Sentences with phrase «potboiler at»

Overall, we thought that «Split is a solid example of the type of elevated B - movie potboiler at which Shyamalan excels.»

Overall, though, Split is a solid example of the type of elevated B - movie potboiler at which Shyamalan excels, and to which he thankfully seems to be re-committing his energies.

Not exact matches

Before «99 Homes,» Bahrani made a more conventionally plotted family - farm potboiler, «At Any Price,» with Dennis Quaid and Zac Efron.

At the end, it's hard to avoid the sense you've watched a grab - bag of horror conceits, a kind of pot - pourri - potboiler with organising principles cooked up to provide a veneer of cohesion.

Not satisfied creating mere potboilers, Kazan takes a deeper, more socially conscious look at his subjects than many, and the result is a wonderful film that takes its time arriving at a conclusion that continues to shock, even today.

Their scenes early in the movie set a flame under what is — at that moment — an already effectively paced and shot little potboiler about a man dedicated to the law and another driven to break the law because of the cracks in the system of said law.

There are always repercussions to the story's brutally violent acts, so while, on the surface, the film is a crackling potboiler with a fatalistic sense of forward momentum, it also deals with the inconsistent beliefs of the senselessness of violence and the at - times necessity for it.

At least Planet Terror looks like the sleazy potboilers ground out in narrow «twin» cinemas of old.

As the title promises, the post-Civil War potboiler has scoundrels — eight, at least — circling each other and, eventually, pouncing and bleeding.

A loss - and - revenge potboiler with Relevant Sociopolitical Pretensions, elevated beyond all reason by Diane Kruger's wounded beast of a great performance, which won her best actress honors at Cannes.

Doug Liman (Swingers, Go) keeps the film reserved most of the way, although an exciting car chase and shootout at the end does fuel the action up a notch above most espionage potboilers.

Doc would be correct, of course, and as the plot of Thomas Pynchon's potboiler pastiche Inherent Vice grinds into high gear, he'll run afoul of several alive - folks - thought - dead, mysterious cults, more mysterious cartels, crazy drugs, loaded guns, subversives, countersubversives, obscure nautical laws, a band of dentists gone bad, and, worst of all, he will witness firsthand the slow strangulation of a certain dream of free living at the hands of nefarious historical forces.

In the midst of this potboiler lands the three criminals, who mastermind a bank job that involves hiding out at an Amish farm.

Nicole Kidman stuffed her trunks with evening gowns to walk the Palais steps — with Colin Farrell, for Cannes director - winner Sofia Coppola «s Civil War potboiler «The Beguiled» (Focus Features) and Yorgos Lanthimos» «The Killing of a Sacred Deer» (A24), both in Competition, and again for John Cameron Mitchell «s midnighter «How to Talk with Girls at Parties» (A24) and a preview of Jane Campion «s returning Sundance Channel series, «Top of the Lake: China Girl.»

What begins as a dirge for the institutions of physical and emotional wealth diverges midway into something of a competent yet vague potboiler before finding its slow rhythm again at the end.

That said, students are more likely to run across the very most empathy - growing books through their local libraries than by merely surfing around at Amazon for the most action - filled potboilers.

Freelance atmospheric modification may sound far - fetched, but the potboiler concept was on the agenda last week at an invitation - only, international workshop in Lisbon, Portugal.