Sentences with phrase «twisty thrillers»

After The Sixth Sense opened in 1999 to a box - office gold mine, Hollywood began feverishly hunting for more, similarly twisty thrillers that keep audiences guessing.

As twisty thrillers of the genre go, this one is more than passable.

«Enemy» stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a man who spots his double in a twisty thriller that's garnered comparisons to Stanley Kubrick.

Set up to be a twisty thriller, there are just too many of these tells to keep savvy thriller junkies in a state of surprise.

A beyond - twisty thriller co-written by Aaron Sorkin and Scott Frank looks even better now than it did in 1993.

With his bold, assured filmmaking style and heavy echoes of Hitchcock's Vertigo, Almodovar creates a lean, twisty thriller that plays with issues of revenge and identity in very dark ways.Robert (Banderas) is a skin - transplant specialist...

However, 2019 promises to be different as she headlines Tate Taylor's («The Help») twisty thriller «Ma,» which promises her a juicy role.

Twisty thriller unfolds in the darkest corners of a man's mind.

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.

But even that doesn't really sum it up, as this dark and twisty thriller dives to nightmarish depths to explore the ugliest parts of the human mind.

In this twisty thriller from a Pushcart Prize nominee, a museum curator is confronted with her youthful forgery — a work thought to be the last surviving painting of a 17th - century Dutch artist.

Not exact matches

Elizabeth Banks, Ed Harris and Edward Burns co-star in this propulsive, twisty action thriller.

This old fashioned political thriller is marred by a needlessly twisty plot and a miscast Nicole Kidman, but director Sydney Pollack still has the chops to pull it off.

Which could make for a twisty, capery little thriller.

Nothing in this enjoyably twisty, cool / hot, genre - grafting Italian psychological thriller by Giuseppe Capotondi is what it seems.

Too violent and plot - light for Le Carré fans, not pacy or twisty enough for Bourne addicts, not shiny and fun enough for those craving James Bond and far too classy for the John Wick crowd, Red Sparrow is a good - looking, well performed, somewhat worthy espionage thriller that it's hard to recommend to anyone.

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.

Almost criminally entertaining, this preposterous thriller mixes buckets of humour and emotion into the violent, twisty action.

There's plenty to admire about this nifty, twisty Welsh - language thriller from director Euros Lyn.

That's The Wall, a twisty little thriller from director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow) and writer Dwain Worrell.

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Sidney Lumet's final film is back on Instant, a twisty heist thriller with elements of family drama that I'm still eager to check out for myself.

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.

Consciously, if quite superficially, the film is riffing on the twisty architecture of The Game — an amusing target for parody, given that David Fincher's 1997 puzzle - box thriller is hardly a universally beloved touchstone.

She went on to play smart daughters in both Robert Redford's «The Company We Keep» and «Arbitrage,» opposite Richard Gere; she collaborated again with Batmanglij on eco-terrorist thriller «The East,» and with Cahill on twisty science film «I, Origins.»

Enjoyably twisty but too shallow to be fully satisfying, this legal thriller lopes along at a pleasing pace through its overlong running time.

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.

Creepy and atmospheric, this low - budget thriller works primarily because it never over-explains its twisty, grisly premise.

Fiercely stylised production design adds an intriguing layer to this gritty, twisty London thriller.

Stylish and moody, this twisty dramatic thriller gets under our skin with its mysterious tone and darkly insinuating performances.

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...

Even though it never feels believable, this twisty spy thriller has such a quick pace that it's consistently entertaining.

Meanwhile, the entertainingly preposterous action - thriller The Commuter — the latest film from A.V. Club favorites Liam Neeson and Jaume Collet - Serra — chugged into the No. 3 slot with $ 13.7 million, underperforming the earlier twisty Neeson and Collet - Serra collaborations Non-Stop and Unknown, both of which grossed more than $ 20 million in their opening weekends.

Scalpel (1977) US television staple Robert Lansing stars as a deranged surgeon in this twisty - turny psychological thriller from «Blood Rage» director John Grissmer.

This twisty ethical child abduction mystery thriller left audiences pretty divided.

RocknRolla is yet another twisty, funny British underground thriller with an amazing cast including Gerard Butler and Tom Wilkinson.

On paper, Unsane certainly sounds like it lands firmly in Soderbergh's wheelhouse; past projects like Side Effects, Bubble, and those twisty Ocean's capers have all played with delayed reveals and unreliable points of view — the stuff of a good psychological thriller, in other words.

Word of mouth on Gemini has been strong, suggesting a twisty pulp thriller with oodles of style.

No stranger to twisty, mind - bending material, Tarsem Singh (The Fall, The Cell) directs Kingsley and young, fit host body (err, we mean Ryan Reynolds) in the sci - fi thriller, costarring Matthew Goode, Michelle Dockery, and Victor Garber.

Ex Machina — I'm not sure if I'm still embargoed on this one, but I feel safe in saying that this is a twisty little science fiction thriller that's pretty damn enjoyable.

Suddenly, what was an enjoyably twisty chase thriller becomes an equally - gripping, but far more effective look at the old would - you - kill - Hitler - as - a-child dilemma.

PRISONERSDirector: Denis VilleneuveStarring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Hugh Jackman, Terrence Howard, Viola Davis, Maria Bello, Paul Dano, Melissa Leo This twisty ethical child abduction mystery thriller will have people pretty divided.

First time director Patrick Brice has made the found footage flick his own, crafting an unnerving thriller that's frightening and cleverly twisty to boot!

It's a noir - style paranoia thriller about a troubled woman who unwittingly signs herself up to be remanded to an asylum, and things get even twistier from there.

Remember: Atom Egoyan steps out of his rut with this unapologetically pulpy thriller, with Christopher Plummer's superb work heightened by a script that grows increasingly compelling (and twisty) as time progresses.

The logic that fuels a random episode of Arrested Development also applies to Winter Soldier; from the cheeky start to the crashing - helicarrier finish, the Russos guide Cap through a twisty, adrenaline - pumping hunt for truth, echoing»70s paranoia thrillers and Bourne set pieces, while never deviating too far from the Marvel playbook.

Evan Rachel Wood stars in this twisty erotic thriller about a cleaner who strikes up a friendship with a client's daughter.

Such is the case with Collateral, a high - octane, twisty action - thriller that boasts a fine performance by Tom Cruise (The Last Samurai, Minority Report) and yes, Jamie Foxx (Shade, Ali) is equally terrific.

But in no time it becomes apparent that the rules are different in writer - director J Blakeson's twisty feature debut — and that's what fans of the thriller genre want.

On those terms, Landfall unexpectedly plays like a mash - up of two undervalued Nicholas Cage pics — the goofy three - crims - on - the - run comedy Trapped in Paradise (1994), and the actors» own twisty kidnapping thriller, Trespass (2011), opposite Nicole Kidman.

Spartan It's no well - kept secret that David Mamet is my favorite playwright, and when he's penned and helmed a thriller as intense, twisty, and ambiguous as Spartan, you can most likely be sure I'll have something good to say about it.