Sentences with phrase «of tense drama»

The film documents the situation well in its own cinematic fashion, creating a perfect sense of tense drama and intrigue, even if we know everything turns out fine in the end.

Star of the tense drama, Jack O'Connell, has been nominated in the Best Actor category and will go head to head with Brendan Gleeson (inset below) for his portrayal of troubled Father James in John Michael McDonagh's «Calvary».

The trailer sets the scene of a tense drama, with twists and turns, and the presence of Catherine Keener and Sean Penn also lends it some credibility.

For fans of tense drama, award - worthy acting and confident, steady directing, the film is like a day at the carnival.

Synopsis: The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines.

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There's some inherent drama to buying a house: big sums of money, high emotional stakes, tense negotiations, simply tragic interior decor.

In a bit of drama that unfolded during the end of the year, city and state officials were locked in a tense negotiation over how much the de Blasio administration would receive in its annual reallocation.

The still, sequential style makes for some really tense moments where you're not sure what's going to happen next where, unlike a real comic book, you can't accidentally catch a glimpse of the next few panels.The heavy subject matter and somewhat gruesome elements won't be for everybody but if gritty crime drama is your thing, and you like the aesthetic, it is a very engrossing adventure game.

CHICAGO — Ben Affleck has reached the apex of his already impressive directorial career with the stunning «Argo,» a tight, tense machine of a film, a masterwork that delivers as comedy, action, drama, and more.

Hideaki Anno and Shinki Higuchi (of Evangelion fame) bring a storyline that is not only satisfying on a destruction level, but also plays out as a tense political drama with scathing commentary on the current geo - political climate in Japan.

Steven Spielberg's flawed but ambitious Munich and Ben Affleck's rousingly old - fashioned and entertaining Argo also come to mind as better examples of how to bring this kind of tense, fact - based crisis - and - rescue drama to life on the screen.

Everywhere the camera turns in this tense and volatile drama, it finds enough interest for a truckload of conventional Hollywood fare.

The tense, involving result confirms Sciamma's mastery over the coming - of - age drama, a genre too often reduced to its simplest ingredients.

Olivier then becomes intensely curious about his new student... [/ font][font = Century Gothic][/ font][font = Century Gothic] «The Son» is a tense drama that is filmed with handheld cameras, so the viewer is looking at Olivier's point of view throughout the film.

One of the highlights of 2013 was an unexpectedly tense and exciting prison drama called Starred Up.

Originally titled Under the Sand, the only crude aspect of this extraordinarily tense drama is its punning English - language title.

Less relentlessly bleak than Winter's Bone, which along with Frozen River is an obvious inspiration here, the life - on - the - margins drama makes a fine, tense vehicle for Tessa Thompson, who in the last few years has stood out in a variety of genres.

What could have been a re-tread of every war film you've ever seen became an achingly tense drama of survival and failure, with some of the best cinematography of the year.

Yet, the film plays out with little sense of requisite suspense that made the first Psycho such a great film, and many of the scenes, including the murders, play out as if they were made for a psychological drama, rather than in a scary horror flick or tense, nail - biting thriller.

French director and co-writer Gilles Legrand shows great mastery of tone and pacing in his third feature, which begins life as a domestic drama set at a family - owned vineyard and slowly morphs into a tense thriller.

Director Patricia Riggen's «The 33,» a tense drama about the 2010 collapse of a Chilean mine and the rescue attempts that followed.

Sautet delivers the tense details of the robbery and the elaborate getaway from the streets of Milan to a boat waiting to deliver him back from exile to his home country of France with precision and crisp professionalism, but that's merely prologue to the drama that follows when he's betrayed by his former gang.

The trailer for Sicario (Spanish for hitman) from director Denis Villeneuve (Enemy, Prisoners) is here and it's a tense two minutes of action and drama with Golden Globe winner Emily Blunt (Into the Woods, The Young Victoria) and Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro (Traffic, 21 Grams) fighting the war on drugs through a backdoor loophole that allows for a clandestine mission to apprehend a Mexican drug lord.

Starring Mirren, Aaron Paul and the late Alan Rickman, this tense drama will make you suspicious of that bird outside your window

With his latest, the thriller Erased, the director attempts to recreate the kineticism of his promising 2008 film North Face, a work that made legitimately tense drama out of a rock - climbing contest gone horribly wrong, but winds up hewing much closer to the conventional imagination of his previous effort.

Buddy cop films that blend tense drama, wise - cracking partners and eye - widening action have long been popular, with the jewel of the genre being Lethal Weapon.

The runners - up to «12 Years a Slave» were Stephen Frears ««Philomena,» with Judi Dench as a woman looking for the out - of - wedlock child the Catholic Church took from her decades earlier, and Denis Villeneuve's tense kidnapping drama «Prisoners,» with Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal.

But no one will confuse this tense drama with Weird Science — Ex Machina, which marks the directorial debut of 28 Days Later writer Alex Garland, is an unnerving meditation on the ethics of artificial intelligence, the ever - growing power of Silicon Valley (Isaac plays the reclusive founder of a search - engine company), the nature of human desire and more.

Mike Leigh has made a period biographical drama before: Topsy - Turvy (1999), about the rewarding but tense association of Gilbert and Sullivan and their own rewarding but tense association with the theatre - going public.

What starts as a love story and tense drama about a troubled son of a real estate broker -LSB-...]

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Swiss director Frédéric Mermoud is no stranger to helming tense visions, as his bold directing work on episodes of the hit series «Les Revenants (The Returned)» changed the scope of French drama.

Since then, the lanky, long - haired actor has cropped up in many unexpected places: he and Andrea Riseborough touchingly played older donors Rodney and Chrissie in Mark Romanek «s «Never Let Me Go ``; he was adventurous Weasley brother Bill in both parts of «Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ``; embodied Live Aid mastermind Bob Geldof in the TV drama «When Harvey Met Bob ``; and unrecognizably played outlaw Moon in the impossibly tense scene that marked the highlight of the Coen Brothers ««True Grit.»

It contains elements of a heartfelt family drama, a gentle romance, a tense psychological thriller and, thanks to a shocking revelation at the movie's midpoint, a gripping mystery.

You could describe his style vibe as «casual priest» — a perfect look for talking about First Reformed, his tense drama starring Ethan Hawke as an alcoholic minister named Toller who's politicized by questions of how an Old - Testament God can combat global warming.

However, for those who do venture to watch it, you will be rewarded with tense drama and intrigue, and a gripping true account of an event where the fate of humanity hanged in the balance.

Call of Duty began as WW2 - era shooter focused on recreating the tense drama of war.

With every frame, this romantic drama charms, yet at its heart beats a tense battle for identity buoyed by a dark sense of humor.

Primal Fear is a tense film that brings together a lot of the elements that make for a great crime drama.

In short, it's needlessly overthought, eventually losing its grip on the tense, realistic drama that slowly reels us in and implicates us in the more provocative elements of torture.

But the towering dramatic actors of that now fabled decade never appeared together in a film until the «90s and then only once, in Michael Mann's tense crime drama He..

But the towering dramatic actors of that now fabled decade never appeared together in a film until the «90s and then only once, in Michael Mann's tense crime drama Heat (1995).

Damien Chazelle's unbearably tense drama arrived in the UK in January (later than for many of our international readers).

Taken out of context, Wrath of the Titans is merely fine, offering some colourful sequences and tremendously hideous beasties (that Chimera is a thing of grotesque beauty) but offering nothing in the way of arresting drama, tense romance or distracting belly laughs.

The moment when this exhilarating, undeniably tense survival drama suddenly turns into a syrupy romance drowning in treacle was one of the worst theatrical experiences I had the misfortune to experience in 2017.

Sam Claflin, Asa Butterfield, and Paul Bettany star in this tense drama about the lives of British soldiers in a First World War dugout, based on R.C. Sherriff's classic play.

Already boasting a Foreign - Language Oscar nomination for «Incendies» and a string of strong independent features, Villeneuve continues to prove his deeply confident footing in modern day cinema, bringing intelligence and muscular and mannered nuance to a somber and extremely tense studio drama that doesn't deign to ever spell things out (the ending is probably the most bold studio finale we've seen in ages and seemed to even puzzle some).

Get a glimpse of all the lurid beauty in the original trailer for the film, which touts it as «a tense, rank drama woven of the raw realism of life itself!»

With its sharp dialogue, great soundtrack of opera and classical music and excellent cast, I look forward to the next film by Atom Egoyan as I feel he will have several tense dramas in store for us.

A psychological thriller that's every bit as tense, twisted and sexually perverse as the director's previous work, «Stoker» is the kind of movie that gets under your skin and stays there for days, an achievement on its own whether you enjoy Park's disturbing family drama or not.