Sentence examples for movie serves from inspiring English sources

At the very least the movie serves as a crisply outlined tutorial on Greek mythology.

At the very least, the movie serves as a call for such additional historical research.

She makes a pleasant, bland presence, and in her fondness for Fogg the movie serves up a tablespoon of romance.

This movie serves best as a tutorial on what happens when the genre is botched: It fails to deliver a single story worth caring about.

The movie serves as a renunciation of the What-Makes-You-So-Fabulous celebrity cover articles that serve as Vanity Fair's specialty.

The movie serves up morsels from Suleiman's family history, the more fragrant with irony the better, all of them stirred in with the barely digestible history of his homeland.

The Hollywood angle brings lightness and levity into the movie, serving as comic relief that Mr. Affleck uses contrapuntally with the increasingly tense, perilous situation in Tehran.

Then there were the visual and narrative experiments of Mr. Hopper's "Easy Rider," his directorial debut, on which his friend, the avant-garde filmmaker Bruce Conner ("A Movie"), served as an editing consultant.

The cast of "Ring of Fire," a two-part disaster movie served up by Reelz on Monday and Tuesday, deserves credit for putting some effort into the film rather than sleepwalking through it, as actors often do in these collect-a-paycheck jobs.

Since opening this summer, Nitehawk, the latest in a small but growing group of theaters offering dinner and a movie, served a menu created by Saul Bolton in the theater seats and at the cafe behind those seats, but drinks are available in the cafe only.

When it was decided to spin off a feature-length animated film from the series, the decision was also made that the movie serve as a kind of prequel intended to introduce its squeaky-voiced little-girl superheroes to a wider audience unfamiliar with the series' in-jokes and mildly subversive humor.