Sentences with phrase «slow burn movie»

It is a very slow burn movie with long quiet moments of Edward traveling across the south with him working through his rage and depression.

It as one of those slow burn movies that does a really good job tying up all loose ends to give audiences a very satisfying ending.

Not exact matches

With shadowy, black - and - white production, a slow - burning jazz soundtrack, and a wide ensemble of characters that runs the gamut of crime movie archetypes, Dick Hopper serves as a love letter to film noir, even as it skewers the genre with no mercy.

The movie is horribly paced into a monotonous slow burn that takes forever to explode.

It's slow burn of a movie, more eerily atmospheric than truly scary with great cinematography, fantastic makeup, and a creepy score.

This is a slow - burn, highly unsettling horror movie that does a masterful job building tension.

In a lesser movie, Plemons» ingeniously off - putting performance would handily steal the show, but in «Game Night,» it's just one of many great turns; Bateman's patented slow - burn plays well off McAdams» upbeat charm (when holding bad guys at gunpoint, she forces them into Child's Pose), while Magnussen's inspired idiocy perpetually finds new depths.

After seeing Atomic Blonde, the Kingsman movies, and Daniel Craig's 007 movies, the last movie I expected to see was a slow burn spy thriller that doesn't glorify espionage.

George Clooney is one of biggest movie star on the planet, so it doesn't surprise me that a lot of movie goers overlooked Anton Corbijn's slow burning, icy cold European spy thriller.

It's great when movies are a slow burn, but to qualify for that description there needs to be at least some heat.

A movie like «It Follows» is more of a slow burn; it leaves you unnerved, seeing the world outside the theater in a different, less - certain way.

During most of that time, Whannell tries his hand at the kind of atmospheric, slow - burn scares that made Wan's films textbook examples of what Roger Ebert termed «bruised forearm movies» (so named the intensity with which they cause your date to squeeze your antebrachium).

«Kong traditionally does not show up in these movies until very, very late, and the monster traditionally does not show up until very, very late in a monster movie, so a lot of these movies tend to have this structure that's a bit of a slow burn.

Shot in color, but being theatrically distributed in black and white, the film was also something of a slow - burn passion project for Payne, as he originally shelved it back in 2003 to take a break from the road movie genre after «Sideways.»

Don't be fooled by the trailer — it's less of a horror movie and more of a slow - burn psychological thriller, a brilliant study in how unchecked fear and paranoia can boil over suddenly.

More unsettling than actually scary, this slow - burning horror movie is directed and acted with style even though the script feels rather under - developed.

Reflecting the anxiety of the age, this year's best thrillers have run a gamut of phobias, from the environmental terror of Norwegian disaster movie The Wave to the paranoia of ill intentions that informs Karyn Kusama's supremely creepy slow burn The Invitation, about a seemingly friendly dinner party and the one guest who begins to suspect that things are not what they seem.

This is another slow burn of a movie, but one that's so effective and the payoff is so great that I instantly considered it a lost gem in my viewing list.

As a result, this one set - piece kind of takes up a good half of the movie, making it a slow - burning, yet non-stop piece of action.

Director Kevin Greutert is presumably hoping to break free from his torture - porn past (he directed both Saw VI and Saw 3D: The Final Chapter) by directing a slow - burn psychological horror movie, and acquits himself admirably in that respect.

It almost feels like a TV programme: on the small screen, the slow - burning plot and exposition would have been comfortable, but for a movie, it is painfully dull.

I quite liked The Lunchbox, too (it's a slow - burn kind of movie that ages well in one's memory), and I'm interested to see The Sense of an Ending.

-- Kurt [LOVED] A handsome slow burn horror movie in the spirit of Jonathan Glazer or Stanley Kubrick, thick with atmospheric dread as a devout family have their faith tested by a dark force lurking in the woods.

It's a slow burn of a buddy cop thriller that sticks to the most basic of action movie clichés, entirely ignoring the CGI and overzealous plotting of the last twenty years of big - budget cinema.

Director: Trey Edward Shults (Krisha) Why it's great: While this slow - burn horror story is not for all tastes, those who approach the movie's viral ickiness with an open mind will walk away somewhat impressed.

Even if your standards are this low, you won't find any pleasure in the film's wasting of Mad Men's Christina Hendricks (trapped in a disposable mom part), or the perverse way this movie eschews any of the slow - burn scares that made the first Strangers admirable.

Though the movie is a bit of a slow burn, the recurring use of flashbacks helps to break up the tediousness of the present - day action while also providing important backstory for its three lead characters.

Filmmaker Damien Power delivers a slow - burn opening stretch that certainly holds plenty of potential, as the writer / director does an effective job of establishing the various characters - with the promising vibe heightened by his somewhat innovative decision to spend time with the assailants before things go awry (ie the bad guys, particularly in movies of this ilk, are rarely developed beyond their most superficial attributes).

All the Money in the World won't change the world, but with its slow - burn dramatic intensity, all anchored by a trio of excellent performances, it's just the kind of grown - up movie to refresh your cinematic palette.

Simmering at a similar slow - burn of»70s films like «The Parallax View,» it's that absolute rarity these days, a movie made for grown ups, by grown ups.

The mystery side of things strongly helps the audience deal with the slow - burning nature of Tarantino's movies.

It's an interesting mystery and it's clearly meant to be a slow - burn kind of creepy movie, ramping up to all the running and teeth - losing in the trailer.

Kelly Reichardt, who doesn't just direct her movies but edits and writes them too, is the queen of the slow - burn 21st - century Western.

Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan specializes in slow - burn narratives set against poetically desolate landscapes, but his movies always have a clear direction.

It's an homage to «slow - burning» horror found in films such as the first Alien movie, where the scary stuff «doesn't really happen on screen,» he said.

With a movie so heavily focused on a slow - burning mystery and soaking its story in so much creepy tension, you don't get the ending you're expecting; far from it, actually.

While Volume One is a balls - to - the - wall action film with enough blood and severed limbs to fill several horror movies, Volume Two is more of a slow burn that spends a lot more time on The Bride's backstory.

«The Immigrant» Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Marion Cotillard and Jeremy Renner as directed by Playlist favorite James Gray («We Own The Night,» «Two Lovers «-RRB-, period drama «The Immigrant» screamed Oscar - contender from the outset, but it's actually quite a different animal with divergent concerns, as Harvey Weinstein found out (he pretty much dumped the movie, despite rave reviews, one of the biggest shames of 2014 so far), really more of a slow - burning emotional drama exploring the ideas of forgiveness and redemption via terrible characters that are nearly beyond salvation.

To call the movie a slow burn would be putting it lightly, but it's entirely compelling in the way that it patiently seduces the audience into an almost dreamlike trance.