Sentences with phrase «better psychological thrillers»

Men right better psychological thrillers (I'm a woman)!

He has now taken a page out of the David Fincher handbook in order to craft a good psychological thriller.

Which is exactly what you expect — and what you want — from a good psychological thriller.

On paper, Unsane certainly sounds like it lands firmly in Soderbergh's wheelhouse; past projects like Side Effects, Bubble, and those twisty Ocean's capers have all played with delayed reveals and unreliable points of view — the stuff of a good psychological thriller, in other words.

This is the best psychological thriller I ever read in my life.

Not exact matches

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).

Always good at deeply internalized anguish and barely masked vulnerability, he convincingly navigates his character through some tricky psychological transitions, maintaining sympathy and credibility even in the film's ramped - up (and somewhat trumped - up) thriller finale.

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.

Writer / director Hugo Blick skillfully walks the hairline between a well - paced adventure thriller and a psychological study that gives us enough time to appreciate the nuances of the character we're watching.

The vivid sense of time and place is the best thing about the initially promising, ultimately irritating psychological thriller Civic Duty.

Kemp launched into print modeling as well, appearing in a widely seen campaign for The Gap, then segued into acting with parts in Stephen Sommers» Victorian - era supernatural thriller Van Helsing (2004) and Renny Harlin's lurid psychological thriller Mindhunters (2005), opposite Val Kilmer and LL Cool J. Kemp deftly merged his ballroom finesse and his dramatic evocations with prominent billing in Jon M. Chu's dance - themed urban drama Step Up 2 the Streets (2008); he played Blake Collins, the proprietor of a dance school who finds his chief proclivity — an utter contempt for street dancing — upstaged by the arrival of a brash and talented young newcomer at his school.

Jeff Fahey, best known as the star of The Lawnmower Man, headlines director David Fairman's supernaturally - tinged psychological thriller Messages.

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.

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.

In this chilling adaptation of the best - selling novel by Thomas Harris, the astonishingly versatile director Jonathan Demme crafted a taut psychological thriller about an American obsession: serial murder.

Enough is a dark - as - night psychological thriller directed by Michael Apted (who's roster of composers is most impressive: as well as Arnold, he's worked with James Horner, John Barry, Maurice Jarre, Mark Isham, Danny Elfman - not bad going).

There are elements of the story that push the believability of Andrew's obsession a little too far, but overall, how Chazelle is able to craft a psychological thriller out of this simple, off - beat premise, is one of the best cinematic accomplishments of the year.

The first half is a well - acted psychological drama, but the second half is standard thriller fare.

Surprises are few and far between in this attractively filmed yet disappointingly conventional thriller that's short on psychological heft — given the set - up and the characters» relationships, the script by Ronald Bass is entirely too timid for its own good.

Critic Consensus: Well - acted and solidly crafted, Disorder (Maryland) relies on patiently established slow - burning tension to set the stage for an intelligent, intimate psychological thriller.

«Nancy, Please veers from a yuppie nesting comedy into a nifty psychological thriller — as well as a dead - on depiction of doctoral - student psychosis.»

The Girl on the Train (R for sexuality, nudity, profanity and violence) Emily Blunt plays the title character in this adaptation of Paula Hawkins» best - selling psychological thriller revolving around a recent divorcee who becomes embroiled in the mysterious disappearance of a former neighbor (Haley Bennett).

Joshua keeps to the psychological thriller genre well enough to distance itself from absurdity and inanity and thereby dismisses some of the annoying cliché of its creepy - child sub-genre.

Before I Go To Sleep is a psychological thriller based on the worldwide best - selling novel about a woman who wakes up every day remembering nothing — the result of a traumatic accident in her past — until one day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.

Directed by Mark Pellington, best known for the psychological thriller «Arlington Road,» this darkly comedic film follows a depressed man, Henry Poole (Luke Wilson), who buys a house in the mediocre suburbs of Southern California.

If you're worried about this film being touted as a «psychological thriller» and not a full - blown horror film, well, boy oh boy, don't you worry.

Based on Cormac McCarthy's best seller of the same name, No Country for Old Men is a messy, modern - day Western overlaid with elements of a psychological thriller.

When I did, I discovered a «psychological» thriller where psychology takes a back seat to all the sex and violence, temptation and betrayal that fuel a good romance novel.

Jake Gyllenhaal delivers one of his best performances as two different characters in a psychological thriller that keeps you guessing and leaves you breathless with its stunning mindfuck of a final shot.

Synopsis: From a producer of FOXCATCHER and based on the novel by New York Times best - selling author Laura Lippman, EVERY SECRET THING is a gripping psychological thriller about the chilling consequences of the secrets we keep.

Chances are good, however, that this psychological thriller will be forever known as «The Secret Steven Soderbergh iPhone Movie,» given the career maverick went low - tech and shot his latest post-retirement project with a lower profile than usual.

A psychological thriller with a horror bent, Still / Born trots through familiar territory, yet mostly succeeds at making its own way through a well - worn genre landscape populated by superior fare.

A 10 - episode, intense psychological thriller based on a best - selling novel and brought to life by executive producer and director M. Night Shyamalan, about a Secret Service agent on a mission to find two missing federal agents, whose investigation only turns up more questions.

Something of an exciting / offensive miscellany ---- this is the man who gave us Basic Instinct (1992) and Showgirls (1995) after all ---- Elle's ingredients include; eccentric extended - family comedy of manners; sophisticated thriller; mesmerizing psychosexual drama; with inescapable ideas of noxious misogyny as well as being a complicated psychological snapshot of a fiercely independent woman.

Opening this Friday at the Screenland at Tapcade, The Endless is an interesting and well - conceived psychological thriller with heart.

That was enough to make this psychological thriller the division's second highest - grossing release of 2006, but its nearly $ 8 million intake was still a tiny blip on the summer box office radar and the unquestionably weak link on Williams» potent annual earnings report (which included modest political comedy Man of the Year and cinema's currently reigning king Night at the Museum as well).

The musical score combined with the familiar songs topped with amazingly subtle (and some not so subtle) effects makes this best described as an artsy horror film meshed with a crackling psychological thriller held together by nightmarish melodrama.

If this fusion of fantasy, psychological thriller and dark comedy brings further attention to Keaton and his considerable body of work, then good.

It also works well with the psychological thriller vibe, giving the whole thing an intimate, unrefined feel.

Although the movie hasn't received much publicity, it has potential as a psychological thriller - and with producer Sam Raimi behind the scenes, the movie could be better than expected.

He was involved in a couple of psychological thrillers like The Watcher and The Gift, as well as more romantic fare like Sweet November and The Lake House, but still had some sci - fi chops with A Scanner Darkly, Constantine, and The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Regular consumers of grisly psychological thrillers will probably enjoy this more than most viewers, although the most savvy among them will probably find Harlin's film to be too heavy on action and emphasis on gore to sustain a good grip on tension.

As we reported earlier this year, Netflix is making a sexy psychological thriller called Gypsy, and who better to helm a project that promises mind games and sex than the director of 50 Shades Of Grey?

Freestyle Digital Media has released an official trailer for an indie psychological thriller titled A Good Dream, the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Mahum Jamal, which premiered at a few smaller film festivals last year.

It is listed as a romantic comedy, but plays more like a dramedy, and has a premise that feels better suited for a psychological thriller.

The Moth Diaries (R for sexuality, profanity, drug use and graphic images) Psychological thriller about the descent into insanity of a grieving student (Sarah Bolger) at an exclusive boarding school in the wake of the arrival of a mysterious new classmate (Lily Cole) she thinks is up to no good.

Loved how the movie skated between a dramatic psychological meditation and a flat - out horror thriller... very, very well done.

That's false advertising, because THE GIFT is actually a smart, well acted psychological thriller that will keep surprising you right up to the end.

He made his film debut in the psychological thriller «Like Minds» in 2006 with Toni Collette and Tom Sturridge and appeared in «The Good Shepherd» in the same year.

I suspect most people are interested in this psychological thriller because it stars Scottish actor David Tennant, best known as a former «Doctor Who.»