Sentences with phrase «kind of a thriller»

Margin Call is a different kind of thriller which is amazing

But initially, I was just thinking of kind of a thriller.

With a combination of practical and CGI effects and tight story that boils down to a single night of hell, this is the kind of thriller that gets under your skin and stays with you after you leave the theater.

A wonderfuly dark and ridiculous comedy that gives us a slightly different kind of thriller.

This criminally underrated film is the kind of thriller Hitchcock would have made if he were around in the»90s.

It resists all temptations to turn this plot into some kind of a thriller and keeps it grounded on the struggle for economic survival.

That makes the movie a major disappointment, more of an endurance test than any kind of thriller.

«It's a period drama but it's kind of a thriller,» she told Ryan Tubridy.

«It is the kind of thriller which lives up to its name by grabbing your attention at the first moment and not letting you go until the end,» she wrote.

Not exact matches

Asking that kind of question is like asking, «Could you do a love story with more of a thriller element, like The Bourne Identity?»

Yet somehow, miraculously, Weinberger has fashioned her material into the best kind of airport thriller.

I also like to just stay in and watch movie, I like all kinds of movies (thriller, adventure, action, comedy) and music (rnb, Zou..

The simmering rivalry between Di and Fiamma, inflamed by the kind of glimpsed indiscretion that makes adolescent melodramas tick, explodes in a thriller ending that turns an observant coming - of - age story into something resembling «The Lord of the Flies.»

Corbijn isn't making a stereotypical Hollywood thriller, with the stakes spelled out in neon and the loud fight scenes spaced every few minutes, but he doesn't seem to realize there is such a thing as being too vague, and in his efforts to make some kind of art - house / thriller hybrid, he goes too far the other direction and creates a nicely rendered film with no emotional hook.

Just serviceable bunker thriller that asks the question, «Would you want to survive The Big One if it meant being stuck [underground] with the kind of guy who spent his life preparing to survive The Big One?»

Very, very, very far from being a thriller of any kind.

It proceeds to full thriller mode, and an engaging kind it is in its over-familiar way, no small thanks to saving infusions of soap opera.

Two of Spielberg's recent history films were also made in a messianic spirit of topical fervor: «Munich,» a dread - inflected thriller that addressed the post-9 / 11 world, and «Lincoln,» a kind of dramatized time machine that commented on our own increasingly fractious and divided political arena.

As the latest installment in what has become its own subgenre at this point, The Commuter serves as a fine example of the kind of tightly - coiled thriller that Neeson and Collet - Serra can do together in their sleep.

The AV Club posits that «it's the kind of intelligent, nuts - and - bolts thriller that Hollywood should make more regularly.»

Kind of like a cross between Jarhead and True Romance, there is the combination violence, drugs and humour that is common to post Tarantino comedy thrillers, but somehow it doesn't quite sit well with the setting of the US military.

«Breaking In» was clearly designed as much a marketing proposition as a movie, a thriller whose twist on the formula is predicated in part on casting an African - American woman in the kind of role generally inhabited by guys like Liam Neeson — and as an added bonus, just in time for Mother's Day.

Its scenes and sensibility are all more than familiar, but it exudes a kind of nostalgic spy - movie charm and, at the same time, is so fresh and free of the usual thriller nonsense that it all seems to be happening for the first time.

Eventually it all boils down to cliché, with home invasions by Terry, physical confrontations between Terry and Gabe, a hostage situation, a main character getting gunned down, and all the other standard thriller tropes that might excite the kind of audie

It's the worst kind of convoluted thriller — it can never unravel satisfactorily because there's nothing simple at its center, just more confusion.

I had a gruesome revenge thriller, goat staring, and something that demands all kinds of adjectives and discussions.

My favorite thing about Gary Oldman is that he's done all of this without ever phoning in a performance, offering the same kind of gravitas to B - movie junk food like Criminal and thoughtful thrillers like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (which earned him his sole Oscar nomination).

One could, if one was being kind, assume that the makers of Gringo were aiming for that elusive jokey crime thriller tone so brilliantly achieved by Midnight Run.

Most of the characters in the film also mistakenly believe themselves to be caught up in the kind of conspiracy thriller that flourished in the 1970s (Three Days of the Condor, The Parallax View, Marathon Man, etc.).

Just like an Indian curry dish, the list is filled with all kinds of genres — comedy, romance, drama, horror, thriller, et al..

When you get into your «Superman'territory it's harder to maintain the gritty action that the Russo brothers do so brilliantly and she's got that kind of thing and [you can] really do a spy thriller.

As a result, we get a Sci - Fi thriller tinged with Noir (instantly making it my kind of movie), but done on a budget.

This film feels kind of like what you'd expect from a collision between George Clooney and the Coen brothers: a comical noir thriller with a hefty dose of social commentary.

Positioned as a kind of educational thriller, Loving Vincent follows Armand Roulin (one of van Gogh's many subjects) as he unravels the circumstances that led to the young artist's suicide, spotlighting details of his life, and meeting many of the people who would inspire his paintings, along the away.

It takes a special kind of film to lose me immediately, and «Paranoia,» a particularly sad espionage thriller with very little espionage and zero thrills, did just that.

I kind of like slow paced films, especial when they are psychological thrillers... that's when a movie really gets under your skin.

It has the kind of romance one would expect in a soap opera, and with a fair amount of suspense one would expect in a thriller.

Roadside Attractions has released a new trailer for the espionage thriller Our Kind of Traitor.

Castle Rock is an original suspense / thriller — a first - of - its - kind reimagining that explores the themes and worlds uniting the entire King canon, while brushing up against some of his most iconic and beloved stories.»

I don't know if the indie horror / thriller neighborhood is steadily growing more crowded, or if it is finally getting the kind of recognition it deserves.

Once the show ended, Aniston stuck squarely to that path, with the few early diversions (dark thriller Derailed and indie Friends with Money) not showing the kind of talent that we had seen her quietly unearth in Good Girl.

Idris Elba shows ass kicking skills in «Bastille Day», a Luc Besson kind of action thriller that starts out well enough but runs out of steam way too early.

But this latest trailer makes the supernatural thriller look kind of cute, mostly thanks to Being Human's Sam Huntington.

Two years ago, South by Southwest gave the red - carpet treatment of Duncan Jones's entertaining time - travel thriller Source Code, but last year Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon's irritatingly snarky horror - genre deconstruction The Cabin in the Woods got the top honor, and now this year we have The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, which, in spite of a nasty concluding punchline, can't even claim the kind of cleverly subversive comic gusto The Cabin in the Woods has in abundance — for better and for worse.

I could discuss similar films that played at this year's Berlinale — but these two examples must suffice to demonstrate the dilemma German cinema faces: these genre films suffer on the level of craft, while also facing the problem that the socio - cultural context might simply not lend itself to the kind of genre filmmaking (at least with regard to the thriller and action film genres) that seems to come so organically to filmmakers working in different national contexts.

That's the foundation of many a classic heist or men - on - a-mission thriller and this film offers it as a kind of skewed redemption for a misfit band of former military men, most of them drummed out for conduct unbecoming (you know, petty schemes and such), many of them fallen into cons and criminal schemes and all of them adrift in the post-war culture.»

The spy thriller «Our Kind of Traitor» gets the first half of that equation right.

Good Time, a heist thriller directed by upstart directorial duo the Safdie Brothers, is one of those kinds of movies that grabs ahold of you and refuses to let go until the closing credits.

You have a lot of character actors who've appeared in indie films and stuff, in kind of an action thriller.

But that's ok, it just appears that Mann's movie is not that kind of picture, and is perhaps just more pure genre - thriller from Mann, maybe à la «Miami Vice.»