Sentences with phrase «effective thriller»

The more effective thrillers of this variety avoid that temptation as much as possible.

A surprisingly effective thriller that shows off the duo's acting chops but, unfortunately, starts to unravel as it goes on.

The wages of sin, guilt, vengeance and redemption weigh heavy on the characters of «Prisoners,» a spellbinding, sensationally effective thriller with a complex moral center that marks a grand - slam English - lingo debut for the gifted Quebecois director Denis Villeneuve.

It's a smart and effective thriller about a ghost that exploits the comforts of private, digital spaces that we create for ourselves online.

Before he knows it, the young man, who is African - American in a presumptively all - white part of town, instigates the storyline in writer - director Jordan Peele's satirically shrewd, sensationally effective thriller.

Manos Sucias is a taut, effective thriller in its fast moments, but hopefully distributors will see its fine performances and beautifully drawn specificity, and be more tolerant of its non-chase-scene downtime.

A raw, lean and abrasively effective thriller from Steven Soderbergh, which features Claire Foy as we've never seen her before.

Pretty effective thriller, Civic Duty starring Peter Krause is a low budget picture that manages to be entertaining from start to finish despite its limitations.

«Tusk» may boast a weak 40 - percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but it happened to be a very effective thriller with real heart lurking beneath the blubber.

As in his most effective thriller, «The Hand that Rocks the Cradle,» director Curtis Hanson provides some good, creepy moments in the process of slowly revealing to Streep and her family that the somewhat appealing stranger in their midst is, in fact, a psychopath.

At the hands of a master like Hitchcock, who probably would have changed the script into something more plausible, this could have been an intriguingly effective thriller.

Johannes Roberts» effective thriller doubles down on its recent predecessor by placing not one but two attractive women in aquatic jeopardy.

, this is nonethelesss a remarkably effective thriller.

However, whilst the Oscar winning duo are a clear influence here, Jeremy Saulnier has borrowed from their astute palate of colours, to craft his own unique, stunning, and highly effective thriller.

In 2015, Jason Blum (Blumhouse Productions) and M. Night Shyamalan teamed up to create a creepy, effective thriller called The Visit.

If Refn had just rolled with that kind of horror, he might have made an excruciatingly effective thriller.

Four years on, and with a John Woo - directed sequel to compare it to, «Mission: Impossible» feels a little dated but it is a superior story and a genuinely more effective thriller.

Not much, but a bit, luckily there's enough good things going on on - screen that makes up for the bad points, and even with the slight teen feel, Wild Things works well enough to be an effective thriller.

Liman is no stranger to tense, effective thrillers — his last outing was the criminally undervalued Edge of Tomorrow — and on that level, The Wall surprisingly works.

Simplicity can be a helpful thing for an effective thriller — and that, sadly, is an attribute CBS's overwrought, underwatched Hostages (Monday, 10 / 9c) lacks altogether.

The Last King of Scotland is an effective thriller, harrowing when it needs to be, and as a character study, it does shed light on a historical figure known mostly as a villain in the world scene.

The film transforms into something more than an effective thriller.

We're cautiously optimistic that Shyamalan is still capable of making an effective thriller.

Mr. Gavin's quietly fascinating premise — combined with some stellar music, production design, and cinematography — provides all you need for an effective thriller about the power / danger of blind faith, but A Dark Song is also backed by a pair of simply fantastic lead performances.

The film itself, marred by some plot inconsistencies, is an effective thriller with ever escalating suspense.

The last time I saw such a visceral, effective thriller was when Neil Marshall released «The Descent.»

As for Prisoners, director Denis Villenevue makes his studio film debut with an incredibly tense and effective thriller.

Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)-- Rapace's electric lead performance remains the only thing worth watching in the insipid sequels, but in Dragon Tattoo it amplifies an effective thriller.

Using the basic elements of an effective thriller — an ingenious setup and follow - through — the film keeps everything that happens within the possibilities and restrictions it has established for itself.

That was a gripping thriller, and while his English directorial debut, Dead Man Down (2013), was sub-par, we have confidence he can make another effective thriller.

Renner and Elizabeth Olson track a killer during a harsh Wyoming winter in this effective thriller