Sentences with phrase «kidnapping thriller»

But this isn't your average kidnapping thriller, as there seems to be much more behind the disappearance than meets the eye.

«Prisoners» (2013) Last year's slick, powerful, kidnapping thriller marked the first of two team - ups between Gyllenhaal and French - Canadian helmer Denis Villeneuve.

While some of the visuals in the film are extremely demanding on the eyes and brain, «Man on Fire» nonetheless represents an improved cinematic telling of the classic kidnapping thriller.

But good for him, Ridley Scott pulls it off in All the Money in the World, a new kidnapping thriller based on the true story of Gail Harris (Michelle Williams), who marries into the richest family in the world, only to leave when her husband sinks into drug addiction, and her father - in - law, J. Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer), reveals what a miserly and manipulative scumbag he is.

The plop of a wayward water bottle almost triggered heart attacks at my screening of Prisoners, a merciless kidnapping thriller that held the crowd in silence.

Sony Pictures has released the first trailer and poster for Ridley Scott's Getty kidnap thriller All the Money in the World.

Austere and unnerving, Nikole Beckwith's stir - crazy «Stockholm, Pennsylvania» picks up where most kidnapping thrillers leave off: the moment the victim is returned home to her parents.

«Prisoners» has heavy - duty arthouse pretensions but, if we're being honest with each other, it's really just a high - falutin» B - grade kidnap thriller.

Australian director Ben Young's directorial debut is a shocking kidnapping thriller for the ages, one that finds Vicki (Ashleigh Cummings) trapped in the bedroom of a serial killers couple in a neighboring town (Emma Booth and Stephen Curry).

On those terms, Landfall unexpectedly plays like a mash - up of two undervalued Nicholas Cage pics — the goofy three - crims - on - the - run comedy Trapped in Paradise (1994), and the actors» own twisty kidnapping thriller, Trespass (2011), opposite Nicole Kidman.

Fowler had called it «radio waves in the zeitgeist,» but this sadistic kidnapping thriller trend, coupled with coincidental recent events, pricks the spine.

Rather than deconstruct genre conventions, 1982's Venom seeks a simpler play between genres by melding a kidnapping thriller with a monster - in - the - house creature feature, apparently just to see how these usually disparate elements could inform one another when combined.

On the other, Paramount made it clear that this was a «spiritual successor», not a sequel, to Cloverfield, that the film had been repurposed from a kidnap thriller screenplay called The Cellar, and was achieved with a lower production cost than its predecessor.

Spain's power couple Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz (who have been working together since «Jamón Jamón» in 1992), anchor Asghar Farhadi's kidnap thriller «Everybody Knows,» which they helped him to develop over five years.

The kidnap thriller Firewall expects us to believe that 63 - year old Harrison Ford, arguably the most underachieving A-list star in the history of American movies, and very much an emblem of mid-twentieth-century macho, is believable as an early 21st - century computer security expert and a settled - yet - virile husband to Virginia Madsen, who's 20 years his junior.

It really makes one appreciate the basic competence of The Call, another kidnapping thriller that Berry spent much of sitting down (is this a thing she's into?)

Despite the buzz around Christopher Plummer replacing Kevin Spacey as J. Paul Getty, Ridley Scott's kidnapping thriller is universally flat

The writer - director has constructed his latest, the kidnapping thriller The Captive, in the same enthralling, nonlinear manner as his Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter.