Sentences with phrase «best of the thriller»

It doesn't measure up to the best of the thriller films, but still provides a fair share of nail - biting moments and nifty double - crosses and twists.

Not exact matches

Like all of his books after Black Robe (his only attempt at historical fiction), it takes the form of a thriller, with a seductively relentless pace reminiscent of Simenon at his best.

That's just an aside, though, to a film that's otherwise a suspenseful thriller with some of the best performances of the year from Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Goodman.

The way many of us view the death of Jesus on the cross is like some poorly scripted «Good Cop, Bad Cop» scene from a crime thriller movie, except now it is «Good God, Bad God.»

In «Passion,» on the other hand, De Palma has taken an ordinary but well - done French thriller, «Crime d'amour» by Alain Corneau, and added his typical doubts about the true meaning of things with a focus on the surface of things.

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.

«Odell is one of the best, most innovative breweries in the nation, and I knew they would love the challenge of pairing a French - style beer to our new French crime thriller THE CONNECTION.»

The 0 - 6, 7 - 6, 7 - 6 thriller over Chang was one of the best matches of the year and knocked Krajicek's world ranking up two slots, to No. 8.

Boston College's stretch - run offensive explosion (36 points per game in the second half of the regular season) still feels too good to be true, and a meeting with the Hawkeyes — traditionally a stylistic kindred spirit — inside a baseball stadium should remind the Eagles of the first - to -14-points thrillers from whence they came.

Baltimore and Cleveland seemed safe topside in the NFL's divisional races, but in the hold some of the best fights in football were raging, as the 49ers and the Lions showed in a thriller in Tiger Stadium

Nevertheless, it is a well - paced thriller which will have certain members of Tony Blair's team shifting uncomfortably in their seats.

Richard T. Kelly's new political thriller The Knives — which follows a fictional Tory home secretary through a blizzard of political and personal traumas — explains this better than anyone in recent times.

It changes the tone of this political thriller as well.

They are always from the point of view of a woman and just good, frightening thrillers.

Unlike previous years, Ghana recorded a lot of new faces on the nomination list; some of whom Included new actor, Joseph Otsiman who got the nod for Best Actor In Supporting Role for his performance in the drama thriller film, The Cursed Ones directed by Nana Obiri Yeboah, who was also nominated for AMAA 2016 Award For Best Director category.

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.

Yet somehow, miraculously, Weinberger has fashioned her material into the best kind of airport thriller.

I would like to learn how to do a lot of things, like how to play tennis properly, program, build a house, start a company, or write a best - selling spy thriller.

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.

In addition to being a health researcher and real foods advocate, she's also a novelist (her book Karma, a psychological thriller set in the disturbing world of sex trafficking, was an award - winning finalist in the «Best New Fiction category of the National Best Book Awards 2009) and a documentary maker (she's currently planning a trip to India which will be documented in the travelogue Searching For The Buddha).

It was more of a thriller than a comedy, which was good.

Two — I am addicted to cuddling up in a blanket with a cup of hot chocolate or tea and watching a good thriller on Netflix.

One of the best thrillers I read decades ago was actually Vine's A Dark Adapted Eye, and I'm not sure how the name fell off my radar in the meantime.

Combining my knowledge of movies and online dating, today I'm bringing you nine films — from rom - coms to thrillers to documentaries — that showcase both the good and bad of online dating, and that can teach us a thing or two about finding love on the web.

It's good to be bad, Taylor Kitsch admitted at Tuesday's premiere of CBS Films - Lionsgate's action - thriller American Assassin.

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The best parts of this tepid thriller, which seems designed to actually lower audience's heart rates, arrive before the plot kicks in.

There are moments of a good movie buried amongst this over the top thriller.

For me, a good thriller film has got to be effortless in delivering a top - notch story that keeps you on the edge of your seat.

«The Shape of Things» marks the last good film LaBute has made (for whatever reason he moves on to goofy Hollywood thrillers like «The Wicker Man» and «Lakeview Terrace» and the embarrassing «Death at a Funeral» remake - one would think those films were from a totally different human all together; my bet is he became a drug addict because no one looses such talent so quickly) but this wonderful, tricky and rewarding series of films is well worth your serious time and attention.

Winner of two awards at the Sundance Film Festival, including Best Screenplay, and created with the close participation of Dr. Zimbardo himself, «The Stanford Prison Experiment» is a chilling, edge - of - your - seat thriller about the dark side of power and the effects of imprisonment.

From top to toe this is one of the best crafted, best acted, most tautly presented thrillers I've seen in a really long time.

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.

It's worth noting, as well, that the thick accents make it awfully difficult to discern what the characters are saying most of the time, which is ultimately the final nail in the coffin for what could (and should) have been a taut little thriller.

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.

First - time writer - director Aimee Lagos» time - skipping thriller ultimately adds up to less than the sum of its parts, but good performances by the youthful cast help compensate for the overly familiar story.

Critic Consensus: The Awakening never quite quickens the pulse the way it should, yet it remains a well - acted and handsomely assembled example of an old - fashioned supernatural thriller.

Note to viewers tired of being psychologically hammered by (even well made) exploitative thrillers that ask one to accept superstition as reality: Just remember the sarcastic Bill Murray in Ghostbusters, reacting to uncanny evidence of demonic forces afoot in the public library: «No human being would stack books like that!»

SE7EN ranks with «The Silence of the Lambs» as one of the best thrillers of the»90s.

This is not Lang's best film of the era, or even his most interesting portrait of paranoia and malevolent forces, but it is a lively thriller with unexpected turns.

Despite good performances, this attempt to intertwine a crime thriller with a love triangle never gels... Fans of Ulee's Gold, Ruby in Paradise, and A Flash of Green are likely to feel disappointed by this decidedly lesser effort.

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.

The ensemble thriller stars Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, and Penn Badgley, and was one of the better reviewed films released this fall.

He made his first appearance in an American film in Victor Halperin's grisly thriller Torture Ship, playing one of the criminals on whom well - intentioned (but quite mad) scientist Irving Pichel plans to perform glandular experiments, but he soon moved up to higher budgeted films from the major studios, although still almost inevitably in sinister roles.

The works of Max Brooks, who wrote 2003's satirical and subversively political, «The Zombie Survival Guide», and 2006's, «World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War», provided the kernels of inspiration for this mega-budgeted horror - action - thriller that mostly makes up its own narrative, independent of much of the book content (jettisoning the first - person account style and most of the events), to make it fit more with the ranks of current, eye - candy loaded popcorn movies than a thoughtful adaptation of the best - seller.

A psychological thriller from the future in which one man (Sinise) faces a disorienting nightmare as he becomes a fugitive from the law, as well as friends and family, all of whom believe he is a danger to humanity.

Entertaining, well written thriller enlivened by strong performances from a superb cast and a decent amount of shocks, though it's slightly let down by a disappointing finale.

This was an awesome compilation of great horror movies as well as some other added clips from sci - fi's and thrillers.