Sentences with phrase «do in thrillers»

This makes her an important but completely unreliable witness once the young Mrs. Hipwell disappears, leaving behind a trail of secrets, as alienated women are wont to do in thrillers that have Girl in the title.

For the Hit Man Series, I ranked higher in mystery than I did in thrillers, though I ranked consistently higher in action / adventure and science fiction and fantasy.

Not exact matches

This classic disturbing thriller, which highlights a group of circus sideshow acts who take vengeance on their leader when a beautiful trapeze artist does him wrong, was banned in the UK for 30 years and wasn't available in the country until a home - video version was approved in the early 1990s.

One of my friends recommended this book to me because she knows my interest in magazines and thrillers, and I'm happy she did.

We pretend that romantic comedies or naturalistic thrillers set in the present day are more «realistic» than any that require us to remember that we live between immensities, for no more than a fraction of sidereal time in a world that we did not make.

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.

We've had a few properly boring races this season too and it probably didn't help that the last race in Abu Dhabi wasn't exactly a thriller, because that's the lasting impression we're left with of the season - and we all know there were plenty of great races this year.

Two of their losses came against Tennessee; after the second, a 66 — 65 thriller in December, Vols coach Bruce Pearl vowed he would do «everything I can not to schedule them again.»

Juventus and Tottenham played out a thriller in Turin, but one player for the visitors didn't impress the Spurs faithful it seems.

What do a heist thriller, the evolving human diet, water quality, consumer behavior, literature, and Mars have in common?

Speaking of twists on the home invasion thriller, Don't Breathe is everything I love in a summer release.

A24 does horror and thrillers in general some justice, with flicks like «The VVitch» and «It Comes At Night» just to name a couple (sorry in advance if you disagree).

Corbijn isn't making a stereotypical Hollywood thriller, with the stakes spelled out in neon and the loud fight scenes spaced every few minutes, but he doesn't seem to realize there is such a thing as being too vague, and in his efforts to make some kind of art - house / thriller hybrid, he goes too far the other direction and creates a nicely rendered film with no emotional hook.

No, I'll tell you what doesn't help my associating this film with «Pusher»: the fact that it's a thriller that is far from thrilling, and even then, at least this film has the courtesy to bore me in a language that I actually understand.

Yes, there's enough connection with the source's underlying issues of repression and desire to give this reason to exist, but, boy, does Hardwicke labour in getting from fairy tale to would - be psycho - thriller.

Of course, the thriller at least tries to develop this character and tell its story in a more cerebral way than those earlier efforts did.

The premise is right up there with any Charlie Kaufman film (Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Scynecdoche New York), containing so much juicy potential for interpersonal revelations, but the entire set up is thrown away in the third act for a «thriller» movie that came out of nowhere and does nothing but add a period in the middle of the sentence.

So does The Jackal manage to pull off the duty of being a post-Cold War thriller with swatches of action thrown in?

I expect this adult thriller for adults won't do well in audience polling.

In a Hollywood landscape where glossy, mature thrillers are an increasing rarity, Red Sparrow doesn't condescend to the audience, to the point that it becomes easier to enjoy the less you try to untangle its more disturbing plot points.

While that tells you more about its 2013 (in a word: disastrous) than it does about its 2014, Open Road did manage to get a lot of traction with critics last year with its Jake Gyllenhaal crime thriller Nightcrawler.

Much ballyhooed for its on - location filming in and around the United Nations building in Manhattan «The Interpreter» works better as a captivating drama than it does as an espionage thriller due to some sticking plot points that prevent the audience from

It's not that Cleaner is a terrible film, it just doesn't rear back and sock the viewer in the jaw like a great thriller should.

A thriller like this can collapse under too much scrutiny, but in the moment, it does work as a nitty - gritty game of cat and mouse, especially when Shaun does break back into the house and outsmarts the numbskulled intruders.

The final third abandons that tendency in favor of the more generic thriller elements, but that doesn't make the film any less exciting.

When an extraterrestrial spaceship comes crashing down to Earth during the reign of the Vikings, the Scandinavian plunderers get set to do battle with a most unusual enemy in director Howard McCain's earthbound science fiction thriller.

He did several suspense films, including Johnny Allegro and Dangerous Profession, but it was his work on The Window that earned Tetzlaff a permanent place in the memories of filmgoers — a dark, chilling, and suspenseful thriller, based on the fable of the boy - who - cried - wolf, this film, about a young boy (Bobby Driscoll) known for telling tall tales, who witnesses a murder in his tenement building and can't get anyone to believe him, was an instant hit.

Lanthimos has to know what he's doing here, commenting on the lazy symbolism of dread in overwrought thrillers.

He reportedly auditioned for a small part, and though the show's producers did not deem him right for the characterization, they felt so impressed by Eigenberg's presence that they created the character of Steve Brady especially for him, as an extension of his own personality; the plan, again, was to create a sincere, committed, down - to - earth male paramour to offset Miranda's (Cynthia Nixon) cynicism.Though initially intended as a temporary part, the popularity of the character among viewers (and Eigenberg's onscreen chemistry with Nixon) led to Eigenberg's permanent inclusion on the show, as well as subsuquent movies.Circa 2002, Eigenberg expanded into film roles by playing the business partner of Richard Gere in Mark Pellington's underrated supernatural thriller The Mothman Prophecies.

As the latest installment in what has become its own subgenre at this point, The Commuter serves as a fine example of the kind of tightly - coiled thriller that Neeson and Collet - Serra can do together in their sleep.

When the cops don't show enough interest in a drive - by shooting, a pair of grieving mothers take matters into their own hands in «Lila and Eve,» a vigilante thriller with a twist: Featuring an awards - caliber performance from Viola Davis and flavorful support from Jennifer Lopez («Guess I'll get my Tina on!»

Gerald's Game is a nice little thriller that's meant to unnerve its audience, and while it does just that, it's also a tedious experience in my opinion.

A taut, exciting, gorgeously - shot spy thriller that does full justice to the original story while bringing in all the advantages that the TV medium has to offer.

Deliciously witty and entertaining... A first - rate thriller, one that's likely to generate as much word - of - mouth as «Alien,» «Carrie» and «Psycho» did in their time.

Gripping Drama - Fuzzy Politics Kidman And Penn Elevate UN Thriller By Cole Smithey Much ballyhooed for its on - location filming in and around the United Nations building in Manhattan «The Interpreter» works better as a captivating drama than it does as an espionage thriller.

A taut, exciting, gorgeously - shot spy thriller that does full justice to the original story while bringing in all the advantages that the TV

Although Davis did not become a zombie - at least not more so than any other doctoral candidate - his adventures inspired this thriller in which a Harvard researcher, played by Bill Pullman, ventures into the heart of voodoo and witnesses strange and gruesome realities.

It has one sterling high point, when all of the different characters and thriller elements come together on a tense bus ride in Brooklyn, as several different people who's fates are connected together unknowingly sit feet away from each other and Agent Keller, the only one who knows what is happening, can't do anything to stop it.

«The Neon Demon» was a beautiful entirely extremely disturbing thriller, totally hardcore, and the role of Elle Fanning was outstanding, Nicolas Winding Refn did an acceptable job, but from start was exciting until the middle of the I felt intermittent film, sometimes the pace increases and other decreases, but ended in the most disturbing way possible, certainly a hardcore film, a half scale.

It is less interested in, but doesn't abandon completely, the more conventional thriller hugger - mugger, following the mysterious - assassin pattern, also finding time to stalk various murderous ploys and counterploys in a riven emigre community even while the dangerous arrival of the political leader to the U.N. draws closer and closer.

Writer / director Luc Besson directs Scarlett Johansson in Lucy, an action - thriller that examines the possibility of what one human could truly do if she unlocked 100 percent of her brain capacity and accessed the furthest reaches of her mind.

In his new action thriller The Accountant, Ben Affleck tackles a role unlike anything he has ever done before.

While undoubtedly a chilling political thriller in its time — due in part to the eerie parallels to JFK's assassination — the film doesn't quite pack the same punch today.

Both films are post-apocalyptic sci - fi thrillers where the the population of Earth is threatened into nonexistence in a short amount of time, while the survivors do what they can in order to keep from suffering the same fate at the hands of those who have gone rabidly insane — the zombies here aren't the slow, lumbering ones we generally associate with the genre either.

Unfortunately, despite starring popular and normally enjoyable actors like Freeman (10 Items or Less, Lucky Number Slevin) and Cusack (The Ice Harvest, Must Love Dogs), The Contract is a very routine thriller, where an average Joe gets stuck in the middle of a heated battle between cops and criminals, forced to play the hero in order to do what's right and to gain back he respect of his rebellious son.

Blood Diamond (2006) The Academy did give Leo a curt nod for this disturbing thriller about corruption in the diamond trade.

Comedy, sci - fi, horror, romance, adventure, action, drama, and thriller, it covers quite a lot of territory in a short amount of time, and does so with its own sense of style that makes it different from any other film, even if it is an homage film at its core.

Fede Alvarez's horror thriller Don't Breathe has topped the US box office for the second time in a row over a slow Labor Day weekend.

My favorite thing about Gary Oldman is that he's done all of this without ever phoning in a performance, offering the same kind of gravitas to B - movie junk food like Criminal and thoughtful thrillers like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (which earned him his sole Oscar nomination).

FX's new, very scary vampire thriller has as impressive a team behind the camera — Carlton Cuse («Lost») and Guillermo del Toro («Pan's Labyrinth»)-- as it does in front (Corey Stoll, Sean Astin, Mía Maestro).