Sentences with word «suspenser»

Solid suspenser with good performances from the two female leads and excellent cinematography.

Really solid suspenser, if not quite top - level Hitchcock for me.

Good characterizations bolster this straight - forward suspenser into being something more meaningful than a twisty con job feature, as we root for the protagonist to prevail because we genuinely care about his welfare.

«Comes on like a Sundance comedy — it won writer / director Spicer and co-writer David Branson Smith the screenwriting prize at Sundance 2017 — but it unfolds like a Hitchcock suspenser» — PH

Steven Seagal fans and action buffs should eat up this taut suspenser, which is set entirely on board a battleship.

What follows, unsurprisingly since Patricia Highsmith wrote the source novel, is a slow - boil suspenser whose true subjects are envy and the dual nature of identity (the title refers to Janus, god of transitions, whose two - faced gaze looks to both past and future).

Hopefully, he realizes it as well, so he can go back to that which made him impress us in his first big film, well - written suspensers.

This Germanic action suspenser, which premiered at last spring's Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, is no cut and run.

It's certainly watchable, and it is very good in spots, but derivative thriller plot devices and ludicrous leaps of logic mar what could very well have been a great modern - day suspenser.

Rear Window is truly a breathtaking feat of conception and absolutely riveting, and even without the use of external music, it's still an edge - of - your - seat suspenser of dramatic proportions.

Jodie Foster (Contact) starred in one of the best of the nineties (Silence of the Lambs), director Fincher directed a few suspenser gems (Se7en, The Game, Fight Club), and screenwriter David Koepp has been involved with some thrill - rides of his own (Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible).

Unlike the Gillian Flynn - penned bestseller TRAIN tends to resemble, or the David Fincher - directed suspenser based on Flynn's book, THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN tends to be more ordinary and less icily compelling.

As long as you don't think about it too much, you'll find Red - Eye to be an often riveting B - movie suspenser with some surprisingly nifty tricks up its sleeves.

A lot of footage from this lesser - known black - and - white romantic suspenser wound up in Steve Martin and Carl Reiner's film noir parody «Dead Men Do n`t Wear Plaid.»

Kiss the Girls, Eye of the Beholder, and Double Jeopardy have started a string of mediocre and predictable thrillers that, along with her latest endeavor, High Crimes, is going to make the name «Ashley Judd» synonymous with flawed suspensers.

For most of the way, Identity is a crackerjack suspenser, and will probably leave most second - guessing who the identity of the killer is much of the way.

Ida Lupino and Robert Ryan strike sparks in an icy domestic suspenser.

«Although this novel is being touted as a read - alike for Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl (2012), it lacks the complexity and depth of that title; instead, it more closely resembles Elizabeth Haynes» slam - bang suspenser Into the Darkest Corner (2012).»

It comes on like a Sundance comedy — it won writer / director Spicer and co-writer David Branson Smith the screenwriting prize at Sundance 2017 — but it unfolds like a Hitchcock suspenser.

It's not a total classic, but it's a solid suspenser.

A bubbly and effervescent Alfred Hitchcock romantic - suspenser that finds the Master in a relaxed and purely entertaining mood.

Failing to deliver as a suspenser, The Gift relies heavily on its name cast, particularly Cate Blanchette, which elevates the old - fashioned yarn to a more serious patina.

The rest of the film is a suspenser about whether they will be able to evade society's rules and fulfill their romantic destiny.

More a romance than a suspenser, 1942's Casablanca nonetheless mixed thrills with high - flown sentiment in a not dissimilar way.

11:15 pm — TCM — Spellbound Hitchcock indulged the 1940s Freudian craze with this suspenser starring Gregory Peck as a disturbed individual and Ingrid Bergman as his psychiatrist.

Other highlights include Damien Powers's Killing Ground, a «straight - up, stripped - down suspenser» (Variety) about a camping trip gone wrong in the Australian bush; Caught, Jamie Patterson's subtle, otherworldly home - invasion pic starring Mickey Sumner; Pavan Kirpalani's Hindi head - trip Phobia; and Daniel Castro Zimbrón's The Darkness, a highly atmospheric post-apocaylptic thriller lensed by Diego García (Neon Bull, Cemetery of Splendor).