Then again, I thought, it might be good to watch a movie and play a bunch of video games and stuff. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

It’s all still there, like a movie I can watch when I want to. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Around the holidays, they always play the same movies. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

No one shot a bird for the whole entire movie. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t even considered such a thing could be possible, seeing a movie with a friend, and now that someone had said it, it made her heart ache. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I eventually learned the name of the movie, Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS, and I learned something else, too: Mr. Potts had been accused of molesting children. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

There are books I will never finish reading, games I will never finish playing, movies that I’ve started and will never see the end of. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Like, how many fictional people died in that fictional movie? Not enough,” he joked. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The movie stuff is going well so far, which means my message will get out to way more people than ever before. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

As you walk down, there are posters of old movies displayed in the window. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I notice that he's not as tall as he seems in the movies. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“It would be funny if only it were a movie and not real life.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She says it’s from a famous movie based on a book by Stephen King. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

We usually order Chinese food for dinner, jam a little on our guitars, and watch a movie. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“He said she was always impulsive like that, and she always loved movies. She grew up watching everything in black and white, because their mother refused to splurge on a color TV.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

How could Mama think that movies and TV showed what things were really like? The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

"Guess what I did this afternoon! What movie I saw. Guess!" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“The Empire State Building has been the location of dozens of movies, the reception site of foreign dignitaries, and even had a World War Two bomber crash into the seventy-ninth floor in 1945.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The idea behind the game is to try to link any actor or actress, through the movies they’ve been in, to the actor Kevin Bacon in less than six steps. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Daniels asks, pulling me from my mind movie. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“All right, Zoe, talk to me. Why did you lie about going to the movies? Where were you going in a cab?” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Should things get scary, we realized, our rescue wouldn’t unfold the way rescues did in the tidy after-school movies we watched on TV. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

While Mom and Dad visited the stores, Jim and I were deposited at the Pocahontas Theater to watch cowboy movies and adventure serials with hundreds of other miners’ kids. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“All we need now is a scary movie to watch,” Mary Lou said. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

After a long pause, he nodded and looked away, like he knew I wasn’t just talking about the movie. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

All night, he kept yelling, “Flaunt it, baby! Flaunt it!” which is his favorite line from his favorite movie, The Producers. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Many told stories about how they had become addicted to Hollywood movies and South Korean soap operas. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Was making this movie and showcasing it for the entire school a giant mistake? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She’d had so many throat infections that the smell of it—“pink drink,” her father called it—became part of her childhood, like music she barely noticed during a scene in a movie. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The story behind the book was that she saw a movie that talked about one poem that compares this woman’s hands to flowers and rain. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Like in that movie. Prep school teachers love dead poets. It’s a thing.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

He gives me a catalog the size of an encyclopedia to look through and suggest a movie, but I don’t need it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She was pleased, for she looked almost like the gussak girls in the magazines and movies—thin and gaunt, not moon-faced like an Eskimo. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was about the Vietnam War and was called Fields of Shame—a big-budget movie with a lot of stars. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Said he stayed up all night watching some movie about Jesse Owens, which was fine for him since he didn't have to go school. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

What did they do in the movies when they got stranded like this? Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks like one of those white kids in Christmas movies who wake up to a tree packed with presents underneath—like the whole world was just handed to her on a gold-rimmed plate. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

I wanted to go to the movies with someone. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Francie seldom went to the movies because they jumped around so and hurt her eyes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded like something from a mafia movie. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The movie theater was mostly empty, which only amped up my anxiety. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I stayed there for months playing back every minute of our time together, watching it like I watched the movies, trying to make sense of the days we buried squandering love. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

After watching a violent spy movie and eating raspberry cheesecake for dessert, Conner walked me home in the dark. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The Lacks children sat up in the colored section next to the projector, which clicked like a metronome through the whole movie. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“What movie and with whom? You’ve been out almost every night this week.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“A boy who likes old movies. Interesting. Most dudes your age are into Grand Theft Auto, no? Kill as many people as you can over four slices of pizza?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll kill it. You’ll be glad you took a vacation. I’m strong on superheroes, spy movies, YouTubers, fitness, money, makeup, and Victorian writers. What about you?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We watched the movie with several inches of couch between us. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

One of the men carried a giant roll of bullets, like you’d see in action movies. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Mama, look! I think this is a ballet movie,” I said in my heavily accented English. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing was moving in slow motion, the way it does in the movies. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

"Let's go to the movies, James," said Alfred. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You look like a guy in the movies. You know. Whosis. You know who I mean. What the heck's his name?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He looked over his right shoulder, then his left, like someone in a movie, and then he leaned in and said, “Where you want to go is Mudlavia.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She was a daughter of Athena, not some shrill girlie victim in a horror movie. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Being at a movie theater together and feeling obligated to hold hands even after your hands become sweaty and the sweat starts mixing together; and 5. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I thought of what Marcus had said about going to the movies in my time machine, that if I didn’t leave until I was sixty-two, the ticket guy wouldn’t recognize me. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t like azaleas and I sure didn’t like that movie, the way they made slavery look like a big happy tea party. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They resembled the men I’d seen in army pictures on TV and on the movie screen. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he could have formed whole sentences, he’d have explained that they watched too many scary movies to make that mistake. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Luckily, the movie gave off some light, so when we saw a flashlight coming toward us out of the woods, we knew immediately that it was Henry, Miles, and Amos. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

It reminded Thomas of a haunted house from a movie or something. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Even Penelope’s own hot-ironed coif was looking a little frizzy, as she talked nonstop about the movie. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Salvador and Lupita are going to the movies with us. They said that they would pay their own way,” Elvio reported. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Gangsters — known as tsotsis — carrying flick-knives or switchblades were plentiful and prominent; in those days they emulated American movie stars and wore fedoras and double-breasted suits and wide, colorful ties. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Etienne works at the movie theater near my home. He sneaks me in because Papa Georges won’t allow me to see any movies.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

"Like for the circus, or movies, or something like that." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It’s like when all my friends see some new scary movie, and I haven’t. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh, my goodness,” said Mother, holding her hand to her heart, like women do in the movies when they are about to faint. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I choose the bad movie option, diving for the closet and shutting myself in before Oscar’s boots are stomping across the room. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And I’ll be spending prom night watching old movies with my aunt. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

In the daytime we went to the pool or to the movies or to the park to turn somersaults and roll on the grass. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want Mom to see the food, since I was only supposed to be seeing a movie and getting ice cream while I was gone. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Axel says all this, and his mind plays like a movie, like one he’s already seen a hundred times. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Sleep in. Then maybe go to a movie or the mall if any of my friends are around. When is your last appointment?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

So we went to the movies, Barbarella again, the eighth straight night. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you want to see a Boris Karloff movie, you have to rent it and watch it on a television set. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They’d gone all the way to the other side of the world to visit the movie sets from The Lord of the Rings. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My friends’ parents actually drove them on dates and dropped them off at the movie theater or a cafe, because the kids weren’t old enough to drive. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

At the moment my every waking hour is spent in helping some dedicated friends raise money for a bold and shattering movie that they are planning to film about an interracial marriage. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not monster movies. My sister, as usual, belittles my chosen medium. Want to know the tide?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In order of least exciting to most exciting: the movies, the aquarium, the arboretum, Six Flags, Disneyland. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The guy's probably a stunt driver for the movies, the kind they hire when they want six near-misses every fifteen seconds. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world suddenly stops, as if paused mid-frame in a movie. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I creep down the stairs of our building as if I’m hiding from the bad guy in a scary movie. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I gathered as much,” Heidi says, but she looks like she’s in one of those Japanese terror movies, her mouth not syncing up with the words. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

We’d always done things as a threesome, riding our bikes around the neighborhood, going to the park for ice cream, playing board games at my house, and watching movies at Audrey’s. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I definitely fit the description of the ugly duckling in makeover movies, except that those girls were actually gorgeous actresses disguised by poorly framed glasses. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Anyway. We have a tradition. Horror movies at House Boggs on Friday the thirteenth.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He made a short bow at the waist to her, an Errol Flynn kind of move I’m sure he had seen in the movies. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I myself am a big fan of action movies. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Those kids are celebrities! People wrote books about the paper clips project. They made a movie.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They worked as set builders on the Columbia Film Studios back lot, saved their money, and bought a movie theater in Glendale. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

The caretaker’s cottage was twice as big as my house back in Queens, and the mansion itself was from a movie. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Ben was quiet, Ben who always asked Alfred how he had spent his weekend, and then winked knowingly when Alfred said he had seen some movies, watched television, and hung around. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, why don’t I take you guys to the movies this weekend?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

You think those thuggish chaps in movie heist gangs fall out a bit too quickly and mindlessly? Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

I have no idea who this lady is spinning around in this stranger’s arms, spinning and spinning, like they’re in some lame movie until they lose their footing and fall to the ground. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

"You guys are the ones who told me to get a picture! I don't even like his movies that much!" The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

That one hot July day of filming in the burning wheat field produced the only shots ever taken for the movie. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m a fan of your brother’s movies. Didn’t think I’d get to talk to you today.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Curly and his wife were avid movie fans. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The movie reminded me once again that on the day I did walk out of prison, I did not want to appear to be a political fossil from an age long past. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we can convince our parents to let us walk dogs again, and she can keep saving up for her camera and shoot her movie. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He pretended to swoon, just like Mina in the movie, and Maddie bent close to his throat, pausing just short of putting her mouth on his skin. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Some art students had built it, modeling it after the giant snail in the movie of Doctor Dolittle. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

To me, it looked like they were sucking each other’s faces off, like in a sci-fi movie. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, a nice dramatic touch. Someday maybe you should go into the movies or something.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes me happy to imagine them drinking tea or going to the movies together, still connected to each other by the invisible chain of a family that no longer exists. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it didn’t matter if he rebuffed or rejected a person, because someone else was sure to phone with yet another offer to play chess, see a movie, or eat a fish dinner. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't even enjoy sitting next to them in the movies. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

It is my junior year, 1978, when disco and Rocky movies are the cultural rage. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see from the expression on Trevor’s face that he was trying to figure out exactly what time to text his mom so she would think he’d gotten out of the movie. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“A few. For the swimming and beach bonfire—and the movie. Not for the sleepover part on the terrace. Obviously.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Whether they’re killed in a movie theater, a school, or a drone strike, it makes me ill. I mourn when anyone is killed. Here or elsewhere.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

You could see others poking their heads out of the windows, trying to understand why the track looked like an apocalypse movie. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

On paydays, if the rent wasn't due, Ty'ree always made sure there was some left to see a movie or rent a video. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

There’d been plenty of movies made about that, and yet here I am, staring down at it right in my hands. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Nearly three hundred people squeeze into Santa Teresa del Mar’s only movie theater, sharing seats, cigarettes, and soft drinks. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The short, stunted man confined to a wheelchair and the growing boy went to movies, dined in restaurants, attended chess events at clubs, and celebrated birthdays and holidays together. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The entire experience felt like something out of a Disney movie. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She and Jairo have been going to dinner and even to a few movies, and once to a poetry reading at Bakersfield College. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Which means I’m officially on the lookout for good autumnal movies. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“But Hollywood makes equally bad movies. They just make them with better lighting,” Ifemelu said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Look, what’s the big deal, Twinkle? It’s just one prop in the movie. I thought we talked about this in the caf.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He won an Oscar for his role in In the Heat of the Night and also made “B” movies so bad they went straight to video. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Uhmma dreams about getting a dining room table and a chandelier just like in the old movies with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She just kind of stood there, and we had another movie moment where both people get super weird about what to say and do next and so they both just act crazy. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

So it had to be an abandoned movie theater, of course, one that had been closed down and forgotten about by the owner. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She would be a perfect villain in a Disney movie. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I wished he’d been famous, famous like a movie star, which is what he deserved. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We throw a blanket over ourselves and find an old cartoon movie I used to like when I was a kid. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The movie brought me back to the atrocious conflicts I had witnessed in my own life, and I needed some air. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Eric and I had watched enough war movies to know that if we ever got into the army, we were going to go airborne. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

"The movie actor. In person. He was buyin' a newspaper. He's cute." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

In the movies there is always one with red red lips who is beautiful and cruel. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like a flashy Hollywood movie star. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“Mom, could you watch a movie with me?” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We ask for the check, explaining that we have a movie to catch. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

There are a lot of things in the play I remember from the movie. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

In the movie version Dorothy wears ruby slippers, but in the book she wears silver shoes that she takes off the Wicked Witch of the East when the house lands on her and kills her. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“People complained, of course. No one wants to listen to a dog barking while they try to watch a movie.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But take someone like Steiger: he has made great movies like the Oscar-winning On the Waterfront and dreadful movies like Car Pool. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to the movies a lot again. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was he going to work for people like you saw in the movies? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

So I spoke in a language he understood: "Think of this as a movie, Daoud. The good guys always win, right?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It's Jamie, wanting to know when I'm coming home because he wants to go see a movie with me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The kind you see in movies or read about in books. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Ras was attacking the Brotherhood now and others were answering him from the audience, and I went on, moving back toward Lenox, moving past a movie house when they grabbed me and started punching. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing it would be a while before results came in, we invited Valerie over to watch a movie in the White House theater. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I had seen this Psi Special Forces officer before—Sam called him the Grinch, because he looked like he had stepped straight out of the movie, save for no green skin. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was in a foreign language and had subtitles, which was fun because I had never read a movie before. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Because I feel like I’m in a movie and I’m the main character. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And while they argued if Carver rhymed with larva, I saw pictures of my Temptations-whistling, dimpled, smiling father sitting in the RKO movie theater munching on popcorn with his arm around Miss Marva Hendrix’s shoulders. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe Mom had played it at some point, or it was in the background of a movie. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I never like movies that books get turned into. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I told my mami, You can look for me in the movies! The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“But come by the movie theater next week when I’m back. I’ll be working on Tuesday. I’ll sneak you both in.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

We passed roadside restaurants advertising breakfast specials and movie theaters with the show times listed on towering signs near the edge of the highway. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“I think I know why you want to see this other movie. And I know you’re upset. But please, trust my judgment.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Um. Doesn’t that remind you of the cabin in any number of horror movies?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They fight all the time, so I figured that the movie was at least something different, which it wasn’t because it was a sequel. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“So when do we get to check out this Lemoncello Library?” said a boy with the kind of tough edge New Yorkers always have in movies. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I used to watch American movies where cops would pull people over and say, “You didn’t signal” or “Your taillight’s out.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

His mother shops in New Market and goes to movies and sees her old school friends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Later, in the dark, after the movie had started, I heard Hassan next to me, croaking. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The building looks more like something out of a horror movie. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Riccio whispered when they finally stood in front of the movie theater's emergency exit. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is a bad scene in a movie, because the microphone makes the throat-clearing sound like a rocket lifting off. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When she had told him she was leaving the country, a week after their kiss at the movies, he looked as blank as an ironing board. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I reminded inmates of many different actors and the characters they played in movies, but he was the first one to see a resemblance to Forrest Gump. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the drive home, I downloaded the main theme song from the movie and made it my phone’s ringtone. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The train didn't leave for an hour, so I went downstairs and found a movie theater. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I found an article about a documentary movie about Harvey Milk. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo thought the movie was the most wonderful thing he had ever seen. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“They no longer roam through the towns, hunting for mischief. They are in uniform, marching with the Hitler Youth. They have no time for cigarettes, dancing, flasks, lipsticks, automobiles, or movies.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll “rewind the movie in my mind,” as Zlata would say, and replay the summer from the beginning, pausing on some of the highlights. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He stumbles back but doesn’t fall flat like people do in the movies. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

They had gotten lost in, were hopelessly in love with, that movie. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Like when people were camped out for days for that last Star Wars movie.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Why did she let her believe that Penelope was the one taking her out for movies and ice cream? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She’s seen the movie thousands of times; she doesn’t need to hit the play button in her visual memory and watch the critters quivering every time she talks about whether her experiment worked. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Must you distract me at every level. I am working on something with wonderful movie possibilities. Highly commercial.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mandy claps, jumps lip and down, and hugs a few of her friends as if she’s just been crowned prom queen in a bad TV movie. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

At the end of the day, he sometimes went out on the town with Fred and Thelma, eating in real restaurants, taking in Hollywood movies, even going to musicals at the 5th Avenue Theatre. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

For eighty years, this false story has been repeated in textbooks, popular books, articles, and movies. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

It's the part of the movie where the kids are putting on the play of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Canon” was the term we used to classify any movie, book, game, song, or TV show of which Halliday was known to have been a fan. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The way boys were always reciting lines from movies. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Shucks, this doggone FBI was just as good as the movies said it was, they were just like those Royal Canadian Mountain Police, they always got their man! Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He claims that he stayed home until eleven thirty and then went to one of those all-night movies. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean like the pool and the movies,” I said. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It's one of those lines that stays with you long after the movie ends. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Wherever they went, townspeople surrounded them, asking for autographs as if they were movie stars. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Somewhere, a radio played a Hindi song I thought I remembered from an old movie, maybe Pakeeza. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Standing in his underwear holding the notebook, he looked like somebody out of an old, funny movie and Brian had trouble keeping a straight face. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

One big factor is that Bacon is a lot younger than most of them and as a result has made fewer movies. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thorn’s mother walked in moments later, wearing an all-black suit and pointy green heels and looking like someone out of a movie. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I could go out for something more like dinner, or try for a movie. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

LeAlan: Do you see any gang activities here that you would see in the movies like West Side Story? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were images of men playing cards, people leaving a factory, each one a still from an early movie. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I remember after we looked at all the Indian stuff, usually we went to see some movie in this big auditorium. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I had a blue slush in my hand,” she went on, “the big kind you get at the movies. Strappy heels. It was summer. Do you like pretty shoes?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She was being like those bratty girls in movies from the 1980s, and my mom kept saying “Young lady” after every sentence. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Picket lines of black high school and college students marched in front of downtown movie theaters for several years. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She continues checking out my books while she tells the person on the phone about how to rent a movie from the library online. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“You must have your phone on the entire time, on vibrate when the movie is playing, so if there’s an emergency, we can reach each other.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It is very hard to watch the movie because Sam walks around in her underwear when she plays Janet. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

This is the tiniest bit of boy fun at a safe distance, same as wondering about a cute movie star in a People magazine. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

And they kissed and talked about movies, and she missed him terribly because he was her best friend. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t even care what they saw—if movies were half as good as Penelope described, she was in for a treat. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

We watch white people on the TV screen for a while, but even the movies with guns and fast cars and explosions get boring after a while. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"I'm not even very hungry. You go. Eat dinner. See movie or something." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He haunted the theater for western movies, losing track of the plots while he stared at the scenery. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I jump up as I realize it’s time for that hat-throwing thing you always see in the movies. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yakavos,” she called back to him lovingly, in her movie- star accent, moving those wide flat hips out past where I sat. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My second favorite movie is Rocky. Ever see it?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they were off—headed to the movies, to the kind of life people get to have when their words don’t ruin everything. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We didn’t say anything else about it after that, and I didn’t want to watch any more of the movie, so we watched funny videos online for a while. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A cheap movie camera was slung over his shoulder and under his arm he had a bundle which appeared to be a rolled-up bedsheet. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The movie that you’re going to make about your swimming lessons—Hidden Beach,” he says, but I wrinkle my nose. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, these movies are going to show you something different.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would pull at her jaw and go through a lot of chin exercises she had read in a movie book. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I wrapped it around my neck, flinging one end over my shoulder as if I were a movie star. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

From a block away, it looked as if they were filming a movie. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

They went to movies at the Nickelodeon and kissed the whole time. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

From the tallest one rose an odd white tower with a saucer on the top, like a spaceship from the old Flash Gordon movies Sammy used to love. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And he brought me and Jazz bootleg movies to watch. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother scarcely ever let her go to the movies, let alone on dates. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if she’d suddenly been transported to a movie set. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of the bear, thought of Bigfoot and every monster he had ever seen in every fright movie he had ever watched, and his heart hammered in his throat. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a little messy to get at them, and Mr. Coggin, the movie cameraman, was sick in a waste basket. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tapes didn’t look like a movie to me. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was a starlit night and the moon shimmered on the canal behind the movie theater. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I looked up, the movie was over. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

His allowance barely made it possible for him to take her to the movies and for a Coke afterward. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked Mom if I could see a show there, once, but she said the themes were too adult, switching on another Disney movie in the VCR. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The only pinpricks of joy in the vast, empty desert of my existence are the few remaining days of editing the movie I have made. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

If this were a movie, everyone would have been in the airlock, and there would have been high fives all around. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t want to go to the movies with me sometime, do you, Marlee?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, they showed the worst movies in all the nine planets.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s like a teen movie cliché. You have the choreographed group dance number and the weird pining eye contact, and then the big smoochy kiss.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Luke had been thirteen, old enough to realize that his parents weren’t in love the way people seemed to be in movies and on television shows. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I’ve edited together some very dramatic stuff, most of it from movies. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Afterward they were supposed to go to a late movie in Tavemier. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Gabriel wasn’t in his room when I got home, so I sat down on his floor and watched an old movie on his TV. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Why doesn’t he want you to go to the movies?” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Maybe”—he comes closer—“you’ll finish when you come back to see that free movie.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was my turn to choose a movie. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was like trying to walk without crutches, like those phony scenes in old TV movies. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her front room reminded me of fancy hotel lobbies from the movies, there was so much silk and lace. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"I think that's why my friends and I like your movies so much." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

After a day lost in a nightmare, the car takes me away from the movie theatre, the drugstore and the motel that grinds up girls into bite-sized pieces. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

And it hit me fully: I wanted to make movies that would bring people together, not ones that would tear them apart. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

JonPaul came home with me after school to hang out and watch movies. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end I said it was the stupidest name ever for a movie. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

This isn’t a movie about a girl who breaks away from her controlling mother, either. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Vonetta told how the tall, blond, white people took pictures of her like she was a movie star, which I could see Cecile didn’t like one bit. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The popular girls ask if we can see the movie. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I called Maddie tonight to tell her about the movie, but she didn’t answer. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Maybe she lives near the movie theater. She could have seen you sneaking in and out of there. Perhaps she even thought she was doing a good deed when she called the poor boy's aunt.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are heavy-lidded and boldly lined on the top lids, in the manner of 1960s movie stars. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry. I wish it was like that movie, with the Persians and the Spartans.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Music and movie guides are dominated by data on how much money a work grossed the weekend it was released, or how many weeks it spent in the theaters or on the charts. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She looks glamorous, with a kerchief over her head and dark glasses like a movie star. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Her mom and dad, together and apart, weirdly hovering over her hospital bed like aliens from movies even cornier than teenage family dramas. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He was frozen to the bone when he finally reached the movie theater. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

From watching Dracula movies, I hated drinking the stuff, fearing that I might turn into a vampire; but there was nothing I could do about it—short of starving to death. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe it’s going to have a movie theater inside. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“If you didn’t hate all movies, what would you want to see?” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He knew he shouldn’t have gone to the movies. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I approached her when she entered the movie house and she handed me her pass without a word. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He asked if I’d like to see a movie on Saturday. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We talked about making our own movie someday. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She had seen a movie at school once, where the village women washed out the clothes and dried them in the sun. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined Charles inviting me to his house, to play a game or watch a movie, and felt a rush of pleasure. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We might be almost as famous as that school in Whitwell, Tennessee, and their paper clips project—and somebody made a movie about them. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

No fighting over the arm rest at the movies. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I type Arthur Georgia and there’s nothing but randomness, like a girl named Georgia binge-watching every King Arthur movie, and nothing about Post Office Arthur relocating from Georgia for the summer. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

We were watching this movie about this boy who was a booster. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom’s playlist would only have show tunes and movie soundtracks. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Penelope pulled Ophie into the crowded sweet shop and into line at the counter, nattering on about the movie. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I kneel next to him, placing my hands over his, pressing down like I’ve seen in movies. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I plug the cord into my phone, slip them over my ears, and turn on the film score from the Disney movie Up. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Wow, it’s like a scene from a movie,” she says. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

During that turbulent final week of July 1943, William Faulkner was on the other side of the world in Hollywood, California, feverishly pulling together the screenplay for the sweeping wartime movie Battle Cry. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Next to the movie theater is the soda shop that sells old-fashioned candy and ice cream. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

After I shook hands with him, I asked them about the movie because I didn’t recognize it except for an actor who used to be on a TV show, and I couldn’t remember his name. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

We take him to the mall and to the movies a few times. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

This isn’t a movie about a girl who breaks up with her undermining boyfriend, she thought. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Tiny thinks that I am incapable of what humans call emotion because I have not cried since my seventh birthday, when I saw the movie All Dogs Go to Heaven. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“You went to the movies tonight?” he asks again. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Abandoning the movie idea, they joined the mob in a night of roving violence. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I had seen people beaten on television and in the movies. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

What most civilians believe about guards is what they learn from the movies. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the worst part was that you could tell they all wanted to go to the movies. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I laugh and point out to Eang the neon signs and billboards of movies, and giggle in anticipation of having my first professional haircut in many years. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Culture isn’t just symphony orchestras, movies about dead British royalty, and hard-bound books. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stayed in my room until I saw Jerome leave the house, carrying his movie camera. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t make me pinch that freckled cheek a little too hard. It will smart. Seriously, what draws you to the Lawrence movie?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once-elegant apartment buildings stood next to scrapyards, and where there had been furriers and movie palaces there were now blood banks and methadone clinics and Mother Waddles Perpetual Mission. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And even though they’re just in my head...just something from a movie...they glitter in my mind, and I’m suddenly desperate to click my heels together and wake up in my own bed. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

A flurry of black-and-white images glowed and flickered, like the old silent movies that were still playing in theaters sometimes when Hazel was small. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As soon as I got up there, I started talking about my dream to be a filmmaker and make movies. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Both movies were rather plotless and I had a hard time communicating the gist of them. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I’d seen it happen in movies, so maybe it happened in real life, too. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Working methodically—and filming everything with movie cameras—the Soviets and East Germans finally reached the halfway point of the tunnel, where Harvey had set up a barrier of barbed wire and sandbags. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Because I saw somebody do that in a movie once.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

There's this new Marvel movie—it's a long story. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s true. I look like a movie star.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They were cruising Main Street one morning, passing the Grand movie theater, when Piper McNab came screaming down the middle of the empty street. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s really fun because all these kids dress up like the people in the movie, and they act out the movie in front of the screen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s a superstar, you guys. And I’m just some...some kid from Colorado Springs. I’ve never even directed a real movie before!” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He reproached us for being elderly middle-class intellectuals who identified with the movie’s right-wing authorities instead of with the bikers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t even know if this is scientifically sound, but I feel like I saw it in a movie once. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The auto-parts store sat two doors down from the movie theater. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our area is cordoned off with a silky twisted scarlet rope, like the kind they used to have in movie theaters to restrain the customers. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

You see movies and TV shows where people receive horrible news in hospitals, but for us, with all our many trips to the hospital with August, there had always been good outcomes. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The dog, the trees, the little house all alone on the top of a hill—this, Genie thought, was definitely the makings of a scary movie. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Watching a celebrity talk show on television, they listen for several minutes as a movie star with bright teeth recounts details of his recent divorce. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I got eight kids and they go to the movies too.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's not that the movies have gotten any more strenuous, it's just that a lot of people are as lazy as I am, and together we've agreed to lower the bar. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She scrolls through the top hits: movie posters, critical reviews, a link to a trailer. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When we found out that we were going to make a movie, both my friend and I wanted to play the part of Rufus. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Flashbulbs blinked and movie cameras whirred as Seabiscuit stood there, posing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

TV shows and movies and books always have angry librarians following loud kids up and down, telling them to hush, but our school librarian doesn’t care a single lick. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

She’d camouflaged her face and arms with dirt like a soldier in a war movie. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Paul asked if he would re-create the signing for movie cameras to document the historic event, but Colby refused. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh, when you’re ready to film, can I audition to be in your movie?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He was known to fire longtime employees for not recognizing an obscure line of movie dialogue he quoted, or if he discovered they weren’t familiar with one of his favorite cartoons, comic books, or videogames. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was a relief when the movie finally ended. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

One near the downstairs recreation area—which, by the way, has a movie theater—and one for ordinary meals, I guess. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“But I got eight kids and they go to the movies too.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, these seven test pilots were further immortalized in the book The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe and in the award-winning 1983 movie of the same name. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The spy business isn’t as easy as it appears in the movies.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe you can figure out that I saw the movie Erin Brockovich recently! Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Aimee tried to figure out what movie this could be from. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

All the time we were showing the movies the civilians were talking to the villagers. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have, got to stop watching all these old movies. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

We would come back hours later after killing many people and continue the movie as if we had just returned from intermission. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s really great. You should watch it sometime. If you can bring yourself to watch a movie about a lesser sport.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The black engine was zooming right toward Hugo and he was caught, unable to look away, as though he were watching a movie. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

His hand, which had been holding hers since about thirty minutes into the movie, was cramped and sweaty, but he didn't want to be the one to pull away. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Without any students, the hallway doesn’t look like a real middle school, it looks like a movie set of a middle school. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Nothing. You didn’t miss anything. So what movie did she rope you into watching?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They bought tickets and walked into the darkened movie and took seats. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There turned out to be a huge market for games that allowed people to play a leading role in one of their favorite old movies or TV series. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It’s like a big river of kids rushing around, but like the dangerous-rapids kind in the movies. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Imagine a white guy in America, just dark enough to pass for Latino, walking around jail doing bad Mexican-gangster dialogue from the movies. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a film projector like the one at the movie theater. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

In their company I attended grainy black-and-white movies in which ponderous, turtlenecked men slogged the stony beaches, cursing the gulls for their ability to fly. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Haven’t you seen any movies? Thrashing around is, like, the fastest way to die!” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

After the movie, we headed to the Century City Marriott Hotel to have a reception for Holocaust survivors and ourselves. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It looks exactly like Rivendell in the Lord of the Rings movies,” I said, still staring up at it in awe. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When Maya was a little girl, her favorite movie was the Disney version of Alice in Wonderland. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The idea of going to the movies made Hugo remember something Father had once told him, about going to the movies when he was just a boy, when the movies were new. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

As I watched the movie I began to zone out . The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I haven't been inside, but my mom and I watched a movie once that showed all the exhibits of the museum coming to life at night. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I felt like I was in some sort of spy movie. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

It’s the stuff of inspirational books and sentimental Hollywood movies. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

"Can we go to the movies now, T?" Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Madame DuPont hits play on the remote, and the movie resumes. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“No! I am going to the movies with Susan,” he said sharply. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Some were carefully constructed scenes; one or two had attempted something artistic: a silhouette of a girl backlit by an enormous movie screen; a close-up of a tangled telephone cord wrapped around a receiver. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I notice what they wear and what they eat, what music they listen to, the cars they dream about, and the movie stars they follow. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Were teachers as corrupt as the villains you read about in books or saw in movies and television? The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They played golf together and went out often—to movies, to the theater occasionally, to triple-A baseball games, and to the state university football games. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after, we pulled into one of the few functioning drive- in movie theaters in the country and all got out to get some food. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

And I watch a movie of myself being strong and saying good-bye and not crying. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mustafa slips his headphones on and tunes me out as his movie begins. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I didn't actually save her life, not like heroes in the movies or anything. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He swung her around by the wrists and said, “Jeez, it’s like a movie. Can you believe we’re in London? Everything we know is on the other side of the ocean.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

So, I started talking a mile a minute about how we saw a movie and how my sister taught me how to drive on the highways and how we went to McDonald’s. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark, I get a glimpse of myself from way above, like in a movie. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

While people went to the movies and came out and went to the Golden Poppy, he walked up and down the block. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might have been at the movies and forgotten what he saw. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean you ‘get all the movies’?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

So after the movie was over, Mom and Augustus and I all took sleeping pills. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Jontay sent me a message with a meme of one of the African princesses from the Black Panther movie. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

We wear long wool coats with tie belts, the collars turned up to look like those of movie stars, and rubber boots with the tops folded down and men’s work socks inside. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I took some sleeping pills and went to the movies: Japanese film, I couldn’t seem to follow it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And I don’t know what color Jem’s hair or eyes actually are because the movie is in black and white which means mostly gray. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In roughly eight hours, I will be sitting in an auditorium full of people who will be watching a movie I made. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was where he had been taken after the fight in the movie theater. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

In the movie, the girls all rock stylish animal print clothing as they try to become music superstars. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“There’re movies. The Three Musketeers. Man in the Iron Mask. The Count of Monte Cristo, and more. Hollywood controls the story. Black fencers like Dumas were erased.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

During field trips to the movies, young defectors often panic when lights go down, afraid that someone might kidnap them. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It’s like those horror movies where the person about to be mauled to death could have saved herself if she’d taken only one more step but she stops to be polite or something. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I saw it in an Arab movie once! It’s like the tongue is trying to fly!” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I almost was once in a movie short, but I changed my mind at the last minute. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She knew the coolest bits of’80s trivia—stuff you couldn’t learn from books or movies. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Besides, all the energy has flowed out to the new developments, to the semi- rural supermarkets, the outdoor movies, new houses with wide lawns and stucco schools where children are confirmed in their illiteracy. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. But people are so nosy and you never do really know who might be sitting behind you, do you? It wasn’t even a good movie.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And I realize that my parents will be as puzzled by my act of self-revelation as they are by the movie star’s revelations on the talk show. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

You don’t want your parents to know about the voices, so you just moan, and think about all the movies where one person is chosen to save the world. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I think about studying, but it’s a holiday, so I park myself on the living-room couch and watch an old movie instead. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She sat down at her piano and began to play “Moon River,” and then she switched to the theme song from one of those new vampire movies. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

She almost skips or dances as she walks, and she says, “So what movie are we seeing?” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Marie didn’t want to, but at the prosecutor’s insistence, she went over our swim, the movies, and going back to my place. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

If it weren’t for that, he would be tempted to stay with her, to walk through the streets beside her, or disappear with her into the dark of a movie theater. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He'd seen plenty of gangster movies, and the FBI always caught the bad guys. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

It was hair that could turn the Medusa to stone, hair snakier than all the snake pits in a minotaur movie. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I’m still going to watch a horror movie this weekend. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“With Bunny. He took him to Manchester for dinner and then I think to some movie that Bunny wanted to see. Would you like some coffee?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Just like in the Christmas Story movie they show on TV.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

But Gilly was fascinated, like the guys in the movies watching the approach of a cobra. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Through that movie and a book of the same name, lots of Americans got to learn about the Lost Boys for the first time. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fazlullah claimed that watching movies and TV shows was a sin because it meant that women would look upon men, and men would look upon women, who were forbidden to them. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

All the Weird Watsons had seen that show together and the way they talked to deaf people in that movie wasn’t anything like the way Byron was talking to Larry Dunn. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of Sally’s cousins was a good-looking, slender, dark-haired boy named Appy, who later turned out to look like a movie idol and aroused more admiration than the short, comical, chubby Sally. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It’s horrible to see her, like walking out of the best movie ever into some same old afternoon. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Halfway through the movies we heard the sounds of big guns being fired in the distance. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flames climbed the movie theater, scorching the marquee. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t see it; don’t generally go to movies. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole point of the game was to make the other person laugh so hard that water comes spurting out of her mouth, like in movies when someone’s caught off guard. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I bet your parents want to see this movie, Zion,” I said. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In their dark glasses, they look like gangsters in the American movies that sometimes come to town. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Actually, I’m what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker—a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten: not bad, but not particularly good either. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I'd like to see this machine explode into flames, like all those expensive cars in Bond movies. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I looked up into his face, looming close above me like the monster on a movie screen. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lanky, with a loping gait, and dressed in what some Europeans thought was Western or Texan clothing, he was described as being “laconic as the hero of an old cowboy movie.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They got some alone time, and watched a bunch of movies. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Oh, by the way, I have to cancel this week’s Friday movie night. Too busy with college and blog stuff.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

My sisters side-eye me because they know I don't like movies. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I loved his movies, but mostly, I thought he was cute, and I’d heard that he’s really a good person. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Yes; she was the same girl he had seen in the movie. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was old enough to have a head full of movies. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls her age could speak and write English and they knew the names of presidents, astronauts, and radio and movie personalities, who lived below the top of the world. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the planets sound ominous, like something you’d find in a science fiction movie set in some alien world—“alien world” as in world with aliens, not non-Earth world. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She set it up on my day off from the Brown Cow and give Biddy and me tickets to the movie. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They took a quick peek at the movie table—Ernie was always hunting for old karate movies, but the seller only had old VHS tapes, so Genie and Ernie didn’t look long. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“You know—special occasions, the occasional Friday night. We have romantic dinners, and we go see movies....” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Maybe he thinks it’s a waste of time. He’s never said why. I bet my parents would have let me go to the movies.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m the director. Kareem and Maya are the subjects in the movie. Go with it.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be scared. The boss trusts you. He’s gone to see some friends. Somebody’s watching him and if he starts back to the movie, they’ll phone us,” he said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw a movie once where a woman was burned over eighty percent of her body and they had to wash all the dead skin off. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was also strikingly handsome with a bodybuilder’s physique and the chiseled features of a movie star. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the final credits rolled on the old movie, we were more than ready for bed. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

So yes, we’ve seen some of the things like you see in the movies. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kat calls lots of things cute, including cats, football players, movie stars and skirts and babies. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on Sundays, from noon to midnight, we went to the movies at the Confucius Church. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

—CO, will you let me out when they call for the movie? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My relationship with my mom was like the relationship between a cop and a criminal in the movies—the relentless detective and the devious mastermind she’s determined to catch. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you ride shotgun up there in the Jewish submarine and I’ll show you the town. Maybe then we can catch the late movie at the Breeze Theater.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took us to a classroom and showed us movies of Penn Relays of the past. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

With my eyes closed, I watch bright movies of me flying—one of my favorite movies. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Every time a movie changed, someone had to stand up on a ladder and switch them by hand. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

"Look at y'all, looking like a perfect scene from a Spike Lee movie." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It was a perfect summer day—the kind you see in the movies—and I was positive I was going to throw up. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat with him at chow and listened for a while as he talked about movies. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can tell Jane Fonda isn’t really naked in that movie,” I say. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You know how Cake, sorry, I mean Keiko, was all into those boring old black-and-white movies? I got her to watch better retro movies, from the eighties.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Pam and I have a thing where we always see every Marvel movie the first Saturday it’s in theaters. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe that was strange for a child of Aphrodite, but she’d watched her dad, the movie star, deal with fame for years. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Families stood in line before the ticket box of the movie and young boys and girls stared at the posters on display outside. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Hearing the words in the movie, I still don’t understand everything. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was a tradition in our house to binge on bad disaster movies instead of football or parades. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I jumped out of the car and ran into the field, to the spot where the old movie theater once stood—where Henrietta and Cliff once watched Buck Jones films. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Dad was still red-eyed and blowing his nose while we were drinking our sodas after the movie, and all of us felt depressed. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had gone to see Mexican movies in Fresno on rainy days when it was too wet to pick cotton, but it was always with our parents. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The next morning two FBI men in fedora hats and trench coats—like out of a thirties movie—knocked on Woody’s door, and when they left, Papa was between them. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, if this were one of those Hallmark movies, one of them would then say, “Izzy’s happiness comes first,” then they’d all wait till I was grown and gone before they all got hitched. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I have looked through my father’s World War II scrapbook many times; I have seen Vietnam on television; I have ingested countless movies about Ancient Rome or the battles of the Middle Ages. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I often went to the movies with my friends on Saturday nights, but nobody was available one weekend. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“My sorority sister invited me to visit. We’ll probably go to a cookout, maybe a movie. She’s a die-hard Braves fan, but I’m not about to let her drag me to a game.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Weary told Billy about neat tortures he’d read about or seen in the movies or heard on the radio— about other neat tortures he himself had invented. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see a mind movie where chess pieces come to life. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Charlie would reach over and hold my hand, which made my brain explode so much I couldn’t concentrate on the movie. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Another appears to be from Los Angeles, with silhouetted illustrations of a movie camera, and the Hollywood Hills. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’d really wanted to see a Japanese horror movie, but it was sold out. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t... he didn’t really take off the way like we expected. After that movie, he was mostly ... I guess . . . small roles.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Hugo’s birthday, his father took him to the movies as he usually did, and he gave him one of the notebooks as a present. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Skeezie: I was thinking of the pig of book and movie fame actually. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The walls are painted dark blue, and there are oversized black-and-white movie posters crammed close together like a Tumblr grid. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It kind of sounded like a movie title. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shack is like the setting for a horror movie. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Jesse was more outgoing, increasingly restless, almost desperate for the books I’d occasionally send, or for word of a new movie. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was totally a war movie except for when the soon-to-be-dead marines talked about their girlfriends, but I threw in the word love because I thought she wouldn’t say what she said next. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Those days I wanted more than ever to be able to go to a movie theater and to see a 3D movie. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When he asked about her Christmas, Eleanor told him about her mom's cookies and the movies, and how Mouse thought The Grinch was about "all the Hoots down in Hootville." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She still insists on renting slasher films, demon movies. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When I found out I couldn’t be a garbageman, I settled for being a movie star, but it was definitely second-best.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among all that stagey scenery, too beautiful, like a cardboard movie backdrop. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My first time making a movie is fun. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a floppy beret and an ascot like movie directors sometimes do—in cartoons. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

It is a Sunday night during my childhood and my father is taking me to the movies at the Detroit Yacht Club. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The relationship I have with Lidia isn’t the kind you see in movies or maybe have with your own friends. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Every bad prison movie I’d ever seen was racing through my head. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

An eighties teen movie might not be what I need right now, but I’m also too agitated to read a poem about hope being a bird. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

No matter what happens on God’s green earth, Father acts like it’s a movie he’s already seen and we’re just dumb for not knowing how it comes out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at Dadi, easily the wisest person I knew, just thinking of how many lives I could change if my movies went mainstream. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

On another of his visits, Richard brought that movie machine again. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all had their beds close together at the back of the' movie theater. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was also released at a time when a Gulf war was brewing and when there were no other representations of Iranians in TV shows and movies. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“A good story will always sell, book or movie or man. Political lesson number one.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometime over the summer she bumped into him at the movies. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Ratliffs are vociferous at the table, opinionated about things his own parents are indifferent to: movies, exhibits at museums, good restaurants, the design of everyday things. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Aimee had been too young to see the movie Clueless when it first came out in theaters, but she had seen it several times since then, and she owned the video tape. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

After lunch, Sahil and I talked about our movie project and how we were going to watch Dracula together tonight at Maddie’s. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Here, I couldn’t watch movies, play games, or listen to music while I answered the endless stream of inane calls. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Doesn’t matter. Any movie rocks on that screen. Love that place.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I couldn't decide if it were from watching some similar scene in the movies, from books I'd read, or from some recurrent but deeply buried dream. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that Martha gave her chores to do on weekends and refused to let her attend the movies with her friends. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything is changing so fast, and after our fight at the movie theater, I don’t know how Mom would react if she found out the box is here, in my room. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I know, it sounded weird to me too, especially because of all the movies I’ve watched telling me about how there isn’t sound in space. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Instead of following strangers around, we went to the movies and plunged our hands together into the six- dollar Super Tuh of popcorn. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Go much prefers to sit in the Show Room, in the stained Art Deco theater seats that originally belonged to a movie house in Oakland, now demolished. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Because Bailey did somehow look like a genius or at least a caricature of the mad scientists in old movies. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can shop first and meet us at the movie at seven,” Gay added, putting on the pressure. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Pa didn’t go chasing after her like they do in movies. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

When he told me that the movie would be shown, we went into our best behavior and were the exemplary children that Grandmother deserved and wished to think us. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pass tobacco shops and jewelry dealers and movie theaters with grand marquees ten feet high. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In eight more days, unless Piper could pull off the plan Aphrodite had explained . . . well, there wouldn’t be any more movies, or theatres, or people. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Locked up in an old movie theater by a bunch of children! The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she got dressed, went to the movie theater, and in the darkness of the seats she recognized her daughter. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Mom has felt bad about yelling at me after Gram’s funeral, so I think maybe she’s taking me to the movies or something. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I spent the year going to movies on Forty- second Street in Times Square with my friends. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch the rest of the movie and tell myself, I’m not walking out ofhere until I find out who informed the old man I’d be coming. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The kid was just a baby and he was a movie star! Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on, Edie. We don’t want to be late for the movie.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When we conversed with each other, we talked only about the war movies and how impressed we were with the way either the lieutenant, the corporal, or one of us had killed someone. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When Ophie entered—her shoes wet because she’d poured out the water too fast in her excitement to go to a movie—she paused on the threshold at the twin expressions of Cook and Mama. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Also, people shout at the movie on cue. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The movie was funny in parts, but otherwise it was just too stupid. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He stayed behind to finish watching the movie he had paid for. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Like a kiss or caress in a Hindi movie, a husband’s name is something intimate and therefore unspoken, cleverly patched over. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Hey, let's bag the movie and go get something hot to drink, okay?" Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

From the food trucks, you could see the cornstalks in back of the movie screen. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Not even the movies could compare with the glamour of that afternoon. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

For some, culture is now also gaming, websites, chat and messaging systems, TV shows, music, and movies. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, Colin had seen enough movies to know what happens when dorks go to cool-kid parties: generally, the dorks either get thrown into the pool or they become drunk, vacuous cool kids themselves. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

How Madeleine liked to watch movies eating popcorn with cinnamon—but never butter. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I was talking to one of the girls with the belly button ring, and she seemed like she was in a movie. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He found a movie house along a wide avenue and went right inside without bothering to find out what was playing. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

All he can see is the marquee of the movie theater at which, ten days earlier, he’d been to see Le Tango de la Mort. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But a mind movie shows me at the front of the class and Mr. Daniels congratulating me, and I have to admit that I really would like it. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The Apollo, of course, was the showpiece of the community, with live entertainment as well as movies. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Mostly they went out to movies or met on his lunch break. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Enough for a nice dark movie, he thought, sit and watch it forever. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not upset. I just want to see this movie.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I understood because I had to actually read it, not because I had seen one or two movies. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We seemed to be traveling faster each second—shadows flickering like an old movie projector. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

As Meng and Pa talk, I lean against the railing and look at the movie theater across the street from our apartment building. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We don’t expect them to like girl movies. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I waited until the movie had already started before I went into the theater. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I finally started being able to see all kinds of movies again. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Jam rubbed her upper arm as they stepped outside after the movie; the theater had been chilly, and sometimes the hormone implant in her arm ached when she got cold. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

In the movies, kids get fishing trips with their grandpas, and grandmothers give them hugs. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, going to the movies seems to suddenly qualify as an intellectual accomplishment, on a par with reading a book or devoting time to serious thought. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“He told me he’s all into movies. I’m only going to ask him to film us,” I say. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I want Rhiannon to ask me to go to a movie, to invite me over to her house, to suggest we drive to the beach. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Voices pop about the room. “...like an action movie. Boom.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m the supervising engineer on this project, Miss Dixon, and I just want you to know that I seen all your movies.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only did Cheryl live in the projects but she also survived an ordeal that is so horrific, it seemed like something invented in a horror movie. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

As I stepped off the conveyor, the HR computer directed me to a nearby cafeteria that looked like something out of an old prison movie. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

During lunch, April talked a lot about Hollywood, and the movie stars she’d met and the big parties her mother gave and things like that. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I...I thought you left. After the movie.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The sound that jarred the volunteer from his reveries was a terrified bleating squeal such as movie vampire victims are wont to make as the fangs of cackling necrophiliacs puncture their breasts or jugular veins. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like being on a movie set or in an amusement park—although at the time I had no idea such places existed. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Five mornings a week I work at the Newark Shopping Center movie theater, cleaning the bathrooms and the theaters. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The movie played on and then finished and then ran its credits, went to black screen, clicked off, rewound, started playing automatically again; I kept on gluing. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Back in Detroit, also in the dark, my mother was at the movies. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He treated her the way that men in movies treat their ailing wives, the way he might have treated my mother had she allowed such naked displays of helplessness and affection. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I want to say I’m sorry, but I forget to because I’m watching mind movies of the butterfly falling and falling and never being better. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I never connected the movies and TV close-ups of planes with the things that I saw zooming overhead. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

For a second I wonder who decides what movies they’ll watch. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Hugo thought that maybe the painting was a version of Prometheus, except Prometheus was stealing fire from the gods to create the movies. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He loved arguing about old movies, even more than I did. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Only thing them Chinese folks in that movie et was whales and seals. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it may have been my own image that I saw in the slow flaring of her nostrils, in her eyes that reminded me of waterfalls in movies about Hawaii. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you cancel a movie night with her?” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We watch the movie twice before we head for bed. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The first films we saw were silent, black-and-white Hollywood action movies and westerns that were even before my time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But real life is never like the movies. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The sailor didn’t come to the movie house. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She half wondered if she was starring in a movie, or dreaming, or maybe even dreaming about starring in a movie. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Easter ’62” was the home movie Dr. Luce talked my parents into giving him. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The movie theater's neon sign hadn't been lit up for a long time. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You know she and that boy go see a movie every weekend.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I started to follow it, then remembered to run back and grab my textbook off of the Dig Dug game, just like David had in the movie. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It’s like when I used to go to the movies. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hugh saw the same movie a few years after it was released. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It looks like the special effects from a superhero movie. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Now put the movie back on so we can focus on Buttercup and Westley and their search for ‘true love.’” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“You’d get used to it. The food’s good and there’s movies and—I’d like to go under the Pole, wouldn’t you?” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We try to imitate girls we see in the human world, girls in magazines, girls we see on movie screens in air-conditioned theaters, eating candy so sweet it makes my teeth ache. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Beyond Sixth Avenue the movie houses began, and now he studied the stills carefully, trying to decide which of all these theaters he should enter. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He invites me over to watch movies and I guess I just assume that his parents will be out for the night. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

If me and Diego were watching this scene in some movie we’d be laughing for days at how mad gay it was. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“We can watch the Animal Channel tonight. Or a movie? You can pick.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

This movie was about a guy who wakes up one morning and can't tell any lies. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

She may still have a wonderful vacation, making new friends, playing outside, going to the movies, having the kind of carefree summer days that we all dream about. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He went out on a promotional tour to gather a cast of thousands, contacting four hundred friends, mostly movie people, and talking them into coming to the track to cheer his horse on. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, you don’t have to make it sound like a bad kung fu movie, but yeah, something like that. We been looking for her, but there’s no clues, no sign, nothin’...” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Usually it would be about show business or stars in the movies or television. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I paused, and then added, “I mean, twelve seems old enough to watch a movie with only my friends.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

So the boy is all googly-eyed over the story within the story of the girl, but this isn’t a Disney movie, so he doesn’t just float over to Armenia. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t a movie set, and you’re not starlets yet,” she reminded the twins, who had aspirations of someday making it in Hollywood. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

With apologies to Henry Thomas from the movie, who is likely ninety years old now, I bet you. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“People in the movies are always saying, ‘You have to love someone enough to let them go.’” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“If you’re not busy, want to come over and watch a movie?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Did you get to see any movies this summer?” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

He didn’t watch television or go to the local movie house, because he said such activity was bad for his eyes and he didn’t want to hurt his play. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh. No. I was just watching the movie.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Just like white people held the keys to things like the merry-go-round, the swimming pool, and the movie theater, they held the keys to all the best-equipped, most beautiful schools. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Friday, April 24, Brenda and I go to the movies, and when she invites me to sleep over, I do. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was so proud of his movie choice because the director was Muslim. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It made me realize that senseless violence doesn’t only happen in history books or movies. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“What movie?” she asked, since Rishi had never completed his sentence. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We went to the movies, and ate candy and popcorn, and held hands for a few minutes on the way home. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was the face of someone in a movie Carla was watching ask her, "What was he doing with the string?" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I'm often told that it's wasteful to live in Paris and spend all my time watching American movies, that it's like going to Cairo to eat cheeseburgers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

We also went to the computer lab, where we learned about 3D printing, including that the queen’s costume in the movie Black Panther was mostly 3D printed! Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Be your real friend, not just a restless spirit. Take you to the movies and buy you ice cream.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

War movies, Rambo: First Blood, Rambo II, Commando, and so on, with the aid of a generator or sometimes a car battery. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

"For your movies, sure. You never let anything stop you," I say, forgetting that there's a ring of people around us. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I kinda want to see what this zombie movie is all about.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But I had seen movies about Christmas, and this white fluffy stuff was in those movies. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He clicked the remote and an old black-and-white movie came to life. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Mom, I knew, would go completely ballistic if she got wind of some of the movies Grandmère took me to see. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Anh rolled her eyes and wrote “scary movies” on her pad of paper. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I’m watching it all play out, like a movie on the screen. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was it because white people had, as I had seen in movies, guns, swords, bombs and tanks? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You know, that'd make a good movie title. The Hermes Mutiny. Got a nice ring to it." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you think we were going to the movies?” he answered, smiling as he stood up. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

We ran with it to the TV room, closed the blinds, locked the door, and watched the movie. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The sound of my ribs snapping like the tree branches Hassan and I used to break to sword fight like Sinbad in those old movies. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh. My. God. I might be directing a movie for Midsummer freaking Night.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I thought I might implode if I didn’t talk to another human being about the events of my new life, especially the parts someone my age wouldn’t be allowed to see in the movies. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are all the recent American releases, along with any old movie you'd ever want to see. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He had helped her dad, movie actor Tristan McLean, get back on his feet after being kidnapped by giants the past winter. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Earning big money in the crack gang wasn’t much more likely than the Wisconsin farm girl becoming a movie star or the high-school quarterback playing in the NFL. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I never even knew she liked movies, but I guess she does. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

That Saturday night he got angry with Roberto and me because we came home from the movies past midnight. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I say a prayer anyway and, when the movie ends, put on music to relax. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

In addition to the original rooms, it had a pool, a pub, and a modern movie theater. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Like me, Hugh saw the movie by himself on a weekend afternoon. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I made hundreds of movies, and we thought it would never end. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t stay focused on the movie long enough to gain any sort of interest, because Alma Ember had set her popcorn aside and opted instead to nibble on my left earlobe. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was some movie about a geeky girl and a popular guy, and the girl changed her look in order to get the guys attention. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I’m far too old to be playing hide-and-seek with a bunch of children in a pitch-black movie, theater. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

At that time Aureliano Segundo postponed any appointments in order to be with Meme, to take her to the movies or the circus, and he spent the greater part of his idle time with her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He’d forgotten to answer his mother’s text about Jasmine wanting to go to a movie. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I’ll probably regret it, but for now, for a minute, I allow myself to be the character in the romantic movie. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

At the end I said it was the stupidest name ever for a movie. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe how fast you’re growing up. I remember when you two would watch a movie together curled up on blankets in our living room. Now you’re going off on your own, meeting friends.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Well, actually the hospital full of zombies in the movie explodes, but since I’m not paying attention, it scares me so much that I scream. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Tad turned the movie off and said people should just accept each other for who they were. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We told each other what movies we were currently watching and what books we were reading. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe, they did look at me as if I were the killer in Lobel’s movie. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d cried at movies in front of us, but never at anything real. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once Mama had said to me that time is like a movie—something you watch real close wanting to catch every line, every action, every moment. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

After all, life is not a Hindi movie. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her mind grows lazy and wanders around too many topics—her schoolwork, a cute boy she met in Phnom Penh, movies she saw—but always it comes back to our family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If his eating habits were a movie, they’d be rated R for violence. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

How ’bout if we ride the bus out to the mall and catch a movie? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would not look up, not even when his men whistled loudly at the size and sophistication of a gun in the war movie they were watching. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I felt like I had seen this in every single sports movie I had ever watched. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

From his side, Henry, whose eyes are wet, seizes Alex’s face roughly in both hands and kisses him like the end of the movie, whoops, and shoves him at his family. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And from what I can guess, it’s the oldest hospital trick in the book, taken straight from that movie The Fugitive, which Mom and I recently watched on TNT. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Willie has become a sturdily built young man with a movie star smile and a precisely trimmed goatee. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I asked if we could watch a van Damme movie and they said it was rated R, and also I’m just the treasurer. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

This usually consisted of watching cheesy ’80s movies and TV shows here in his chat room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m embarrassed that people will think we went to see such bad movies.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And in the darkness—the movie, paused, making it seem like this moment could last forever—they kissed, undressing each other with fumbling hands. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Gabriel broke me of this habit one night after I made fun of a couple leaving a movie theater. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I’d always liked movies and theaters, so one afternoon I moseyed up to this movie house on Seventh Avenue and asked for the manager. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not imagine a movie more interesting than this day of mine, or a candy as sweet as the idea that Jason was real and might be my brother. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Dozens of books, cartoons, movies, and miniseries have attempted to tell the story of everything that happened next, but every single one of them got it wrong. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

No Muslim who followed Elijah Muhammad could dance, gamble, date, attend movies, or sports, or take long vacations from work. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the movies I couldn’t get enough of it. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As I started spotting recognizable landmarks, I felt as though I were watching an all-too-familiar horror movie, but the creepy scenes still made me jump. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember anyone saying they were going to be a movie star or anything like that. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Patricia kept her car parked at the curb and watched us to make sure we got inside the movie theater okay. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The media makes a big deal out of a movie star breaking a leg or fracturing a toe, but if a man with as much wisdom as my father passes away, no one cares. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

His father, who’d owned a movie theater in Kabul, was telling Baba how, three months before, a stray bullet had struck his wife in the temple and killed her. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After Ms. D. leave, me and Biddy gonna do like I hear in the movies. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sounding like the explosions and screams in the D-day movies Mr. Gregg made us watch in history. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The trio played jazz tunes during intermissions at the Olympic movie theater in Sequim in exchange for an opportunity to watch the films. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

This is why she gets the professor of the year award so much—everyone always wants to be in her movie with her. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

As I tried on dresses with the help of the women at the shop, I felt as if I were in a movie. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Instead of the Vets, we sometimes went to the movie theater. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

You’d come across movie posters glued to abandoned buildings, but they would be for black-and-white films. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even have a chance to tell her about the movie stuff. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I asked him if she was in the movies or something. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

One of the new victims revealed that Mrs. Moss beat her for putting a movie in the wrong case and struck her in the face for not sweeping the patio correctly. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Some have little waterfalls in the front yards, or metal gates like something from a movie. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“This movie is going to be so cute!” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The world beyond the rubber mask was stupendously vivid but seemed not quite real, as if a movie were being projected in slow motion across the front of my goggles. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He took another swallow, thinking to himself that every line he had spoken was lifted without due credit from a half dozen different movies he had seen in his lifetime. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom wrapped herself in beach towels and released them all one afternoon when Dad and I were at the movies. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was thick like some of the jungles I saw in the movies in town. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daisy was really into Star Wars—and not just the movies, but also the books and the animated shows and the kids’ show where they’re all made out of Lego. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Personally, I like to think my brother is having a college experience like they do in the movies. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Take Henry’s car, which I still had, and go for a drive, maybe see if there was a matinee at the movie house in town? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

"I'm sorry," I said, trying hard to sound practical, "but I don't go to movies." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Johannesburg used to have this epic drive-in movie theater, Top Star Drive-In, on top of a massive mine dump outside the city. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It felt like I was watching myself in a movie, almost, like I was someone else. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

All those movie stars and bankers and rich old Italians. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drove over to the Castleton theater and watched a 3-D movie about talking gerbils. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was like a small city, laid out on a grid with mess halls, stores, bars, movie theaters, and even swimming pools. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Dr. Luce switched off the lights and soon the movie began. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You mean, when a movie comes out in theaters, it...also comes out at your house?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Those war movies always do that to me. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“You wouldn’t think it was dull if you had gone with me to see the movies of the Drake Expedition at the Bijou last year.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

We watch 3 movies, including a horror flick, while munching on unbuttered popcorn and the gummy bears I brought from home. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Doña Laura had danced a bolero with Don Carlos that was as good as in the movies. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

If this was a movie there would be loud, scary organ music playing right now. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like I’m watching a bad TV movie and can’t change the channel. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

And not just for movies he’s gone to. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a new Superman movie coming out soon,” she reads as she shakes the newspaper flat. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Sí. After supper he’s taking Catarina and me to the movie in town.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Get him to go to the movies,” she said to him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m also obsessed with the music from the movies.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Any word the teacher says, I think of a TV show or a movie or a song or a video game that has the same word. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

We clinked glasses just like people in the movies. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

It’s just something we do occasionally, like wearing 3-D glasses for a movie, like eating ice cream too fast on purpose to see who gets a headache, maybe even like stealing each other’s lunches. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

My own life changed with the release of Spielberg's movie Schindler's List. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

In the dark of the movie theater he first saw jungles, oceans, and deserts. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

When I earned that much, I could go to the movies or go to a candy shop on 125th and buy a bag of stale candy for a dime. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t mind...a MetroCard for the subway, a good movie, some cheddar biscuits, and I’m good.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I see a mind movie of me walking through a forest of alphabet blocks stacked on top of each other. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Your mental image has probably been influenced by paintings and movies about that time. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Most people hear Black Panther and they think of the movie, but Hana is quick to remind everyone the activists came first. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

DVDs and cases orbited in a ring around it, mostly Farsi-language dubs of Bollywood movies. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We’ve watched three horror movies so far without Mom and Dad finding out! P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“The movie’s over, so...there’s no reason for us to talk anymore.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He told me he always dresses up when he goes to the movies. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“I saw that in the movies. They shot the start of the movie from the roof. Then they went down in the street and shot the same thing. It was cool.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“So could we maybe start that movie over? I could use a little noir femme fatale.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

She seems like she’s playing a part—an extra from an old-school Disney cartoon or from a period movie set in the 1950s that called for secretaries. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

They’re like movies I edit and embroider and watch over and over again, regularly recasting the villains and updating the minor details. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Is the message — or the food, or the movie, or the product — memorable? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered if Jackson had kissed another girl in the same movie theater by now. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve come across a few at dinner, one family making home movies and the dentist across the way working on a frightened old lady. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

In the heat of midday the men would head for the shade, lazing away the long afternoons, and after sundown there were movies and card games and sometimes all-night drinking sessions. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t put on sunscreen since they were supposed to have gone to the movies. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

We accept the theory of the big bang by watching a movie of expanding space running backwards. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Surely he had heard that sound before at the Drake Expedition movies. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sequel to a great movie is usually not as good as the original. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Talked about bringing the littles to Edgartown to see a movie in the afternoon, about sharks and whether they really ate people, about Plants Versus Zombies. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I take my phone out of my pocket and turn on the movie score from Pirates of the Caribbean. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

In the end we watched 300, a war movie about 300 Spartans who protect Sparta from an invading army of like a billion Persians. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

They fell silent when they saw Victor come out of the abandoned movie theater, but he greeted them as if there was absolutely nothing strange, about him being there. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I went out with him to the movies—he tried to get his hands down my pants during the PREVIEWS!! Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I'll watch a movie in which an attractive woman in a sports bra, a handsome widower, and a pair of weak-chinned cowards are pursued by mighty reptiles or visitors from another galaxy. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

By choice I do not consult the movie ratings of the Legion of Decency, and my reading is not curtailed by the Index. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was movement above me and I saw, like in a grainy movie, a humanoid figure silhouetted by the moon. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once we were accepted, we had cultural orientation courses, with movies and books that had pictures of America. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Britt-Marie is right about me watching too many wizard movies... Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

She circled it, feeling as though she were in a movie. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

For most of the movie’s first hour, I was on edge, constantly trying to think ahead to have my next line of dialogue ready. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The North Korean government turned him into an actor who always played an evil Caucasian face in propaganda movies that demonized the United States. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, I went on a field trip to the Museum of Tolerance, for a private screening of a movie called Higher Learning. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

You know how people are always swooning over that kiss in the movie The Notebook, the one in the rain? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Not only did this movie give us a better understanding of Durango Street, we also learned a lot about one another. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“A movie theater, a gym, a spa, a rooftop cocktail lounge!” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t some terrible montage of baby movies and news footage, is it? Come on, guys. I’m not exactly Elena with a sick father.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mine has a haunted house, and all these really horrible demons killing people, and only one girl surviving, just like a movie. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It’s super cool because Arthur Miller adapted his own play into the screenplay for this movie. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A pair of shoes or a warning or an infection or a new movie can become highly contagious and tip simply by being associated with a particular kind of person. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And he gave me a DVD of the original movie to watch at home.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Not most of the time. I work graveyard shifts at the Showtime. You wouldn’t believe how late people come in to watch movies.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I was happy to have this ballet movie, especially because we had lost a piece of luggage on our return trip from Africa. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach, with the key ring now on his middle finger, spun the keys like cowboys do with their guns on the old movies Mr. Charles was always watching. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Billy saw the war movies backwards then forwards—and then it was time to go out into his backyard to meet the flying saucer. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was going to ask you to see a movie,” he says, smiling. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Here, I can sit on the leather couches for as long as I want and watch all the movies in the world as if I’m at the cinema. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I enjoyed American movies because they helped me improve my English and gave me something to talk about with my classmates. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

You didn’t need to shell out twenty bucks for a movie ticket at the real theater because you got all of that in much more lux surroundings at her place. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Why can’t he have the normal interests of a boy his age? Look at Ravi. All he can think about is cricket, movies and music.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“So, I could cover for you if you want. I mean, we can say we’re all going to the movies together or something.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then he slouches down into the couch and unmutes the movie. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I made air quotes when I said the word “movie.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The movie screens in the backseat of her Saturn. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We watch a movie about superheroes, which is normally exactly the kind of movie that Jamie and I would gush over for hours together. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Immediately I was filled with a vulgar curiosity, the sort that movie stars suffer from at the hands of their fans. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was looking forward to ordinary teenager fun like meeting up with my girls at the movies or going shopping at the mall. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Wait! Wait! Check this out. It's a site for movie memorabilia!” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Those who have been swept within the criminal justice system know that the way the system actually works bears little resemblance to what happens on television or in movies. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Or they’re watching a movie and the boy puts his arm around the girl all casual-like and then leans over to kiss her? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Hugo remembered what his father had said about seeing his first movie as a child. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Like the same laugh she might have at a movie or something. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

My work account was rigged so that I couldn’t browse outside websites, but I’d hacked my visor to allow me to listen to music or stream movies off my hard drive while I took calls. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Dylan pauses Sorcerer’s Stone, which, wow, dude never pauses a game, but he’s pausing a movie we’ve seen over a dozen times. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry, Panchito. I can drop you off at the dance before I go to the movies.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

And he didn’t want any kids acting in the movie. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned to the audience and waved a little, like a movie star. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But while walking through this quiet and spacious white neighborhood, he did not feel the pull and mystery of the thing as strongly as he had in the movie. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve gone for ice cream, gone to the movies, bought groceries, and gone bowling. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

My mind does this all the time—shows me these movies that seem so real that they carry me away inside of them. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I would have said, ‘Wait for the movie.’ Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Her hand covered her mouth and her eyes widened like she was watching a horror movie in the dark. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The last movie of the night is playing, so the box office is empty. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I preferred movies with dancing in them, singing, ceremonial masks, carved artifacts for making music: feathers, brass buttons, conch shells, drums. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. But there will probably be free movies, and food, and prizes, and games.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

It’s either a quiet moment in their movie, or our neighbors have finally turned the volume down. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He knew, though, that nothing would work out the way it did in movies. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“So I asked him, 'Papi, you want to go to the movies?’ Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

One of the things I miss the most about being a little kid is that when you’re little, all the movies you watch have happy endings. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

There were peep shows in the back that showed movies of young women and men with no clothes on. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found a new song from a movie that I think she’ll like. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“We have never seen a movie,” said Esther. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are afternoons on the couch watching old Satyajit Ray movies, stuffing our faces with samosas. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I see myself wrapped in rope and lying on the train tracks just like in Grandpa’s old black-and-white silent movies. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then she stopped staring at the green chairs, at the delivery truck; she went to the movies instead. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is it. It’s happening. You’re going to reach out, right? This is amazing. Hollywood will make a movie about you two. And a Netflix spin-off about your gay children.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

In Tempe, segregation never seemed to be a big deal; in Greenwood things were different It wasn’t just the schools; restaurants, movie theaters, stores, even the neighborhoods were divided into white or colored. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I'm not positive that the word "anything" included an acting career, but by high school, I was convinced that being in movies was my destiny. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Kind of stuff they do in the West Side Story movie. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Okay. And you know I’m bringing that Blade II movie tonight to watch with the group.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He pointed out, entirely correctly as far as I knew, that movies featuring prison guards portrayed them as cold and brutal, without exception. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every year on Dudley’s birthday, his parents took him and a friend out for the day, to adventure parks, hamburger restaurants, or the movies. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

And I guess other people—probably millions of them—besides Brian and me have seen that alien movie. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Instead of soup cans and movie stars, I’d be famous for my weather charts and formal suits and that would be good. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Like movies. That one was a piece of garbage. Back in my day, they made quality movies.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Deborah realized these movies were fiction, but for her the line between sci-fi and reality had blurred years earlier, when her father got that first call saying Henrietta’s cells were still alive. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He spoke with a foreign accent, the same accent that the German soldiers always had in World War II movies. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, but can my ol’ mom let me get to the movies?” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

One time she did not want to leave Seth after the movie was over, and they continued to make out in the back of the theater until the usher threw them out. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t concentrate on the movie — I didn’t even know what subject it was on. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Since the movie houses were now off -limits due to lack of funds, he would have had to drift, bored and aimless, around the business district until it seemed safe to return home. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo thought about his father’s favorite movie and wondered briefly if the man in the moon had to wear an eye patch after the rocket flew into his eye. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

She’d thought all of Chicago was going to be made of marble and metal and glass, like something out of a sci-fi movie. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen the animated Disney movie about a million times, but never the musical. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“This is going to look so good when they make the TV movie of my life,” Miss Ohio said. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Because the sun had just gone down, the black-and- white preview for tonight’s movie was still rolling. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have a lot of time for movies,” Drew said, still staring at the TV. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The movie kept playing, and through the window, Ivy saw Mr. Bishop pushing the lawn mower up and down the front yard. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His store is a straight-up scream fest, not to mention the extra sound effects from the loud TV he keeps behind the counter—cowboy movies on repeat. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It was like being in a movie theater when the film breaks partway through the show. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Social note: A new film featuring my favorite female star, whose recent circus musical excess stunned and overwhelmed me, is opening shortly at one of the downtown movie palaces. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d get up, go over to the next room, and sit up with her watching the late-night movie, eating that popcorn with hot sauce on it. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turns on the gigantic television and tells Windy to order any movie she wants. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone laughed the way you do in a scary movie, because they were still imagining the Committee men. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Once she had seen them fluttering about her head before she went into the movies. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The way the show worked was that contestants would choose a category, such as movies, opera, baseball, etc., and answer questions that would become exponentially more difficult and ultimately more valuable. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

After a day’s training I am judged fit to go out with a team, where I soon discover that life is nothing like the movies, at least not if the movie is Dusting. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The only way in was through the front door. The fire exits could only be opened from the inside, like at a movie theater. The vault itself was all the way down in the basement.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

From the movie Gunga Din, which I’ve seen sixteen times and I still think is the greatest adventure movie ever ever ever made. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t that be a fun job—signing movie stars’ pictures! The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I watched all the movies in one day. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I open the music app on my laptop and click on a playlist with songs from Disney movies. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I feel like one of those mice in the movie they made from Flowers for Algernon. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t like I was telling dude the end of some movie he didn’t watch yet. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Chess didn’t say anything, and the four girls had walked away, all of them with hair rippling down their backs like they were princesses in some Disney movie. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Wise has already started the movie when Abby charges into the room. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The girl talking to Shannon said we should come over that afternoon to see a movie. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“How about you and me go back to your house and watch a movie?” she said. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But when the movie was over, he leaned against the concession counter, talking Hannah’s ear off as everyone else left. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I was still holding it against the roof of my mouth, half watching the movie, half not, when I glanced at the dollhouse, lurking, lurking, as always. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Had she missed another lengthy lecture on a movie plot and the dreaminess of the leading man? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He smiled that movie star smile of his. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Of course as soon as they reached the movie theater, he was wide-awake again, so they let him capture the Conte's messenger pigeon. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Watching him destroy his opponents had the same effect as a horror movie. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I still had a dime left from the Johnny Cakes money, and there was a new picture playing at the movie theater. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first stars flickered on like the lights over the movie marquee downtown. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

We would love for you to write an article, 800-1,000 words, about what led to you taking the initiative to direct a movie for the festival. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

World War II started on a Sunday afternoon when I was on my way to the movies. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the science fiction movie, he had biceps as thick as fireplace logs and used them to swat off evil droids. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And I watch a mind movie of me being the only girl without flowers marching in to see all the parents. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Hospitals, schools, private homes, banks, office buildings, restaurants, and movie theaters butted one against the other in a jumble of color and pattern and noise. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The top results were mostly about a movie that had been made of the book. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Stories seemed to tumble out of Hannah's mouth,reruns of all the movies and books she could think of. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, if you look very closely at my brother in this home movie, you will notice a strange thing: his face, arms, shirt, and pants are covered by thousands of tiny white dots. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The family watched It’s a Wonderful Life, which is a very beautiful movie. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I try watching the movie, and when that doesn’t work, I try writing the scene in my mind. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I’ve already seen the movie—it’s an anthology, a little collection of vignettes about life in Paris, each taking place in a different quarter of the city. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It was almost like watching the plan beamed straight from his brain onto the screen of a blockbuster movie. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

His head would roll around by itself, like in that monster movie he’d been watching before Celia ran in and turned off the TV. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a tall, handsome man, like a movie star. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Then, a mind movie of the butterflies at the museum drops into my head and I look back up at him. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“It was just a movie,” the man answered. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They talked about movies and then about stories Celia had told Matt of the dangers that lurked after dark. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sneaky says his mom will take us to the movies later on, and since it’s my birthday, I get to pick the movie. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

With its bulldozer-graded streets and its rows of prefab houses, Oak Ridge looked like an “unfinished movie set,” recalled Seaborg. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They’re dressed and posing like the photo from the opening scene of the movie. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The moon hung high above the city as Prosper rushed out of the movie theater. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She told herself it was just a movie—a scary movie, sure, but it could not hurt her. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Seven and I are reverse HP fans—we liked the movies first, then the books. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

With his zits and his long hair falling out of my ponytail holder, he barely looks old enough to get into a PG-13 movie. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

It was Mr. Colcord, who owned a chain of movie houses and "entertainment palaces." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ate my chicken and watched the movie, wondering what it would mean if the whole world woke up having to tell the truth. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

When Jenna had watched movies with us, the three of us would sit on the floor with our backs against the couch, Audrey in the middle holding a bowl of popcorn on her lap. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was just some kind of movie. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liliane said there would be movie cameras there, foreign journalists taking pictures. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reporter asked Sookie if he had ever seen a great white in all of his years of fishing off the Massachusetts coast, and Sookie said, “Nope. Only in the movies.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“The Taliban is oppressing everyone, with a version of Islam that they’ve cooked up. They’ve banned everything! Music, movies, books, photography, and kite flying. Show me where it says that in the Qur’an. Show me!” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

David always wore a dazzling smile, which transformed him from a nice-looking guy into a movie star. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beginning of our relationship would play out like the end of every good teen movie where the popular guy falls for the nerdy girl. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“There are movies about us in the future?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She held up another videocassette, this one a made-for-TV movie called The Clone. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

For the workers he referred to as “my people,” Erwin built a huge auditorium where they attended concerts and plays, movies and flower shows. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

My parents had given me the videotape movie for my birthday. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We don't laugh at people's dreams. Someone is going to have to train monkeys for the movies." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It was like a movie coming to life. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

We seldom, if ever, were willing to take that risk, so we didn't get to see movies. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

By the fall, they were going out regularly—movies, bowling, miniature golf. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Wedged between a movie theater and a submarine sandwich shop, the Golden Fleece did what it could to distance itself socially from its neighbors. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Drawing from sources as diverse as aikido and barroom brawls, the instructors taught us ways to tangle with an attacking or resisting inmate that you weren’t likely to see in, say, a John Wayne movie. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A movie is better than real life because in the movies only the bad guys die. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And unfortunately, we didn’t know any movie stars,” Ms. Ramirez says. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I take her to a movie, checking it first for violence, sex and death, and to a Chinese restaurant. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I like him, Nic. Like the vampire in the movie, the good one. I love vampires.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The PSF was an enormous man, the kind you’d expect to play an evil giant in a movie, or a villain in a cartoon. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I asked, offering my elbow to her like dudes do to women in old movies. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He said they’d discussed their favorite movies, which also hadn’t gone well. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I’ve been checking out some movie trailers because I want to know more and saw one for this documentary called How to Survive a Plague, but I’m not sure I’m ready for it. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

He asked her out to the movies; she said, “I have homework.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

We were cruising home from this movie we got dragged to about relationships. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

This is my movies—I have no television here.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The First Gate had placed me inside one of Halliday’s favorite movies, and now the Second Gate had put me inside one of his favorite videogames. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

"Better than you'd think. But that's because I used to love this movie when I was little. I watched it about twenty times. I'm in replay mode." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were enjoying the snowy day, just like everyone else — only they looked more like a scene from a movie than the rest of us. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ray must be in a movie in his own mind at this point. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Lumière. These French guys who basically invented movies—they made the camera and showed the first film—a bunch of people exiting a train station...” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe making a movie with Sahil wouldn’t be as hard as I thought. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“This is for you, okay? Hang with your friends, go see a movie, get an ice cream cone or something, man.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Hoover made a cameo appearance in the 1959 movie, which further enshrined him in the popular imagination. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We talked a while, and made a date to go to the movies Sunday night—a picture all the girls were looking forward to, Blue Denim. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry about your job at the movie theater,” Hugo said. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He came slightly unstuck in time, saw the late movie backwards, then forwards again. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upshot: I got back into uniform the first night I was out and snuck onto an Army post to see that movie. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“We could work together,” said Allen, “but we could not go to school together, or go to the movies together. We couldn’t do anything in public together.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The walls were decorated with whatever they had managed to salvage from the movie theater. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the movies, there’s always a dial tone almost immediately after someone hangs up on you. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Trash trundled past like tumbleweeds in old Western movies. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Come on, girl. Let me take you to the movies when we get outta here,” he says, picking at his hair with a giant comb. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In New York I'd go to the movies three or four times a week. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I’d known about carved pistols from the movies, but inside Sing Sing I had also seen carved mini-radios and animal sculptures. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask Dad, Do you remember that movie? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They always had waffles and watched movies on Christmas Eve. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“What’s the movie?” she asked him, looking up at the TV. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My encounters with whites in the movies had revealed none of the politics of the country. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hugged me and told me she was proud of me and that she loved my movie, like, a zillion times. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Did I tell you who I saw at the movies? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like I'm in one of those old detective movies that Grandpa loved. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

On Sundays instead of going to church we went to the movies. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the movies, coming out of the vegetative state is very sudden and very glamorous. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cannons are mentioned in it, and Mr. Winston reads it like he some kind of actor or something, all bass-y and slow, like the man who narrates the previews at the movies. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Maybe it's like the dudes in teen movies who pretend to ask the nerdy girl to prom. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if I got the words from a movie or what, but they were there: “I’m the answer to your dreams, baby.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

He became a plain on which, like the cowboys and Indians in the movies, she and her husband fought. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was through watching such movies that I first began to form ideas about the nature of white people. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Celia pounds the card table, the head of her hammer finally gives way and flies backward, tearing a hole the size of a fist in the movie screen. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mabel's in front of the TV, sorting through the movie choices. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We watched Hotel Rwanda, the movie about the bloody genocide in Rwanda that left as many as a million people dead. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The twins keep asking me chatty questions about music and movies and Ben, but I can barely form words. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I want to wake up every day, like that old movie Groundhog Day, and relive this day over and over again. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

What scared me was the idea of French people I'd gotten from movies and situation comedies. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Or maybe he’s not thinking of me at all; maybe his mind has wandered to his car or his electric bill or the movie he watched on TV last night. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas glances back to the movie screen and points at the commercial that comes on. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I loved watching that movie as a kid. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Actually, we should have gone to the movies the next day, the twentieth, and taken my mother to distract her. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered when we’d be able to watch the movie together again. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

What if my movie made it into thousands of people’s houses on local TV channels? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There’s not even a war in this country, yet I can’t even go to a movie with my friend because she’s white. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Think, for a moment, about the last expensive restaurant you went to, the last expensive piece of clothing you bought, and the last movie you saw. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prosper asked as they hurried back into the movie theater, shivering. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was just about the most famous movie star in all the world. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I think most people in the world can quote sections of that movie—no extra brains required— because it’s one of the movies that gets played over and over again on cable channels. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He grabbed my hand under the armrest at the movie. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She scrolled through chat shows, cooking shows, home decorating shows, cop shows, movies. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The morning sun lit the island like a painted backdrop from an old Hollywood movie, all greens and golds, pinks and blues. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Maybe he looks like an actor I’ve seen in a movie? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Actually, that part was just like the movies. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The walls were covered with pictures Celia had torn out of magazines: movie stars, animals, babies—Matt wasn’t thrilled by the babies, but Celia found them irresistible—flowers, news stories. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn't look anything like the carnivals in movies. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Gogol and Maxine come and go as they please, from movies and dinners out. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I think Ignatius told me this movie ain’t no good. He sees every picture that comes out, that boy.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brian rises out of the darkness of my mind and takes my hand like he did in the movie theater and pulls me to him. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Sees, right behind his eyelids, like a movie, that kind of love. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Emma is buckled in the back seat watching a movie on the DVD player in her lap, eating crisps and pounding a Mountain Dew slushie. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

It was a movie smile in slow motion, and then everything was okay. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I like scary movies, like Friday the 13th, or anything with Arnold Schwarzenegger in it, like The Terminator or Predator.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“It was the only movie we ever saw together,” Liz said. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We can buy clothes that were worn by actors in movies!” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The movie screen above the field of parked cars is reflected in their windshields. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I pined in my heart to be in a dark theater with popcorn and larger-than-life actors on the screen in the latest hit movie. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Deal. And if you do write a Dog-Walking Detective movie, I want some of the credit.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He liked to talk like that, adopting a slight shift in his voice, as if he was a gangster in a movie and wearing a three-piece suit, not a windbreaker over a shirt and tie. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I think you need to be in the movie,” Maddie said, almost choking with laughter. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They do not understand, consequendy, what so pleases the television audience listening to a movie star discuss his divorce with bogus private language. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two years ago, Conner and I went on a classic movie binge. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay. Car chases and explosions are fine. I’m glad you guys didn’t pick a horror movie.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“It drives everyone in my family crazy. Stop talking about it! You know that scene in the deli from the movie When Harry Met Sally? That’s what I feel about food when it’s really good.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The reason may not be the greed of the movie industry in cashing in on the first film’s popularity, but simply another instance of regression to the mean. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They'll have loads of food at the concession stand, but I don't believe in mixing meat with my movies. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It seemed like a part of a movie, like the moonlight shining off the surface wasn’t even real, it was special effects. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of “uhh” you say when you’re watching a scary movie and the bad guy like jumps out of the bushes. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

When I got out of the movie, I had four text messages from Augustus. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

But ho, let me tickle your thoughts with this—the ship even has a movie theater, a music room, a beauty salon, and a promenade deck completely enclosed in glass. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

My grandmother's identity crisis is fascinating and frightening at the same time, like a slasher movie you can't stop watching. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I keep trying to, but I can’t get it out right. You know, I don’t want him to think about it like you do when you go to the movies.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Albury had apple cheeks and wore her chestnut hair in a bob like a Hollywood movie star. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weakly he climbed over the four empty popcorn boxes that had accumulated before his seat during the movie. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, here’s the thing,” I said, “I get to be the good boy. And the gang guy gets the girl. I don’t like this movie.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

John Wayne Westerns were my favorite films, and I took all the best parts from his movies and made them one big story. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw one like this in a movie and this guy was getting all the girls,” Ducky said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Skyscrapers were going up everywhere, and movie palaces and hotels. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Newspapers, television, books, and movies always show the bad guy caught. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

As she ascends the stage to accept her award, she feels “like a movie star getting her Academy Award.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They buy shoes and go to the movies. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just a movie with some friends. You know this town is boring you to death already,” Lucas joked. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“So, what was it like in LA? Did you know any movie stars?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Big. It’s an old movie about a kid that wishes to be grown-up and gets his wish from some fortune-teller machine. It was pretty good.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Okay, what do all vampire movies have in common? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They were exactly the same morons that laugh like hyenas in the movies at stuff that isn't funny. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“We have a special surprise for you. You don’t have to worry about upsetting any other movie watchers.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He had appeared, like one of those vampires in the movies who swoops in out of nowhere. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Our fun at the movies seems like a million years ago instead of just a few weeks. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Nazi Parachutes Attack America and Get Shot Down over the Flint River by Captain Byron Watson and His Flamethrower of Death looked like a real cool movie for me to make too. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And all I want is to make movies and kiss a boy. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“That’s really not my specialty,” I say, trying not to think of all the ways people get eaten in the dinosaur movies I’ve seen. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

We got to the hamlet and just hung around while the civilians set up a screen and started showing Walt Disney movies. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I go back to cleaning pool chairs, picking up Miss Celia’s movie magazines and tissues the slob leaves out here. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

You have a poster of the garden gnome from that movie over your bed. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I'm talking about their actual presence in any given movie. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

All summer she went to movies by herself, sometimes as many as three a day. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Monday night my wife and I went to the movies. 8TH juror: What did you see? 4TH JUROR: The Scarlet Circle. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this Underland river looked like something out of an action adventure movie. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If your belly has grown three sizes, like the Grinch’s heart does in the movie. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

If she went to a movie, she wanted me to go with her. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d seen the plague of locusts at the movies, the sky filled with hordes of insects looking like kamikaze planes. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t nobody talk like that for real, only people in old movies and books.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was as vast and blue as the oceans on the movie screens of my childhood. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He scored the papers while we watched a movie about the pyramids in Egypt. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

But I never liked any of the Tarzan movies—my own imagined picture of Tarzan was more wonderful than any actor could possibly be. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Last year, when she’d heard about the middle school homecoming dance, she had imagined something from a Bollywood movie. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They loved the book so much, I suggested we make a little movie. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It’s horror movie stuff, and most of the time people don’t want to think about it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, to show her how reasonable I am, I added, “Why don’t we go to the movie on December fifth?” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Sammy winked at Ben, then turning and saying good-bye, they got into the car and drove to the movie. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These are the makers of a revolution,” I said to myself, recalling the movie, A Tale of Two Cities. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe that’s why my dad’s side of the family watches the same movie every year. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I had quite a bit of time to kill till ten o'clock, so what I did, I went to the movies at Radio City. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“When you and I began to talk on the boards, I thought I should watch a couple of Bollywood movies on Netflix, figure out how to be sensitive to your culture and all that.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And then the movie is filled with butterflies that are all falling like rain. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s from the movie I was telling you about!” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

We left the sailor and ran to the movie house. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He watches a lot of Chinese martial arts movies and annoys us with his imitations of the movies’ monkey style. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the movie, they went next door to a restaurant. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

And Alice is going to study movies at New York University. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I think it’s quite clear that the boy never went to the movies that night. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes fluttered open and he saw Goober’s face all askew, like on a broken movie film. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t stand to see how the movie was going to end, so me and Rufus left. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever he heard that a Polar movie was in town, he was the first person at the ticket-window, and often he sat through three shows. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I started imitating one of those guys in the movies. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

It sounded like buffalo running in a herd, just the way they ran in the movies, pounding all together...But here, for goodness’ sakes, there weren’t any buffalo. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

"That guy ought to do makeup for the movies. I'm telling you, the kid's a real artist." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Every Friday night is movie night at my house. Wanna come this Friday?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

As always, I was adept enough with white kids not to get bullied by them, but the white kids were always going shopping, going to the movies, going on trips—things that required money. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t my research into old movies, comics, or videogames that had yielded my first real clue. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was like directing this movie had given me so much confidence in myself. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I’d already seen the movie, naturally, so while it played, I kept my eye on the audience. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Orange groves, failed movie stars, lamplit cocktail hours by the swimming pool, cigarettes, ennui. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Usually the only sounds Frank heard from the coach’s cabin were sporting events on the TV, or the coach yelling, “Yeah! Get ’em!” as he watched his favorite martial arts movies. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m Tel’s friend,” he said, naming the girl who sold the tickets at the movie. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one shot a bird for the whole entire movie. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Panicking was how the people in the movies ended up getting themselves killed. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He pictured himself like a defendant in a movie court-martial, interrogated by three humorless inquisitors about suspicious acquaintances he barely remembered. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The mental movie of a mouse cowering in the corner of a cage that has another mouse in it gets chunked into “social avoidance.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She put on the radio and, for the girls, started a Disney movie, which showed on monitors that attached to the back of the front seats, absorbing Stephanie and Cassidy. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We decided that we’re going to take notes on iconic scenes, costumes, and anything else that sticks out to us that we want to include in our movie. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The movie theater's heating, just like the lights, didn't work and the heaters that Scipio had brought them did little to drive the cold from the large auditorium. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the bleak indie movies, they don’t get the happy ending; they get a tragedy. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It was the kind used in every mental institution in every movie and television show ever. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Angel’s voice sounds far away, and I am glued to my spot like Anna in the movie Frozen, which I’ve seen a thousand times with Charlie. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“I liked that movie,” I say to Bob. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

A house that looked like it could be in a book or a movie. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Other boys his age have begun to court girls already, asking them to go to the movies or the pizza parlor, but he cannot imagine saying, “Hi, it’s Gogol” under potentially romantic circumstances. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Live Another Sol would be an awesome name for a James Bond movie. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my next class, Biology, we traveled through a human heart and watched it pumping from the inside, just like in that old movie Fantastic Voyage. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The girl has freckles and hill lips like a movie star. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t accuse,” Mr. Mwila said, as cool as Sidney Poitier telling off the white racist sheriff in the movie In the Heat of the Night. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She recalled nothing of the movie, had eaten nothing at the restaurant, part of a small shopping complex off Route 1. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

June told me that the next time I go over to her house, she’ll show me a horror movie. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I took thirty-nine steps to the west because I liked the movie The Thirty-nine Steps. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The seat belt light goes on and the movie pauses while the captain warns us about turbulence ahead. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Oh, Twinkle had me watch that movie once. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“So, is this where everybody comes to the movies?” he asks. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Roy Rogers is so a movie star,” I said, puzzled by her ignorance. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

During Christmas vacation of my junior year, Gay was looking for a movie to watch when she discovered the videotape from my adoption day four and a half years earlier. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It’s a mockingbird, I explain, life in the movie. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Caraway, until a few months ago, was Stargirl’s teacher. I understand she also makes costumes for movies.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Mom makes such a big deal about how I’m not allowed to watch horror movies because they’re “inappropriate,” but we talk about a dying thirty-three-year-old man all the time. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He had that spirit of some kid in a movie who creates a master plan to get his parents to fall in love again. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I hate computers for replacing the card catalog in the New York Public Library and I hate the way they’ve invaded the movies. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

French people enjoy going out and watching their movies on a big screen. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The entertainment Tagoe delivered with his B-movie scripts, like Canary Clown and the Carnival of Doom and Snake Taxi—though Substitute Doctor was just so bad, even for a bad movie. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

At eleven, when the movie let out, he returned to Wolcott. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight, the club would be packed with celebrities—movie stars, musicians, and at least two members of the High Five. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

After I lose, we go to the couch and watch our favorite movie, Young Frankenstein. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, after she leaned into him for about four movie scenes, which I guess is about ten minutes or so, he started crying. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Unless you remember what I tell you, why would you ever change your behavior or buy my product or go to see my movie? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genie had seen that in a movie once. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was a movie about American bombers in the Second World War and the gallant men who flew them. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I dunno, saw it in a movie. We don’t need to buy real sleds, dummy. All we need is pieces of plastic to slide on.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Or slip my feet into the hollow casts of feet and lurch in like something from a mad scientist movie. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Coulda been in the movies, an’ had nice clothes—all them nice clothes like they wear. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I went into the movie theater last summer for a job application, I pretended to be surprised that Hannah worked there. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

None of the people who'd seen the movie seemed to care about the dead man. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t go, of course, since Mom and Dad are “morally opposed” to horror movies. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Aside from their blinding brightness, there was another odd thing about Milton’s home movies: like Hitchcock, he always appeared in them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe the movie was magic, somehow doing what I’d never been able to do for myself. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The movie of the accident played through my brain. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

They were, as Ralph thought of it, “going up,” every day, with just enough time to take in an occasional movie or ball game, and to be glad that Mona and Callie were happy. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I saw this in the movies once," she whispers. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

A mind movie lights up in my head. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I figure Mr. Gore will take care of the situation, so I return to my seat and try to get lost in the movie, but I can’t. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father wasn’t,” protested Flaco.“He’s living it up in the United States. He’s running a movie studio, and when he gets enough money, he’ll send for me.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Luke tried to help, Annie pushed him into the living room and told him to find a movie. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

They went bowling and to the drive-in movie. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The film relegated a much anticipated Jimmy Stewart movie to second billing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Paul’s own at-home technology was relegated to a black-and-white television he had in his room, and on which he watched local channels and monster movies. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The streetcar labored on, moving away from the landmarks she knew, the greengrocer’s, the movie theater, the fire hydrants and neighborhood newspaper stands. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Wait a minute,” Lana screamed in the best tradition of the director in a musical movie. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

An overhead projector beamed a movie onto the dummy to her left, turning it into a perky woman who looked like Haley would probably look a couple of years after she graduated from college. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

It also holds for restaurants, movies, fashion trends, or anything else that moves by word of mouth. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The part that closes her neckline snap while waiting for the trolley; and brushes lint from his blue serge suit when they come out of the movie house into the sunlight. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I suggest we watch a movie together. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I saw it in the streets of Soweto, on TV, in movies. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It’s the only way I want to see a scary movie. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“No idea. Maybe movies full of cowboys eating lots of spaghetti.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The movie was about hypocrisy in our society and people’s prejudice. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I remember well my first time at the movies. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

This room might as well be a straight-up movie theater, as big as that screen is. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Two or three years earlier we’d have thought the movie had spooked Grandma. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I did what any loving, loyal daughter would have done who had been raised on a diet of Hercules movies. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

—Going to the “movies” in my head, imagining what is happening at home right this moment. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All he had felt in the movie was gone; only fear and emptiness filled him now. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I made up my mind that I was going to see every movie that came to the fine, air-conditioned theaters. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think they realize that I have seen more than seven rated-R van Damme movies and my imagination is probably worse than what happened. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I found your brother in the movie theater,” Victor continued. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could get up and run for it, but if I stayed put, even for one more minute, there would be no more groping in car seats or movie theaters, no skirmishes over brassiere hooks. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They looked like a movie that had been paused in the middle of a fight scene. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’m tempted to read what’s on the card, but I manage to watch the rest of the movie just holding it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Apart from movies, weekends were constructed around some new Net or Web project—trying out a just-purchased game, downloading new software, collecting and listening to music, installing a new operating system. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cell culture had become less a medical miracle than something out of a scary science-fiction movie. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The movie was helping elevate me past groundling status, just like I’d hoped. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I liked the part right at the end of the movie. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She took out her phone and dialed Tim, while everything around her creaked and wires hung from the ceiling like a scene out of a bad movie. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Piper thought about her dad’s most famous movie, King of Sparta, and how the Spartans were portrayed as invincible supermen. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She looked just like a movie star, Dad always said, but hell, he’d met lots of beautiful women before, and none of them had ever made him weak in the knees. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There is the movie, but you’re right. There’s some other stuff I have to figure out too,” I admitted, swallowing and keeping my eyes forward. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And then there was the time he challenged us to only go to movie theaters that showed independent films. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

The characters in those movies, in the songs, they owned it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Even if he is cute and totally gets my need to punch back at the patriarchy with excellently made movies. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

If I could go to a Negro church, why not a Negro movie theater? The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she were a movie star, this would be the room she’d get. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

On our way home from work he told me that he had asked her out to the movies for next Saturday. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

We settled in our spots as the movie started. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

On Friday nights, Dad and Mother often went to a lecture or a movie by themselves, holding hands as they went out to the barn to get Foolish Carriage. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pinned it to Petra’s hair like an old-fashioned movie star. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Once a week they would go to the library for Singer to withdraw a mystery book and on Friday night they attended a movie. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

How I wanted the horse to start the movies in my mind coming true. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The movie is loud, a full orchestra playing while Anna and the king of Siam twirl around and around a wide, shiny floor. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jack was telling me you saw the gal in the movie you suppose to drive around. Did you?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They think suffering is good for you ever since they saw that movie 300 Spartans. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scene looked like something out of a war movie—only there was no enemy fire. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t remember which was the movie and which was the book. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the cost of a movie on a Saturday night now seemed unwisely extravagant to him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"This is a beautiful movie theater. Why was it closed?" The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The drive to the movie theater was quiet, with only the wind breaking against the edge of the windows. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“And let’s say I decide I want to go back to last Wednesday. Let’s say I want to go to the movies while the other me is still in school.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I thought you was never coming outta there. What kinda appointment you had? You just went to see a movie.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I just could have talked James into going to a movie that Friday night. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The movie he suggested was vulgar, worldly, one I would never want to see, but I was being Shannon, so I said I’d love to. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I thought we were going to kick back, shoot the bull and watch a movie, but JonPaul couldn’t relax until he’d disinfected his gym clothes. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can picture it happening as if it's a movie I've already seen. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But on other Saturdays they went to see a movie; they went to see a play; they visited his friends; they walked through Central Park. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

My other hobbies are movie stars and family photographs. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I usually gave my money to Bailey, who went to the movies nearly every Saturday. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually I got a job at a restaurant, just so I could have enough money to buy her gifts and take her out once in a while to a movie. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The fissure split and grew, like those scenes in disaster movies when an earthquake cracks the streets apart and chases the hero. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

When I open his door, he’s already in movie mode. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Playing Soccer is like never hitting pause on your favorite ninety-minute movie but futsal is like fast forward for forty supercharged minutes. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was like being inside that movie Jurassic Park. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

It’s from To Kill a Mockingbird because he loves that movie. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, unfortunately, my dad took me to the movies at around that same time. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Martin’s new friend looks like a movie star!” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There was only one movie playing, and as they waited in line to buy tickets Ophie couldn’t help but bounce a little in excitement. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Bunch of scary movies have that word in their title, like Possession. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I thought about telling him the movie was immoral, that he shouldn’t be seeing such things, but—still being Shannon—I said nothing, just smiled when he asked if I’d like to get ice cream. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The people who make movies or detergent or cars or music all want to know what we think of their products. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

That was one of the coolest things the movie had done. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Wondering why I now have to watch the mind movie in my head of a furry, meowing pork chop with a tail. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t mind doing something like that when I’m twenty, working on movies. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

"You want to go to the movies tonight?" The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask, though I think I’ve seen one before in some movie. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The screen was large; as in a movie theater it dominated the room. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My excitement about making a movie for Midsummer Night felt damp and wilty. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“The movie camera will shortly be put to use. That harmonica was rather cheap.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom took a second job cleaning a movie theater, and I helped her on the weekends. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Against the dark cave wall those twenty seconds played like a movie. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“And you look like a less-swole, beardless version of that dude who guards the rainbow bridge in the Thor movies,” Golly says. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“It’s...bold. It screams, Look at me! And I feel like that’s what we need for this movie. We need to be noticed. We need people to see us for who we are.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t like a car chase in the movies. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Dad is probably ignoring whatever muted movie is on Channel 17 while skimming the day’s paper. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Baba was supposed to take the twins to a movie, so that must be Mama. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Despite his obvious intelligence, he did poorly in school, because most of his attention was focused on computers, comic books, sci-fi and fantasy novels, movies, and above all else, videogames. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

If her life had been a movie, this was where the reflective, orchestral music would swell. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I can see him now—wailing and flailing his scrawny arms worse than a white girl in a horror movie. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

His day was ending; it was 3:00 P.M., and he planned to pick up a girl from around the way to go to the movies. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Upon advice, I arranged to leave in Cairo all of my luggage and four cameras, one a movie camera. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This looks like a horror movie waiting to happen,” I snickered. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh, aye. She used to come to the house. Did you ever see that movie about dinosaurs? The one with the velociraptor?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, today’s your lucky day ’cause I’m about to make a new movie and guess what, you gonna be the star!” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, Mary Elizabeth and I went to see a movie downtown. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I remind myself that in movies the bad guys are always pretending to be good guys. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to the movies with Charlise,” I say when the twins ask me why I have on lip gloss, my favorite earrings, and extra-tight jeans. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“He must have turned his phone off in the movie,” she said. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I tried to imagine the scene in his mind’s eye just then, the little movie replaying, the recalcitrant inmate being “encouraged” to return to his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were supposed to go to the movies, but the one they wanted to see was sold out and they couldn’t agree on anything else. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I hated movies and books where people ignored bullets whizzing by their heads and zombies chasing after them so that they could make out, but I finally understood. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The Filipinos loved him; Marcos entertained him at the palace and on his yacht; Marcos’s wife, Imelda, dined with him at lunch; young ladies gathered around him constantly, as if he were a movie star. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Some kids look like popular presidents or famous movie people. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Dad reminds me of Godzilla from the movie by the same name,” Mary Anne suggested. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was one of those young men who affected a style of dress that mimicked the well- tailored gangsters in American movies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we sat waiting for the movie to start, the three of us surreptitiously glanced back at Mom sitting in the very back row. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“But this story is played out, don’t you think? The lost dog, looking for a home. A million of these movies already exist.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

This movie could be the answer to all my dreams. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We went on real dates, going for what we considered upscale dinners at Red Lobster and to the movies. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They’re a walking encyclopedia when it comes to pop culture, quoting the lines from their favorite movies verbatim or reciting every lyric from the latest rap CD. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Shunned by established churches, they became a sect of outsiders, and their preachers condemned worldly temptations like dancing, movies, jewelry, and swimming in public pools. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Would it really be like the movies I’d seen, with beautiful people everywhere, or would it be a place full of hate and race riots like the Cuban newspapers described? The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Huge posters as tall as we were, advertising the latest movies, were plastered on the walls. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The walls gleamed with guns, assault rifles, grenades . . . things they’d only seen in blockbuster summer movies. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

In March an oddly appropriate movie had come out and quickly become a smash hit: King Kong. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

One wall is lined with movie posters and cardboard character cutouts. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I think Linda’s mother was taking kids to the movies again. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

That past fall she had seen a movie she liked: War Brides with Nazimova. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again, I had that familiar, unsettling feeling of being in a movie where the film has been broken and then spliced together a whole scene later. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last time I’d walked this path, it felt like the setting of a horror movie. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“So you want to hang out here and watch a movie or something? We could go out, too. I figured keep it low-key?” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“William, last night I watched a movie that I still don’t understand,” he said. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“But if this were an old Indian movie, I couldn’t do this.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

They went to plays and operas and concerts in the parks, listened to string quartets and piano recitals in office-building lobbies, attended movie screenings, and visited museums. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But we both knew she was lying just so we could get to the movie part of the night faster. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Everything looked and sounded exactly as it did in the movie. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He’d seen movie stars do the same kind of salute on TV. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

If you get tricked and a good person dies in the movie then you can rewrite it in your head so the good person lives and the part about death is superfluous. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, in four blocks he sees only one soul, a woman outside what was, the day before, the movie- house. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was more like that bit from the Men in Black movies, where bystanders have their memories erased. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

You may have seen the spangled palaces of sin and fancy dancing in the false West of the movies, and maybe some of them existed—but not in the Salinas Valley. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a sort of stone mansion—only one turret short of being something out of a Disney movie. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Then my brother made this joke from a movie. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was too hot for Mr. Goodbar, and a box of Good & Plenty only reminded me of watching movies at the RKO with my pa. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

For that movie, he used actors who had played roles in the War of the Worlds broadcast and other Mercury radio and theatre productions. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

They had seen a movie like that once, two cowboy brothers who had a fight, and at the end they joined up again, riding into town together to face the gang. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loves romance and I prefer action movies. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

And all I could think was why didn’t they make the movie about Uncle Billy? The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t talk about sports or bad movies or loading the dishwasher properly or weird jazz. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I discovered that I’d received several offers from movie studios and book publishers, all interested in buying the rights to my life story. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A bad movie is always a bad movie. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes on rainy days when we did not work, our family went to watch Mexican cowboy movies. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Like talking about our favorite movies, and exploring the building, and taking walks in the park, with or without the dogs. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Hazel had seen that look in the newsreels at the movie theater. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They each put their feet up on the empty seat in front of them and leaned back, waiting for the lights to dim and the movie to start. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was like watching a movie with a voice-over narration, but with one great difference: He was manipulating the pieces and speaking so rapidly that it was difficult to connect the moves with his commentary. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hampden had assembled a crack team which—like one of those commando forces in the movies, made up of desperate fugitives, men with freedom to gain and nothing to lose—proved virtually invincible. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ambitiously, Haiselden meant to market his film as a “date night” movie: it had love, romance, suspense, and humor—with some retail infanticide thrown in on the side. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The first time we watched To Kill a Mockingbird I waited through the whole movie for the dad to shoot a mockingbird. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh. Um, yeah. Songs from movie soundtracks. The Jurassic Park theme song was playing,” I say. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Their minds were not nineteen-inch screens but those of the big drive-in movies. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Those were all van Damme movies, by the way, where lots of people die. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I looked at the newly issued propaganda leaflet I had found outside the movie house. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And she thought wars were partly encouraged by books and movies. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not now, boy. Not now,” booms Al, goose-stepping past like the Brownshirts you see in the grainy news trailers at the movies. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Did you see that movie?” as she points to the cover. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

When Volpe tells me about his younger years, I imagine them taking place in black-and-white, like in an old movie. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Now I’m in with the rock groups and the latest movie. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were talking about the picture of a movie star I’d once given him, which has been hanging in his room for at least a year and a half. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“You came on a good day, because we’re watching a movie and having popcorn. But don’t think it’s always this much fun.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

By the time we reached the movie house, Poet had traded the boots for a large bucket of hot porridge. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A guy from M*A*S*H was the star of the movie. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Molly became accustomed to having their Friday-evening movie dates hijacked by the machine. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“What do you want to do now? Watch a movie?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Instead, I programmed a selection of classic ’80s TV shows, retro commercials, cartoons, music videos, and movies. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I guess all the teen movies were right: prom is slightly, slightly magical. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

It had pictures like an old Technicolor movie and was from somewhere called Peoria, Illinois. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Hollywood studios called us sometimes to see about using the house in a movie or for a commercial shoot. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Sometimes on Fridays or Saturdays he went to the movies with Henry and Jelly, but it wasn't like going to the movies with James. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know exactly who I am and what I'm capable of thanks to the movie Sparkle and I made together. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In Phnom Penh, while Pa took us girls to the swimming pool on Sundays, Kim could usually be found in the movie theater across the street from our apartment. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s satiny and puffy and looks like one of those bridesmaid’s dresses people make fun of in movies. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He wanted to see a movie; his senses hungered for it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The rotting post office is now a little movie theater, for example. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Last year I was the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz” “But that’s a movie, not a book.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Clips of the press conference would later appear as part of short newsreels shown before movies in theaters nationwide. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

If only James had come to the movies tonight, like every other Friday night. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom. Dad. You know how I love making movies?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Fifty years after the decade had ended, the movies, music, games, and fashions of the 1980s were all the rage once again. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Charlie ignores me and keeps messing with the remote control to get his movie to start playing. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The stills were a lot more Tralfamadorian than the movies, since you could look at them whenever you wanted to, and they wouldn’t change. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a briefcase, a real, live briefcase like you might see a businessman in a movie use. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

But he zoomed off in a cloud of dust, exactly the way it always happens in the movies. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then one night, after I watched a movie about men in black hats with guns and feeble-minded horses, a different show came on. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

So tired I was almost dreaming, I walked back to the square—past the post office, past the hardware store, past the movie theater with its dead marquee: plate glass, cracked sidewalks, stars. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Once my bottle is full, I put my headphones on, turn on my playlist of favorite movie scores, and go out into the hallway. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Go to bed early and read my stash of comic books, the ones I found in the shed about The Flash and Green Lantern and Batman before he was a movie. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Angie’s room was pink and ruffled, carpeted, and decorated with stuffed animals, dolls, and pictures of American movie stars. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“What got you started — a book? A movie?” he probed. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He took her for rides in an old gray Oldsmobile—to the country, to drive-in movies—and they sat over bad coffee in certain dime stores where they were not likely to be recognized. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some watched a movie under one of their big tents. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Enjoying the movie proved to be harder than I expected. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We color in Grace’s movie star coloring books, which show the movie stars in different outfits, doing different things: walking their dogs, going sailing in sailor suits, swirling around in evening dresses at parties. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Except for nights when he comes home with an action movie. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter that the movie was released more than twenty-five years ago, because Iranians have a flair for holding lifelong grudges. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“For writing books? People would have thought she was a hero around here. Maybe she could have made movies or something, too. That would have been cool.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Back then, these grandmasters commanded as much prestige in Soviet society as a movie star or an Olympic athlete does in contemporary America. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The ones who had gone to the movies in town came back a little later. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s from a horror movie. Same title. Literally about a boy befriending a rat.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“You were on FaceTime the whole time? Isn’t that movie over three hours long?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Are you okay with most of the cast being female? Because I think probably a movie made in 1931 had mostly male leads?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

So I ended up just carrying him over my shoulder, like men always carry their wives in the old-time movies when they first get married. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

By the same token, there are movies that people hate when they see them for the first time, and they still hate them two or three years later. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Now Kira had gone off to a movie with Holly’s father, and the babysitter was downstairs asleep on the couch. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Well, we’ve been to the ocean and to the mountain and to the woods. So I thought this time we’d try...dinner and a movie.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

If this were one of the Hindi movies Hassan and I used to watch, this was the part where I’d run outside, my bare feet splashing rainwater. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a hint—just a glimpse, like a twist that comes about two thirds of the way through a movie—that the end of the Age of Sugar was in sight. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

My mom didn’t want my mind polluted by movies with sex and violence. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

If someone knows you’re going for the weapon, sorry, despite what you see in kung fu movies, it is nearly impossible to get the weapon without getting hurt. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Her parents would not let her date yet, so she would ask me to go to the movies with her and sit a few rows in front of her and her boyfriend, Seth. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“I thought I’d add a little drama to your movie. You know, ‘after one too many cups of tea, the handsome Kareem fled with the bride. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“I’d rather you spend that money on food, or a good movie.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We sat in a room to watch a movie on how Jewish people were treated during the Holocaust. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was where I attended school, did my homework, read books, watched movies, and played videogames. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Maybe get more shots for your movie? I could be your key grip.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Uh...Nothing. Your trailer sounds like it could be a horror movie or maybe...you’re not going to get all sparkly in the sunlight and confess to being a vampire, are you?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

And it’s not a movie and you aren’t a hero and all you can do is whimper and wait. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had seen a lot of Jean-Claude Van Damme movies with my brothers—I knew that if these men were bad guys, they were not going to tell us. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It had books and maps and movies and key chains. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

No scary movie, failed experiment, or broken cell phone came close to the fear now pumping my heart at a hundred thousand beats per minute. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

If you’ve ever seen that movie, you know that toward the end the hyenas turn against the villain, Scar, and attack him. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Hey, have you figured out the movie for your film camp application?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Didn’t she ask me, just two hours ago, to doubledate to this movie tomorrow night? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The plan was to take in a movie. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I got tired of Aunt Mary treating me so mean, so I quit her factory and started looking for a job as an usher or movie ticket clerk in Harlem. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We got to eat good, we went to movies, the day room was cool. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isabelle told Hugo about other movies she loved: comedies and cartoons and cowboy movies starring someone named Tom Mix. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The only image I had for jails was from westerns at the movies, and this one was nothing like that. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We played cards and watched movies and talked all night. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The story played over and over and over again, like watching a movie in virtual reality where it doesn’t really seem like you—like it’s real—but you can feel every blow, every break. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Now the servants chattering have become a choir in a silent movie, a line of O mouths — or a school of fish, blub blub. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lilies used to be a movie theater, before. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Who could forget his movies? Even the one about the baseball team was good," she says with a small smile. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As a kid during World War II, he’d sat in movie theaters, horrified by newsreel images of the smoking rubble of European cities that had been flattened by German bombs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I said, ‘Why?’ and she goes, ‘Well, she saw that movie Not Without My Daughter.’ Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I decided to try writing a movie script.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

His jaws were blue-black and he looked like a gangster in the movies. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

One night Meme said that she was going to the movies with her father. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

His enthusiasm about whatever movie or play he had seen recently was contagious. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Char’s just standing there eating a candy bar like she’s at the movies. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The fact is, I’ve been producing prose home movies, off and on, since I was fifteen. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

When I got home, my sister was watching a movie with her new boyfriend. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re like from a movie,” I think and say at the same time. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure this kind of thing works outside of the movies,” Kim tells Adam as she feels along the wall. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel the same way about some movie stars who are terrible to watch. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“A bunch of us are going over to Lauren’s house to watch a movie,” Bridget offered. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Victor opened the current telephone book as well as last year's edition, then called every movie theater he could find. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

You know in the movies when the slicksters open up their trench coats and they got gold watches and chains hanging inside? When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I notice Mom watching us curiously, intently, not totally comprehending what she’s seeing, like we’re some foreign movie with no subtitles. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The family car takes the head of the house to work and the family to a drive-in movie at night. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Louie found that the only way to train was to circle the first-class deck, weaving among deck chairs, reclining movie stars, and other athletes. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I listen to Ruby giggling after Grammy tells her that she looks like a movie star in her new glasses, and memories roll through my mind of Grammy clapping too loud at school concerts. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I pretend that David and I are making plans for summer, that we’ll play tennis some mornings, that we’ll go to movies. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Hey, try going to the movie section and let’s see what we can watch for free.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Besides, now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Blade II...well, you have to like action movies to like it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

But I don’t like the mall, and I didn’t have any friends to go to the movies with. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In order to buy a magazine and go to the movies he would have to have at least twenty cents more. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I’m going to let him go. I’m not going to save him...and then eat him. That’s like one of those horror movies that comes on in the middle of the night.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“How was the movie?” my mother asked before Lily could get out completely. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

And it dawned on me, the reason why—because people our age go on dates at the movies. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s fine with me either way. Who knows? Maybe there should be a movie. Do you see many movies, Mr. Dawson?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After all,” she scoffed, “it’s just a movie. How could a movie hurt anyone?” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to know what / thought about the movie Higher Learning. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You look like the Wicked Witch of the West from that really old movie...” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

From my pants pocket, my phone vibrated, and when I checked it William had sent me a text. “good movie. Ur mom mad?” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we can all do something together. See a movie?” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The afternoon sky had turned a blue I’d never seen before, except in a computer-generated image, the kind you find in a sci-fi movie where the good guys escape to a perfect world. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Run along, chicos, and have fun at the party. I’ll be in the kitchen serving up the best dinner you ever saw. You look wonderful, both of you, like you stepped out of a movie.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt like a convict in an old prison movie, returning to my cell each night to tunnel through the wall with a teaspoon. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I was in a large, old-fashioned bathroom, like something from a Zsa Zsa Gabor movie, with gold fixtures and mirrors and pink tile on the walls and floor. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When I wasn't bleeding, and when Mirren and Johnny were snorkeling or wrangling the littles, or when everyone lay on couches watching movies on the Clairmont flat-screen, Gat and I hid away. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

But many of their favorite pictures and photographs were still hanging on that movie theater wall, above the empty mattresses, along with their homely scrawls; and scribbles. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

That’s why I say it is like the girl from the movie. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

We watch movies outdoors with images projected onto a white sheet. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

And soon I’ll be able to leave groundling status, simply based on this movie I’m making, which’ll force people to see me and the message I want to send to the world. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The sign over the door said Snohomish High School—David’s school, and the setting of the next few scenes in the movie. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

After the movie was over, I started walking down to the Wicker Bar, where I was supposed to meet old Carl Luce, and while I walked I sort of thought about war and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

They fall into a weighty silence, both staring at the massive television screen but neither actually watching the movie. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then, once we were at the mall, since we never had any money to shop or watch movies or buy food, we’d just wander around inside. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I remembered the movies I’d watched as a boy in Kraków. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I believe some might classify you as weak? Now, have you seen the fellow from the movie house?” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In a movie he could dream without effort; all he had to do was lean back in a seat and keep his eyes open. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, I try to think of my life in hiding as a movie that will be over in three hours. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The memory faded out like the end of a movie. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

They would praise me for encouraging Miss Norris, and I would probably be allowed shopping privileges and movie privileges downtown, and my escape would be assured. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then she saw me and her eyes bulged with the kind of insane evil you see in horror movies. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had asked her to see a movie, Goddard’s Alphaville, and to have Chinese food. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

After the movie, we sit on the couch, sipping cups of creamy spiced chai. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Someone was playing an old Hindi movie soundtrack now. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I flailed my arms about, consumed by images of quicksand from old Tarzan movies and episodes of Gilligan’s Island. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The party is like a party in the movies. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She navigated for a little until she found an old Bette Davis movie that had just started. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They have castles like in the movie Aladdin. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m not talking about this anymore. You gonna turn the movie up, or what?” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He was forbidden to dance or attend movies. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You do remind me of somebody in the movies, Dad. I can’t think of who it is. No, I got it. You remind me of Bambi,” Ben said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d had fun, watching movies and eating Mr. Bishop’s amazing food and doing their homework together. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, we save that for when you fall asleep at the movies,” I said, winking. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

His mom is busy watching a movie in the living room, and Antwan is out with his friends, so we have the room to ourselves. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

How constantly and overwhelmingly the advertisements, radios, newspapers and movies play upon us! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A crowd of young people waits near me to board the ferry, joking and jostling each other about school and movies and some farmer they must have passed on their outing. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

One of the only movies Mom, Lily, and I all like. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It looked like a costume for a Bollywood movie. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s even bigger than the one I showed you last time. It contains just about every movie ever released. Actors, directors, cinematographers, sound tracks, musical scores, the lot.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I think the horror movie we watched last night is getting to me. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her features seemed to shift from those of one glamorous movie star to another. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Are we on again for next weekend? Midnight movies? For real this time?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

"No, I don't. I go to the movies as seldom as I can." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Newt pushed open the door, the slight creak once again reminding Thomas of some vague childhood memory of haunted-house movies. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I think every teen movie does end in a prom scene,” I’d told her. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Lawes’s children knew the inside of the prison from movies they watched there, and the inmates who worked in his house as cooks, cleaners, and handymen knew his family. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It shouldn’t have been an issue: the movie we went to see was rated G, totally fine, not scary at all. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I thought you two had planned to watch a movie on cable tonight. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, what? like a scene from out of an old World War Two movie. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent hours in the media center watching movies or flipping through magazines. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Around eight o’clock that evening I was watching a movie in the dormitory with the other kids and worrying at the same time. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ate the whole thing and then watched a horror movie. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Everybody was on their way to the movies--the Paramount or the Astor or the Strand or the Capitol or one of those crazy places. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I think I like these photos as much as I like the movies,” she said. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

But the cheerful advertisements painted on the sides of buildings like the Tic Toe diner and the Pocahontas movie theater were faded and nearly illegible. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Angel and Kiara giggled in the backseat about boys and makeup and movie stars. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d liked the movie fine the first time, but the need to watch it a dozen times in as many days was beyond him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Kristina says something to both of them before she goes toward her mother, who slaps her right across the face like in the old movies. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I’ve seen all your movies,” he says, his eyes crinkling at the corners as he smiles at me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Negroes and whites are not allowed to share water fountains, movie houses, public restrooms, ballparks, phone booths, circus shows. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I try to picture Mr. Gore dunking and the little movie I create in my mind makes me laugh. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In The Wizard of Oz—the book, not the movie—Dorothy goes to this place called the Dainty China Country, and all the people are tiny and perfect. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

At an average New York screening I once tapped the shoulder of the man in front of me, interrupting his spot review to ask if he planned on talking through the entire movie. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

You could tell they were rich ’cause the car looked like it had room for eight or nine more people in it and ’cause they had movie star clothes on. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Her own parents, locked up for robbing a family-owned movie theater, inspired her kleptomaniac urges, but Aimee discovered working on herself made her feel more powerful than stealing from others. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Seriously? It’s one of my parents’ favorite movies. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But when they opened the cans they found the movie with Julie Andrews that we had already seen. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The DVD shops that sold Bollywood films and children’s movies pulled down their shutters and went out of business. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When my mother led us out of nightmares and horror movies, I felt loved. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to say goodbye to the junkyard or to my car, so I spent my last night at an all-night movie. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They then have study hall together, and he spends all of it stroking her and talking to her about the movie they saw last night. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“You’re turning the big one-three! Teen is going to be in your age now. It’s huge. A movie is one giant yawn.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“What’s the name of that thing that always stops the bomb in the movies?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

And I still recall the moments, rewind the movie in my head, and remember all of you, read your letters. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A large, full fairy-tale moon hung in the sky now—though Hazel could have sworn it wasn’t there earlier—showing a cottage that looked like something from a movie. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The two giant video monitors on either side of the stage were instantly filled with a grainy, sixty-second movie about everything that happened in the cavern. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Like in all those cheesy romance movies that I low-key love. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It echoed throughout the dark room, and the sound triggered memories of an old movie— something about astronauts boarding an abandoned alien vessel. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Do you think you could take me to the movies tonight?” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She has yellow hair, wiry legs, the most beautiful crooked smile in the world, and lovely hips, and she watches a lot of movies. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

My grandfather has a plan to get into building twenty-four, and it feels like it’s straight out of a spy movie. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

There’s almost no blood on her, but her lips are already blue and the whites of her eyes are completely red, like a ghoul from a low-budget monster movie. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky, the land were distant then; trees and hills moved past the windshield glass like movie film. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They’d watch movies on the screen above the bar as they talked. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was now spending clear days reading in Central Park and rainy days in the movies. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

But the movie remained on his mind for months. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

We're off to the movies or to Capri's for an ice cream and just hanging out, the boys much exhorted to take care of the ladies. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Let’s see what they have here. Hmm, how would you girls like to pick a movie to watch at home?” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t we go see a movie, then? Would that be fun?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“A videocassette recorder, VCR. for short. It’s how your auntie and I used to watch movies....But let’s see if I can get this dinosaur to work.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I think it’s an epic compliment that the entire auditorium of about one thousand people was completely silent while the movie played. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I’ve read enough books and watched enough movies to know that never, ever happens. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It’s a beautiful dream, like the end of an American movie, where the protagonist and his girl drive off into the rest of the world. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Around me, the world speeds up like a movie on fast-forward. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Eleanor Holm was twenty-two years old, beautiful, married, and a minor celebrity, having performed bit parts in several Warner Brothers movies. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I hang out with Rambo, Fizz’s cat, on my lap, watching a movie review. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Two days and two nights later, as the sun was already disappearing behind the roofs, Mosca and Riccio packed the few belongings they had managed to salvage from the movie theater into Mosca’s boat. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My father always took me to the movies for my birthday,” he answered. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

"Only reason I'm taking you to the Quad is 'cause I'm not gonna spend eight fifty on some karate movie or action feature about some outer-space somebody wanting to blow up the Earth." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Signs, signs—keeping us out of the movie theater, all of the restaurants and hotels, some grocery stores, all of the toy stores, most car lots, and all downtown entertainment. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“So if you want, they made a movie out of that video game or we could rent something online.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

First, though, I must tell you that the movie is off, so if you were planning to play the landlord, forget it. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, like a movie that burns in the projector while you’re watching it, a bloom of hot and perfect whiteness spread out before me and swallowed everything. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we were asked to leave for war in the middle of a movie. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I told her, “You could be a movie star.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

At some point, Mom had the idea of our watching The Ghost and Mrs. Muir together, which was one of our all-time favorite black-and-white movies. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Presidents of corporations, state governors, movie stars — people he didn’t know but nonetheless understood to be lonely, and afraid of failure. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the movies, this always seems to take mere seconds, doesn’t it? Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The store doesn't exist anymore, but back in the nineties, you could go there to develop photos and rent movies—two activities that are obsolete today, hence its disappearance. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Pinkie’s car got more horses under that hood than a John Wayne movie and you and T. C. O’Quinn both know it,” Art said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how many movies I have seen when the actor-patient suddenly blinks his or her eyes and then opens them and starts to talk. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our waiter, who tells us his name is Cornelius, acts like we are movie stars or something. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

One of these fellows was known as Bogart, after the American tough-guy movie actor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ding- The door opened slowly, the way it would in a horror movie. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was a stupid comparison, anyway—hollowgast were scarier, and probably deadlier, than any movie monster. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The movie had played a role in Adams's exoneration, and he was released from Texas’s death row not long after its release. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Director Howard Hawks’s new movie, Battle Cry, would be Hollywood’s most sweeping war film of them all. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

‘Big talk. Definitely. Global warming’s great. I saw this movie. All New York was under water.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana had no idea what happened at the end of the movie. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Wow, this whole place is wood. Look at that staircase. I’ve never really noticed it before. It looks like something from an old movie—you know, like Bette Davis should be standing at the top.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She comes here seldom, only to buy make-up at Bendel’s, or to see the odd movie at the Paris, and once, with Graham and his father and stepmother, to have drinks at the Plaza. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once or twice a week in the late afternoon Bobby went to the movies and saw mostly popular American films. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Why spend all that time downloading a movie playing all over Chicago? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shoved the movie into the waistband of my shorts, just above my butt. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“And what if you fail in this...this...making movies? Then what?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

A jaded sailor stepped away from a movie machine while the film was still running. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry. But you can tell me about the movie tonight, can’t you?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The naked lights cast his shadow massively on the movie theater’s walls. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't know whether it was the awful movie giving me a stomachache or all that caviar I had eaten. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

One night I decided to go to a Negro movie house. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mind went back to the many afternoons I had spent watching movies about powerful and fearless white gladiators with sharp swords and glistening daggers. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They showed a movie in the day room and passed out some beer. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had heard plenty of them in the movies and on TV and at sporting events. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

She turned the movie off right away and gave me a hug. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Because if it wasn’t this story, it would have been some other story or some review of a movie or a review of a book that someone does not like. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Miss Volker had fixed my nose, but it didn’t stop me from wanting to watch war movies. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you and I should go catch a movie. Let these three work on whatever hysterical project it is they’re working on.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

It was like watching a crocodile submerge in a nature movie.You knew the crocodile was planning an attack, but you didn’t know when. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the movie’s over, I have to go back to bed because I have school in the morning. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She looked like she was ready to catch a movie, have a cool afternoon hanging out together. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“If you like that flick and you liked Shane, you probably qualify to be a real movie freak, like me.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The protesters had small tags pinned to their lapels with words printed in red: “I do not attend segregated movies. DO YOU?” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Your face lights up when you talk about the movies.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Her hand pointed toward the world outside the car they sat in: the row upon row of automobiles in the hot drive-in movie lot. m Porter traced her cheek line with his knuckle. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eyes open, be alert—old imperatives, old movies. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"See that, Liz? You've met a real movie star today! But we better get going. I don't want to get home too late," she says with a sigh. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Khrushchev toured Washington, visited a farm in Iowa, and even watched a movie being filmed in Hollywood. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter that the show was over and everyone was going home disappointed, only that you felt responsible for the movie being bad. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Then they put out all the candles and left the movie theater. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I got back to O-Hall, everything seemed weird, like I was walking into the last five minutes of a horror movie. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They were all boys like me who kept movie star scrapbooks and made their own curtains. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The door had once been one of the movie theater's emergency exits. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mouth is the guy in the horror movie with his hand on the door. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

But this time they'd picked the wrong spot, and the movie doorman intervened and they ran back toward Ras's street meeting. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, he didn’t really make movies, but he recorded the sound for movies and TV shows. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Well, there was no other explanation: The young Mr. Massimo must have brought them here, into his father's empty movie theater. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, that sounds like an awesome movie idea.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Yeah? She would have liked the nature reserve. You know what movie they played? The Sound of Music.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

But Anastasia loves the sneaky little beast, who has long white fur that flows around her like she’s a little movie star. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She wagged her finger at her husband and daughters, laughing all the while, one of those eerie laughs crazy people in movies laugh. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Lacking any sense of classical psychology, the actor played his halfhuman character as pure movie monster. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the prison movies that provide me with a mental guide to comportment, the new guy doesn’t go around shaking hands and asking, “Hi there, what are you in for?” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pay attention to videos of cats playing pianos, or to which movie star is in rehab, or to who stole who else’s boyfriend. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I just wanted the movie to be about Uncle Billy because he drank a lot and was fat and lost the money in the first place. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The roof of the old movie theater on Main Street had caved in years ago, its screen landing flat in a field of weeds. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

If you’d asked me about Nazi Germany, I would have remembered swastikas on tanks and airplanes from World War II movies. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

On the other side was a closed-down gas station, a tattered billboard for a 1990s movie, and one open business, which was the source of the neon light and the good smell. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn't decide if it were from watching some similar scene in the movies, from books I'd read, or from some recurrent but deeply buried dream. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They listed off the names as if they were talking about the star-studded cast of a movie spectacular, and they frankly didn’t see how Permian could miss a trip to State this season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beer, candy wrappers, old movie ticket stubs, and one soiled pair of underwear had been left on the ground around it as offerings. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It was one of those lofts you see in movies and at parties, the one cavernous nearly-empty room of windows and hardwood flooring, some exposed brick, steam pipes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just before it clicks shut, and I run to it, unaware where I am for a moment, like I’m watching a movie? Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

This was the kind of visit space that movies and television made out to be the norm, with partitions, windows, and telephone receivers, and with both parties anguished because touching was impossible. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least some of the teachers are smart and decide to let us watch movies instead of actually trying to teach us stuff. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I mean, in all the movies and TV shows, the popular kid who ascends from the depths of dorkdom has their day in the sun, and then it’s smooth sailing. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The film crew packs up and leaves Theresienstadt to put their movie together for God knows what. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“And it’s my turn to pick. So this week’s Friday-night movie is Cave of Forgotten Dreams.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

We still make movies and videos, often about children and families. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The prosecutor said that after Marie had given her statements to the examining magistrate, he had consulted the movie listings for that day. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I read every interview and saw all his movies. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

As the movie wrapped up and the lights came on, Barack’s cell phone buzzed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I found her at lunch, in the library, at The Table, the one that, for a few golden weeks in December—after the concert, before the movie—I’d dared to think of as ours. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

That part is awesome, reminds me of big action movies. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“It was a play long before it was a movie.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I think only in movies is horror vocal. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She runs out of the car right when the doors are closing—like an action movie sequence. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I turn the movie back on and watch until the end, and the credits roll and stop and the screen changes. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She looked like a movie star or a genuine country music singer, not the Momma I’d last seen nearly six months ago. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I have never had anyone be as exhilarated about making a movie as I am. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

No one starts a movie and immediately wants to see the credits rolling, so when this is over, I hope he looks back on this and considers it a win. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It was what they call an “art” movie. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

They weren’t into movie stars or old movies. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Like the hero of an action movie, Jule West Williams was the center of the story. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Henry is tall and gorgeous, half royalty, half movie star, red wine lingering on his lips. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“A bunch of people have already seen you. The damage is done. You might as well stay and enjoy the movie.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Images from every scary movie I’ve ever seen run through my head, and my hand almost drops the phone. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Seeing the lobby for the first time feels like I’ve somehow stepped into one of those old black-and-white movies. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Jenny is still staring at me with a scowl on her face, eyeliner drawn around her eyes like she’s a character in a Tim Burton movie. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Sit away from them in the theater and see the movie, too. You’ll be around just in case.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But in my own head I was working it all out: it was a movie scene that became suddenly, terrifyingly real. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first porcelain tub she’d seen outside of the movies. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

No picnic, but a lot better ending to his Nazi parachutes movie than Captain Byron Watson Gets Captured and Burned Alive by the Evil Snake Woman with His Own Flamethrower of Death. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been dying to see that movie since the trailers came on TV. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She does not know how or where to join in when her children are talking about Woody Allen movies or real estate tax laws or somebody’s yoga class. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re not going to be watching movies on the couch when I come home or looking for meteorites in the woods. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The movie theater was just opening for the afternoon show when Victor arrived. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Near the end of the movie, Ana and Javier come into the room, wrapped gifts in their arms. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Not that it snowed much in Little Rock, but I’d seen a movie where there was one once, and the actor clutched the steering wheel so tight, his knuckles turned white. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The party was like a movie—it should have been a movie. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z