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Recent Examples of grind house
What the proto-feminist painter Artemisia Gentileschi was to the 17th-century Renaissance, Stephanie Rothman was to the 1970s grind house.
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Spike Carter, airmail.news, 16 Nov. 2024
Spike Carter, airmail.news, 16 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grind house
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The San Fernando Valley native is a brilliant director who has made sprawling, messy epics about imperfect people synonymous with his name, like John Ford with Westerns or A24 with art house flicks.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Mar. 2026
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The Miami connection in the film is Nat Chediak, Miami Film Festival co-founder and former executive director, who appears in the film and who championed independent and art house cinema in Miami for decades.—
Michelle F. Solomon,
Miami Herald,
13 Jan. 2026
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Constructed in 1963, the three-screen Cinema Village is billed as the oldest continuously operating movie theater in Greenwich Village and one of the oldest art theaters in the city.—
Katie Kilkenny,
The Hollywood Reporter,
5 Apr. 2024
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The film released last week to widespread fanfare and critical acclaim, in Indianapolis and beyond, that has shattered the art theater box initially placed around it, propelling it into chain theaters and early award conversations.—
Rory Appleton,
The Indianapolis Star,
13 Apr. 2022
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“Grind house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grind%20house. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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