Sentences with phrase «thriller than comedy»

As discussed above, The Interview looks more like an espionage thriller than a comedy with its dark, contrasty visuals.

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

It was more of a thriller than a comedy, which was good.

Not exact matches

We pretend that romantic comedies or naturalistic thrillers set in the present day are more «realistic» than any that require us to remember that we live between immensities, for no more than a fraction of sidereal time in a world that we did not make.

Director Ron Howard brings his usual light touch to the proceedings and manages to hold the viewer's interest even through the narrative's oddly action - packed final third (ie once the truth about Hannah's character is revealed, the film becomes more of a thriller than a cute little romantic comedy and there's even a chase sequence as the army attempts to capture the mermaid / woman).

The following year, Garofalo appeared in no less than five films, with a supporting part in the ensemble piece 200 Cigarettes, a starring role as an unconventional action heroine called the Bowler in Mystery Men (which also featured Stiller), and prominent turns in Kevin Smith's eagerly awaited Dogma, Hampton Fancher's psychological thriller The Minus Man, and the satirical comedy Can't Stop Dancing, in which she acted alongside fellow comedienne Margaret Cho.In 2001, Garofolo took on the role of Catherine Connolly in The Laramie Project, HBO's docudrama chronicling the aftermath of the death of Matthew Shepard, and filmmaker David Wain's comedy Wet Hot American Summer.

REC 4 won't win any points for being scary or terribly original, as this is more of an action thriller than horror, but it is mostly successful due to the fact that it drops the slapstick comedy of REC 3 and goes for a more serious tone, and the setting make this stand out in the zombie genre.

If there's anything worse than seeing a bad movie, it's seeing a good movie made badly and sadly Eye of the Beholder could have been much better in the hands of someone more qualified in making smart thrillers than quirky art comedies.

Much more of a paranoid thriller than a black comedy, The Manchurian Candidate will probably never be heralded as a great film, even if it were a wholly original work.

Like Headhunters, which was also based on a Jo Nesbo story, this Norwegian thriller almost plays more like a black comedy than an action movie.

It's only when you realize that this build up doesn't really go anywhere that it begins to become uninteresting, until it finally gets down to the climax, when everything falls completely apart with a laughably executed revelation scene that feels like it belongs more in a comedy than in a serious thriller.

On the strength of this the Coen Brothers appear to do cold, dark thrillers better than they do comedies but Hail, Ceasar!

Although billed and marketed as a comedy, I feel the need to warn some viewers that The Ice Harvest is more of a thriller with dark comic touches rather than one that goes to tickle your funny bone.

9:35 am — Sundance — A Girl Cut in Two One of the last films from great French director Claude Chabrol before his death, with Ludivine Sagnier as an up - and - coming TV personality faced with choosing between two men — with Chabrol at the helm, you know there's more than that to it, and his touch for black comedy thrillers should make this one an enjoyable watch.

For this latest episode of Film Club, A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky return to Farmhouse Tavern to talk about three excellent smaller films in theaters or coming soon to them: Richard Linklater's»80s campus comedy Everybody Wants Some, now in theaters everywhere; the smart, moving family drama Louder Than Bombs, which opened in select theaters today and will expand in the coming weeks; and the forthcoming punk - rock thriller Green Room, which begins its theatrical release next week.

More than a year after it made a splash at the Sundance Film Festival, Cory Finley's blackly comic thriller (or is a thrilling black comedy?)

Abhinay Deo's amiable urban comedy thriller «Delhi Belly» has more crossover appeal than many Bollywood productions.

So far the Hollywood movies screening at Cannes — Woody Allen's romantic roundelay «Cafe Society,» starring Kristen Stewart, Shane Black's hit - man comedy «Nice Guys» starring Ryan Gosling, and Jodie Foster's Wall Street thriller «Money Monster» starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts — have played out of competition, more as red - carpet plays and marketing junkets than surefire Oscar launches.

As a result, the movie plays more like a screwball comedy than a violent action thriller, though it contains many pieces of the latter and hardly any of the former.

A mix of horror, comedy and thriller, Get Out is less scary than downright uncomfortable.

At times, this honestly does come off as more of a romance with some comedy thrown in than an actual mystery / thriller, and the editing does it no favors.

How everything is set up, the story feels more like an action thriller rather than a raunchy comedy.

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.

Brett Ratner may lack the artistic flourishes of his predecessors, taking the film more in a straightforward thriller direction, but shows enough talent in this genre to expect that he may prove successful directing films other than buddy - flick comedies.

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.