Sentences with phrase «than a crime thriller»

McDonagh tries to pass «In Bruges» off as more than a crime thriller.

The imagery at some points makes you think you paid money to see a horror film rather than a crime thriller, but it is all the more effective as Blunt gives a strong, but vulnerable performance.

Not exact matches

I'd become a writer of crime novels and thrillers and I was more interested in books than in football.

While that tells you more about its 2013 (in a word: disastrous) than it does about its 2014, Open Road did manage to get a lot of traction with critics last year with its Jake Gyllenhaal crime thriller Nightcrawler.

Our hygienic hero gets far more than he bargained for in director Renny Harlin's twisty crime thriller, co-starring Ed Harris as Carver's old partner and Eva Mendes as a grieving wife.

Rather than try to take on Matt Damon in space, Focus surveyed the release calendar and wisely moved «London» to Jan. 22, 2016, where it will go up against a faith - based movie starring Tom Felton, STX's low - budget thriller «The Boy» and the Kevin Costner - Ryan Reynolds crime drama «Criminal.»

American master Brian De Palma's latest creation, Passion (a remake of Alain Corneau's 2010 erotic thriller Love Crime), has welcomed a significantly more positive response than that of both his last two films, Redacted (2007)...

This looks okay, but doesn't seem like anything more than a standard detective thriller set in LA, even though the crime they've investigating is very well knonw.

Directed by Joe Roth, Freedomland is a thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson and Julianne Moore, about a woman whose young son is kidnapped as she drives through a predominantly black neighbourhood, and the extreme unrest that is generated when the predominantly white police spend far more resources trying to solve the case than they ever spend on crimes in which black people are the victims.

This early»80s crime thriller didn't seem like a Criterion film, but now it's impossible to imagine it getting any less than this thorough, respectful presentation.

Tower Heist escapes being awful by being more crime thriller than comedy.

Packed with cliches, there's nothing remotely original about this East London crime thriller, which seems to be based on other similar movies rather than an original story or characters.

Dial M for Murder premiered at the Westminster Theatre in London in 1952, only for it to be made into an expert crime mystery thriller by Alfred Hitchcock two years later, while Wait Until Dark, another complex and dark play in the vein of Hitchcock's interests directed by Arthur Penn (who would helm Bonnie and Clyde the very next year), saw the light of day in early 1966 on Broadway, where it instantly attracted the attention of both the audience and Warner Brothers, determined to turn it into a feature film starring none other than Hollywood's sweetheart Audrey Hepburn in a much darker, insidious story than her filmography had ever witnessed.

Despite its attempts to construct itself as a crime drama and psychological thriller, rather than exploit a pontificating agenda to appeal a more balanced audience, Captive remains an unsatisfactory account of a notorious real - life event that made headlines around the world, owing to the phenomenal spiritual awakening of a cold - blooded murderer and rapist.

TAKERS is a slick crime thriller which pits a daring and creative band of thieves against a determined Los Angeles police detective, with more than the loot at stake for each side.

It wasn't a hit when it came out — director John Flynn was better with character than action and never really gets the blood pumping through it — but it is still a smart, lean thriller and a minor gem of the modern crime genre.

Inherent Vice, a surreal whodunit far more concerned with recreating the feel of the post-Sixties» daze of free - flowing drugs than with crafting a compelling crime thriller.

Though it is a thriller at heart, and does have a high - speed driving subtext, the film feels more like a throwback to the music video stylized, R - rated crime dramas of the 1980s than the new Fast & the Furious over-the-top, CGI - infused modern action - thrillers.

Though it's notable that Cronenberg's crime - thriller ends with a life being saved rather than a reassuring death, Eastern Promises rarely attempts to subvert the constraints of its genre.

While Tim Burton's original version of the film boasted a much darker, gothic look at the man behind the mask, his two films contained only a sliver of the darkness that Nolan manages to squeeze into «Begins,» which plays out much more like a film noir crime thriller than your average summer action movie.

If anything, Banker feels more like a psychological thriller than a character - driven crime drama.

Rather than take us into the usual political intrigue thriller, Ramsay puts emotional weight on those who carry the burden of fulfilling the violence needs and retribution such crimes demand.

That sense of restraint is completely lost on director Paul McGuigan, better known for crime thrillers like Lucky Number Slevin than romantic dramas like this one.

Villeneuve isn't returning, but new director Stefano Sollima has more than enough experience in gritty, political crime drama to deliver a taught, hard - nosed thriller worthy of the original.

More of a slow - burning crime thriller than the action - packed film the trailers suggested, «Sabotage» represents an interesting change of pace for Schwarzenegger.

Enjoy a solid and restrained performance from Neeson who more than capably holds the screen in yet another convincingly tense crime thriller.

Those who watched the film following its surprise Oscar win discovered a unique crime thriller more concerned with people's passions — be they watching sports, getting drunk, or tracking a murderer — than with gunplay or chase sequences (despite a one - take action scene that gives Children Of Men a run for its money).

A crime thriller wrapped up in the skin of a stoner comedy, «The Big Lebowski» may have a reputation for being the late night movie of choice for burnouts, but it's more than your average stoner film.

Martin Scorsese's underworld thriller The Departed opens with a voice - over from its larger - than - life villain, a Boston crime lord played by Jack Nicholson who declares, «I don't want to be a product of my environment; I want my environment to be a product of me.»

this may change your anticipations for the crime thriller, which is way more Iggy - Pop - singing - a-sad-song than whiz - bang mayhem, and we mean that in the best possible way), juxtaposed with shots of the film's stars, Robert Pattinson and Benny Safdie, apparently either in character from the film or as part of cut scenes from the Cannes premiere.

Following in the footsteps of Joel and Ethan Coen's classic black comedy crime thriller, FX's Fargo is a small screen reboot rather than a direct remake of the lauded movie.

His Knight & Culverhouse crime thriller series has sold more than 250,000 copies worldwide, with his Kempston Hardwick mystery books being adapted as audio plays starring some of the biggest names in British TV.

No simple morality tale and far more than a legal thriller, The 57 Bus is a genre - bending book that reveals the tangled complexities of gender, race, crime and justice in modern - day America.

But at the same time, it's more much bigger, like huge action adventure books; it's instantly obvious that something more sinister than ordinary cops stuff, than mystery crime stories is going on, something big and weird right out of a series of huge, black op action thrillers is at play.

Bloodhound Books represents more than 70 authors and sells 1 million books a year, with a focus on discovering new crime thriller authors and publishing their novels within the digital sphere.

Unlike more straightforward historical mysteries (Lindsay Davis, et al.), the literary / historical thriller is only loosely tied to the crime that drives the surface action; the focus of the novel is likely to be internal rather than external, with the crime serving as a catalyst to thought, rather than thought providing a solution to the crime.

Crime and thriller writer Abir Mukherjee pointed out that the British Asian population has a higher disposable income than the average and asked «why isn't it being targeted?»

In addition, while romance books are clearly the most popular genre today in terms of total sales, more people have read a crime / thriller book over the last year than any other genre.

Starting with romantic thrillers and romantic suspense, she switched to (mostly) medical and crime thrillers in 1996, and has sold more than 30 million books in 40 languages.