Definition of "arthouse" []

• Alternative spelling of art house. (noun)

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• "Nolan earned the right to make a movie as intelligent and expensive as Inception by grossing Warner Bros close to $1.5bn with Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, both of which can best be described as arthouse movies posing as massive franchise blockbusters."
• "The framework of the film is far more important than the plot, which is a welcome change from a lot of the heavily event-driven tripe that dominates so called arthouse cinema now, cough, cough, My Blueberry Nights cough and once all the pieces are locked into place the movie starts to develop a life of its own as it meanders gently but nonetheless captivatingly through the complexities of postmodern life."
• ""Painfully slow but at the same time a resonant, elegiac coming of age story, the second installment in Turkish arthouse director"