Sentences with phrase «suspense of a thriller»

Playing to the worst nightmares of my gender, this movie presents all the emotional power of a mother's love along with the gripping suspense of a thriller.

Not exact matches

I'm a big fan of suspense thrillers, and «In a Dark, Dark Wood» was one of my favorites of the year.

When you first watch the movie, it is a bit of a suspense thriller.

Joe Carola SJ FAITH Magazine May - June 2006 Dan Brown's suspense - thriller, The Da Vinci Code, hardly needs a word of introduction.

Indeed, a too - powerful divinity sucks all the suspense out of a supernatural thriller, since the outcome of a God - and - the - devil showdown is never really in doubt.

It will be a thriller I tell you and full of suspense as you «might» catch the mighty - prof himself engage in a wrestling match on the touch line.

I went through a phase of life where I was entranced by horror, thriller, suspense movies.

But Game Control indulges neither the props of the techno - thriller not the emotional exploitation of the genre suspense yarn.

The Interpreter tries to cast itself in the Hitchcockian tradition of Secret Agent and The Man Who Knew Too Much, but apart from the film's climactic bus sequence and another nicely crafted sequence toward the movie's end, this thriller never visually builds much tension or suspense.

The story itself uses the parody of horror cliches to its advantage to create a plot that is classic suspense / thriller inspired alongside comedic elements that don't interrupt the plot but rather compliment it.

I loathed Compliance, but there Zobel was using the tools of the suspense thriller to melt you down.

In addition to being a first - rate suspense - thriller, «The American» is also a character study of Jack, aka Edward, as he runs from trouble in Sweden to hide out in a small Italian village posing as a photographer.

EDWARD BURNS stars in Franchise Pictures» suspense thriller «A Sound of Thunder» also starring Catherine McCormack and Ben Kingsley and distributed by Warner Bros..

Sleek and satisfying... Almost a drawing room thriller, unhurried and genteel but enlivened with suspense and surprising bursts of sly, even biting, humor.

Transsiberian is a model of audience manipulation, a slow - fuse thriller that builds its suspense gradually, in increments, until it has becomes close to unbearable.

Hitchcock would be proud of this trainbound suspense thriller with Woody Harrelson playing against type.

Given a good basis for a thriller in the Patricia Highsmith novel and a first - rate script, Hitchcock embroiders the plot into a gripping, palm - sweating piece of suspense.

One of Hollywood's sexiest and most magnetic leading men, Denzel Washington's poise and radiantly sane intelligence permeate whatever film he is in, be it a socially conscious drama, biopic, or suspense thriller.

Frustratingly, Anon has the makings of a superior future - shock suspense thriller, but Niccol drops the ball on too many fronts.

I would advise everyone to instead just watch The Shallows, a superior shark thriller with natural style, tautly wound suspense sequences, and the luxury of an emotionally compelling character arc to go along with the benefits of a sun - kissed Blake Lively.

With the artful and clever concept of little to no dialogue, the film keeps the audience engaged and too scared to make a sound themselves (you don't even wan to munch on your popcorn) Yes, as with many thrillers, there are a few plot holes, but the plot is unique, the acting is good and suspense is palpable.

Story: Academy Award winner George Clooney stars in the title role of this suspense thriller.

He did several suspense films, including Johnny Allegro and Dangerous Profession, but it was his work on The Window that earned Tetzlaff a permanent place in the memories of filmgoers — a dark, chilling, and suspenseful thriller, based on the fable of the boy - who - cried - wolf, this film, about a young boy (Bobby Driscoll) known for telling tall tales, who witnesses a murder in his tenement building and can't get anyone to believe him, was an instant hit.

Recommended for fans of Reynolds, Egoyan or basic suspense thrillers.

Some descriptions of The Salesman call it a thriller, suggesting a Hollywood - style suspense film.

Unfortunately, Kiss of Death was a critical and box - office failure, as were his successive suspense thrillers Jade, Cold Around the Heart, and Body Count.

Director Colin Higgins plays foul with the audience, constructing some of the most dishonest suspense sequences ever filmed, and ends with a thriller that is obnoxious and manipulative in the extreme.

«The Walk,» Zemeckis» account of Phillippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the Twin Towers of the old World Trade Center, would seem to be the ultimate Zemeckis set piece, rivaling the awesomeness of the plane crash and island sequences of «Cast Away,» the upside - down jet maneuver in «Flight,» the intergalactic wormhole trips in «Contact,» and the small - scaled relentlessness of the suspense sequences in his under - appreciated 2000 thriller «What Lies Beneath» (which wrung tremendous excitement from the question of whether a nearly paralyzed woman could use her big toe to remove the stopper from a bathtub drain).

A thriller that tries aggressively, but not entirely successfully, to deliver the goods of three genres — suspense, supernatural and horror.

The film is one of those rare modern thrillers that manages to combine fantastic acting and intelligent dialogue with real, heart - stopping suspense.

A disappointing hodgepodge that fails to tie up its conflicting strands of family drama and suspense thriller.

The finale, involving the assassination attempt during Zuwanie's speech, seems too much like those enacted in other Hollywood thrillers to be fresh and was drained of suspense by its too cleverly devised twists.

A relentless suspense thriller that enters the hidden world where the rich and the brilliant collide, where a handful of bright, driven young men and women have the means to make or break the technology that will dominate the global economy.

The thriller telegraphs most of its suspense payoffs, and the audience is almost always ahead of the game.

On an almost admirably perverse level, «Lucy» isn't really much of a thriller — it's virtually an anti-thriller, devoid of suspense or any real sense of danger due to the fact that its heroine is more or less invincible.

But if you're even a mildly cynical A-section reader and / or devourer of suspense novels, and especially if you've enjoyed the many fine British multipart political thrillers that have graced our airwaves, like To Play the King and A Very British Coup and State of Play, then The State Within will seem either too familiar or too diffuse.

This well - done suspense - thriller is a variation of the Fatal Attraction theme with Ray Liotta as the cop from hell.

«Academy Award ® winners Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush join Academy Award ® nominee Clive Owen in a gripping historical thriller full of suspense, intrigue and adventure!

That's not to knock these films on quality or suggest that anything with name actors is merely mindless escapism: Fox Searchlight's thriller The East efficiently mines suspense out of Brit Marling infiltrating Alexander Skarsgaard and Ellen Page's eco-terrorist group (at least until it goes south in its last third) and the Paul Rudd - Emile Hirsch two - hander Prince Avalanche makes the most of its pastoral settings and gently bro - centric chattiness, to name just two.

With so many teen thrillers taking the route of bad, sensationalist horror, it's nice to see a standard suspense vehicle come out once in a while, with better characterizations and fright earned through putting characters in potential jeopardy, rather than just cheap jump - scares and shrill music.

Writer and director Taylor Sheridan (writer of Hell or High Water and Sicario) delivers a tightly wound suspense thriller as intense as it is unpredictable.

Part of what makes German director Christian Petzold's pulp psychological thriller so special is the way it wrings complex shades of suspense and disquiet out of very basic techniques, and its finale — the most sublime gasp moment of the year in film — is a master class in simplicity of form, cut almost entirely from just two angles and carried by stars Nina Hoss and Ronald Zehrfeld, whose performances have been building to this one exchange of subtleties.

Of course it defies genre — it's not primarily a horror movie or a suspense thriller but simply a character study, with the delicacy that term typically implies but also with a freakishness it doesn't usually portend.

3208R Ð George Clooney stars in the title role of director Anton CorbijnÕs suspense thriller THE AMERICAN, a Focus Features release.

Released in May of 1997, Breakdown is an old - school suspense / thriller from director Jonathan Mostow and starring Kurt Russell.

George Clooney stars in the title role of director Anton CorbijnÕs suspense thriller THE AMERICAN, a Focus Features release.

Bad Samaritan (R for violence, drug use, pervasive profanity and brief nudity) A suspense thriller revolving around a car valet moonlighting as burglar (Robert Sheehan) who breaks into the home of one of the restaurant's rich customers (David Tennant) only to find a kidnapped woman (Kerry Condon) tied up there.

Whether you know nothing about the game, or you are a grand master, the story of Bobby Fischer's rise to the world championship, and the toll it took on his already fragile psyche, has all the suspense and intrigue of an espionage thriller.

This is one of the best horror / suspense / thriller movies I have seen.

It has the kind of romance one would expect in a soap opera, and with a fair amount of suspense one would expect in a thriller.