Is "B-Movie" a redundant term?

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In this week's New Yorker, David Denby calls The Cooler a B-movie, and seems to use this idea as an apologia for the film's supposedly overblown dialogue and genre elements. I still take this to mean that the film is a piece of entertainment to hold our attention while we wait for the main feature. Is this a somewhat reductive way of looking at film or has the B-movie become a genre in its own right, the exclusive domain of the more "generic" films derived primarily from comic books and crime novels?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Ebert's theory of modern day B-movies, courtesy of your new favorite film.

― Leee Majors (Leee), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...

OMFG "The Cooler" is like the role Macy was born to play and takes the loser surrealmagicalism conceit to places Lynch only brushed against in Wild at Heart in terms of aching romance, mysticism and deceit, and a fairytale ending.

Maybe I was just drunk but this was one fuck of a movie. All in the subtle acting and the tone of the direction.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 1 August 2004 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)

the lighting. its the lighting. yuo can see every wrinkle on everyone because the lihgt is coming from straight above mostly. stresses everyones age and vulrenability which is somethign an a-movie would never dare i guess. realy adds to the movie.

― :|, Sunday, 1 August 2004 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

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