Sentences with phrase «tension in thrillers»

She had already earned recognition for screenplays that could keenly capture romance in Fish Without a Bicycle and ratchet tension in thrillers like For the Love of Money.

Hooking the audience and keeping them interested is a delicate balance when building tension in a thriller like this.

Not exact matches

Erdem's collection possessed a tension as delicious as that found in any thriller set in the famously mysterious city.

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.

A complex espionage thriller that makes impeccable use of a careful pace to stretch the tension to its maximum and an appropriately dark cinematography to recreate the paranoia of the»70s and the Cold War maneuvers, while Gary Oldman underacts in a perfect performance.

When Jason Matthews's best - selling spy thriller novel Red Sparrow debuted in 2013, the CIA gave it a glowing review in an official statement, toasting the former agent - turned - author's ability to convey accurately the stomach - churning tension a spy feels when covering tracks to protect sources and win the war of intelligence.

This woman - in - peril thriller is well acted, but director Lewis Gilbert fails to draw much tension from the perilous setup situation.

While the beginning of the film feels like it's setting the audience up for a somewhat boring lesson on drone warfare (I'm looking at you, Good Kill), Hood — still wiping the sting of X-Men Origins: Wolverine off with Ender's Game and now this — excellently threads the needle of tension and, before you know it, the thriller aspect of the film becomes abundantly clear as the series of events play out in semi-real time over the course of one day.

The tension isn't as strong as it needs to be in a thriller and the denouement, in Michigan's upper peninsula, seems a bit tacked on — something we've seen many times before.

Nothing But the Truth — Yari Film Group, 102 mins — Kate Beckinsale and Vera Farmiga duel in this tension - filled Rod Lurie political thriller about a woman journalist who outs a women CIA operative.

Instead, there are some twists that reduce the terror in favor of character tension, which in a thriller would work fine, but in this film come off as gimmicky and distracting.

Denis Villeneuve's war - on - drugs epic, Sicario, was one 2015's most refreshing hits, a bloody crime thriller lathered in grit and tension.

The violence and gore is pretty minimal here but that doesn't matter as it is tension, atmosphere and anticipation of violence that makes a good thriller and Dario Argento pitches everything perfectly as he tells the simple story of an American man named Sam (Tony Musante) living in Italy with his girlfriend Julia (Suzy Kendall).

Full of suspense and tension, this is one hell of a thriller that will have you squirming in your seat.

It is captivating, to say the least, particularly in a climax that produces more tension than any action film or thriller this year.

Subversion, mischief and tension in the highest traditions of Hitchcock are alive and well in this bold and brilliant thriller debut from writer - director Jordan Peele that darkly sends up the social fissures that still exist in US race relations.

Sofia Coppola remakes Clint Eastwood's Western thriller about a wounded Union soldier taking refuge in a Confederate girls boarding school, leading to rivalries and sexual tension.

This is an adult prestige - thriller that trusts its audience to follow an at - times - convoluted plot and to be persuaded into tension by a story the resolution of which is never in doubt.

But in thrillers and horror films, when used effectively, sensory deficiencies serve to substantially ratchet up tension levels.

In the climax of a thriller, tension is often extracted when the main character is hiding from a dangerous threat lurking nearby.

Working with this incredible story, Affleck and screenwriter Chris Terrio create an old - fashioned suspenseful thriller in which the mission hangs by a thread at every turn, and in which the tension is occasionally diffused by clever and satirical Hollywood humor.

Starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal as a divorced couple who haven't spoken in nearly two decades, the thriller builds its tension around Susan's (Adams) dark past.

Given that there are multiple scenes in which you could cut the tension with a knife, it actually might be best to think of the film as a thriller with horror elements rather than as pure horror.

It's not a comedy by any definition — in fact, it's a terrific thriller with as much personality as tension — but Lester weaves some terrific character humor through the picture, notably Roy Kinnear as the hapless Social Director, trying his best to keep spirits through the ordeal.

Scottish director Kevin Macdonald, who's best known for the Oscar - winning «The Last King of Scotland,» knows how to build tension, and his talents are on full display in «Black Sea,» a claustrophobic submarine thriller.

Combine that tension with a beautifully disconcerting score (courtesy of one Giona Ostinelli), a starkly creative visual style (both in production design and cinematography), and, perhaps best of all, a freaky sense of ongoing unpredictability, and the result is a cool, brutal, and confidently satisfying indie thriller.

He crafts a slick, retro - style thriller that recalls the early days of Tobe Hooper, Wes Craven and John Carpenter, and building tension with a stripped - down efficiency that's in no small part due in large part to cinematographer Ryan Samul's (We Are What We Are) electrifying camerawork.

From an opening sequence in a haunted house with an intricately constructed soundtrack to a high - tension, cat - and - mouse game on a trip from Paris to London and back set entirely to text messaging, Personal Shopper brings the psychological and supernatural thriller into the digital age.

Set in the mid-1980s, it builds a thriller - like story of a woman trying to help her friend obtain a dangerous illegal abortion — yet it's a thriller so deliberate that its very slowness and lack of movement becomes a major source of tension.

In spite of the ending being well known — and certainly it was in the trailer, so most viewers will be aware now even if not before — he manages to turn Frost / Nixon into a thriller of sorts, with tension building throughouIn spite of the ending being well known — and certainly it was in the trailer, so most viewers will be aware now even if not before — he manages to turn Frost / Nixon into a thriller of sorts, with tension building throughouin the trailer, so most viewers will be aware now even if not before — he manages to turn Frost / Nixon into a thriller of sorts, with tension building throughout.

As its own entity, however, «Secret in Their Eyes» is a relatively dull and slow - moving thriller that fails to create any tension from its time - jumping narrative.

Paranoia and mistrust run rampant in The Invitation as painful memories from the past are dredged up and inauspicious developments in the present combine to form one of the most tension - rich environments you're likely to get in a mystery thriller of its ilk.

This moral struggle makes the film not only a mini-study of philosophy and psychology, but more important, a nail - biter thriller in which tension comes from the hesitations and even the comic examination of people who are most concerned with covering their own butts by avoiding a decision to let the bombs rip.

Leonard Maltin, IndieWire.com: «In his debut feature, director Dan Trachtenberg plays all his cards right, building tension through a series of thriller tropes, some of them bordering on cliché but still pretty effective.»

Director Doug Liman certainly understands how to use the camera in creating tension and stress, yet while he and writer Dwain Worrell seem so intent on proving the confusion and futility of war, they seem to forget that a thriller needs either a hero to cheer or a villain to jeer.

By doing things this way, the movie ends up having nothing in the way of tension or mystery, the whole thing ending up being more of a pretentious talk - a-thon character study than the violent, bullet - riddled revenge thriller hinted at early on.

However, the wise - cracking sock monkey breaks any tension this movie might have built in terms of a horror or thriller story.

David Fincher's meticulously assembled thriller is a masterclass in sustaining tension and fear.

Michael Wallace keeps the tension building page by page in this well crafted thriller, which I strongly recommend.

This month's Whodunit column features a newly translated Scandinavian hit, a spy - filled thriller, a Hitchcockian story set in Boston and a tension - filled literary thriller.

The joy is discovering how to wind a love story and a thriller together in such a way that pace and tension keep the book in readers» hands and the romance in readers» hearts.

She also sustains a surprising amount of suspense — Alliluyeva's defection in 1967 in particular has the tension of a spy thriller or an episode of «The Americans.»

The U.K. contingent rounding out our bundle is equally impressive - # 1 U.K. bestsellers Steven Savile, Zoe Sharp and Sean Black all deliver tension - filled excitement in their action - oriented thrillers.

I didn't adapt my sci - fi thrillers for podcast serialization; I simply identified places in the story that revved up the tension, and ended episodes with cliffhanger chapters.