Sentences with phrase «viewers in suspense»

She had a recurring role in Season 1, where her character's fate at the auction block left viewers in suspense.

Marshall's relatively unfamiliar story puts director Hudlin at an advantage as he can keep most viewers in suspense among the twists and turns of the trial itself, without having to do anything extraordinary.

Not exact matches

The initial emphasis on Jack's decidedly mundane endeavors - ie he eats dinner with a priest, he meets with the aforementioned client, etc, etc - proves instrumental in transforming the character into a surprisingly compelling and sympathetic figure, which inevitably does heighten the suspense once the tense and thoroughly engrossing third act rolls around (ie the viewer can't help but actively root for Jack's success).

The story is slight, but the gentle humour and mild suspense will keep young viewers engaged, and the animation provides its own magic, particularly in the moments when Tink sets foot inside the Winter Woods and her wings gain a shimmering iridescence.

You're Next reels viewers in with this suspense.

The viewer is kept is suspense until late in the picture wondering how Sidney transformed from one version of himself to another and then still another.

In the grand tradition of Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice, Five Miles to Midnight weaves a constantly tightening web of suspense that grips the viewer by the heart and doesn't let go until the final frame.

For this reason, this is strictly for viewers that watch nearly every B - movie suspense film on the rental shelves, straight - to - video or otherwise, offering sensational escapism in place of plausibility, pressing the titillation button in our psyches whenever possible.

There's considerable action, but the film is weak in creating suspense, which is essential in grabbing and holding the viewer.

There is a psychological element in this film that works more as a gimmick than it does as an extra layer of drama or suspense, the savvy viewer should be able to spot this obvious secret pretty early on.

I don't know if my brain picked up on any of these «clues,» but they succeed in jarring the viewer, creating a greater sense of paranoia and suspense.

Even with all the gush spilled over Richard Linklater's 12 - years - in - the - making family saga, it still might be underpraised: In watching these actors age, learn and grow (without recourse to melodrama or suspense), viewers grasped onto a beautiful continuum that few filmmakers achievin - the - making family saga, it still might be underpraised: In watching these actors age, learn and grow (without recourse to melodrama or suspense), viewers grasped onto a beautiful continuum that few filmmakers achievIn watching these actors age, learn and grow (without recourse to melodrama or suspense), viewers grasped onto a beautiful continuum that few filmmakers achieve.

The narrative is wisely structured with suspense in mind, investing viewers in the back - story and paying off at the resolution.

As Proust's narrator longs to know a «little band» of girls on the beach, we, the viewer, desireto explicate Brown's figures, held in mutable suspense between recognition and abstraction.

The viewer is left feeling alienated, in suspense at the capabilities of the pieces abilities.

The paintings in this exhibition lure the viewer into a world of beauty, fear, tension, dark comedy and suspense.

Visual artist Ryan Trecartin's (2009) joint exhibition with Lizzie Fitch, currently on view at Andrea Rosen Gallery, has received positive reviews in Art in America Magazine and Artsy, which wrote, «as time elapses within the exhibition, a sense of suspense prevails, leaving the viewer yearning for answers and consumed by the chase.»

Violence and its Freudian cousin voyeurism play lead actors in this group of psychologically charged assemblages whose small - scale format adds to the sense of nervous suspense and where lust, seduction and yearning get collaged into something that only the viewer - cum - voyeur can drag up from deep within.