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absolute cinema

absolute cinema noun: cinema that is personally considered to be outstanding.

Noun

absolute cinema (uncountable)

  1. (Internet) Cinema that is personally considered to be outstanding.
    • That movie was absolute cinema! I'm dying for a sequel.
    • 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
  2. (Internet, figuratively) Any event or work personally considered to be outstanding or amusing.
    • It was absolute cinema to watch those fools fighting each other.

Origin of absolute cinema

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.

Questions about absolute cinema

What does absolute cinema mean?
Absolute cinema means cinema that is personally considered to be outstanding.
What part of speech is absolute cinema?
Absolute cinema is a noun.

Words near absolute cinema in the dictionary

  1. absolute assembler
  2. absolute assemblers
  3. absolute blocking
  4. absolute ceiling
  5. absolute ceilings
  6. absolute cinema
  7. absolute code
  8. absolute comparative
  9. absolute comparatives
  10. absolute complement
  11. absolute complements

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