The phrase "a function of movies" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the role or purpose that movies serve in a particular context, such as entertainment, education, or cultural reflection.
Example: "The function of movies in society is to provide both entertainment and a means of exploring complex social issues."
Alternatives: "a role of films" or "a purpose of cinema".
When the number of spikes elicited during this Scene was plotted as a function of movie orientation (Fig. 1B, top), the asymmetry of the polar plot was comparable to that from polar plots generated by conventional moving bar stimuli (Fig. S1A, inset).
Theater group NATO acknowledged that the "difficult" winter was "primarily a function of the movies that are in the market".
Is this a function of this year's movies not being good enough, and not garnering the word of mouth, to bring a new crop of filmgoers in the following weekend?
Since American culture, such as it is, is largely a function of television and the movies, we gorged ourselves on newly released movies, scoped out local videotape rental stores and signed up for cable TV.
A lot of people, of course, would be betting on that opening-weekend number, which is more a function of hype than a movie's long-term chances of success.
This is not to blame Potter or Rowling, his creator, but the constant setting of box-office records is a function of changes in the movie business and is not owed to merit or even the popularity of the record-setters.
The slopes of coefficients as a function of radial distance for movie data were, generally, weaker for the inter-run relative to intra-run analyses (compare Figures 6B, 7).
If the speaker is the president of the Motion Picture Association of America, the condition of the movies is a function of the variable that drives all consumer culture (including the publication of novels), which is the return on investment.
d The Whittle estimates for 295 movies as a function of the number of shots (Study 2).
