How to Use camerawork in a Sentence

camerawork

noun
  • The camerawork is loose and ’70s as all get out, adding to the art-film vibe of the episode.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Field wanted the sound, and score, to be as subtle as the camerawork.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Much of this is achieved through performance and camerawork.
    — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Most of the camerawork in the film was done by Hauser, who also wrote and produced.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 18 July 2024
  • Just like that, the music at 8H changes, same with the colors and the camerawork.
    — Andy Hoglund, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The simulcast is less glitchy, the camerawork more assured and the video image sharper.
    — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2023
  • The hovering camerawork peeks over shoulders to catch a kiss or embrace.
    — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2021
  • The inventiveness of the camerawork from scene to scene really makes this feel fresh too.
    — Amon Warmann, Variety, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The camerawork is respectful, matter-of-fact, with no hint of a lingering eye.
    — Maya Phillips, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Elsewhere, the craft elements add surface sheen but not much style, and some of the fussy camerawork is just distracting.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The camerawork was fluid and close, like an intimate witness.
    — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
  • In the meantime, Leif has kept up his Cornelia Street camerawork.
    — Curbed, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The camerawork is adequate, but never lifts the movie to a greater aesthetic delight.
    — Lé Baltar, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The plot moves really, really fast, but within that, a lot of our camerawork happens very slowly.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 8 May 2023
  • Set in the 20th century, the film treats us to grand visuals and brilliant camerawork.
    — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • So’s numerous triumphs on the track with creative camerawork and razor-sharp editing.
    — Richard Kuipers, Variety, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The absolute calmness of the camerawork and song mixed with the complete and utter panic of the tiny ppl far away while slowly crashing into a tree.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Dack takes obvious care to make sure that the filmmaking and camerawork don’t further exploit the character.
    — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • As someone who is less technical and more visual in his approach to his camerawork, knowing the cast and locations ahead of time was a definite help.
    — Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The camerawork is loose and supple, the moody textures of the many night scenes are effective and the use of vibrant color is invigorating.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
  • The hyperactive camerawork of the first episode works to keep pace with a script that’s written in the bing-bang-boom rhythm of a Mamet play, where the joke’s on everyone.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Staying in that one location takes a bit of getting used to, given the fluid camerawork and the nifty, high-energy editing of the film’s middle.
    — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 14 May 2025
  • The soundtrack is bass dropped half to death, some of the acting ain’t so great, and the fight scenes are more notable for their choreography than for the camerawork deployed to capture it all.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2021
  • No amount of clever camerawork could skew the obvious love Laura and her daughters had for one another—even if that love felt like fear at times, or resentment.
    — Alyse Burnside, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Though the camerawork is relatively discreet, the imagination all too easily fills in any gory details the eye can’t see.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The same camerawork that captures residents’ gritty lives prepares the viewer for the magic realism of its final act.
    — Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The camerawork is impeccable; the subtitles are easy to read, accurate in translation, and in synch.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2021
  • The nearly 10-minute sequence used handheld camerawork to intensify the stakes.
    — Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
  • The director, a veteran video journalist who does her own camerawork in the film, was granted intimate access with the duo from the beginning.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The camerawork to me evoked the imagery of Hades stalking Persephone underwater.
    — Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2022

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