Not exact matches
The rarely done genre of the French
policier is alive and well
in director Xavier Beauvois» dynamic movie
Still riding high on the success of Twins, which proved beyond doubt that broad comedy was very much
in his wheelhouse, Arnie reunited with director Ivan Reitman for this similarly wholesome kiddie
policier.
Sidney Poitier confronts violent racists
in smalltown Mississippi
in this sweat - dappled 1967
policier.
Nonetheless, Red Riding: 1974 (d. Julian Jarrold) and Red Riding: 1980 (d. James Marsh) are both terrific
policiers (I am yet to see the third film) dramatising the investigation of the famous Yorkshire Ripper case, and its compromising by rampant corruption
in the police force and within the community.
Word comes from The Playlist via Slashfilm that John Hillcoat (The Road) might be eying a remake of Jean - Pierre Melville's classic
policier Le Cercle Rouge
in a report that begins by summing up the route the adaptation has taken to this...
We watch the fisticuffs straight and focused, the 130 minutes» duration of the movie flying by like the chopper that's all but inevitable
in this time of a
policier.
This tale of repressed sexuality and liberation theology is surprisingly similar
in feel to Melville's film
policiers, dramas that explore
in fine and ambiguous detail the difficulty and perhaps impossibility of unequivocal ethical behaviour.
And yet his death inevitably enhances certain traits
in his work, elevating a deceptively simple
policier to the state of elegy.
Wind River — Hell or High Water writer Taylor Sheridan directs this backwoods
policier with Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olson investigating a murder
in snowy Wyoming.