Sentences with phrase «of more suspense»

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The modern master of suspense has sold more than 400 million books.

The 90 - year - old «Queen of Suspense» has published more than 50 books, and she told CNBC recently it's still a thrill.

The enemy aliens can take the form of everyday objects, thus making your task all the more suspense - filled.

If you can add an element of anticipation to build a little tension, anxiety or suspense, you can hold the attention of an audience until you're ready to release your punch line with much more impact.

Still, it is obvious that in order to fill more seats and lure back TV, women's tennis needs to find some strong competition for Evert, or it will continue to have finals that have all the suspense of shark vs. sardine.

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De Niro's performance begins to seem more a matter of well - practiced gestures than real conviction, and the long, silly finale more an exercise in empty panache by director Tony Scott than a truly gripping suspense piece involving people we care about.

That Collateral — a four - part Netflix drama involving the struggles of migrants seeking asylum, the evils of human trafficking, perfidious intelligence agencies, women's sexual victimization, drug - dealers and more — succeeds in achieving a certain suspense is no small miracle, given the confusion resulting from its hugely overcrowded script.

The far - from - engrossing vibe is compounded by a quizzical dearth of action or suspense oriented interludes, and it does, as a result, become more and more difficult to work up any real interest in or sympathy for the central character's exploits (which proves especially problematic by the time the twist - laden finale rolls around).

Doesn't always supply the smoothest ride of revelations and comeuppance, spending more time sorting out its homework than dealing with the sweet slings of sleaze and suspense that often define the genre.

Dial M remains more of a filmed play than a motion picture, unfortunately revealed as a conversation piece about murder which talks up much more suspense than it actually delivers.

Red Sparrow, a stodgy, confused mishmash of sex, sentimentality and sadism that offers more convolution than suspense, is hopefully as bad as their collaborations get.

The original film turned suspense levels to 11 by playing with dramatic irony, showing the audience the location of the three strangers far more often than the characters are aware of it.

The plot plays out like a very bad Silver Age comic, with a cringeworthy heavy - handed «Captain Planet» - esque anti-nuclear weapon message, beyond cheesy plot consisting of multiple meaningless subplots, mediocre effects - driven action sequences that induce laughter rather than suspense, and actors who seem more disinterested than the next.

The game offers so many different ways to complete missions and infiltrate locations that you could play through each mission more than once and still feel the suspense of finding and killing or saving your target.

The series is full of suspense and drama... And more than a few jokes to make the characters more loveable.

This retread has been bloated far beyond its B - movie origins, beefed up with more characters and an all - star cast, stripped of any real suspense and loaded down with music cuts and one - liners aimed at pleasing a crowd of rowdy male teenagers.

In addition to Mr. Tarantino's trademark dialogue - heavy, suspense - filled set pieces, there are moments of pure silliness, like a gathering of hooded night riders (led by Don Johnson), and a late escapade (featuring Mr. Tarantino speaking in an Australian accent) that perhaps owes more to Bugs Bunny than to any other cultural archetype.

On an almost admirably perverse level, «Lucy» isn't really much of a thriller — it's virtually an anti-thriller, devoid of suspense or any real sense of danger due to the fact that its heroine is more or less invincible.

A bit more suspense would have gone a long way here, and while director David Gelb, whose prior experience had been in the crowd - pleasing documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, has turned in a slick - looking feature for one with such a small budget (reportedly, only $ 5 mil), it really can't compete with better films out there in terms of quality, while it's too straight - faced in execution to at least give us some choice b - movie thrills.

Alex Garland's screenplay is pretty lean in terms of story (in the way that Jaws can be described as lean) and is more concerned with psychological suspense as opposed to philosophical speculation.

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Kylo being Kylo, he allows his rage to control his actions, and swings his lightsaber through Luke, at which point we discover, after a brief moment of suspense, that Luke is a lot more powerful than we thought, and that he accomplished all of this without ever leaving Ahch - To.

More than anything else, the film keeps its preeminent place because this is the movie in which Hitchcock became «Hitchcock,» earning the reputation he never relinquished as «The Master of Suspense.»

Affleck certainly did this story justice, trusting the audience with a significant amount of detail and developing suspense on a more cerebral level, leaving you with a deeper respect and understanding of the situation.

clouzot deserves far more respect than he receives in the U.S., and this film simply adds to his legacy of astoundingly good suspense and horror films.

Not bad, and a lot of fun, but not as good as the Kurt Russel version, which I think had a lot more suspense.

As with his later Pickpocket (1959)-- also a great film — Bresson is more interested in the everyday details of the escape, and not the suspense.

«Welcome to the Punch» displays a lot more potential than the recently released «The Sweeney,» but it still falls short due a lack of suspense and personality.

Imagine a bit of the Master of Suspense's «Rope,» a hefty helping of Henri - Georges Clouzot's «Diabolique» and more than a little of the class conscious comedy of Wes Anderson's «Rushmore,» and you're on the right track.

Expect more breathless suspense and hideous violence from Saulnier, who's poised to have a big couple years; he's directing much of True Detective's third season, too.

This would have made for a very different film of course, but it would have provided more opportunities for suspense and mystery.

There are some jump scares because for some unknown reason, no modern day horror film can leave them out but luckily more of the film relies on the atmosphere and concept to deliver the suspense.

One of the more consistently underlined truisms in Hitchcock / Truffaut, a work of cinephilic devotion that takes the titular 1966 book as its starting point, is the notion of the master of suspense as a director with full control over every effect in his films.

Opting for straight - line suspense, the filmmakers had to forgo subjective cutaways like the plainclothes cop's reflections on his tortuous relationship with a Third - World - infatuated feminist; again, Stone writes in a more bedrock commentary on metropolitan backsliding by refusing to reveal which of the hostages is the cop, so that the police monitoring the stolen train are led to wonder whether it's a man or a woman and chauvinistically calculate a woman's chances for taking effective action against the hijackers.

Compared to the previous entries, the action in Alien 3 is fairly minimal, with the alien attacks coming more out of shock than suspense this time out.

Feeling more Dawn of the Dead than helplessly infirmed, the titular creatures are impressively made - up in increasingly horrifying ways, but they sum up the major problem Crazies faces as it continues down a path of doom: it prefers horror over suspense.

This is a classic Hitchcock film, but credit should go more to the deft script by playwright Frederick Knott with a really smart succession of twists and turns to keep you in suspense.

While co-directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Ruby Sparks, Little Miss Sunshine) wring tension and suspense from the same - day build - up to the match, the match itself — captured by grainy, fuzzy TV cameras with the occasional, ground - level insert — and the immediate aftermath (symbolic and figurative, more than real or long - lasting), it's in the months - long lead - up to the match, following Billie Jean King (Emma Stone, never better) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) where Battle of the Sexes steps up its game to offer a sympathetic, insightful, poignant, behind - the - scenes look at the private lives of the public personas who stepped onto the tennis court of the Houston Astrodome on September 20th, 1973, as Americans on both sides of the political divide watched in rapt attention.

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While it shares similarities with its current - gen predecessor Silent Hill: Homecoming, Silent Hill: Downpour looks like more of a return to form in terms of how it builds atmosphere and suspense through the relative helplessness of its protagonist, Murphy Pendleton.

He doesn't seem terribly gifted or graceful in the helm, as the film shows flashes of sharp suspense thriller but is more often reduced to mindless, artless B - movie dreck.

It may not top the list of films that purport to «scare» — a goal that seems to be becoming increasingly unrealistic — this heady mixture of atmosphere and suspense is far more concerned with making filmgoers uncomfortable.

Eyes Wide Shut is at times overdrawn, at others overlong, but there's more than enough moments of eruditeness to make this a sexual suspense vehicle to remember.

The film concludes in a more conventional manner, perhaps, than might be expected, in that it's a flight to freedom — or maybe a fool's errand — but remains gripping and tense, balancing suspense and narrative drive with emotional entanglement and an unerring sense of dread.

by Walter Chaw Nicknamed «The Italian Hitchcock,» Dario Argento is more aptly classified «The Italian DePalma»: a director with his own set of stylistic excesses who, especially early in his career, borrowed many tropes from the Master of Suspense en route to crafting his own distinctive thrillers.

The movie does forecast its moments of danger / suspense a bit more than needed, but this may be its only method of catering to its family film classification.

Peter Berg knows the power of suspense, but even more than that, he knows the virtue of the human spirit, as is demonstrated by his work in «Patriots Day.»

Twohy delivers everything we expect — attractive performers in paradise (Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich as cute urbanites fumbling through the jungle, Timothy Olyphant and Kiele Sanchez as rather more prepared trail companions), breathtaking landscapes and lush scenery, ominous tensions and plenty of action — and something you likely did not: suspense, surprise and sheer fun.

It relies more on mystery and suspense, using clever devices to throw the audience off the trail of the real killer.