Sentences with phrase «more as a thriller»

Deliver Us From Evil» is aimed to be a mix between «The Exorcist» and «Seven» but it really comes off more as a thriller.

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People haven't begun reading more but they've begun reading, one might say, better: sales of thrillers, romance novels, and fantasy have declined as demand for serious literature has grown.

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He's so far knocked out 10 legal thriller books, which were translated into more than 20 languages and osmosed into movies such as «Presumed Innocent» and «The Burden of Proof.»

The movie works well as an engaging thriller, but don't expect much more than that.

Both actors play a convincing cat - and - mouse game, with Franco offering a riveting courtroom testimony as the script transitions into more of a low - key legal thriller about redemption for each man.

There's no denying that when George Clooney wants to be an «artist,» he's more than capable of making some lovely art films, and that's clearly the case here, but there's no valid reason why he should spend his money producing a painstakingly slow travelogue set in the Italian countryside like this and allow it to be disguised as some sort of «thriller.»

Because the film is intended to be fun for computer - illiterates as well as techno - geeks, it's more successful than other recent efforts to bring some digital - age updating to the familiar thriller formula.

A much more restrained Xavier Dolan after his pretentious previous film, and he displays an assured direction and firm control of this suspenseful thriller, even though the narrative seems to move too fast as the characters start to act in ways that are not always convincing.

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Director Ron Howard brings his usual light touch to the proceedings and manages to hold the viewer's interest even through the narrative's oddly action - packed final third (ie once the truth about Hannah's character is revealed, the film becomes more of a thriller than a cute little romantic comedy and there's even a chase sequence as the army attempts to capture the mermaid / woman).

The music is superb, the Simon Boswell piano theme is well suited and also suits for the horror genre, I don't really find this as a standard black comedy thriller, it is something like it is ripped off from Coen Brother's Blood Simple, with more of less funny dialogue but I find this a perfect thriller and quite known for its time and still is today because of Channel 4 which is now a popular channel with many sub-channels.

Yet, while those films used the experiment as a touchstone, allowing the story to take on more aspects of a thriller, Kyle Patrick Alvarez's film is less concerned with thriller elements, but rather the loss of individuality the participants experienced, and how quickly the guards began to abuse the prisoners, most of whom quickly bent to authority.

Soon turning up in such features as The Long Kiss Goodnight and Rounders, the natural beauty began to gain even more footing in her feature aspirations with her turn in the Robert DeNiro heist - thriller The Score in 2001.

The end result is a well - intentioned yet hopelessly ineffective thriller that would've been better off with a more talented filmmaker at the helm, as it's becoming all - too - obvious that Berg simply doesn't have the chops to handle big - budget action fare.

The same year, Schreiber had leading roles in two more independent films, The Daytrippers (which again paired him with Posey) and Walking and Talking, as well as a secondary role in the bloated Mel Gibson thriller Ransom.

As the stakes escalate, Mark Perez's script still organically makes time for the characters» realities, like Max and Annie having trouble conceiving a child, without such story points feeling too forced, and plays on the expectations of thriller plot twists more than once.

There's more than a glimmer of something engaging in Red Sparrow — a grim, sorrowful thriller with a keenly rendered texture — but the film gets tripped up as it both resists classification and invites all of it in.

Calling big - screen legal thriller «The Lincoln Lawyer» the best TV pilot I've seen in a while really isn't meant as a putdown — the truth is, there's more good stuff on the tube these days than in theaters, especially at this time of the year.

Even more vital to the film as a thriller, we have a sense that, unlike the protagonists in the original, these characters have an actual chance against the killers.

Our hygienic hero gets far more than he bargained for in director Renny Harlin's twisty crime thriller, co-starring Ed Harris as Carver's old partner and Eva Mendes as a grieving wife.

Driftwood is presented and promoted as a horror movie with psychological elements, and while this is true, it undersells what is an effective psycho thriller, less about gore and horror, more about story and character.

A very effective Hitchcockian thriller that starts off as a modest drama, taking a good time to develop its characters in a careful way, and then starts unexpectedly to become suffocatingly tense as the characters find themselves trapped more and more in an unbearable situation.

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It's the end of the world as we know it - once again - in «Revolt,» a propulsive, no - nonsense sci - fi thriller that's far more watchable than its generic title may imply.

A good little thriller which has already been remade by Brian Depalma as «Passion» and whose version I am sure will contain a lot more sex and style.That is not meant in any way to be detrimental to what we have here.

Many thrillers use their characters as nothing more than cardboard cutouts to be put through the motions of the plot, so much so that by the time the plot boils over we don't care, because we don't know who the characters are or why they're doing what they're doing.

For as long as it has, 12 Monkeys works beautifully as a fast - paced sci - fi thriller that is actually far more complex.

REC 4 won't win any points for being scary or terribly original, as this is more of an action thriller than horror, but it is mostly successful due to the fact that it drops the slapstick comedy of REC 3 and goes for a more serious tone, and the setting make this stand out in the zombie genre.

The portrait of Lincoln that Spielberg presents — in a film that often plays like a tense, high - spirited political thriller as influence is peddled behind the scenes and votes come down to the wire — will no doubt surprise viewers raised on a more staid version of the Great Man.

As twisty thrillers of the genre go, this one is more than passable.

While infinitely lighter and more comically charged than these two thrillers, there are still some jumps here, such as a tense shot of Brooks emerging with a kitchen knife.

Starring Robin Williams as a photo developer who progressively becomes more and more unstable, this psychological thriller somehow manages to avoid clichés and showcase Williams» unique talents in an absolutely insane role.

Michael Mann's Collateral might be more of a thriller than an action movie, but it had some of the same regular - guy - in - impossible - situation thrills as Die Hard.

In 2013, the two - time Oscar winner aimed to score two more nominations, in the Lead Actor category as «Captain Phillips» in the Paul Greengrass - directed thriller, and in the Supporting Actor race as the iconic Walt Disney in the making - of «Mary Poppins» drama «Saving Mr. Banks».

This latest trailer for the upcoming Steven Spielberg sci - fi thriller Ready Player One gives us more glimpses into this cool world, as well as an idea of how high the stakes are going to be.

Moreover, in what's arguably a more brazen case of cinematic larceny, director Daniel Espinosa, best - known for the 2012 thriller Safe House, swipes his anti-gravity stylistics from Alfonso Cuarón, opening the film with a single, very long, VFX - heavy take that sends the camera around in gentle swoops from character to floating character as the space station itself tumbles slowly around its axis.

As depicted throughout the tense action thriller, doing things by the book is obviously the moral high route, but what is it actually accomplishing compared to more clandestine and nefarious methods, and more importantly, are crucial results worth becoming a monster for?

While the subject matter is the stuff that good films are made of, and the quality of the direction and acting are worthy of admiration, where The East fails is in the contrivances involved in the farfetched plotline and the unevenness in the thriller elements (such as a scene in which the cell dresses up to the nines to infiltrate a party for pharmaceutical bigwigs that would feel more at home in a Mission Impossible movie) that undermine what could have been a chilling and realistic story of corporations run amok.

Such an approach renders the immense complexities informing each side's dilemmas too simplistically, as a means for a more digestible, straightforward narrative of familial betrayal and conventional thriller - level espionage.

Intended as a parody of B - movie fantasies from the»50s, this satire more directly lampoons kiddie thrillers like «Captain Video,» putting it perilously close to the pop - culture trash it aims to mock.

With a fistful of Oscars (including Best Picture and Best Actor), a couple of sequels and a twenty - years - later remake and spin - off TV series, this adaptation of John Ball's lean thriller obviously qualifies as more than just another small town murder mystery.

Despite the rather promising nature of its setup, Retreat inevitably (and lamentably) establishes itself as a generic and hopelessly uninvolving thriller that grows more and more tedious as it progresses.

I use the term «thriller» in the generic sense, as this plays out more like a Jean - Pierre Melville portrait of isolated underworld professionals, freelancers in the international network of criminal enterprise.

All they've got left is sex in this and that ultra-luxurious location (more shelter porn than porn porn here) interspersed with some very random thriller moments as a figure from the past wants to destroy the perfect prettiness of the romance.

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.

That would be all well and good within the confines of a made - for - TV drama, but Perelman sees this story more as a somber thriller, ditching the humanistic elements for some hyperbolic confrontations that escalate feverishly until only tragedy can result.

Directed by Joe Roth, Freedomland is a thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson and Julianne Moore, about a woman whose young son is kidnapped as she drives through a predominantly black neighbourhood, and the extreme unrest that is generated when the predominantly white police spend far more resources trying to solve the case than they ever spend on crimes in which black people are the victims.

While the trailer has some great editing to reveal this as a spy thriller, the film itself unfortunately is nothing more than a messy saga of sex, lies, murder, and fake Russian accents all thrown together in a two - and - a-half hour drudge through the cold Eastern European winter.

Much more of a paranoid thriller than a black comedy, The Manchurian Candidate will probably never be heralded as a great film, even if it were a wholly original work.