B-movie

Noun

B-movie (plural B-movies)

1. A 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...
   • 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...

   Synonyms:

   B-picture