as in animated cartoon
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Recent Examples of B movie
Years earlier, these types might have flocked to indie film, reality television or B movies to gain a paycheck and a line on their résumé.
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Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 21 May 2026
Well, now their lives are a bad B movie inside a formulaic musical.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2026
Reading a King novel is a bit like reading a work by Henry James into which someone has slipped, at intervals, script treatments for a B movie.
—Charlie Tyson, Harpers Magazine, 21 Apr. 2026
This scenario is bad news for anyone who requires their B movies to do more than resemble role-playing video games, and great news for viewers content to simply bask in the glory of Zazie Beetz stabbing, shooting, kicking, cold-cocking, running, jumping, and serving up righteous vengeance in bulk.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2026
Estelle was a fan of more sophisticated shows like The Twilight Zone, not this B movie selection.
—Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
Jaws Births The Blockbuster Before Jaws, the summer months were a Hollywood dead zone reserved for B movies or ignored entirely.
—Mark Hughes, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
Initially the studio treated the film as just another B movie.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 20 June 2025
Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 21 May 2026
Well, now their lives are a bad B movie inside a formulaic musical.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2026
Reading a King novel is a bit like reading a work by Henry James into which someone has slipped, at intervals, script treatments for a B movie.
—Charlie Tyson, Harpers Magazine, 21 Apr. 2026
This scenario is bad news for anyone who requires their B movies to do more than resemble role-playing video games, and great news for viewers content to simply bask in the glory of Zazie Beetz stabbing, shooting, kicking, cold-cocking, running, jumping, and serving up righteous vengeance in bulk.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2026
Estelle was a fan of more sophisticated shows like The Twilight Zone, not this B movie selection.
—Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
Jaws Births The Blockbuster Before Jaws, the summer months were a Hollywood dead zone reserved for B movies or ignored entirely.
—Mark Hughes, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
Initially the studio treated the film as just another B movie.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 20 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for B movie
Noun
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Olivia Rodrigo went vintage for Halloween this year, opting to dress up as the iconic animated cartoon character, Betty Boop.—
Rania Aniftos,
Billboard,
31 Oct. 2022
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To the narcissist, all other people are cardboard cutouts, two-dimensional animated cartoon characters, or symbols.—
Olivia Muenter,
Woman's Day,
14 June 2022
Noun
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Once upon a time, movie houses were full of all sorts of pictures — big pictures, little pictures, A pictures, B pictures, smart pictures, silly pictures.—
Robert Lloyd,
Boston Herald,
7 Aug. 2025
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Nevertheless, old movies did creep onto TV through the 1950s, beginning with B pictures on local stations and gradually progressing to A pictures in network prime time.—
Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Aug. 2023
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Ugas, who holds the W.B.A. title that the organization stripped from Pacquiao last year because of his inactivity, was scheduled to face Cristian Maidana in the cofeature bout but was promoted to the main event when Spence withdrew.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2021
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In the other cofeature, Hart, 28, will fight Demond Nicholson of Laurel, Md., at 168 pounds.—
Don Steinberg,
Philly.com,
26 Apr. 2018
Noun
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Recently featured in a documentary tour by filmmaker and YouTuber Kirsten Dirksen of Fair Companies, the site offers a rare look inside the underground world where missile crews stood ready around the clock to launch one of the most powerful nuclear weapons ever deployed by the United States.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
1 June 2026
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Steve and his wife, Natalie Shirilla, spoke up for their daughter in the recent Netflix documentary The Crash, which renewed national attention in the 2022 car crash that killed Russo and Flanagan.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 June 2026
Noun
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Patience and even guarantees, features that are often central to preventing the outbreak of conflict, had no place in such a scenario.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 May 2026
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But even with these advanced features, an Uber executive is sounding the alarm on the rideshare company’s AI spending.—
Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
26 May 2026
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“B movie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/B%20movie. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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