In this case, "audience film" means one that does not appeal to ordinary tastes, the kind of movie that could use some nurturing in a less pressured setting.
Mr. Lagerfeld seemed to have the time of his life, using moody shades of plum and green better suited for a fall collection, and creating a kind of art-to-wear extravagance that was flagrantly indifferent to ordinary tastes.
The narrator's "depressive universe of fine judgments... is blown away by the tragic vitality of a blue-collar figure of rough insight, ordinary taste and an incapacity for self-delusion," Richard Eder wrote here in 2001.
Although Bernstein had long chided modernist composers for their seeming disregard for ordinary audience taste, he begins the opera with an immaculate twelve-tone row, its halves divided into tonal areas of A major and E-flat minor.
The violent rhetoric was heinous, of course, and went beyond ordinary bad taste.
But overdone halibut with lentils and tough baby turnips had little focus, and exotic-sounding but ordinary-tasting wheels of rainbow trout, served in a bowl of broth, came with honshimeji mushrooms whose crispness was unfortunately cooked out.
But they are worth trying because you probably remember how ordinary shrimp dumplings taste.
But it tasted ordinary, and the accompanying seafood was badly overcooked inside that superheated sauna.
His few friendships with schoolmates and colleagues were almost erotically intense, but even the closest were thwarted by his inability to adapt to the vicissitudes of ordinary life: changing tastes, emotional competition, the troubling tendency of the clever men he knew to acquire dullish wives.
But they taste so ordinary here that we're not interested in eating them.
