road movie
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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One of Mr. Laxe’s acknowledged influences in creating this desert-set road movie is “Mad Max,” though that film builds its dystopian world with a resourceful imagination that’s missing here.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
This fact that reminds me of the moment in “Kings of the Road,” the 1976 Wim Wenders road movie, when a character says, “The Yanks have colonized our subconscious.”
From New York Times • May 24, 2024
Goulet: Episode 301 really felt to me like a road movie.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2023
Your film is a road movie that never leaves South London.
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2023
The first was a road movie from the early seventies, about a man who leaves his wife to drive cross-country.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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