Sentences with phrase «knotty plotting»
Not unlike Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, the film is built out of classic noir conventions but keeps the circle of characters contained with in the family, to form a knotty plot that results in a domestic hell.
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The knotty plot allows Henry to compete with himself and Clare to be jealous of herself; there's also the suggestion of bigamy / infidelity with one's own spouse and the possibility of emotional statutory rape in Henry's visits to the childhood Clare (ewwww...).
A classic cocktail of mystery, suspense and paranoia, Guillaume Canet's Tell No One is a tense thriller with a knotty plot that harkens back to Hitch in its themes while satiating modern audiences with its brisk narrative momentum and elaborate action sequences.
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It has a convoluted plot whose knottier details are unsatisfyingly truncated by the shorter run time.
«The Double» is often hilarious, when it's not being simply a joy to watch, and even as the plot gets knotty as the doubles attempt to outdo each other, the story remains clear and is always propelled by a great score by Andrew Hewitt.