Sentences with phrase «melodramatic thriller»

Throughout the film, there are moments that could have made this into a melodramatic thriller, much like some of Almodóvar's earlier films Matador and The Law of Desire.

As the story progresses, the film also shifts strangely from a riveting exploration of a power couple with a pioneering spirit to a more melodramatic thriller about corruption and murder.

These unnerving numbers, appearing at the start of Tony Scott's melodramatic thriller, set up just such an event: a young man is taken from his wedding celebration.

These numbers appear at the beginning of Tony Scott's latest melodramatic thriller, aptly unnerving as they set up just such an event: a young man is taken from his wedding celebration.

Not exact matches

With heavy overtones of Hitchcockian mystery and intrigue, this stylish thriller is the enjoyably melodramatic story of a rather odd 9 - year - old boy and the adults caught in a twisted vortex around him.

With both actors performing against type — Jonah Hill in particular is known for melodramatic roles in «The Wolf of Wall Street,» about a financial tycoon, and «Moneyball,» about the use of technology in baseball — «True Story» is a gripping, fascinating film, a psychological thriller without the melodrama we associate with highly commercial works.

But rather than go down the path of political thriller or straight biopic, Arash Amel's melodramatic script stumbles, ungracefully, under its unsubtle load.

Too melodramatic to be a real thriller, Thierry Klifa's «His Mother's Eyes / Les Yeux de Sa Mère,» (France) about a writer's plan to ingratiate himself into a fractured family, is still intelligent, engrossing and features an easy - on - the - eyes cast, which includes ever - lovely Catherine Deneuve, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Géraldine Pailhas and Jean - Baptiste Lafarge.

The romance works rather better than the thriller element, as the plot becomes so convoluted and melodramatic it gets rather silly and never seems to be sure whether to takes itself seriously or not.

If the very survival of poise in Lubitsch was always involved with simultaneously fueling and controlling the fires of emotion, in Edwards the impeccable precariousness of comic order often finds expression in thriller elements, as in a masterly post-credits robbery sequence that is tense, fascinating, as beautifully machined as the fantastic caper itself — and funny too, in a thoroughly distinctive alliance of the giddiness inherent in breathbating suspense and the melodramatic effectiveness of slapstick violence.

Aronofsky is going for a very specific aesthetic tone here, a home invasion thriller psychodrama with layered metaphors and melodramatic elements.

Even though the thriller elements are laid to rest about halfway through «Room,» there's still a tremendously engaging emotional journey ahead, where Abrahamson smartly avoids every trap for conventional melodramatics that the basic story elements would seem to lay out for him.

Documentarian turned film director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, keeps this war thriller and emotional drama away from melodramatics.