Sentences with phrase «crime flick»

It's a wild indie comedy - turned thriller - crime flick in which the heroine manages to find empowerment during an existential crisis.

The story is good and the videos between missions are cool, like watching a decent crime flick.

Inspired by the Italian crime flicks of the»70s revered by Quentin Tarantino, Milanoir is a pixel - packed action game set in the violent city of Milan.

An interest in France and its colonial legacy may be helpful in getting the best out of seeing this but the equivalent is happening here.It is far better than the 2dimensional British crime flick as it alludes to the ever changing face of France and how one fits in when we all have multiple identities and in fact has some similarities to Michael Haneke's «Hidden».

The two reunite for gritty crime flick ONLY GOD FORGIVES, a revenge thriller that sees Gosling play Julian, an ex - gangster / kickboxer, now living in Thailand after murdering a cop in his native US.

Gangster Squad arrives on the scene a week after Lawless, which is also a hotly - anticipated period crime flick based on real events, that also comes armed with a killer cast.

Milanoir, a game hugely inspired by the works of Quentin Tarantino and the classic 1970s Italian crime flick, is a game deeply concerned with the themes of greed, betrayal and revenge.

The 39 - year - old Man Of Steel actress stars as seductive con artist Sydney Prosser in the 1970s crime flick, but the mother - of - one said she does not have her eye on Oscar glory.

The film was a big hit on the festival circuit last year, and McNairy was courted for a number of massive films, including «Prometheus» and «Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,» before taking something far more interesting: a lead role, opposite Brad Pitt, in Andrew Dominik «s eagerly - anticipated crime flick «Cogan's Trade.»

Last week we featured the stellar white poster for the J. D. Chandor (Margin Call, All is Lost) directed New York City crime flick, A Most Violent Year.

In celebration of Wes Anderson's latest film — the crime caper THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL — we're thrilled to feature a few of everyone's favorite crime flicks of all time!

This film would have looked a lot better in 35 mm film, and 20 minutes or so could have been left on the editor's floor without losing any of the story, but Public Enemies is still a fine film, probably the year's best crime flick to date.

I first saw this gritty crime flick back when I was a mere lad in the 1970s — its original title in Europe (where I was living at the time) was The Marseille Contract, so are we to assume its name was changed stateside to The Destructors to avoid confusion with The French Connection?

It's a streak present in Taxi Driver and fully ascendent in recent efforts like The Canyons and the repulsive, compulsive crime flick Dog Eat Dog.

The versatile Joel Edgerton has carved out a nice character actor resume, bouncing from genre to genre — crime flick Animal Kingdom to the MMA fighting Warrior to the body horror remake / prequel The Thing.

The story, which Wheatley pitches as a muscular crime flick in the spirit of Melville, Hawks, Scorsese and Walter Hill, charts the fallout from a gun - running hook - up orchestrated by Brie Larson in a deserted warehouse.

Tomorrow: Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) reteams with Brad Pitt for the pungent crime flick Killing Them Softly, plus a Takashi Miike musical and the long - awaited feature - length return of Léos Carax, last seen in 1999 with POLA X.

When: October 12th Why: Ben Affleck was perhaps unfairly snubbed by the Academy with his first two directorial efforts (the Boston crime flicks «Gone Baby Gone» and «The Town»), but if «Argo» is even half as good as it looks, they're going to have a difficult time ignoring him this year.

French director Rachid Bouchareb's career - long preoccupation with conflicting cultural values gets one of its more enigmatic workouts in Two Men In Town, a minimalist remake of the not - quite - classic crime flick of the same title.

This forgotten crime flick is notable for having one of the best car chases from an era that also gave us The French Connection and Vanishing Point.

It's an exceptionally strange film, somewhere between a yakuza thriller and a ponderous reflection on the violent childishness of the criminal mind — only finally getting its due when Quentin Tarantino stepped in to offer U.S. distribution and certain themes began to show up in weirdo crime flicks like Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog (which itself culled themes from Branded to Kill and Le Samouraï, the latter of which Beat cited as a particular influence).

If you're looking for a resonating character piece on the complexity of man this isn't going to satisfy your appetite, but if you want a bloody, in - your - face crime flick with a great cast and a unique, adrenalized style than Welcome to the Punch is right on the money.

The cast has been announced for Luis Prieto's English - language remake of Nicolas Winding Refn's 1996 crime flick Pusher.

WHY: Robert De Niro may be choosing better scripts these days, but he's not immune to appearing in bad movies, as evidenced in this direct - to - video thriller that plays like a mix between «Speed» and «John Q.» Director Scott Mann and writer Stephen Cyrus Sepher have created an incredibly predictable crime flick that uses just about every cliché in the book, from the desperate father trying to save his child, to the villain with a crisis of conscience.

It's a contemporary, moving, quiet, beautiful crime flick, starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara.

Another Irish crime flick mixing violence and comedy, In Bruges is the cinema debut of renowned playwright Martin McDonagh.

The Canadian Moyle, whose inauspicious directorial debut was the 1977 tax - shelter crime flick The Rubber Gun, discovered teenagers three years later with his oddity of a second film Times Square and has rarely looked back since.

For a more interesting crime flick also set in Harlem and also directed by Bill Duke, try to track down 1991's A Rage in Harlem, with Forest Whitaker and Danny Glover.

There are many variables transpiring in the gritty, yet grating, urban crime flick Proud Mary that want desperately to embrace themes of unconventional motherly instincts and clichéd street-wise mayhem.

It is to gritty crime flicks what «Unforgiven» is to Westerns.

Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses) directs the February comedy / crime flick Identity Thief, which teams up Jason Bateman (Arrested Development) and Melissa McCarthy (Bridemaids) as a very odd couple: a straight - laced businessman and the outrageous criminal who empties his bank account after stealing his identity.

Everyone struggles here, including first time director John Slattery (Mad Men), who grasps and grasps but can't manage to find a singular vision for the jumbled, lifeless tiny - town crime flick.

It's an uncommonly emotionally complex modern crime flick, full of morally ambiguous characters and complete with a haunting downer ending that most Hollywood movies wouldn't dare touch.

Set in Trump country, a blue - collar South of lost jobs and broken dreams, it's a terrific, twisty, funny - as - hell crime flick about so - called hicks who decide that making America great again starts right at home.

From The French Connection «s legendary, still unbeaten car chase to To Live and Die in L.A. «s pure»80s Wang Chung - scored soundtrack, these two crime flicks help define the genre in their respective decades.

It felt like a crossbreed between a Guy Ritchie mystery and a Quentin Tarantino crime flick, just without the gratuitous violence.

Shaggy facial hair, pointy shirt collars and leather pimp jackets are on parade in «Free Fire,» Ben Wheatley's retro - hip crime flick.

Another day, another awful British crime flick.

And in a complete gear change from period crime flick and fantasy, Yates will also eye an adaptation of «This Is Where I Leave You» by Jonathan Tropper.

The Film Noir Foundation's Eddie Muller introduced the film, noting that it was less a crime flick than an effective portrayal of the plight of the poor and downtrodden.

Despite a few odd storytelling choices and inconsistencies, Criminal Activities is a fun, if sometimes tonally uneven, crime flick.

If they'd ever seen a crime flick before most people could probably guess what's keeping him awake.

He wrote a remake of Korean crime flick «Die Bad» for Marc Forster, adapted comic book «Sleeper» for Sam Raimi and Tom Cruise, and penned another crime flick, «Buried,» that «Little Children» director Todd Field was considering at one point.