Sentences with phrase «gripping as a thriller»

It's as gripping as any thriller and as moving as any drama with the added fascination of the unfathomable relationship between John and Yoko.

Not exact matches

Holland - born filmmaker Anton Corbijn («Control») directs this gripping and challenging character study that's filmed as a Euro - thriller.

A low budget British thriller that is pretty tense and gripping, With some good performances from the cast especially Jack O» Connell, The story has been done before but the whole mystery to it kept it fresh, We all knew how it would end and when we found out who the killer was it wasn't a great surprise, A few gruesome scenes keep it entertaining, It's as good as it ever was going to be.

As long as Clive Owen is on his own, solving problems and planning revenge, Derailed is a reasonably gripping thrilleAs long as Clive Owen is on his own, solving problems and planning revenge, Derailed is a reasonably gripping thrilleas Clive Owen is on his own, solving problems and planning revenge, Derailed is a reasonably gripping thriller.

A gripping thriller with themes and characters that most networks are uncomfortable portraying in their shows such as jihad, Islam and the War on Terror.

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.

Buoyed by eye - catching dramatizations and an enthralling structure that crisscrosses time and place, The Imposter unfolds as a gripping thriller that leaves us dizzy, yet certain that truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction.»

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Hailed as «gripping, powerful, and epic» (Scott Mantz, «Access Hollywood») Academy Award ® - winning * director Robert Zemeckis» (Forrest Gump, Cast Away) seductive thriller ALLIED makes its home entertainment debut on 4K Ultra HD, Blu - ray, DVD and On Demand February 28, 2017 from Paramount Home Media Distribution.

You can't go wrong with any of these fine thrillers but today I'd like to single out Cast a Dark Shadow, a gripping and remarkably grim British production starring Dirk Bogarde as a suave young Romeo who seduces wealthy older women for financial gain and then murders them in cold blood.

The nature of a movie involving reincarnation seems like the perfect set - up for a captivating supernatural thriller, but instead, Glazer uses the seeming return of Sean as a way to explore Anna's grief and how her love affects her grip on reality.

Sure to remind some of «Cellular,» the 2004 picture starring Kim Basinger, Chris Evans and Jason Statham, The Call is, for the most part, a gripping little tight - knit crime thriller directed by Brad Anderson («The Machinist «-RRB- and blessed with decent work by Halle Berry (Academy Award winner for «Monster's Ball «-RRB- as heroine Jordan, and Abigail Breslin (Oscar nominee for «Little Miss Sunshine «-RRB-, as Casey, the girl Jordan is trying to save.

What You Need To Know: With director Paul Greengrass having made a name for himself in two relatively distinct areas — the tense conspiracy action thriller (the second and third «Bourne» films) and based - in - fact films about recent historical events («United 93,» «Bloody Sunday,») «Captain Phillips» seems like it could play to his strengths in both areas, as it's a gripping, tense, fight - for survival type tale that has added weight and heft for being lifted from a real - life incident.

Those viewers looking for a gripping thriller or a great war flick should probably look elsewhere, as this Robert Redford directed piece is only about trying to provoke thought.

Reprising the roles they originated in seven - time Academy Award - nominated Elizabeth, Oscar - winner Cate Blanchett (The Aviator) as Queen Elizabeth, Academy Award - winner Geoffrey Rush (Shine) as Sir Francis Walsingham return for the gripping historical thriller laced with treachery and romance.

A mystery puzzle box thriller doused in mood and dread, the film tells the story of a village paralyzed by fear as a series of brutal murders grip the sleepy hamlet, while a peculiar illness seems supernaturally linked to everything going to hell in a handbasket.

Though the film is slow going at first, it eventually becomes a gripping thriller as Mike uncovers one disturbing clue after another, leading him to a colorful assortment of characters and finding himself in perilous situations.

It is also as gripping as any procedural crime thriller, and cops and police doctors do play a role.

Though the film suffers from a bloated runtime and is a tad one - sided in its depiction of the antagonists, «Captain Phillips» is nonetheless a gripping hostage thriller that boasts some of the year's finest performances, not only by Hanks, but his amateur co-stars as well.

Suddenly, what was an enjoyably twisty chase thriller becomes an equally - gripping, but far more effective look at the old would - you - kill - Hitler - as - a-child dilemma.

Current and upcoming domestic releases from Focus include Victoria & Abdul, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Judi Dench as Queen Victoria; Darkest Hour, directed by Joe Wright and starring Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill; the untitled Entebbe project, a gripping political thriller directed by José Padilha and starring Rosamund Pike and Daniel Brühl; Jason Reitman's new comedy Tully, starring Charlize Theron and written by Diablo Cody; Lenny Abrahamson» atmospheric thriller The Little Stranger; Joel Edgerton's coming - of - age and coming - out drama Boy Erased starring Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe; Mary, Queen of Scots with Saoirse Ronan as Mary and Margot Robbie as Elizabeth I; and the untitled new film from Paul Thomas Anderson starring Daniel Day - Lewis.

It's at this point in the plot that I'll leave off any further details, as everything that comes afterward will potentially spoil the conventional thriller elements of what had started as a fairly gripping family drama.

As it all boils down to a cracking chase through an explosive Baghdad, racing after General Al Rawi (Saddam's Jack of Clubs), the thriller really takes a grip on its surroundings with gut - punching action.

Mitchum is as sympathetic and charismatic as ever in this gripping thriller to rival Preminger's other great noirs (Laura, Whirlpool, Where the Sidewalk Ends).

The action thriller, which is as gripping as it is political, sees a group of illegal immigrants (led by Gael García Bernal's Moises) stranded... Read More

But as gripping as the movie is as a legal thriller, it's even more notable as a portrait of a community.

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.

Source Code is not only a gripping thriller, but a cautionary tale about the dark side of scientific advances and human decency as a counterbalance.

While not as psychologically acute as The Talented Mr. Ripley or Ripley's Game, the latest cinematic adaptation of Patricia Highsmith is a gripping thriller in the key of Hitchcock.

Well, on the evidence of A Most Wanted Man, one of his final films, our loss is all the greater as he's simply magnificent in a gripping espionage thriller.

The film is billed as a «haunting romantic thriller of shocking intimacy and gripping tension that explores the thin lines between love and cruelty, and revenge and redemption.»

A down - and - dirty Oregon roadhouse is the venue for Blue Ruin director Jeremy Saulnier's gripping backwoods thriller, which stars Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Macon Blair and Patrick Stewart in a deliciously against - type role as a neo-Nazi bar owner.

Bahrani's style is gripping as an emotional thriller, at times reminiscent of Asghar Farhadi, but the best scenes involve the sneaky legal maneuverings and machinations of Rick's get - rich - quick scheme.

Our Kind of Traitor Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris star as a couple who find themselves as pawns in a game between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service in this gripping spy thriller based on the novel by bestselling author John Le Carré («Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy»).

Focus touts the feature as a «haunting romantic thriller of shocking intimacy and gripping tension that explores the thin lines between love and cruelty, and revenge and redemption.»

With a blackmailing rape DVD, L - word steaminess, a «Star Wars» - ish twist, and plenty of lurid Ingmar Bergman atmosphere, «The Girl Who Played with Fire» smolders as a propulsively gripping firecracker of a thriller that'll satiate the appetite of Lisbeth fans in any country.

Gripping, sophisticated, and wickedly entertaining, The Summer of Dead Toys introduces a charismatic new detective and announces Antonio Hill as a new master of the crime thriller.

Her newest thriller, Flesh and Blood, is number 22 in the series, and just as gripping or inventive as those that came before it.

When reading Complicit, trust nothing and no one as you race toward the explosive conclusion of this gripping psychological thriller from the William C. Morris Award - winning author of Charm & Strange.

Brandenburg Gate is a brilliant, gripping, and multilayered espionage thriller that captures the fall of the Berlin Wall, the most important geopolitical event of the last fifty years, as shocking and unexpected as it was revolutionary.

But it is not as surprising as the treasonous plot Korolev uncovers in this second gripping, devastatingly true - to - life thriller from William Ryan.

She also puts her background as a lawyer to use in mysteries and in her latest novel, Beyond Justice, a gripping legal thriller.

One source points to Campo Santo's success, along with Night School Studios and its supernatural thriller Oxenfree — co-created by former Telltale veteran Adam Hines — as a catalyst for Bruner's tightening grip.