B movie

noun

: a cheaply produced motion picture

Examples of B movie in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The film earned Weaver an Oscar nod for Best Actress, and her performance as an action star was credited with elevating the film beyond typical B movie fare. Johnny Loftus, EW.com, 14 Nov. 2023 Because despite the A-list star, the A-plus soundtrack, and the ace supporting cast (notably Tilda Swinton, who does more in her late-act guest appearance than many performers do in decades’ worth of screen time), The Killer is really just a modern version of a vintage B movie. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2023 Even in a work that might have been a B movie with another helmer, Friedkin could dazzle with his skill and originality. Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2023 Schedules are tight for B movies: Scott must shoot the whole thing in two or three weeks. Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023 In Atomic Age America, Gordon’s science-fiction B movies manifested the country’s nuclear anxieties as eye-popping apocalypse spectacles. J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 8 Mar. 2023 After the war, Mr. Mirisch, a movie buff, wrangled a job working for the general manager of Monogram Pictures, which specialized in B movies. Alex Williams, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023 His conviction carries Emancipation a long way, elevating what is essentially a B movie to the realm of something better than its outsize premise: a blunt instrument, maybe, but a brutally affecting one too. Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 1 Dec. 2022 Those of us who have to write, too often, about American gun madness—or about American gun craziness, to adapt the name of a great B movie on the subject—had at least a little contemplation with which to accompany our grief after the massacres in Buffalo and Uvalde. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 June 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1948, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of B movie was in 1948

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“B movie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/B%20movie. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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