Sentences with phrase «drama than thriller»

While there are the occasional flashes of violence, including a quite graphic rape scene, most of Rage is more a drama than a thriller and even the presence of Ken Watanabe was not enough to bring me fully into this long, slow, and sometimes confusing film.

More drama than thriller, the movie does a slightly better job with period detail than with character building.

Not exact matches

The gunplay (what little there is), is done well, and even though the film is more style than substance, and could stand to be trimmed up greatly, it's a thinking man's drama / thriller, and not a blockbuster action film.

But there were also numerous duds, including animated family film Free Birds, drama Out of the Furnace, and thriller misfire Paranoia, which all finished in the red (some in more ways than one, judging from those scores).

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

In fact, the human drama of Lincoln is often less compelling than its political plot — which, even given its on - the - record outcome, becomes a gripping political thriller at its peak.

Not merely a documentary portrait, but an engrossing drama with more twists and turns than your average thriller.

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 thriDrama - 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 thridrama than it does as an espionage thriller.

Part political thriller and part gritty action drama, this was a more subtle and complex experience than I was expecting.

This tale of a software writer who discovers the success of his Bill Gates - like boss and menor may be based more on treachery than talent, is unfortunately degenerates from topical drama to ludicrous thriller.

«Man on Fire» wants to be more than an ordinary kidnapped - child drama, and more than an ordinary revenge thriller, and I think it succeeds.

Rather than try to take on Matt Damon in space, Focus surveyed the release calendar and wisely moved «London» to Jan. 22, 2016, where it will go up against a faith - based movie starring Tom Felton, STX's low - budget thriller «The Boy» and the Kevin Costner - Ryan Reynolds crime drama «Criminal.»

Even though it has some very gritty, brutal action scenes, it is more of a thriller (or drama) than anything.

The film shifts between thriller and drama, and it might have been better if it had gone for one or the other, rather than straddling both with only a modicum of success.

For top dramatic pictures, the selections made by the HFPA's fewer than 100 voters were the historical drama «12 Years a Slave»; the Somali piracy thriller «Captain Phillips»; the 3 - D space spectacle «Gravity»; «Philomena,» about a mother's search for her son; and the car racing film «Rush.»

For a thriller about cannibals, this Mexican film is more of an unsettlingly violent drama than an all - out horror movie.

It seems fairly obvious what roles each thesp will take with the promise of a character driven period drama featuring the two highly exciting considering what Crowley was able to do with «Boy A.» We're not familiar with the source material, but it sounds more melodrama than her usual thriller (the author, of course, was the writer of «Strangers On A Train» and «The Talented Mr. Ripley «-RRB-.

Yet, the film plays out with little sense of requisite suspense that made the first Psycho such a great film, and many of the scenes, including the murders, play out as if they were made for a psychological drama, rather than in a scary horror flick or tense, nail - biting thriller.

Hawkins» novel is arguably a better drama than it is a thriller, and the same could be said of Tate Taylor «s adaptation.

Despite its attempts to construct itself as a crime drama and psychological thriller, rather than exploit a pontificating agenda to appeal a more balanced audience, Captive remains an unsatisfactory account of a notorious real - life event that made headlines around the world, owing to the phenomenal spiritual awakening of a cold - blooded murderer and rapist.

Was more of a drama than an espionage thriller IMO.

For this latest episode of Film Club, A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky return to Farmhouse Tavern to talk about three excellent smaller films in theaters or coming soon to them: Richard Linklater's»80s campus comedy Everybody Wants Some, now in theaters everywhere; the smart, moving family drama Louder Than Bombs, which opened in select theaters today and will expand in the coming weeks; and the forthcoming punk - rock thriller Green Room, which begins its theatrical release next week.

Putting the «mental» in «environmental,» the not - screened - for - critics «Geostorm» is less a scare picture about ignoring climate change than a cautionary flop about trying to do too much in conjuring a perfect storm of genres: end - of - the - world porn, save - the - world triumphalism, space adventure, political thriller, family drama, and workplace romance.

Though it is a thriller at heart, and does have a high - speed driving subtext, the film feels more like a throwback to the music video stylized, R - rated crime dramas of the 1980s than the new Fast & the Furious over-the-top, CGI - infused modern action - thrillers.

If anything, Banker feels more like a psychological thriller than a character - driven crime drama.

Soderbergh makes a more than impressive debut, as a writer and as a director, and crafts a one - of - a-kind drama that grips you like no Hollywood thriller could.

That sense of restraint is completely lost on director Paul McGuigan, better known for crime thrillers like Lucky Number Slevin than romantic dramas like this one.

Villeneuve isn't returning, but new director Stefano Sollima has more than enough experience in gritty, political crime drama to deliver a taught, hard - nosed thriller worthy of the original.

That doesn't make any more sense than including films which are more drama than horror, more thriller than horror, and more action than horror.

Like Happy Death Day, many of the year's highlights, which toyed with or injected life into often - tired subgenres, came in smaller packages, such as the home - invasion thrillers Better Watch Out, The Babysitter (another Netflix original), and Jackals; the clever zombie - in - the - desert flick It Stains the Sands Red (much better than the silly cannibal - in - the - desert - flick The Bad Batch); the flesh - eating family drama Raw; the blood - sucking confused - teen drama The Transfiguration; the sci - fi / fantasy / horror hybrids The Void, The Untamed, and The Lure, which also had elements of the musical; and the ultra-disturbing tale of youth Super Dark Times, about the unraveling of a group of friends after the accidental killing of a classmate, which offers a significantly more satisfying experience than It.

Based on Janet Fitch's best selling novel of the same name, White Oleander plays more like a four part drama on life - lessons than as a cohesive, conventional thriller.

Less a straightforward horror film than a heartbreaking psycho - thriller, Rumley has frequently cited the films of Nicolas Roeg as an inspiration and that influence is felt both in its shrewdly executed aesthetic strategies and the near stifling intensity of its central, unfolding drama.

Genres like women's fiction, some literary fiction, and relational dramas all have much more processing time than a suspense thriller.