One - sentence pitch: «It's
a very classic thriller told in a very unconventional way: The classic part is it's about a dad searching for his missing kid and the unconventional part is that the whole movie takes place on his daughter's laptop as the dad breaks into his daughter's computer to look for clues.»
Not exact matches
It is
very good; a
thriller in the
classic Koontz mold that really gets taut in the last 30 pages.But there is more here than a
very good thrill ride — although that would be enough.
By the time the note - perfect conclusion rolls around, The Killing has cemented its place as one of Kubrick's
very best films and, in addition, one of the all - time
classic heist
thrillers.
Next week we get Ruby Sparks (
very good, unexpected, non-traditional romantic comedy), Killer Joe (William Friedkin's grotty NC - 17
thriller, starring Matthew McConaughey), Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (documentary about the Chinese activist, said to be
very inspiring), The Graduate (45th anniversary engagement of Mike Nichols»
classic), Farewell My Queen (French period drama, said to be quite good), plus the wide releases of the Total Recall (possibly only for junk food fanatics, but who knows yet), so it's a good weekend to catch up on any holdovers you might have missed.
We're talking about a
classic of the eighties, a film Travolta himself called one of his top three favorites, a
thriller that stands among the
very best conspiracy movies Hollywood has ever produced.
THE ELITE SQUAD director Jose Padilha offers a
very unique spin on Paul Verhoeven's
classic futuristic sci - fi
thriller ROBOCOP.
Although this subject matter never could have been made decades ago, Bad Education is, at its heart, a throwback crime
thriller,
very similar in themes to the
classic film noir days.
Among the newly featured films this week: two
very different but
very good
thrillers in Se7en on Monday and The Crying Game on Wednesday, both on IFC; some
classic sci - fi in The Thing from Another World on Thursday; zany comedy Airplane!
Starting in the middle east in a
classic op gone horribly wrong, it mines a number of spiritual, historical, literary, and political veins to create a
very interesting
thriller.
A masterful novel that combines the exhilarating mysticism of The Da Vinci Code with the pulse - pounding action of a Tom Clancy
thriller, James Rollins's Map of Bones is destined to be a modern
classic that will stand among the
very best adventure tales ever written.