How to Use filmic in a Sentence

filmic

adjective
  • No one stretches the boundaries of filmic-funk like Younge.
    Philly.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The scene, as a piece of filmic fanfic, has over the years drawn the ire of many an Austen scholar.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 17 July 2017
  • Top of the Lake was part of that very early wave of filmic television.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2022
  • This was the era of The Hills — reality TV shows that were very polished and filmic.
    Alex Rees, Cosmopolitan, 29 June 2017
  • With a dusting of fake snow on the ground, the entire show was completely filmic.
    Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Feb. 2018
  • This is a case of a director still getting his filmic feet wet.
    Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2021
  • As filmic visits with cherished masters go, Fox’s has been well worth the wait.
    Robert Abele, latimes.com, 6 June 2019
  • Tickets for Sunday’s filmic Haim-fest are $20 and include some Haim merch.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Apr. 2022
  • My days took on a filmic quality, something watched rather than lived.
    Kira Homsher, Longreads, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Plot, that filmic engine, was mostly just a means to an end for Morrison.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2018
  • Out of that filmic symphonic sound was also born the sound of our orchestra.
    Maxwell Williams, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2018
  • But there's no denying the essential sense of beauty and desolation in Sean Penn's filmic take on the story.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 May 2018
  • Max could not make a series without a deal with the author, who still holds considerable control over the filmic rights to her stories.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The chameleonic actress remembers a vivid sense of pride upon learning that her friend had emerged into the filmic landscape.
    Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The baked-in filmic qualities of the overture provided a fitting soundtrack for the movie that is the foundation of Mr. Kratzer’s production.
    Joshua Barone, New York Times, 26 July 2019
  • According to the brand, the inspiration for the liquid really starts with a filmic concept.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 2 Sep. 2022
  • She is known for a filmic style with narrative focus and dramatic lighting.
    Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The end result is a 14-inch by 12-inch shrine to a filmic era that may be long since dead, but still feels strangely familiar in its intentions to the present-day cinemascape.
    Jordan Crucchiola, WIRED, 24 Sep. 2015
  • Having had a bigger budget to play with, Fellowes promises banquets, balls and military parades done on a filmic scale in the new feature.
    chicagotribune.com, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Those and countless other filmic adventures from their 50-year careers are now capped with honorary degrees.
    Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 17 May 2021
  • Narkopop largely picks up where Gas left off, while amplifying its sense of filmic grandeur—and yet another new Gas album, Rausch, will arrive on May 18.
    Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 27 Mar. 2018
  • But after doubling the amount of judder and providing a hint of stutter to the camera movement, the footage acquires a filmic look that is markedly more immersive for a viewer.
    Vulture, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Once again, the joint force of Schwarzenegger and James Cameron unleash the full power of big-budget filmmaking, exploding the frame with all the filmic firepower of state of the art wizardry and robust storytelling.
    Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2019
  • For both these emotional states, start with Arthur Jafa’s seven-minute filmic-montage masterpiece from 2016 just inside the museum’s front door.
    Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Nearing the two-year mark since the ongoing pandemic first upended it all, filmic statements on the uncertain early days have begun to emerge.
    Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2021
  • But of late, Morris has allowed a less detached, warmer side to surface in between his more clinical filmic inquisitions.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2020
  • Such box-office overperformance is particularly notable in light of Shang-Chi’s pile-on of filmic firsts.
    Chris Lee, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Sylvia Khoury’s elegant new play Selling Kabul looks perfectly at home in this filmic space, using the compression of the tight frame to create a ratcheting sense of tension.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Even the filmic mainstream got a shot in the arm, with several members of the Canto-pop boy band sensation Mirror rapidly transitioning into film.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 17 May 2022
  • His dusky-dark and vividly filmic aesthetic, with its gothic melodicism and clanging rhythms, became hip-hop’s industry gold standard.
    A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 22 Mar. 2024

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