How to Use actioner in a Sentence

actioner

noun

• The Alzheimer Case in 2003, is Neeson’s best actioner since the pre-Covid days.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 1 May 2022
• The Indian actioner of the year, if not the decade, is on course to getting a sequel.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 14 Nov. 2022
• The Chris Hemsworth-starring actioner had been set to lens in Australia.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 31 Aug. 2021
• To be fair, the fourth Keanu Reeves actioner doesn’t need a prime holiday weekend to score.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
• The film is a period naval actioner that released in late July and gave the 2022 box office its high point.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 4 Sep. 2022
• Who at this point still walks into a period actioner like this and doesn’t know what to expect?
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 23 Apr. 2022
• The Orion Pictures sci-fi actioner went on to gross $53 million that summer and launched a franchise.
  — Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 July 2022
• This new actioner is merely the next mega-bucks Chinese blockbuster.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
• Works well as actioner, not so well as espionage thriller.
  — Philly.com, 17 Sep. 2017
• That’s because the Daniel Craig actioner is crushing it overseas.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 14 Nov. 2021
• Snatch is an ensemble piece and more of a gangster comedy than an actioner, but if Wrath of Man passes it that will be a moot point.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 2 June 2021
• For a change, Boutella didn’t do any fighting in that Cold War espionage actioner.
  — The Mercury News, 28 Apr. 2017
• Wrath of Man opened with $8.1 million two weeks ago, which is exactly par for the course for a solo/non-franchise Jason Statham actioner.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 21 May 2021
• The Brad Pitt actioner’s domestic gross should stand at $68.6 million by Monday.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 20 Aug. 2022
• Kinnaman is pictured above in an exclusive first look still from the actioner.
  — Carole Horst, Variety, 17 May 2022
• That sci-fi actioner placed first for the first five weekends, partially because the promised post-Tenet tentpoles never arrived.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
• Nevertheless, the scheduling now on the books is in many ways one of the best possible outcomes for both Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic and the Daniel Craig actioner.
  — Rebecca Davis, Variety, 18 Sep. 2021
• Markets across Asia should be more than welcoming of a polished, franchise-style actioner headlined by a girl from the neighborhood.
  — Elizabeth Kerr, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2018
• When teenagers get superpowers, the government turns against them in this sci-fi actioner based on the Alexandra Bracken novel.
  — Lindsey Bahr, kansascity, 26 Apr. 2018
• Like the two mindless actioners that came before it, Race 3 is light on characterization and heavy on the stylized brand-fetishization.
  — Lisa Tsering, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 June 2018
• The Pluto Moment begins with a once-famous art house director visiting his film-star wife on the shoot of an actioner, high atop a Shanghai skyscraper.
  — Clarence Tsui, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 May 2018
• Speaking of morally dubious actioners, this late-era Mel Gibson romp offers more than its fair share of thrills (and questionable curse words).
  — EW.com, 31 Jan. 2024
• The actioner was acquired by Saban Films during Toronto.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 10 Jan. 2023
• The team will also be selling high-concept Scott Adkins actioner Take Cover, which wrapped in early summer this year, and will be presenting a first look at the festival.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2023
• Gal Gadot plays an adrenaline junkie in her upcoming actioner.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 24 Sep. 2022
• In the debut trailer for this international actioner, Ryan Reynolds stars as a ghost… as in, someone who faked his own death, scrubbed his record, and now moves about as a phantom operative.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 1 Oct. 2019
• In almost 100 years of the Oscar awards, fantasy and sci-fi film characters, along with actors in comedies, Westerns and actioners, almost never get any love.
  — Steven Gaydos, Variety, 25 Jan. 2024
• Lacking a high concept or memorable central character, the film is a by-the-numbers actioner that coasts on its star’s soulful gravitas and low-key charisma.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2022
• Highland Film Group is handling international rights to the actioner.
  — Alex Ritman, Variety, 17 May 2024
• Iconoclast, the group behind Romain Gavras’s Netflix actioner Athena, are producing the feature.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Oct 2024