Sentences with phrase «audiences squirm»

The artist Laurel Nakadate is a past - master at making audiences squirm by placing herself in emotionally compromised situations, from photographing herself shedding (fake, real?)

While not for everyone, this is a film that gradually reveals just how dark it is and will make audiences squirm with each reversal of who's in control of this chaotic situation.

The director, Miguel Arteta, and the screenwriter, Mike White, who previously joined forces on the movies «Chuck & Buck» (2000) and «The Good Girl» (2002) and the short - lived HBO series «Enlightened,» have a proven knack for making their characters and audiences squirm.

But I do expect any filmmaker who has access to a half dozen of the best actors working today and millions of dollars to execute his vision to give the audience something more than psychological torture for the sake of watching the audience squirm.

Both Kingsley and Hopkins are veterans at playing villainous characters, evil, mendacious men who seem to take pleasure in making the audience squirm with their nastiness.

All I will say is that it left the entire audience squirming and groaning uncomfortably for roughly 2 minutes.

That it takes so much time to get to the first of the battles may leave many in the audience squirming in their seats, promised of blood and destruction as they were by the trailer.

When Michael Madsen, playing the sadistic «Mr. Blonde,» cuts off the hostage cop's ear, the audience squirms.

There's something here to make every member of the audience squirm.

After leaving audiences squirming, the director of Don't Breathe has finally come out and addressed the film's controversial twist.

The film opens with a nasty sequence that will surely have audiences squirming in their seats...

Last is Devin Troy Strother, who is eager to make his audience squirm, and then laugh, and simply to enjoy the art hanging on the walls — because in the end, that is what it's there for.

Not exact matches

This short clip entitled «Rob Bell Comes Clean» made the rounds last week, and although I would wholeheartedly affirm everything Bell says in it, I found myself squirming a bit at the sound of the audience cheering as he spoke.

I squirmed in my seat, but the preview audience loved it.

Audiences most definitely will squirm and wish they were anywhere but in the theater, despite the fact that it features some of Clive Owen's best work and a startling movie debut by the 15 - year - old Liana Liberato.

Unfortunately, the opposite's true for the relatively serious scenes, such as Oz and Heather's vulgar, squirm - inducing attempts at phone sex (when a comedy audience suddenly falls silent, that's not a good sign), and there's an extended urination scene that's surprisingly fetishistic for a mainstream Hollywood comedy.

That edgy original was directed by John Waters, an inveterate iconoclast who has never been afraid to tackle any controversial issue head - on, or in a manner which might cause his audience to squirm in their seats.

Every blink, from vast cornfields to frozen planets, has the aim of making the audience sit agape, popcorn falling between buttery fingers, and yet it hesitates when it comes to the real sublime: not just the vastness of its vistas but the «boundlessness» Kant says makes the rational mind squirm.

This film is a perfect example of suspense, and Hitchcock's preference for telling the audience whodunit very early in the film and letting them squirm.

A History of Violence had most of the audience in my cinema laughing uncomfortably, squirming at the gore, and generally sounded disappointed by the time the credits rolled.

But the film also has moments of intense scenes that may leave younger audience members squirming nervously in their seats, not unlike the underwater yarn, Finding Nemo.

«Some of the most fun that artistically minded audiences can have while squirming uncomfortably in their seats» — AP, with an excellent in - depth interview with William Oldroyd

A third act knife fight is reminiscent of Hitchcock's Torn Curtain, as every puncture wound is felt in the audience's own guts - phantom stabs that make us squirm in our seats.

«Sometimes it's good for audiences to squirm.

Performances on view included a recreation of Bag Piece (1964), with a live performer stretching and squirming on a small stage in a black bag, and a screening of Cut Piece (1964), where Ono sat still, solemnly, as audience members took scissors to her outfit.

At best, the audience merely squirms in their seats while the lucky few in the back dart out.