Sentences with phrase «as a thriller»

As a thriller writer myself, I like hearing from fellow authors who are enjoying some success, and am always curious as to how they do whatever it is they're doing.

The film works as a thriller, mostly when one is able to forget the actuality of this real - life story and be drawn into the hopes of the men involved.

Even more vital to the film as a thriller, we have a sense that, unlike the protagonists in the original, these characters have an actual chance against the killers.

If it is for light reading such as thrillers and the like, I just get the audiobook.

This very unique film plays as both a thriller and a comedy with loads of action and laughter throughout.

Naturally, as a thriller author, the shadow interests me the most.

Each of these intensely realised, superbly controlled and weighted moments is as gripping as a thriller.

Since the film is being billed as a thriller, it's doubtful that the robot and employee will fall in love and / or trade witty banter.

Some people have even classified Room as a thriller — would you agree?

In the simpler terms of the film's success as a thriller, this focus on strategy helps immensely.

When these two face off onscreen it's as electric as any thriller.

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

This is entertaining enough, if ultimately a little disappointing as a thriller.

It started as a mystery but ended as a thriller.

You might think of your book as a thriller.

Far too slow - paced to work as a thriller and too shallow to properly challenge us as science fiction, this film is unlikely to please many audience members.

CJ is the author of 16 novels, described as Thrillers with Heart.

The book is a Romantica and can best be described as a thriller with added spice.

«Call Me by Your Name» gracefully ushered the gay love story closer to the mainstream, while «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» showily engaged the zeitgeist as a thriller about sexual assault and race relations in small - town America.

The film doesn't come alive as a thriller, with big reveals limping into the light, and resolutions lacking significant punch.

Ethan Hawke continues to prove that no genre is without its merits and no story too daunting as he takes on roles as wildly different as the thrillers of Sinister and The Purge to the dramatic romance of Before Midnight.

Claude Chabrol's «This Man Must Die» is advertised as a thriller, but I found it more of a macabre study of human behavior.

Among the movies showing in town that can be broadly categorized as thrillers, two represent murder and mayhem with particular enthusiasm: the neatly constructed Funny Games, a home - invasion fable playing at Facets Multimedia Center for one week, and the erratic effects vehicle The Beyond, a supernatural horror rerelease screening midnight Friday and Saturday at the Music Box.

A Quiet Place has been marketed as a terrifying horror movie, but it was a pleasant surprise to see the movie more as a thriller that focuses on a family trying to survive and hold on to what's important, while living in constant fear.

Limitless as a thriller simply wasn't exceptional.

Capturing their mission in riveting detail, Bascomb makes this WWII story as exciting as any thriller.

One wishes this had been told as a thriller not a melodrama.

The film works as both a character study about two men trying to manipulate the system for personal gain, and as a thriller in which the line between heroes and villains isn't all that clear - cut.

Touted as a thriller by way of Stanley Kubrick's «2001: A Space Odyssey,» Cuarón had a bitch of a time financing this 3D - shot, effects - driven film until he finally landed with the A-list cast of Sandra Bullock and George Clooney.

The people over at Mashable Studios have given us the movie recut we didn't know we needed: Zootopia as a thriller.

The book MI5 tried to stop you reading is meticulously researched and as page - turning as any thriller.

Missed as a thriller - no suspense really.

Filled with young hotties and a long streak of silliness, but is as genuinely suspenseful as any thriller since Napster crossed the Rubicon.

A veteran London police in spector who's a devout Mus lim is intriguingly at the center of Jag Mundhra's Shoot on Sight, which starts out as a thriller inspired by that city's 2005 Tube and bus bombings but gets bogged down in a family soap opera.

With a mood and setting worthy of a murder story by Jack London, this audience - friendly, atmospheric work could be remade as a thriller, although that's really what it is already.

It's a terrific movie — intelligent, magnificently acted, highly compelling as a thriller, and downright scary in its implications for the corporate - run world of the new millennium.

Too much comedy, and the story falls apart as a thriller worth our investment; too little, and Peele's personality threatens to disappear inside the results.

The Girl on the Roof is definitely a good first effort, and an enjoyable watch, in somewhat the same mood as thrillers like «Hard Candy» and «The Host» are.

Some people might call this a clone of Paranormal Activity, except playing out as a thriller instead of a found - footage tape, and with aliens as the home invaders rather than evil spirits.

This movie is bad enough for non-techies as a thriller, but if you know anything at all about computers the film is nothing less than a brutal assault of stupidity on all of your senses of such magnitude, the government should also crack down on MGM for releasing it.

Arguably my most cherished interview was the face - to - face I had with an energised M NIGHT SHYAMALAN, whom I sat with just as his thriller The Visit was ushering in his career resurgence.

He has directed dramas such as George Washington, All the Real Girls, and Snow Angels, as well as the thriller Undertow, all of which he wrote or co-wrote.

It's a rare, seamless blend of horror and comedy: a stinging satire cloaked as a thriller.

The film has been categorised as a thriller, but its commentary on media is still relevant.

But now that you think about, and as people start to see the movie, it will make a lot of sense, in terms of the tone and twists, as well as the thriller aspect,» the writer said, before adding that «we got really excited, because we knew it was the right choice to make.»

Clearly something went horribly wrong as this thriller was being made, because despite a solid cast, gorgeous locations and an intriguing premise, the film is an incoherent mess.

The book is listed as a thriller and I can see this working since Affleck used a lot of thriller type elements in his directorial debut Gone Baby Gone a couple years ago and I loved that movie.