Sentences with phrase «twisty crime»

But the film resolves itself in no time into something a good deal more mundane: a twisty crime drama complete with gauzy Guy Maddin visuals that cements Norton as the gravitas - heavy young actor most likely to be cast as Heathcliff in a badly - considered community theatre adaptation of Wuthering Heights.

Simon Pegg «s charisma helps subvert expectations in Vaughn Stein «s directorial debut, Terminal, a twisty crime movie with a fairy tale aesthetic.

After twenty years of film - making defined by gritty Batman movies, twisty crime thrillers, and trippy science fiction, Christopher Nolan again re-invents himself with what is on the surface is a gripping war movie, but in actuality an exercise in...

Sure, Sarah Thorp's script is definitely the real problem with why this twisty crime drama fails, but Kaufman is a seasoned veteran as a screenwriter as well, and definitely should have known that this premise just wasn't going to fly.

And it's the latter film, a twisty crime thriller starring Don Johnson, Michael C. Hall and Sam Shepard where Grace really shines, with what is one of the best scores of the year so far.

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.

Not exact matches

Synopsis: A constellation of variously desperate characters collide on a fateful New Year's Eve in Derry, Northern Ireland in this twisty, blackly comic crime thriller.

Things get twisty and more complicated from there — perhaps a bit too complicated, as major plot points later in «Small Crimes» hinge on a past we never see with characters we never meet described only through expository dialogue that is difficult to keep clear.

Racer And The Jailbird (Le Fidele) Adèle Exarchopoulos and Matthias Schoenaerts are lovers entangled in a world of crime in this tough, twisty thriller - romance from Bullhead director Michaël R Roskam.

Inherent Vice — based on the 2009 novel by Thomas Pynchon — is the latest from American writer - director Paul Thomas Anderson, this time brining his masterful skills to a 1970s - based fictional crime story filled with twisty turns, oddball characters, and lots of drug use.

A nasty piece of work in which the spirit of the bushman traveller escalates his penchant for opportunistic crime from sheep stealing to stalking and stabbing, Scott's twisty deconstruction of slasher pic tropes is as good a calling - card pic as we've seen from a young Aussie genre filmmaker since Damien Power's similarly sinister Killing Ground in 2016.

Set in Trump country, a blue - collar South of lost jobs and broken dreams, it's a terrific, twisty, funny - as - hell crime flick about so - called hicks who decide that making America great again starts right at home.

- Publishers Weekly» [Dead Lions] features some of the twistiest plotlines in crime fiction... [and] is beautifully written but also elegantly structured... Ever since finishing Slow Horses, I've been waiting for a possible sequel.