Sentence examples for a message movie from inspiring English sources

"This wasn't a message movie.

"Deepwater Horizon," however, is not primarily a message movie.

It's a "message movie," one that convincingly rails against the widespread problem of child marriage while raising the question of how effective a message movie can be.

In the end "Twilight's Last Gleaming" is the opposite of a message movie.

Mr. Randolph's next film, "The Interpreter" is less of a message movie.

It's a message movie: about taking things for granted and not always being able to get what we want.

After its energetic opening "The Crimson Kimono" develops into a liberal message movie about a Japanese-American detective (James Shigeta, with his soft, cultured voice) who falls for one of his witnesses, a Caucasian art student (Victoria Shaw).

But it's not a didactic message movie, writes Stephen Holden.

"It felt like a lot of preaching to the choir," said Mr. Johnson, who spoke of the limited ability of a blatant message movie like "An Inconvenient Truth" actually to change minds.

To most Americans, the tale of Dominique Strauss-Kahn probably seems like fodder for a "Law and Order" episode, or maybe a cable-TV message movie.

The writer-director John Waters treats the message movie as a genre to be parodied, just like the teenpic.