How to Use high-concept in a Sentence

high-concept

adjective

• The trouble with high-concept films, though, is not the concept but the height.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023
• Wer is the sort of low-budget, high-concept film that’s all too rare these days.
  — EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
• The premise is high-concept, the episodes tightly written and edited.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2023
• And yet, the high-concept design still weaves in nods to its coastal surroundings.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2024
• So what if this high-concept comedy falls a bit flat in the final stretch?
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 July 2023
• The duo said that from the start, there was no intention to create something high-concept.
  — Jamie Lang, Variety, 26 Sep. 2024
• The result is twisty and high-concept and impossible to put down.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• The new show is helmed by the former showrunners of Game of Thrones and surprise surprise, this high-concept drama is in fact very good.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
• The Davies brothers would spend the next couple decades changing labels and the lineup of the band, while evolving their sound with more high-concept albums.
  — Al Shipley, SPIN, 29 Sep. 2024
• Details are being kept locked in a vault but the project as being touted as a high-concept globally set caper flick a la Ocean’s Eleven.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2023
• Retribution is the kind of high-concept thriller that, on paper, must have sounded like a cross between a straight-down-the-middle gig and an easy payday.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2023
• The Last Voyage of the Demeter is a threadbare high-concept story given the high-thread-count treatment — a lovely piece of luxury pulp.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2023
• Others, though, began life with a high-concept premise that either wasn’t sustainable, or was simply a bad idea.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2024
• But the museum’s summer design series served up a kind of low-cost, high-concept silliness that was in short supply in the city even before the layered crises of the last few years.
  — Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 11 July 2023
• Its last foray into movie musicals was the ultra-glossy and high-concept The Greatest Showman.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Oct. 2023
• Second on the list is I Suck, a high-concept YA romance about a man who goes on an online date with a woman who is hiding a dangerous secret.
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 26 July 2024
• Here, high-concept plot elements that might otherwise be lurid emerge as part of the film’s own, singular vision.
  — Dennis Perkins and Chris Bellamy, EW.com, 5 July 2024
• Amazon Prime Video was enthusiastic about the whole package and the prospect of working with Ruben on this high-concept Israeli format.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 4 Jan. 2024
• That’s a heavy load to bear for an amusing, high-concept riff on the family sitcom set in an extremely loose rendition of ancient Greece.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 24 Sep. 2023
• That’s the contrived premise of J.J. Perry’s action-comedy, which even manages to throw some romance into its high-concept mix.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2024
• Each of Kinetic’s relationship shows has a high-concept scheme that becomes a pressure test for the idea of commitment.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 4 June 2024
• While a straight dude in his 40s might not have seemed an obvious match for the material, Garner and Greer credit him with bringing a sense of pathos to a high-concept comedy.
  — Keaton Bell, Vogue, 19 Apr. 2024
• The singer, known for performance-art outfits and high-concept stage productions, sang in a black T-shirt, ripped jeans and minimalist makeup.
  — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2023
• But her digital sleuthing leads to more questions than answers in this captivating high-concept thriller.
  — Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2023
• The legendary animation studio has remained at the top of its game for years because of how its films use their big high-concept ideas to explore fundamental truths.
  — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 14 June 2024
• But sentimentality suits Flanagan, whose florid writing style is well matched by the high-concept ideas explored here.
  — Katie Rife, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2024
• Bailey and Bird become friends, not because of any magical overlap in temperament, but because that’s the film’s high-concept premise.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 May 2024
• The team will also be selling high-concept Scott Adkins actioner Take Cover, which wrapped in early summer this year, and will be presenting a first look at the festival.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2023
• Martin jumped so seamlessly and deftly between bizarre, high-concept joke structures and then playing an alluring melody that turned into a joke.
  — Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2024
• There’s that earworm refrain, followed by formidably declarative verses, a powder keg of a chorus and a high-concept bridge.
  — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Jan 2025