Sentences with phrase «more social thrillers»

Throughout the press tour for his film, Peele repeatedly mentioned that he had more social thrillers in store that he'd like to make.

Not exact matches

All in all, however, the film plays more like a revenge thriller than an emotive social document — losing a lot of its power, and all of its resonance, in the process.

Although there is one upside to the Golden Globes classifying Jordan Peele's hit «social thriller» Get Out as a comedy — namely, that it's more likely to win big awards in that less competitive category — there are also several compelling reasons to oppose the decision.

An assured piece of filmmaking, Cold Hell succeeds in mixing social realism with more standard thriller elements and scenes of gut - wrenching violence.

The Fifth Estate would be more original without The Social Network existing, but it still wouldn't make for the arresting thriller it wants to be.

It's a wannabe old - fashioned Hitchcock thriller (supposedly aiming for a Psycho - like setting) that turns out to be nothing more than a tawdry bloody slasher film with no redeeming social value.

As a thriller, Black Swan doesn't do much more than graft a few phantom frames onto the periphery of Jean Benoit - Levy's Ballerina, Altman's The Company, or Powell / Pressburger's The Red Shoes — but note how the picture owes its creepy intensity to the sort of social satire - through - body horror popularized by David Cronenberg.

Although the film does tackle some gender issues (Kildare's profession has not progressed as he is «not the marrying kind», while Elizabeth is determined to prove women can make it without the help of a man) The Limehouse Golem is more a riveting Victorian thriller than feminist social commentary.

Get Out turns out to be more fun, and more provocative, than it is scary, at least in the traditional midnight - movie sense: The film works so well as a gauntlet of social horror that Peele almost didn't need the more traditional thriller elements he introduces in the third act, when a carefully calibrated build in just - because - you're - paranoid dread gives way to some disappointingly conventional survival games.

The second variety of literary thriller is the contemporary novel that hits the crime - filled mean streets hard but, again, abandons formula in favor of a more wide - sweeping approach to social issues and interpersonal dynamics.

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