How to Use art house in a Sentence

art house

noun
  • The five-screen Charles has long been a showcase for art house films.
    — Jeff Barker, baltimoresun.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • An art house film, this is not, but perhaps the style of the film will surprise us.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Mikkelsen would like to keep making movies for both the multiplex and the art house.
    — Alex Bhattacharji, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Usually genre films or smaller art house movies.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
  • This year’s nominees skew toward smaller and more art house fare.
    — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The dearth of those movies could, however, benefit art house films.
    — Dorothy Dworkin, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Aug. 2020
  • As the old guard institutions fade, a slick new era of art houses is rising.
    — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2019
  • Others would have preferred something a little bit less action and more art house.
    — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The Santikos Bijou, which was then an art house, was his theater of choice.
    — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The art house is complete with multiple stages, dressing rooms, a creators lounge and a green room.
    — Shelby Stewart, Chron, 17 May 2021
  • Yet the film is not pensive enough to exist as a strictly meditative art house piece.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
  • If a driving safari is a summer blockbuster, a walking safari is an art house film.
    — Rebecca Misner, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Expect festival buyers to circle for prestige slots and art house runs.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • It's allowed more of these smaller art house movies that the academy members love, but the public doesn't, to get in.
    — NBC News, 4 Mar. 2018
  • The studio first suggested a young director who’d made a horror film, an art house favorite.
    — Cameron Crowe, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
  • On the mountain, on a 2-lane back road, the art house film changes from romantic to action-adventure.
    — Mark Ewing, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • In its place, however, is a burgeoning art house and low-budget mainstream scene that caters to local tastes.
    — G. Allen Johnson, SFChronicle.com, 10 July 2019
  • Expect the high-profile cast and prestige appeal to pull in art house distributors hook, line and sinker.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 11 May 2026
  • Netflix was planning to screen some of its original movies in a select group of art house movie theaters across France.
    — Sheena Scott, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • But the deals have been coming, the price tags make sense for respective buyers and there’s hope brimming up inside art house circles.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 7 Feb. 2025
  • But for those who deem the risk within their comfort zone, Chicago’s art house cinemas are open for business this fall.
    — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Many of the biggest names in international art house cinema got their start in the sidebar.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Many of the biggest names in international art house cinema got their start at the section.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Film criticism is one of the key components of the independent and art house film ecosystem.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Hailing from the low-budget art house, Chung addressed the obvious in front of the theater owners.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 11 Apr. 2024
  • By turning art house into a global brand, Mubi risked emptying the values that made the genre niche in the first place.
    — Will Tavlin, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The nonprofit is building a new art house theater on the Upper West Side.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Koyama says the only art house title in Japan to pull in older viewers so far was Plan 75.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2022
  • With the help of a local contact, the art house quickly homed in on Ohmatdyt as a beneficiary.
    — Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The film, which was released 20 years ago this week, is no average cult flick showing at midnight at your local art house theater.
    — Eli Rosenberg, chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018

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