Sentences with phrase «more than a thriller»

More than a thriller, this adaptation of Jose Saramago's novel The Double is an absurdist - existential mood piece — and a very dark mood it is.

It was well written as a piece of literature, more than a thriller, yet had the components of a thriller.

And then, at some point I'll have to re-design my author website, still under my name, but with a branding that allows for more than thrillers.

Not exact matches

The Amy Adams - starring sci - fi movie, an early Oscar favorite, is much more than just another aliens - make - contact thriller.

It is very good; a thriller in the classic Koontz mold that really gets taut in the last 30 pages.But there is more here than a very good thrill ride — although that would be enough.

Podcasts have been around for more than a decade, but it was the NPR audio thriller Serial, which unpacked the murder of teenager Hae Min Lee and subsequent botched investigation...

Podcasts have been around for more than a decade, but it was the NPR audio thriller Serial, which unpacked the murder of teenager Hae Min Lee and subsequent botched investigation by the Baltimore Police Department, that arguably made podcasting take off.

We pretend that romantic comedies or naturalistic thrillers set in the present day are more «realistic» than any that require us to remember that we live between immensities, for no more than a fraction of sidereal time in a world that we did not make.

I'd become a writer of crime novels and thrillers and I was more interested in books than in football.

So far: Katherine Neville's groundbreaking novel, «The Eight,» dazzled audiences more than twenty years ago and set the literary stage for the epic thriller.

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.

And not only is the science credible (disclosure: Alpert is an editor at this magazine), so are the characters, who have several more dimensions than those in most thrillers.

It was more of a thriller than a comedy, which was good.

The gunplay (what little there is), is done well, and even though the film is more style than substance, and could stand to be trimmed up greatly, it's a thinking man's drama / thriller, and not a blockbuster action film.

«World War Z» isn't your typical zombie movie, but rather a globe - trotting socio - political thriller that treats the zombies more like a viral disease than something out of a horror film.

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.»

A mild box office performer, the sheer power of the picture was lost to catty industry gossip, with media types reporting more on the studio itself than the nifty thriller they produced for their debut.

«The American» is an exercise in style and withheld sentiment, a bleak and atmospheric art - house thriller that's more of an aesthetic experience than an emotional one.

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.

This cop thriller spans over not much more than 12 hours of tough, gritty and morally grey work in the ugly parts of LA.

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 direction by Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace, Stranger Than Fiction) delivers a fast - paced zombie thriller, and with Brad Pitt front and center, there is a grounding of the film in seeming more intelligent and plausible than your typical scare flThan Fiction) delivers a fast - paced zombie thriller, and with Brad Pitt front and center, there is a grounding of the film in seeming more intelligent and plausible than your typical scare flthan your typical scare flick.

Although the problems appear to have had an impact on the final product, especially in the uneven tone of the comparatively smaller - scale finale and the unsatisfying epilogue, it's a bit of a pleasant surprise that the movie manages to hold together even through some turbulent patches to be worthwhile viewing for anyone not expecting much more than a grandiose, set - piece dominated horror - thriller.

The works of Max Brooks, who wrote 2003's satirical and subversively political, «The Zombie Survival Guide», and 2006's, «World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War», provided the kernels of inspiration for this mega-budgeted horror - action - thriller that mostly makes up its own narrative, independent of much of the book content (jettisoning the first - person account style and most of the events), to make it fit more with the ranks of current, eye - candy loaded popcorn movies than a thoughtful adaptation of the best - seller.

Of course, the thriller at least tries to develop this character and tell its story in a more cerebral way than those earlier efforts did.

Such, unfortunately, is the pitfall for thrillers that aim to be more literate and grownup than the usual fare: they sometimes forget to thrill.

The biggest appeal in this glossy cop thriller is seeing Denzel playing totally against his usual holier than holy type and if he'd taken more of these parts, I'd like him a whole lot more.

In yet another ostensible thriller about deadly germs wreaking havoc on human life and psyches, this is a frenetic, uneven story about germs going berserk in a sealed - off lab, giving rise to infected humans more berserk than the germs.

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.

But there were also numerous duds, including animated family film Free Birds, drama Out of the Furnace, and thriller misfire Paranoia, which all finished in the red (some in more ways than one, judging from those scores).

While that tells you more about its 2013 (in a word: disastrous) than it does about its 2014, Open Road did manage to get a lot of traction with critics last year with its Jake Gyllenhaal crime thriller Nightcrawler.

[The clichés of the counterterrorism action - thriller genre] cohere into something with enough surface plausibility to be more entertaining than insulting.

More than once my mind turned fondly toward «The Game,» David Fincher's magnificently preposterous 1997 thriller about an elite personal - entertainment firm that turns your life into a series of meticulously rigged pranks.

For the time it was set it reads much more like a romantic thriller than a case of mistaken identity or reviewing a network of spies.

There's no more treacherous horror subgenre than the rape - revenge thriller, because the worst examples confuse exploitation for empowerment, answering graphic scenes of sexual assault with a gruesome parade of righteous kills.

«Red Sparrow» has the nudity and sex of an erotic thriller and the stomach - churning gore of a slasher flick, but it also strives to be more than a genre movie.

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.

But Francis Lawrence's steely thriller, based on the first of Jason Matthews» trilogy of novels, shares more DNA with John Le Carré's densely - plotted espionage page - turners than the MCU.

Margin Call is more like Shark thriller than financial meltdown movie.

Entertainment One earned less money in 2013 despite releasing more films than in 2012, possibly because those films weren't all that good; only one, horror thriller We Are What We Are, managed to collect positive reviews.

Even if it isn't 10 % of the capacity to be an intelligent sci - fi thriller, it's an above - par action and special effects movie, so if you go into it expecting no more than that, it will deliver the goods in no short supply.

It's more of a political thriller than a straight - up action movie, but it still does a good job with an intriguing story and well - done action scenes.

Sydney Pollack's («Three Days of the Condor» / «Out of Africa») well - made but unimportant political thriller (more a character driven than a plot driven story) is set in New York City and frames its story around an assassination plot of an African leader set to speak at the United Nations.

Not merely a documentary portrait, but an engrossing drama with more twists and turns than your average thriller.

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.

More drama than thriller, the movie does a slightly better job with period detail than with character building.

Critic Consensus: Due to its use of cliched and ludicrous plot devices, this thriller is more predictable than suspenseful.