How to Use film noir in a Sentence

film noir

noun

• So everybody's got layers to help set that mood and that film noir vibe.
  — Irina Grechko, refinery29.com, 21 Sep. 2020
• There will be no place for Celine Dion — this is a sci-fi film noir.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 1 Oct. 2017
• Lupino directs this film noir about a woman’s life after she is raped on her way home from work.
  — cleveland, 28 Mar. 2022
• But there’s still a lot to like here for fans of detective fiction, and of film noir and jazz.
  — Paul De Barros, The Seattle Times, 20 Jan. 2018
• Polgar keeps the action steady and creates some film noir tableaux on the shadowy set.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2026
• Other great reads How the small screen breathes new life into classic film noir.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2024
• The color has the comic book base and the black-and-white has certainly the film noir base.
  — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 6 June 2026
• So have the experimental episodes like the film noir episode been a shot in the arm, so to speak?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2022
• The whole thing is very film noir, which may connect to the noir episode coming later this season.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 10 Jan. 2019
• If the 19th-century had film noir, these would be the story boards.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2020
• Many of these wet-look toppers are trench-styled, giving the coats a film noir heroine mystique.
  — Sharon Graubard, courant.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• The movie is an apex of film noir, filled with dark shadows, moody lighting and ominous swaying palm trees.
  — Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
• The roots of the erotic thriller are in film noir and Hitchcock, with all the subtext said out loud.
  — Vulture, 8 Apr. 2022
• Yet, the show fails to nail the decadence of true Old Hollywood film noir.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 22 May 2026
• Cale has said his writing is inspired by film noir and crime movies and wanted elements of a thriller in his play.
  — Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2025
• Phil embraces all the film noir tropes — the smoking, the cynicism, the reliance on voiceover.
  — Bryan Bishop, The Verge, 24 Aug. 2018
• To the right, a lone figure in a three-piece ensemble strides past - a flash of film noir in a modern-day manhunt.
  — NPR, 9 Nov. 2025
• Cage’s Spider-Man Noir is a parody of goofy film noir clichés.
  — Bryan Bishop, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2018
• Other times there are thematic elements like film noir.
  — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2026
• Also directed by Lemoine, the song’s visual is a brooding ode to film noir, shot in black and white.
  — Alex Gonzalez, Billboard, 27 Jan. 2022
• The place does have a vintage feel, from the red leather booths to the music that sounds straight out of a Hollywood film noir.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2022
• The actor Gloria Grahame had one of the great faces of ’50s film noir.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 11 Jan. 2018
• People think of Los Angeles in the past as film noir or things in the ’30s.
  — Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 10 June 2026
• Part instructional video, part film noir, the movie opened with the sound of whistling wind and a shot of rustling vegetation.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
• An odd new take on the Dark Knight — very film noir, as if Gotham were Chinatown.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2022
• Roden prefers to watch movies made in the forties, the fifties, and the sixties—bank heists, jailbreaks, and French film noir.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
• The Blue Gardenia has all the elements to craft the perfect film noir.
  — Air Mail, 16 May 2026
• The plot turns can't save this 1956 film noir from its wooden acting or the gaping holes in the story.
  — Chris Ball, cleveland.com, 25 Mar. 2018
• After all, Blue Velvet has all the aesthetic hallmarks of a film noir.
  — Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, 5 Apr. 2018
• Dripping with passion and lovingly imbued with film noir tropes, Bound is a pulpy delight.
  — Eric Farwell, Entertainment Weekly, 12 June 2026