Sentences with phrase «as a thriller about»

«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.

Although Red Sparrow advertises itself as a thriller about a Russian agent trained in the art of seduction, the truth is less glamorous.

Not exact matches

About four years ago, Lionsgate announced it was planning to remake «American Psycho,» the Wall Street serial killer psychological thriller that boasted a star - making turn by Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman.

«Ready Player One,» director Steven Spielberg's science - fiction thriller about a grim world where people seek escape through virtual reality, opened as the top film in North American theaters, delivering the first No. 1 debut this year for Warner Bros..

He decided to write a novel about them, as well, and in 2000, Bantam published Deep Sound Channel, a thriller about a war fought in the South Atlantic in 2011.

There might be purists who'd argue that what Crichton writes are better classified as techno - thrillers than works of science fiction, because drawing petty distinctions is what being a purist is all about.

How the marine protected area (MPA) in the British Indian Ocean Territory came about reads like the makings of a thriller, as described by Fred Pearce (27 September, p 26).

Five years ago, Ebola was best known to many Americans as the subject of a non-fiction thriller about long - past outbreaks in the jungle.

ABOUT BLACK SWAN: A psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet, BLACK SWAN stars Natalie Portman as Nina, a featured dancer who finds herself locked in a web of competitive intrigue with a new rival at the company (Mila Kunis).

Both actors play a convincing cat - and - mouse game, with Franco offering a riveting courtroom testimony as the script transitions into more of a low - key legal thriller about redemption for each man.

Synopsis: Described by director Adrian Lyne («Fatal Attraction») as «an erotic thriller about the body language of guilt.»

Director Ron Howard brings his usual light touch to the proceedings and manages to hold the viewer's interest even through the narrative's oddly action - packed final third (ie once the truth about Hannah's character is revealed, the film becomes more of a thriller than a cute little romantic comedy and there's even a chase sequence as the army attempts to capture the mermaid / woman).

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.

A mystery of deceit, sex and greed as unpredictable as a hungry gator, this is the swamp - steamy thriller about two high school students, the guidance counselor they accuse of rape and the detective...

Driftwood is presented and promoted as a horror movie with psychological elements, and while this is true, it undersells what is an effective psycho thriller, less about gore and horror, more about story and character.

Shannon followed it up with a memorable contribution to Oliver Stone's World Trade Center — as a military man desperate to help in any way possible during the 9/11 tragedy — and Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), a crime thriller about two brothers who team up to rob a jewelry store.

After hearing about this online I was wondering how an all German language spy thriller could ever play out in North America, I would watch it but I know a lot of people who switch stations as soon as they see a sub come up witch is to bad.

Psychological thriller about an English couple who are invited to a strange villa where nothing is as it seems.

Certainly, there's a subversive European flavour to Pearce's ambitious Brit - pic that keeps us guessing about its characters» motives as it slides between genres (melodrama, crime thriller, beastly chiller) with ease.

While the film touches upon its various political and cultural issues (In addition to the give - and - take relationships between reporters and politicians, there's a lot about the overt and subtle sexism that Kat receives as the first and, at the time, only woman serving a newspaper publisher), the film plays mostly and best as a race - against - the - clock thriller of sorts, in which the obstacles are as imposing as the might of the U.S. government and as low - key as deadlines or being beaten to a story by a rival paper.

While The Interpreter doesn't have as dynamic characters and it's slower paced, they are both thrillers about assassination plots, the Secret Service, and political intrigue.

This is a fantastically spun tale which starts out as a bleak expose about death for cash, which forms into a story of friendship, but delves back down into revenge, reemerges for justice and redemption, and then turns into a cat and mouse thriller for a while until unraveling into a blood - thirsty mess of explosions and bullets before finding its ending.

Screenwriters William Nicholson and Michael Hirst care little about re-creating political history as it was, but relish shooting for the Barbie doll moments in the royal court and the occasional cloak - and - dagger thriller moment (the soon to be beheaded scheming Catholic Mary Stuart, Queen of the Scots (Samantha Morton), passing notes from her prison cell to approve the assassination attempt on cousin Elizabeth), and in keeping all the scenes with the athletic looking Raleigh intentionally playful and sexually inviting.

You Were Never Really Here This grim, artful New York crime thriller about a tormented thug - for - hire (a rivetingly contained Joaquin Phoenix) confirms writer - director Lynne Ramsay («We Need to Talk About Kevin») as one of the most exciting and exacting film stylists of her generaabout a tormented thug - for - hire (a rivetingly contained Joaquin Phoenix) confirms writer - director Lynne Ramsay («We Need to Talk About Kevin») as one of the most exciting and exacting film stylists of her generaAbout Kevin») as one of the most exciting and exacting film stylists of her generation.

Warner Brothers, which is marketing the film as a conventional thriller, recently overruled the producers» desire to show it in European festivals so that the studio could open it wide (in many theaters at once) and cash in as quickly as possible on the name value of its cast before word - of - mouth about its depressing subject matter could kill it.

The Post, on the other hand, runs just 115 minutes, moving along at a brisk pace that often makes it feel like a taut thriller as much as a drama about journalism.

Although at first i wasn't sure if i wanted to watch this movie as it is about ballet even if it is a psychological thriller, however it truly won me over, i think Natalie Portman delivers a stunning and top of the form performance that is truly worthy of the oscar.

What surprised me about the movie is that it's not as much of a thriller (although it delivers scares aplenty) as it is an exploration of grief and human nature.

Although 2000 AD starts out as a routine potboiler espionage thriller of little significance, it gets supercharged about halfway through into an exciting actioner worth watching.

Of the world premieres, the major gets for Toronto include Freeheld, Peter Sollett's LGBT drama starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page; Stonewall, Roland Emmerich's drama about the birth of the gay rights movement; Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van, which is rumored to feature an awards - worthy performance from Maggie Smith; Jay Roach's film Trumbo, starring Bryan Cranston as the famed Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted in the 1940s; Terence Davies's anticipated follow - up to The Deep Blue Sea, Sunset Song; Charlie Kaufman's first stop - motion film, Anomalisa; and Eye in the Sky, Gavin Hood's thriller about piloted aircraft warfare, starring Aaron Paul and Helen Mirren.

We can continue to wax poetic about the psychological thriller (as with Side Effects), and how Danny Boyle attempted to materialize it on screen with this film, whether it was good or bad.

Director Anton Corbijn talks about the challenges of casting someone as well - known as George Clooney in his new thriller and about the progression from his Joy Division biopic

But for me the dullest and most timid aspect of this year's Oscar list is its almost ignoring Tom Ford's brilliant, ruthlessly provocative thriller Nocturnal Animals, a double - narrative about an unhappy art dealer (Amy Adams) who gets the manuscript of an unpublished novel through the post from her estranged first husband (Jake Gyllenhaal), and the action of this explicit crime thriller is dramatised as she imagines it, with this very ex-husband pictured in the lead.

As I sat across from Jessica Chastain and Jason Clark to discuss their roles in Kathryn Bigelow's «Zero Dark Thirty,» the uncompromising thriller about the military's efforts to unearth Osama Bin Laden was -LSB-...]

Thankfully, we don't have to worry about it, but Taissa Farmiga might, as the pair have signed on for a new thriller project called Mindscape.

Director Joe Wright's follow up to The Soloist (2009) is an eclectic action thriller featuring Saoirse Ronan as a sixteen year old trained killer searching for answers about her past.

If the opening intertitle didn't reveal the fact that The House of the Devil was going to be dealing with the occult / Satanism the film could just as well stand on its own as a psychological thriller about a girl working herself up into a paranoid frenzy over creaks on the floorboards.

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.

The film works on multiple levels — as a supernatural thriller (though explicit paranormal elements are limited to a hallucinatory dream sequence and the final shot of the baby's eyes), as a psychological thriller about a paranoid pregnant woman who imagines herself at the centre of a conspiracy, and as the last word in marital betrayal, since the most despicable villain here is surely Guy, who allows his wife to be raped by the devil in exchange for an acting role.

According to Deadline, Vikander will take on the lead role in Freakshift, which they describe as «an all - guns - blazing action thriller about a band of misfits who hunt down and kill nocturnal underground monsters.»

All the Money in the World A first - rate thriller from Ridley Scott, about the Getty kidnapping in 1973, the film is highlighted by terrific performances from Michelle Williams as the victimâ $ ™ s mother and Christopher Plummer (a last - minute re-shot substitution for Kevin Spacey) as the tightwad billionaire, J. Paul Getty.

And while there are a number of strong sequences sprinkled throughout (eg Cole talks to his mother (Toni Collette's Lynn) about her own deceased parent), The Sixth Sense's funereal atmosphere ultimately lessens the impact of the much - vaunted climactic twist and it is, in the end, clear that the film doesn't entirely work as either a drama or a spooky thriller - with the movie's mild success due mostly to Shyamalan's considerable talent and his ongoing ability to wring top - notch work from folks both in front of and behind the camera (ie this is an exceedingly handsome production, undeniably).

Molly's Game (***) Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, The Social Network) marks his directing debut with this tense crime / drama / thriller about Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain), a young woman who turns a job as a personal assistant to an obnoxious young boss into a proprietor role, organizing high - stakes Hollywood poker games that make her wealthy and hounded by the FBI.

If you look up the crime thriller «Dark Crimes» online, you'll find that it's listed as a 2016 film, which is curious considering Jim Carrey headlines it and no one really knew anything about until recently.

I've never seen an episode of MI - 5, but I've seen my fair share of spy - action - thrillers, and this one is about as middle of the road as you can get.

Joaquin Phoenix won Best Actor at Cannes for his role as a brutal enforcer out to rescue a teenage girl in this thriller from the writer - director of We Need to Talk About Kevin.

Cool rationale over tired melodrama and methodical storytelling as opposed to cheap set pieces are the key factors in Steven Soderbergh's docudrama - thriller Contagion, a disturbingly realistic movie about a relentless viral outbreak that may do for sales of hand sanitizer and surgical masks what anthrax did for duct tape and plastic sheeting in the early... Continue reading →

As the story progresses, the film also shifts strangely from a riveting exploration of a power couple with a pioneering spirit to a more melodramatic thriller about corruption and murder.

Directed by Joe Roth, Freedomland is a thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson and Julianne Moore, about a woman whose young son is kidnapped as she drives through a predominantly black neighbourhood, and the extreme unrest that is generated when the predominantly white police spend far more resources trying to solve the case than they ever spend on crimes in which black people are the victims.

As reported by Deadline, Lily Collins has signed on for the «highly coveted role» of Elizabeth Kloepfer in Joe Berlinger's Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, And Vile, a thriller / biopic about serial killer Ted Bundy.