How to Use low-budget in a Sentence
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On a low-budget movie, there was no overtime.
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 29 Nov. 2025
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But that low-budget charm came with a massive price for the cast and crew.
—Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 10 July 2026
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Known for its campy, low-budget style, the show has gone on to cult status.
—Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 25 June 2024
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Wer is the sort of low-budget, high-concept film that’s all too rare these days.
—EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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But then you’re drawn back to something like this, a low-budget indie.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
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Both Finn and Kline might have made fine low-budget slasher movies.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2025
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To me, music is the thing that elevates low-budget things.
—Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
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His film career drifted into low-budget and straight-to-video fare.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 4 Jan. 2026
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Let the small-market, low-budget teams sweat the small stuff and play between the margins.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
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But on a practical level, this is such a low-budget indie film.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2025
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This was very low-budget and shot at one location in Georgia.
—Kyle Eustice, SPIN, 25 July 2024
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Carol was, of course, one of those incredibly very low-budget films for the scale of it.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2024
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That the finale is no longer being held in a large-scale theater remains a sad, low-budget choice.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2026
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For a low-budget independent film, this was a huge challenge.
—Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 1 Mar. 2025
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Baldwin was both the star of the low-budget Western and one of its producers.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2024
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Making a low-budget, independent movie requires one and all to chip in and help.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
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Moreover, the $63 million price tag was a little lofty for a genre that thrives on low-budget scares.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 16 July 2026
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The war looks empty, low-budget, the battle scenes disengaged.
—Armond White, National Review, 2 Oct. 2024
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Duncan, though, is eager to return to a modest life of low-budget chivalry.
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
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On a risk-to-reward basis, low-budget horror is the only sure thing in the film business these days.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Jan. 2024
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Though the movie was low-budget, Darren began receiving lots of fan mail.
—Victoria Edel, Peoplemag, 3 Sep. 2024
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At that time, the independents just did tiny little low-budget pictures.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 13 May 2024
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The horror hit launched over a dozen sequels and inspired countless other low-budget slashers.
—Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024
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Prior to Rust, Hutchins had primarily worked on low-budget and short films.
—Rachel Brodsky, TIME, 11 Mar. 2025
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There might be a low-budget catalogue or a Neiman-Marcus approach.
—Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
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The ad blitz is not your typical low-budget public service announcement.
—Patricia Lopez, Mercury News, 2 Dec. 2025
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Yes, that’s a major claim — even narrowed down to other low-budget indies about magic, love, and part-time zoophilia.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 6 Feb. 2026
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But those are the small kindnesses that have endeared the Hollywood star to his indie crew on the low-budget project.
—Mike Miller, EW.com, 26 Sep. 2024
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The low-budget movie follows two teenage girls whose lives unfold through webcam chats, video diaries and online messages.
—Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 21 Jan. 2026
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In another episode, Charlie rents out of her car to a low-budget movie and ends up playing an extra as a corpse in a coffin.
—Nina Metz Chicago Tribune, Twin Cities, 8 May 2025
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