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the art or business of making a movie
a list of the top 100 stars of the silver screen
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Recent Examples of silver screen
The star of stage, television and silver screen had a career spanning decades that included two Academy Award wins.
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Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2024
What every film on this list has in common is that their horrors are more than just boogeymen and spirits projected upon a silver screen, but a conduit into which deeper real-life fears are made manifest.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
Korine thinks this is the future of cinema, a cinema swallowed up by home streaming devices and video gaming that deserves something better, fitter, happier than the images passively projected on silver screens.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2024
Debuting in Borderlands 2, Tina hasn’t previously been one of the core four protagonists in any of the games, so she’s gotten an upgrade in that regard as one of the leads for the series’ silver screen outing.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2024
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Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2024
What every film on this list has in common is that their horrors are more than just boogeymen and spirits projected upon a silver screen, but a conduit into which deeper real-life fears are made manifest.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
Korine thinks this is the future of cinema, a cinema swallowed up by home streaming devices and video gaming that deserves something better, fitter, happier than the images passively projected on silver screens.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2024
Debuting in Borderlands 2, Tina hasn’t previously been one of the core four protagonists in any of the games, so she’s gotten an upgrade in that regard as one of the leads for the series’ silver screen outing.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for silver screen
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Trump's Case On May 30, a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the case, which involved a hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election.Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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Jr on the original 1997 horror film set, the weather caused them to be stuck in a tunnel for almost an hour.Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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This 75-inch TV is the biggest television on this list and will make any game or movie come to life.Kasey Caminiti, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2024
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No audience scores below an 80%, even with being the focal point of a lot of DCEU fanbase controversy, and only two movies below a 90% from critics.Paul Tassi, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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This is painfully personal filmmaking that’s principled and diagnostic regarding the practical and ethical conflicts of the art. 5.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2024
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Does that foothold in edgier genre filmmaking offer something unique that complements your music?August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
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Half-watching a big screen while scrolling social media on a smaller screen.Julia MacCary, Variety, 7 Dec. 2024
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But Barton points to a theme in Knightley’s movie career where her big screen characters have two sides to them: a public persona and private wants, with the heart yearning for one thing and having to settle for another.Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Silver screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/silver%20screen. Accessed 15 Dec. 2024.
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