Meanings
- InternetuncountableCinema that is personally considered to be outstanding.
That movie was absolute cinema! I'm dying for a sequel.
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Then came the weird trailer last month where the movie tried to rebrand itself as an A24 film, declaring itself to be “absolute cinema” because it hired the production designer from Hereditary and the editor of Minari (and, in Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the star of You Hurt My Feelings).
2025 April 17, Stuart Heritage, “‘I was being a sassy Karen’: Florence Pugh’s skyscraper stunt positions her as the new Tom Cruise”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2025 - InternetfigurativelyuncountableAny event or work personally considered to be outstanding or amusing.
It was absolute cinema to watch those fools fighting each other.
Origin
From an image macro of American filmmaker (born 1942) Martin Scorsese captioned with the phrase. In 2022 and 2023, the image and phrase began to circulate around Twitter as an Internet meme.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 絕對電影 /绝对电影
- 絕對電影 /绝对电影 (juéduì diànyǐng)outstanding thing or event
German großes Kino, großes Tennis
- großes Kinooutstanding thing or event
- großes Tennisoutstanding thing or event
Hungarian abszolút filmszínház
- abszolút filmszínházoutstanding thing or event
Norwegian Bokmål absolutt kino
- absolutt kinooutstanding thing or event
Polish absolutne kino
- absolutne kinooutstanding thing or event
Portuguese cinema absoluto
- cinema absolutooutstanding thing or event
Cite this entry
absolute cinema. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/absolute%20cinema
“absolute cinema.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/absolute%20cinema. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “absolute cinema,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/absolute%20cinema.
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