schlocky
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Citizen Vigilante, a film from German director Uwe Boll and starring actor Armie Hammer, is violent – and very schlocky – stuff.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
If there is one thing the world’s oldest democracy is good at, it’s throwing Independence Day parties, hosting outdoor concerts, and filling out state fairs with charmingly schlocky entertainment and ice cream stands.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
Though the Johnny Cage figure is a walking embodiment of cheesy Hollywood tropes, his presence seems not to embarrass the film into abandoning its schlocky ways.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Most of these rare VHS titles tend to be schlocky, low-budget efforts, the kind of movies that are so bad they become entertaining in their absurdity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
As for that “Diamond Eyes” idea conceived two years ago, the number made it into a scene in which Legend, playing a 007-wannabe named Agent 187, prowls through a schlocky spy-flick trailer.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2022
But more dark films are making waves each year, distinguished in part from their schlockier cousins, thanks to better budgets and an undercurrent of metaphor or social commentary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2019
Understanding televisual adaptations to be generally schlockier than their sources, I cringed to imagine what would result from a Britton-centered adaptation of “Dirty John,” a pulpy true story with a tabloid aesthetic.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 20, 2018
Put the top down and bring on the summer spectacles, the schlockier the better.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2015
Like Shonda Rhimes’ Scandal, AHS is a different kind of quality television: ambitious, bitchy, frisky, entertaining as all-get-out, and unabashed by TV’s schlockier roots.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2013
The schlockiest films, the ones I had to take for money to survive are strewn about everywhere.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2024
Much as, in the Rock Era, even the schlockiest pop bore some compositional or presentational relationship to rock, the hits of the post-’80s period orbit the sun that is hip-hop.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2018
