1
: a film director whose practice accords with the auteur theory
broadly
: director sense c
2
: an artist (such as a musician or writer) whose style and practice are distinctive
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Co-writers Phillip Murphy, Christopher Landon, and Michael Kennedy fold whip-smart rom-com banter into a hyper-violent whodunit that arms their filmmaker with the confidence of a Golden Age hack-and-slash auteur.
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 19 Dec. 2025
Hip-Hop In the late nineties, the brothers Terrence and Gene Thornton, who rapped as Pusha T and Malice, surfaced from Virginia Beach as the coke-rap auteurs Clipse, under the stewardship of the Neptunes production team.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025
In the early ‘90s, most Spanish film festivals drew much of their big plays from Europe’s grand auteurs.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 19 Dec. 2025
As soon as the acquisition was announced, industry observers began to speculate whether or not Netflix would, say, continue Warner Bros’ commitment to theatrical releases, something that’s important to its auteur directors like Dune filmmaker Denis Villeneuve.
—Angela Watercutter, Wired News, 5 Dec. 2025
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 19 Dec. 2025
Hip-Hop In the late nineties, the brothers Terrence and Gene Thornton, who rapped as Pusha T and Malice, surfaced from Virginia Beach as the coke-rap auteurs Clipse, under the stewardship of the Neptunes production team.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025
In the early ‘90s, most Spanish film festivals drew much of their big plays from Europe’s grand auteurs.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 19 Dec. 2025
As soon as the acquisition was announced, industry observers began to speculate whether or not Netflix would, say, continue Warner Bros’ commitment to theatrical releases, something that’s important to its auteur directors like Dune filmmaker Denis Villeneuve.
—Angela Watercutter, Wired News, 5 Dec. 2025
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“Auteur.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/auteur. Accessed 21 Dec. 2025.
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