Sentences with word «policier»

The rarely done genre of the French policier is alive and well in director Xavier Beauvois» dynamic movie

Wind River — Hell or High Water writer Taylor Sheridan directs this backwoods policier with Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olson investigating a murder in snowy Wyoming.

Combine the two and voila: Films policiers, otherwise known as French film noir.

Similarly iconic, as an encyclopedic venture in policier psychogeography, is The Streets of San Francisco, which provides locations a-go-go and Karl Malden as a perfect investigative stand - in for James Stewart.

Still riding high on the success of Twins, which proved beyond doubt that broad comedy was very much in his wheelhouse, Arnie reunited with director Ivan Reitman for this similarly wholesome kiddie policier.

The great genre filmmaker discusses his controversial policier that asks dark questions about the Baader - Meinhof group's infamous suicides.

It would be disingenuous to say that Norman Jewison's sweat - dappled southern policier gains a chilling relevance at a time when then the White House is being populated with white supremacist yahoos, because the film's power was evident long prior to the world going very wrong indeed.

Both Takashi Miike's muscular chase flick Shield of Straw and Johnnie To's wildly compounded romantic policier Blind Detective make an asset out of their respective pillaging of genre signifiers.

Cops as drug addicts and double - dealers, pushers as glowering Eastern European thugs, violence as ultra-violence — these are all stock situations for morally ambiguous policiers on big screens and small, and Hyena doesn't do enough to stand apart from previous examples.

By the end of this brutal, twisting, and multilayered policier, who will be left to trust?

Based on Infernal Affairs, a finely complex Asian policier from 2002 (this is ten times better), the plotting has much the same wit as Face / Off, with DiCaprio's precarious dive mirrored by the spectacular rise of a clean - cut detective (Damon, equally well cast), secretly compromising the force for the benefit of his decadent gangster patron (an unhinged Nicholson, which is saying a lot).

Nonetheless, Red Riding: 1974 (d. Julian Jarrold) and Red Riding: 1980 (d. James Marsh) are both terrific policiers (I am yet to see the third film) dramatising the investigation of the famous Yorkshire Ripper case, and its compromising by rampant corruption in the police force and within the community.

Word comes from The Playlist via Slashfilm that John Hillcoat (The Road) might be eying a remake of Jean - Pierre Melville's classic policier Le Cercle Rouge in a report that begins by summing up the route the adaptation has taken to this...

The mood is something different, too: propelled forward like your standard policier, but dashed with humor and a wonderfully organic feel for the city.

The hook of the story is undeniably great, but the film plays, at first, like nothing more than a competent policier blessed with an inordinately talented cast.

William Friedkin's top - notch policier The French Connection set the bar eternally high for both the cop film and the action film.

Looking forward to December 2017, he re-teams with director David Ayer (who directed Smith in Suicide Squad) for Bright, an intriguing - looking hardboiled policier which takes place in a world populated by orcs, goblins and banshees.

This tale of repressed sexuality and liberation theology is surprisingly similar in feel to Melville's film policiers, dramas that explore in fine and ambiguous detail the difficulty and perhaps impossibility of unequivocal ethical behaviour.

And yet his death inevitably enhances certain traits in his work, elevating a deceptively simple policier to the state of elegy.

Klein is an art dealer; he brings together all those signs of status, icons of identity, even clues to policier mysteries that have proliferated through the preceding three decades.

The rarely done genre of the French policier is alive and well in director Xavier Beauvois's dynamic crime drama about Antoine (Jalil Lespert) a young police academy graduate who gives up his life in a small province to work in Paris.

Sidney Poitier confronts violent racists in smalltown Mississippi in this sweat - dappled 1967 policier.

We watch the fisticuffs straight and focused, the 130 minutes» duration of the movie flying by like the chopper that's all but inevitable in this time of a policier.