Sentences with phrase «caper movie»
A "caper movie" is a type of film that focuses on clever and entertaining heists or schemes. It often includes a group of characters working together to pull off a daring robbery or mission while adding humor and excitement to the story. Full definition
Earlier this week THN were treated to a screening of HORRIBLE BOSSES (read the review here) a brilliant and absurd caper movie about three...
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A star - driven, globe - trotting exercise in finely crafted absurdity, this glossy thriller is a throwback to the glory days of caper movies like TOPKAPI and ARABESQUE, with a healthy dollop of THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR.
Mostly set in contemporary England, but aiming for the zingy retro feel of a vintage Peter Sellers or Terry - Thomas feature from the Swinging Sixties, «Mortdecai» is an anachronistic mess that never succeeds in re-creating the breezy tone or snappy rhythm of the classic caper movies that it aims to pastiche.
Cobbled together out of hundreds of undercover / caper movie clichés, Sleeper Cell is so absurdly detached from the real world, it makes 24 look like a documentary.
Racer and the Jailbird, the inelegantly translated title of «Le Fidele,» is a first - rate caper movie.
Almost magically, «The Walk» transforms itself into a beguiling caper movie, full of comic energy and nimble ingenuity.
Any self - respecting period piece, historical drama or even caper movie - and The Debt is all three - balances issues of global significance with interpersonal drama.
Muppets Most Wanted, originally called «Muppets Again» (and even referred to as such in the first song, «We're Doing a Sequel»), acknowledges that it's technically the seventh sequel to The Muppet Movie, but not that it's their second European caper movie.
Here, Loach's film takes an abrupt turn from his customary gritty social realism to gently zany caper movie.
F. Gary Gray's «The Italian Job,» on the other hand, is nothing more, or less, than a slick caper movie with stupendous chase scenes and a truly ingenious way to steal $ 35 million in gold bars from a safe in a Venetian palazzo.
A sci - fi caper movie about an inventor who drafts a thief to steal a knockoff of his shrinking technology before it falls into the wrong hands, it feels a world away from the cross-cut planetary peril climaxes that have become the studio's default mode.
But making layering the tropes of the «Don't Stop Me Now» scene in Shawn over a whole caper movie does not impress.
Known for crime caper movies a la the «Ocean's» franchise, Soderbergh has again crafted a highly entertaining and elaborate heist plot based on the rookie writer's conception, «Logan Lucky».
The British caper movie is given a stylistic rehaul and a metaphorical reevaluation in Sexy Beast.
Part romance, part high - octane caper movie, this long - shelved dud wastes its leads (and Sir Ben Kingsley and Sir Anthony Hopkins)
A throwback to the days of old - school caper movies like «To Catch a Thief,» Duplicity is just the kind of sophisticated amusement you would expect from filmmaker Tony Gilroy.
Then, boom, we're in a medieval Londinium - set caper movie which recasts Arthur (Charlie Hunnam) as another of Ritchie's street - smart geezers on the make.
Another film of Spike's that has something to say, married to a marvelously entertaining caper movie.
«Mortdecai» is an anachronistic mess that never succeeds in re-creating the breezy tone or snappy rhythm of the classic caper movies that it aims to pastiche despite a heavyweight cast and and the solid directing skills of David Koepp.
The film has the same breezy feeling as Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven, being a caper movie where, even as things go wrong, there's never a pressing sense of danger.
Ridley Scott, the director of Blade Runner and Gladiator, Cormac McCarthy, the author of Blood Meridian, and Michael Fassbender, Hollywood's man of the moment, have pooled their talents to make a caper movie about a million - dollar drug deal gone wrong.
Filmmaker James Marsh uses standard documentary techniques, combining new interviews with a satisfying pile of footage and photographs, but his film has the suspense of a caper movie.
The graphic novel reads a bit like a caper movie, with a colorful cast of characters chasing after a mythical flower, the rainbow orchid of the title.