Sentences with phrase «as a thriller not»

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

Not exact matches

People haven't begun reading more but they've begun reading, one might say, better: sales of thrillers, romance novels, and fantasy have declined as demand for serious literature has grown.

It wasn't a thriller, but the final stages were certainly memorable as we looked to see who would take the world title.

No, there are not enough pretty pictures to keep you strapped to your seat, unless you're type that reads coffee table books like thrillers, but you are liable to see something incredible if you are willing to invest the time — impossibly old structures standing impossibly, vistas off cliffs just over the side of roads serving as makeshift cycling track with no guardrails.

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The Bulldogs are shooting nearly that well from deep as a team (39 percent), and they've ridden a smooth shooting stroke to success all season, not just in their semifinal thriller.

Unfortunately it is not convincing as a political thriller because politics barely gets mentioned.

The greatest failure is that it is not a convincing political thriller as the director had intended.

The movie works well as an engaging thriller, but don't expect much more than that.

As for the other activities: Books may relax a busy mind (as long as they're not thrillers), but the light from the TV can keep your body in awake modAs for the other activities: Books may relax a busy mind (as long as they're not thrillers), but the light from the TV can keep your body in awake modas long as they're not thrillers), but the light from the TV can keep your body in awake modas they're not thrillers), but the light from the TV can keep your body in awake mode.

A tragically beautiful horror film that works not only as a supernatural thriller but also as a commentary on the failure of man.

As the audience follows the slow - moving battle, punctuated by threats, confrontations and shifting alliances, the Russian - born director sets a deathtrap that snaps in a breathtaking conclusion that plays like slow motion — not the thriller type; even better: a prolonged, torturous finish which is the logical culmination of an explicitly accepted philosophy.

With her role as the epnoymous character in Frida (2002), Hayek disappeared into her subject so convincingly that not only would she return to the good graces of critics, but earn an Oscar nomination as well.Hayek would spend the coming years enjoying superstar status with everything from comedic turns on sitcoms like Ugly Betty (which she produced) and 30 Rock, to meaty roles in dramatic thrillers like Savages.

What makes A Simple Plan an exciting, thoughtful thriller isn't the plot twists, but the twists and turns of Hank's tortured conscience as one lie leads to bigger and deadlier deceits.

A much more restrained Xavier Dolan after his pretentious previous film, and he displays an assured direction and firm control of this suspenseful thriller, even though the narrative seems to move too fast as the characters start to act in ways that are not always convincing.

Even though it ends in violence, Days of Heaven plays out not as a rural thriller but as a delicate study of character and landscape.

Corbijn isn't making a stereotypical Hollywood thriller, with the stakes spelled out in neon and the loud fight scenes spaced every few minutes, but he doesn't seem to realize there is such a thing as being too vague, and in his efforts to make some kind of art - house / thriller hybrid, he goes too far the other direction and creates a nicely rendered film with no emotional hook.

The film is on a fine line between fantasy and thriller with an element of sexual fantasy running through the plot for young teenage girls, nothing strong, think along the lines of «Twilight» teenage angst mixed with «Cursed» or a little bit of «Ginger Snaps» but not as in your face as those films, there is still an enjoyable werewolf film here.

Apparently the only reason anyone can find for watching this is the fact that it is River Phoenix» final film, since it's not only incomplete but mainly sterile and forgettable, unable to be tense or sexy as a provocative thriller and with some serious racist and sexist undertones.

Even marginal thrillers benefit from a director and star who have a sense of urgency and are as hellbent as this on not overstaying their welcome.

The music is superb, the Simon Boswell piano theme is well suited and also suits for the horror genre, I don't really find this as a standard black comedy thriller, it is something like it is ripped off from Coen Brother's Blood Simple, with more of less funny dialogue but I find this a perfect thriller and quite known for its time and still is today because of Channel 4 which is now a popular channel with many sub-channels.

As Anastasia and Christian argue back and forth with only minor variations over admittedly major points of contention — his possessive nature infringing on her charmed career, their disagreement over when to start a family, whether she should remove her bikini top on the beach or not — Leonard's lumpen script zeroes in on a tinny thriller subplot, centered on the violent, mysteriously vengeful stalking of Anastasia's smarmy ex-boss Hyde (Eric Johnson) as the main attractioAs Anastasia and Christian argue back and forth with only minor variations over admittedly major points of contention — his possessive nature infringing on her charmed career, their disagreement over when to start a family, whether she should remove her bikini top on the beach or not — Leonard's lumpen script zeroes in on a tinny thriller subplot, centered on the violent, mysteriously vengeful stalking of Anastasia's smarmy ex-boss Hyde (Eric Johnson) as the main attractioas the main attraction.

Wasn't too sure what to expect with this being based on a children's fable yet filmed as a serious horror / thriller flick, to my pleasant surprise it was quite enjoyable and had a nice gothic almost German expressionist type feel to it that you might expect from directors such as Burton or Gilliam.

Even though it ends in violence, Days of Heaven plays out not as a rural thriller but as a delicate landscape and character study.

A low budget British thriller that is pretty tense and gripping, With some good performances from the cast especially Jack O» Connell, The story has been done before but the whole mystery to it kept it fresh, We all knew how it would end and when we found out who the killer was it wasn't a great surprise, A few gruesome scenes keep it entertaining, It's as good as it ever was going to be.

The end result is a well - intentioned yet hopelessly ineffective thriller that would've been better off with a more talented filmmaker at the helm, as it's becoming all - too - obvious that Berg simply doesn't have the chops to handle big - budget action fare.

Many people list Se7en as their favorite grand guignol murder thriller, so I'm not going to detail the plot.

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

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.

Though Vanilla Sky's sometimes surreal trappings found the film receiving a mixed reception at the box office, the same could not be said for the following year's massively successful sci - fi chase film Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg, or of the historical epic The Last Samurai, directed by Edward Zwick.For his next film, Cruise picked a role unlike any he'd ever played; starring as a sociopathic hitman in the Michael Mann psychological thriller Collateral.

Critic Consensus: A somewhat disturbing movie that works as a suspenseful thriller, yet isn't completely satisfying.

Critics Consensus: A somewhat disturbing movie that works as a suspenseful thriller, yet isn't completely satisfying.

Calling big - screen legal thriller «The Lincoln Lawyer» the best TV pilot I've seen in a while really isn't meant as a putdown — the truth is, there's more good stuff on the tube these days than in theaters, especially at this time of the year.

This espionage thriller is still a fairly conventional network series and not nearly as subtle and complex as «The Americans.»

Harris» feature films for 2004 include the live - action remake Thunderbirds and the thriller Trauma, starring Colin Firth.Though her star was steadily rising in Hollywood, it wasn't until 2006 that Harris would really make a splash on stateside screens; and after supporting roles in Brett Ratner's After the Sunset and Michael Winterbottom's A Cock and Bull Story, Harris took to the high seas for her role as Tia Dalma in the eagerly anticipated summer sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

Never celebrating the kitsch like one of those «90s DTV erotic thrillers with titles like Lethally Blonde, or taking it seriously as a full - on dive into erotic obsession, the results have been tame, mostly poor affairs, not bad enough to be guilty pleasures or good enough to be, well, good.

If you are a fan of crime thrillers, while not as strong as a David Fincher production, this film still stands on it own.

The following year, Garofalo appeared in no less than five films, with a supporting part in the ensemble piece 200 Cigarettes, a starring role as an unconventional action heroine called the Bowler in Mystery Men (which also featured Stiller), and prominent turns in Kevin Smith's eagerly awaited Dogma, Hampton Fancher's psychological thriller The Minus Man, and the satirical comedy Can't Stop Dancing, in which she acted alongside fellow comedienne Margaret Cho.In 2001, Garofolo took on the role of Catherine Connolly in The Laramie Project, HBO's docudrama chronicling the aftermath of the death of Matthew Shepard, and filmmaker David Wain's comedy Wet Hot American Summer.

With the artful and clever concept of little to no dialogue, the film keeps the audience engaged and too scared to make a sound themselves (you don't even wan to munch on your popcorn) Yes, as with many thrillers, there are a few plot holes, but the plot is unique, the acting is good and suspense is palpable.

He reportedly auditioned for a small part, and though the show's producers did not deem him right for the characterization, they felt so impressed by Eigenberg's presence that they created the character of Steve Brady especially for him, as an extension of his own personality; the plan, again, was to create a sincere, committed, down - to - earth male paramour to offset Miranda's (Cynthia Nixon) cynicism.Though initially intended as a temporary part, the popularity of the character among viewers (and Eigenberg's onscreen chemistry with Nixon) led to Eigenberg's permanent inclusion on the show, as well as subsuquent movies.Circa 2002, Eigenberg expanded into film roles by playing the business partner of Richard Gere in Mark Pellington's underrated supernatural thriller The Mothman Prophecies.

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.

As a revenge thriller, the movie is serviceable, but it doesn't really deliver the delicious guilty pleasure of the better film versions.

Liam Neeson, clearly having trouble stepping back from action - thriller mode, isn't brilliant as Felt.

Nonetheless, I found it reasonably entertaining, but it's not the thriller it's being sold as.

A good little thriller which has already been remade by Brian Depalma as «Passion» and whose version I am sure will contain a lot more sex and style.That is not meant in any way to be detrimental to what we have here.

Many thrillers use their characters as nothing more than cardboard cutouts to be put through the motions of the plot, so much so that by the time the plot boils over we don't care, because we don't know who the characters are or why they're doing what they're doing.

But the familiar thriller aspects are nowhere near as compelling as the two women's angry rejection of the unbearable powerlessness they've been told isn't just their lot to bear, but the right way to respond to their grief.

It has one sterling high point, when all of the different characters and thriller elements come together on a tense bus ride in Brooklyn, as several different people who's fates are connected together unknowingly sit feet away from each other and Agent Keller, the only one who knows what is happening, can't do anything to stop it.

But the suspense - thriller «The Interpreter» isn't quite as smart as it thinks it is.

As if audiences needed another reason not to go camping in Australia or really anywhere, Australian horror - thriller «Killing Ground» is fairly effective in that regard, but it has little else going for it.