Sentences with phrase «mood as thrillers»

The Girl on the Roof is definitely a good first effort, and an enjoyable watch, in somewhat the same mood as thrillers like «Hard Candy» and «The Host» are.

Not exact matches

The latter made his name as a filmmaker with the 2009 country musician drama Crazy Heart (which landed Jeff Bridges his Academy Award), and further established himself as a storyteller interested in making mood / performance - driven fare with the dramatic thriller Out of the Furnace and Whitey Bulger biopic Black Mass..

With a mood and setting worthy of a murder story by Jack London, this audience - friendly, atmospheric work could be remade as a thriller, although that's really what it is already.

A mystery puzzle box thriller doused in mood and dread, the film tells the story of a village paralyzed by fear as a series of brutal murders grip the sleepy hamlet, while a peculiar illness seems supernaturally linked to everything going to hell in a handbasket.

It had more pizzazz than anything else that seems like a Best Film of the season, it managed to be explicitly about movies without violating its trajectories as a first - rate genre film (thriller), it was rife with the best, least slavish sort of hommages, and it tapped into the moods and mannerisms of other cinéastes like Nick Ray, Hitchcock, and Hopper without for a moment ceasing to be Ein Film von Wim Wenders.

When the boys agree to help shelter him, with Ellis acting as a go - between for Mud and his weary girlfriend Juniper (Reese Witherspoon), the community gradually closes in on them, taking this evocative mood piece into more generic thriller territory.

As with many classic mysteries and thrillers, the plot is a bit convoluted and unreasonable, yet Page Eight \'s dialogue is written with great sophistication and the production is steeped in mood and character.

Nightcrawler shines as a character study, a mood piece, and a crime thriller, but perhaps its greatest victory is as a darkly comic satire of the lengths to which we are told to go to succeed in America.

This low - budget arthouse crime thriller draws on the classic American cinema of the 1970s — films such as Dog Day Afternoon and Taxi Driver — when a new mood of pessimism was taking over politics and culture, but comes to articulate its own strange sweetness and hope.