B-movie

plural B-movies · alternative B movie

1. broadcastingA low-budget motion picture, especially one with poor production values.

   But as it is, the script is so riddled with juvenalia, borrowed character types and misguided flights of poetic fancy that it feels like the work of a teenager who has seen too many B movies.

   2002 February 12, Bruce Weber, “Theater Review: Straight Play or Musical, It Turns Into a Mystery”, in The New York Times (E section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, page 5

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   Full of sly jokes, riddles and metafictional high-jinks, his work had the voltage of a thriller (offering a rare voice of disapproval, the New Yorker critic James Wood accused his works of pedalling a “B-movie atmosphere”).

   2024 May 1, Lisa Allardice, “Brooklyn’s bard: Paul Auster’s tricksy fiction captivated a generation”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2024

   Synonyms: B-picture