Sentences with phrase «exercise in the thriller»

As a despairing political allegory about crime and punishment (and how the latter doesn't always go with the former), Sisters is weirdly profound; as an exercise in thriller mechanics, it's limber and energizing, wrapping itself around a wonderfully stupid plot about separated Siamese twins (both played by Margot Kidder, one of whom is, naturally, a psycho killer).

Not exact matches

«The American» is an exercise in style and withheld sentiment, a bleak and atmospheric art - house thriller that's more of an aesthetic experience than an emotional one.

Too muted and pensive to work as a thriller, too withdrawn to be a character study, and too cold to evoke any sympathy, the film is instead a dull and alienating exercise in how to take a strong actor and interesting premise and mostly waste them.

An exercise made by an enormously talented constructor of thrillers in the most fertile period of his career.

A tiring exercise in time - biding sadism (versus wit or suspense), inflated with shock editing, noisy effects and an angry score, like a thriller with road rage.

One of the great low - budget Italian crime thrillers from the 1970s, this suitably grim exercise in economy from Fernando di Leo pulls few punches in its bonkers car chase.

And there's more: Quentin Tarantino's favorite film of the year «Big Bad Wolves» obviously can't help but be overhyped, but as a dark comedy thriller and exercise in revenge, coming later this month, you could do a lot worse (review here).

After twenty years of film - making defined by gritty Batman movies, twisty crime thrillers, and trippy science fiction, Christopher Nolan again re-invents himself with what is on the surface is a gripping war movie, but in actuality an exercise in...

Cleverly shot guerrilla - style in Disney's Florida and California theme parks, this offbeat thriller is an exercise in relentlessly inventive filmmaking, vividly proving that pure imagination can overcome a micro-budget.

Still, those of us who sat through Refn's visually arresting but distressingly empty thriller (aptly described by my colleague Peter Debruge as «an exercise in supreme style and minimal substance») had our worst suspicions confirmed, based on early rumors that «Only God Forgives» had been slotted in competition at the producers» insistence.

Taken as a whole, Gemini is a decent little thriller that's been spruced up by a very impressive Instagram filter; but it's all in service of a genre exercise that never quite hits its mark.

His last two big American thrillers, Prisoners and Sicario, were striking for their cinematic ingenuity and the depth with which they probed the psyches of their central characters in what could otherwise have been humdrum exercises in formula.

Flightplan (Touchstone Pictures) has a routine finish but up to that point is a more than decent thriller — or, given its taut self - containment, a more than decent Hitchcockian «exercise in suspense.»

Rowan Joffé's drizzly, workmanlike thriller Before I Go To Sleep turns a ludicrous premise into a fitfully suspenseful, consistently interesting exercise in audience manipulation.

This is what makes his first and only feature, Martha Marcy May Marlene, such a brilliant exercise in psychological terror, and despite the fact that it's neither a horror film nor much of a thriller, it generates a more foreboding sense of dread than a majority of the most recent entries in either of those genres.

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.