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
It is all a bit schlocky — which can be fun, depending on your bent — but the increasingly elaborate machinations reveal something useful.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 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
Sandberg, Dauberman and Butler work in a familiar kind of schlocky groove, delivering well-worn horror stereotypes we’ve already seen too many times, before upending the whole thing with wild surprises.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2025
It is lightly schlocky in the 1980s way — ultra-saccharine, hyper-melodramatic — a diminishing resource in the contemporary pop landscape.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2023
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
