Sentences with phrase «pace of a thriller»

The Library at Mount Char is also a very violent story, with the gore of a horror flick and the pace of a thriller.

Written with boundless intelligence and razor - sharp wit, The Facades is a comic and existential mystery that unfolds at the urgent pace of a thriller.

«A literary masterpiece... at once erudite and intimate, reflective and funny... it has the grit and pace of a thriller» ~ Daily Telegraph

Not exact matches

Like all of his books after Black Robe (his only attempt at historical fiction), it takes the form of a thriller, with a seductively relentless pace reminiscent of Simenon at his best.

It's a rip - roaring read, with a thriller's pace and a colorful cast of characters constantly butting into the protagonist's life (and, eventually, mind).

Bloodsworth is a fast - paced thriller with a happy ending, but the real hook of the story is what happened to the suspect — something that, again, could happen to any of us.

Moving at a thriller - like pace, the book recounts the decisions he helps his patients to make and the operations he then undertakes — in both cases, often quite literally a matter of life and death.

Route Irish is a fast - paced thriller, with some genuinely disturbing moments, but leaves the vaguely unpleasant feeling that Fergus» final violent rampages should ultimately be viewed as the fault of his victims.

Nevertheless, it is a well - paced thriller which will have certain members of Tony Blair's team shifting uncomfortably in their seats.

Set on both sides of the Atlantic, Iain Duncan Smith's debut novel is an ingenious fast - paced thriller with an intriguing cast of characters reaching the highest level of office.

READ: Angels and Demons, the precursor to The Da Vinci Code, will take you on a fast - paced ride through Rome and the Vatican as you uncover the secrets of the Illuminati in this historical fiction thriller.

But in staying true to life, it sacrifices some of the pacing and clarity of a conventional thriller.

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 flick.

A complex espionage thriller that makes impeccable use of a careful pace to stretch the tension to its maximum and an appropriately dark cinematography to recreate the paranoia of the»70s and the Cold War maneuvers, while Gary Oldman underacts in a perfect performance.

Writer / director Hugo Blick skillfully walks the hairline between a well - paced adventure thriller and a psychological study that gives us enough time to appreciate the nuances of the character we're watching.

This demanding and deliberately paced thriller (written and directed with ruthless intelligence by Hugo Blick) stands apart and above the glut of original programming.

Though he made a pair of low - budget film noirs, Kubrick made his first professional studio movie with The Killing, a tautly - paced heist thriller centered on Johnny Clay, a veteran criminal (Sterling Hayden) planning one last heist before settling down to marriage.

Eric Kohn at Indiewire enjoys the «nice calibration of performances and breezy pace that pulls you along with the increasingly risky stakes,» and THR echoes that sentiment, calling the film «a tight and tense political thriller sparked by unexpected humor.»

«The Neon Demon» was a beautiful entirely extremely disturbing thriller, totally hardcore, and the role of Elle Fanning was outstanding, Nicolas Winding Refn did an acceptable job, but from start was exciting until the middle of the I felt intermittent film, sometimes the pace increases and other decreases, but ended in the most disturbing way possible, certainly a hardcore film, a half scale.

From Mark Wahlberg's controlled verbal outbursts to Martin Sheen's earnestness to Alec Baldwin's schizoid vulgarities to Leonardo Di Caprio's compassionate toughness to Ray Winstone's quasi immobile fierceness to Jack Nicholson's beautifully pure excess, The Departed is indeed an performance - driven, fast - paced comedy of expertly timed thrills (or comedic thriller, depending on your point of view) peppered with several instances of acrobatic verbal witticisms, and topped with enough generic clichés and predictable screw - turns to make it palatable for all audiences (yes, even those who paid money to see Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Costner's The Guardian).

Pollack knows how to craft a thriller behind the camera; he has an expert command of pacing and plotting, setting up interesting situations masterfully.

In this fast - paced, high - adrenaline action thriller «Point Break,» a young FBI agent, Johnny Utah (Luke Bracey), infiltrates a cunning team of thrill - seeking elite athletes — led by the charismatic Bodhi (Edgar Ramirez).

Air Force One does not offer as much character nor plot to chew on as Petersen's last thriller involving the presidency, 1993's terrific Clint Eastwood starrer In the Line of Fire, but it still delivers the goods — a brisk pace, explosions, gunplay, fights, lots of airborne action, strong acting, and, last and certainly not least, the legendary Harrison Ford.

I kind of like slow paced films, especial when they are psychological thrillers... that's when a movie really gets under your skin.

Crumbling under pressure to deliver, Apted — a seventy - six - year - old British filmmaker behind movies such as 007's The World is Not Enough and The Chronicles of Narnia — struggles to find a steady pace throughout and fails to boost this rather generic and by - the - numbers thriller with energy, thought and complexity.

His 1928 thriller Spies (Spione) belongs to a different tradition, one that came out of the rapid - paced adventure and crime serials of the twenties that were inspired primarily by the hugely successful (and at times surreal) pulp crime serials of Louis Feuillade in France, such as Fantomas and Les Vampires.

With the fast - paced intensity of a real world thriller, «Cartel Land» brings that perspective closer to domestic territory.

Just a caveat for those seeking titillation: After Dark My Sweet is not an edge - of your - seat thriller, nor is it a soft - core sex thriller, so those going into it thinking it will be may be disappointed at the subtle pace and casual character development.

This Norwegian revenge thriller may move at a steady, meandering pace, but it has such a sharp sense of pitch - black Scandinavian humour that it's never dull.

So far so good can be said about the premise of children hijackers, but the two leads do have enough layers to stick with this well paced thriller.

Starting as a clever Contagion - style investigative thriller, this fiercely paced apocalyptic adventure begins to fall apart early on when smart logic is jettisoned for the more visceral thrills of seeing Brad Pitt save the planet...

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.

In the fast - paced action thriller, Dwayne Johnson stars as a father whose teenage son is wrongly accused of a drug distribution crime and is looking at a mandatory minimum prison sentence of 10 years.

Charley Varrick (1973)-- 9:00 PM, 35 mm «characteristically clean, fascinatingly and unfussily detailed, beautifully paced — a model of movie craftsmanship and a pointed affront to those slovenly wrecking derbies and indiscriminate bloodbaths that have been passing for contemporary action thrillers the last year or so.

Only last night to be bring you a stylish new international poster for Scott Waugh's film adaptation of video game NEED FOR SPEED, and now a UK quad come racing in for the fast - paced thriller led by Aaron Paul.

A mostly dull thriller that plods along at a maddeningly slow pace, «Escape Plan» is almost completely devoid of action or humor, making both stars» involvement questionable.

The Super Bowl is an event that is defined by spectacle, with everything being bigger and louder than every other thing, but this trailer for John Krasinski's sci - fi thriller A Quiet Place offered a nice change of pace from the patriotic songs at the start of the game — at least until that kid set off his very dangerous...

What prevents it from being the actual thriller that it dreams of being is the slug like pace that is witnessed in the second act.

An integral part of the moving into his third decade, White Bird In A Blizzard is a French funded thriller and much like Kaboom, this is a welcome switch of pace for the filmmaker.

Breslin's switched easily between genres over the course of her career, but she has relatively few straight - up thrillers under her belt so The Hive represents a bit of a change of pace for her.

I was hoping for more of a suspenseful thriller (a la Alien and Aliens), but I got a poorly paced action flick (a la Alien Resurrection).

His manically paced thriller tells the tale of a band of survivors struggling across Britain after a virus is unleashed that turns humans into rabid, murderous beasts.

John Madden (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Debt) directs the film with a brisk pace which is needed for this kind of political thriller.

This outstanding production team made a potentially horifyingly boring story into a fast paced thriller - of - a-drama that proves to be more exciting than Howard's previous critical flop The Davinci Code.

When you dub a film an action thriller, it can't just have a few impressive battle sequences; the pace of the film overall needs to reflect that, otherwise you'll end up with audience members checking their watches in between the exciting parts and that's exactly what happens here.

While the look of the show could be called Dinosaurs for ADD suferers due to its incrdibly fast pace and quick visuals, I think that most kids and adults will love this scientific thriller.

Alex Karpovsky, an actor on HBO's «Girls,» mainstay of multiple indie comedies and director of some of his own, successfully essays a change - of - pace psychological thriller in «Rubberneck,» enabled by his own perf as a repressed scientist with abandonment issues.

Ericson Core's new action thriller, «Point Break,» is an exciting, heart - racing, adrenaline - fueled and fast paced reimagining of the 1991 classic about FBI agent Johnny Utah (Luke Bracey) who infiltrates a duplicitous tea...

Safe House is an action / thriller, it is fast paced for the most part and it certainly contains a level of seriousness that I didn't expect.

Ericson Core's new action thriller, «Point Break,» is an exciting, heart - racing, adrenaline - fueled and fast paced reimagining of the 1991 classic about FBI agent Johnny Utah (Luke Bracey) who infiltrates a duplicitous team of thrill - seeking athletes led by the charismatic Bodhi (Edgar Ramirez).