Sentences with phrase «more police procedural»

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t's nicely crafted with a slower pace than the average police «procedural,» but more than enough character intrigue to compensate.

It's nicely crafted with a slower pace than the average police «procedural,» but more than enough character intrigue to compensate.

[/ font][font = Century Gothic][/ font][font = Century Gothic] «Le Petit Lieutenant» is an absorbing police procedural that is more interested in character than in mystery.

The eight - episode British police procedural series is filmed from eyewitness perspectives and uses improvised dialogue, which offers a more authentic look at how police investigate cases.

Tense and economical, without a wasted moment, Bethlehem is a police procedural and psychological study of the Palestinian upri... more

Other episodes include a police procedural, a military thriller and «an unfolding contemporary nightmare» with no sci - fi element, according to creator Charlie Brooker, who revealed more details to Empire recently.

T - Men — This fairly early Anthony Mann film is more of a police procedural, than a noir, as it tells the story of the Treasury Department's anti-counterfeiting detectives in a pseudo-documentary style.

Argento did for the slasher genre with his «supernatural» pictures like Suspiria and Inferno what Sergio Leone did for the Western, making them dirtier, sexier, rhythmic, and more acceptable to the literati; and he does here for the police procedural / neo-noir a similar kind of post-modern hipster reinvention.

Award - winning Tana French's novel works perfectly fine as a police procedural, but it's much more than that: the depth of characteris - ation, authentic dialogue, under - standing of human behaviour and sense of inner - city place are as good as you'll find in any novel of any genre.

Maybe none of this narrative murkiness matters, as perhaps Secret is more psychological drama than police procedural.

An opening scene in which Cross literally dodges a bullet a second or more after it's fired kind of sums up the action trajectory, which eventually devolves from bad police procedural into a bad «Dirty Harry» copycat.

The result is a superior police procedural, and something more — a study in devious human nature.

This isn't an easy film, not in any way: its pace is contemplative and deliberate; it's more about puzzling out personality than it is a police procedural; and perhaps most uncomfortably for some viewers, all the major players are female.

Melville is quite simply France's master of crime dramas (no disrespect to Chabrol or Clouzot, who tended a bit more toward the mystery / thriller aspect anyway), and this film combines elements of crime drama, police procedural, and heist film together perfectly into an intricate slow burn building to its inevitable climax.

Do you think that its more difficult to create suspension of disbelief for an amateur sleuth in a world where we've all been exposed to «CSI» type shows and police procedurals?

Karin Slaughter, for example, specializes in muscular, action - packed police procedurals; Alafair Burke does expertly plotted legal mysteries; Val McDermid has invented more than her rightful share of homicidal sociopaths for her psychologist - cop team, Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, to run to ground.

Nothing wrong with sticking with one of the originals, Mankell has a number of non-Kurt Wallander novels — this is one of them, and it's not a police procedural either, more an international thriller set in Sweden, China, America and Africa.

Intended for more casual audiences, the game promises a short romp through a police procedural drama, as you help out in the hunt for The Trapper, a serial killer with a snappy name and a penchant for convulted murder methods.

Other shows at Invisible - Exports, including Stephen Irwin and Genesis Breyer P - orridge, have shocked me more, but only she drew herself and the visitor into a shared performance and police procedural.