in Variety . Critics praise the all-star cast (which includes Kevin Spacey and Kim Basinger); the unpredictable plot twists; and the use of Los Angeles, made to evoke the city of classic film noir, as a backdrop.
Confidential conjures up those racy old Avon or Pocket Books pulp covers--film noir but with colors that are lurid and deep--and comments on them, too.
Some critics are less generous and note a heavy reliance on melodrama and film noir tropes; the Daily News ' Fintan O'Toole writes that the play is no "lost masterpiece."