Sentences with phrase «missed as a thriller»

Missed as a thriller - no suspense really.

Not exact matches

As a father tries to scramble and find his missing daughter, «Search» uses all the technological forms of communication to make a taut, tense and terrific thriller.

The film opens on Oct. 21, an this trailer does an excellent job at establishing «Margin Call» as a can't miss based solely on the throwback tone to paranoid thrillers of the 1970s, and that cast.

Hugh Jackman stars as the father of a missing girl in this convoluted crime thriller, writes Peter Bradshaw

Cho gets another opportunity to display his dramatic prowess and endless charisma with «Search,» the thriller from Aneesh Chaganty that shows only what happens on computer screens, as Cho's father figure searches for his missing daughter.

If you're like me then you probably missed her in Julia Leigh's unsettling Sleeping Beauty, but as recently as 2012 she was hailed as Australia's Emma Stone (just google «sarah snook australia's emma stone») for her excessively charming performance in the (otherwise terrible) local rom - com Not Suitable for Children and last year impressed in a small role in the apocalyptic rave thriller These Final Hours.

As everyone knows, I'm certainly not what you'd call a horror / thriller person, but I couldn't miss the opening night film for SXSW 2018, A Quiet Place, directed by John Krasinski.

Part psycho thriller (not ineffective), part examination of the plight of the homeless vet (lunging out of left field), part screwball comedy (stereotypically obvious), and all punctuated with punch lines that can most charitably described as hit and miss.

Small moments, such as Cruise's face when he realizes that all is lost and yet he must continue to lead, elevate this movie to more than just historical thriller sabotage, and all those people who dismissed it sight unseen just don't know what they're missing.

One of the finest reinventions of the action / thriller time - travel genre this year is definitely EDGE OF TOMORROW and if you missed it at the cinema then have no fear, as we've got all the details of the upcoming home entertainment release — as you want this in your collection!

Go for Sisters (Unrated) John Sayles wrote and directed this missing persons thriller about recovering a parole officer (LisaGay Hamilton) who enlists the assistance of an ex-con (Yolonda Ross) she knew as a child and a disgraced, former LAPD detective (Edward James Olmos) when her son (McKinley Belcher III) goes missing in Tijuana.

A searing, riveting drama that plays more like a thriller, his film stars Andrew Garfield as a young man, like so many, evicted from his family home when he misses a few payments.

Also on her radar, as well as mine, are Ari Aster's generational - curse horror film Hereditary (June 8), starring Toni Collette, which terrified Sundance and SXSW audiences; and David Robert Mitchell's missing - girl thriller Under the Silver Lake (June 22), which premieres in the Palme d'Or competition at Cannes later this month.

Don't miss the state - of - the - art special effects as Hill House unleashes its supernatural wrath in this latest thriller from the director of Speed and Twister.

Sony Pictures has debuted the official trailer for Aneesh Chaganty's upcoming thriller, Searching, starring John Cho as a father whose daughter (Michele La) suddenly goes missing.

Director Daniel Espinosa has been hit - or - miss as a filmmaker — he directed the Reynolds - fronted 2012 thriller Safe House as well as 2015's star - studded dud Child 44 — but with Life, it's possible he's embracing the horror genre full - throttle.

As far as thrillers go, it does have its merits, but the misses outweigh the hits in this mediocre endeavoAs far as thrillers go, it does have its merits, but the misses outweigh the hits in this mediocre endeavoas thrillers go, it does have its merits, but the misses outweigh the hits in this mediocre endeavor.

Daft thriller starring Jon Voight as Peter Miller, a young West German newspaper reporter who's investigating the whereabouts of missing war criminals when a Holocaust survivor's suicide leads him to a sinister association that protects former Nazis.

One - sentence pitch: «It's a very classic thriller told in a very unconventional way: The classic part is it's about a dad searching for his missing kid and the unconventional part is that the whole movie takes place on his daughter's laptop as the dad breaks into his daughter's computer to look for clues.»

The Forest (PG - 13 for mature themes and disturbing images) Psychological thriller about a young woman (Natalie Dormer) frightened by paranormal activity transpiring as she searches for her missing sister in the woods at the base of Mount Fuji.

In 2007, film critic Jonathan Romney described Starr's new silent film Theda: «In a 40 - minute black - and - white film Theda British artist Georgina Starr, best known for her series of works inspired by the 1965 thriller Bunny Lake is Missing, pays tribute to this stormiest of divas and undertakes an archeology of gestural art of the silent - era actress (Theda Bara), drawing on the styles of several other now forgotten grande - dames, such as Barbara La Marr and Maud Allan... the film is divided into three parts «prelude», «act» and «epilogue»... but «prelude» is the real coup: in a long single take, Starr runs through the codified expressive repertoire of the Theda - era performer with such precision that any ironic distance evaporate.