Sentences with phrase «suspenseful crime»
«Sicario» isn't the first movie to tackle the illegal drug trade along the U.S. - Mexico border, but it's easily one of the best, a relentlessly suspenseful crime thriller that offers a merciless look behind the curtain of the real War on Drugs.
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Directed with a sharp eye for its gritty locales and an open heart for its less - than - heroic characters, this is one of the true treasures of 1970s Hollywood filmmaking — a suspenseful crime drama in stark, unforgiving daylight.
Sounds like he's got more than enough pedigree and experience to tell a suspenseful crime story, and I for one am really excited.
INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (R for profanity, nudity, violence, drug use and graphic sexuality) Legendary director Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men, Network, The Verdict) assembles a talented ensemble for this suspenseful crime thriller about two brothers (Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke) whose perfectly planned heist of their parents» (Albert Finney and Rosemary Harris) jewelry store goes horribly wrong when their accomplice improvises with disastrous results during the botched robbery.
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The criss - crossed film narrative is in a state of overuse, but writer - director James DeMonaco's droll, modestly stylish crime gewgaw «Staten Island» wrings a few suspenseful and comic pleasures out of a time - bending format that has served the likes of Quentin Tarantino («Pulp Fiction») and Sidney Lumet («Before the Devil Knows You're Dead») among scores of others.
The ads make it look like an action / crime thriller, but it's more a suspenseful noir - ish art film with occasional ultra-violent outbursts.
The main crime committed by the film is that it isn't scary and it isn't suspenseful... resolutely unengaging.
Jean - Pierre Melville's «Le samouraï» is a most suspenseful neo-noir crime - thriller because it is filled to the brim with highly intelligent and intuitive characters who just so happen to excel at their jobs.
These fine actors and more populate this suspenseful, sun - drenched neo-noir that charts not just the aftermath of a crime, but one lost man's surprising discovery that he is not as far gone as he thinks.
At once elegant and enormously suspenseful, Steve Hamilton's Blood Is the Sky heralds his arrival as one of the premier crime writers working today.
For oenophiles, Francophiles and true crime fans, this suspenseful story is a well - balanced summer diversion.
Jill is a crime author who writes suspenseful, character - driven novels set in a European -LSB-...]
We're scheduling a tour for «The Suspenseful Collection», a multi-genre romance / crime fiction / erotica / fantasy collection.
The variations on this theme are infinite, but it's often more than a little difficult to decide what's simply a suspenseful vampire novel and what's a true genre blend involving vampires and crime fiction.
- Booklist «A clever, suspenseful, and funny tale of a formidable woman facing crime, politics, social stigma, all while nailing evildoers... Fans of the first Kopp Sisters novel will find another treat in this follow - up.»
Fantasy and crime enthusiasts will find all they can handle in this imaginative and surreal fusion of Chinese mythology, paranormal high jinks, and suspenseful sleuthing.
I loved two recent books that are both suspenseful and historical: The Yard by Alex Grecian is a crime novel set in London in 1889, in which a murder squad searches for Jack the Ripper.
Suspenseful and thrilling, and featuring a compelling new hero, The Drifter is an exciting debut from a fresh voice in crime fiction.
The authors describe how [several] cases come together in a highly suspenseful (chapters often end in cliffhangers) and thorough manner that still considers the victims and avoids gratuity... This timely, well - researched, highly readable account will appeal to readers interested in true crime and social justice issues.»
Allende's tightly plotted tale of crimes obvious and masked is sharply perceptive, utterly charming, and intensely suspenseful.»
I'd also recommend it not only to manga fans, but anyone who likes Hitchcock movies, hardboiled crime novels, or just suspenseful, well told stories.