Sentences with phrase «gripped in suspense»

Which means that somehow director Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, 10 Cloverfield Lane) keeps the audience gripped in suspense for nearly two and a half hours largely with facial expressions, minimal dialogue, a sparse but hard - hitting score, and stunningly beautiful cinematography.

Not exact matches

But if taken in the spirit in which it is intended, it's a gripping piece of low - key suspense.

De Niro's performance begins to seem more a matter of well - practiced gestures than real conviction, and the long, silly finale more an exercise in empty panache by director Tony Scott than a truly gripping suspense piece involving people we care about.

An efficient prison break movie that manages to be tense and gripping, even though there is nothing really memorable about the plot and it doesn't even make any attempt to conceal its artificial and clearly manipulative efforts to create suspense in many key scenes.

Given a good basis for a thriller in the Patricia Highsmith novel and a first - rate script, Hitchcock embroiders the plot into a gripping, palm - sweating piece of suspense.

Boxoffice Magazine finds it to be a «smart, crafty suspense - laden picture,» and, in its A - review, The Playlist calls it «a gripping nail - biter, superbly suspenseful and yet occasionally light on its toes.»

«Academy Award ® winners Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush join Academy Award ® nominee Clive Owen in a gripping historical thriller full of suspense, intrigue and adventure!

As paramedic Nick Malloy, Orton jumps into overdrive in this pulse - pounding, thrill ride filled with gripping suspense!

In the grand tradition of Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice, Five Miles to Midnight weaves a constantly tightening web of suspense that grips the viewer by the heart and doesn't let go until the final frame.

The film concludes in a more conventional manner, perhaps, than might be expected, in that it's a flight to freedom — or maybe a fool's errand — but remains gripping and tense, balancing suspense and narrative drive with emotional entanglement and an unerring sense of dread.

The emotionally and physically charged lives of three people - a college professor (Sean Penn), an ex-con (Benicio Del Toro) and a young mother with a reckless past (Naomi Watts)- collide unexpectedly in this gripping suspense thriller.

This is a good film, solidly innovative in technology, entertaining in plot, and reasonably gripping with suspense.

Mary Higgins Clark, America's «Queen of Suspense,» delves into the mystery of psychic powers and communication with the dead in her gripping new thriller, Before I Say Good - Bye.

Her use of language and suspense is captivating, resulting in a gripping tale that is wholly original.

Gripping, insightful, and lyrical, A Small Indiscretion announces the arrival of a major new voice in literary suspense as it unfolds a story of denial, passion, forgiveness — and the redemptive power of love.

Every Fifteen Minutes, best - selling author Lisa Scottoline's latest page - turner, effectively draws readers in at two levels, both as gripping psychological suspense and as a vivid look into the tangled realms of the heart.

Love and marriage Parole officer Anna Langtry must confront her own past in order to help clear Joe Mackenzie of the bank embezzlement he never committed in Jasmine Cresswell's gripping new romantic suspense, The Third Wife.

Author Morris Fenris has done it again with a captivating series that is packed full of romance, suspense, and twists and turns that will keep you gripped to the last page.This box set contains all three books in the series.Katherine Waring is a woman with a tragic and cruel past.

One woman is trapped in the death - grip of the past — and every one of its dark secrets — in this riveting novel of psychological suspense from the award - winning author of The Sisters and...

The Metro series in my opinion are among some of the most underappreciated games in recent times, as they have just about everything that I want from a horror game, suspense, sinister creatures, cruel humanity, the feeling of dread and a gripping story, I could go on further.