Sentences with phrase «violent thriller»

The hard edged and unexpectedly violent thriller is one of the most impressive and understated British crime films.

Directed with a terrific sense of style by longtime television show director D.J. Caruso (Taking Lives, Two for the Money), this is definitely a «walk on the wild side» that should appeal to those who like comic crime dramas like Pulp Fiction, The Boondock Saints, Fight Club, and other over-the-top funny but violent thrillers of this ilk.

Red Sparrow is a deliciously perverse, unflinchingly violent thriller — a modern - day espionage tale that breaks with the tradition of making the spy business the purview of suave and debonair characters.

An interesting low - budget entry in the post-Jaws animals - run - amok genre (which also owes more than a little to Hitchcock's The Birds), this noisy, violent thriller features the prophetic premise of a widening gap in the ozone layer (thanks to human indulgences in hairspray and other aerosol products) which unleashes brain - frying radiation and causes assorted woodland creatures to go for the throats of unsuspecting Sierra backpackers.

Den Of Thieves is an indulgent, overblown and unpleasantly violent thriller that pits hard - drinking LA cop Gerard Butler against a crack team of clever but seriously gun - toting bank robbers.

The Coens vary between dark and violent thrillers like «No Country for Old Men» and Fargo, and quirky comedies like «Raising Arizona» and «The Big Lebowski».

Back in the late 1990s, there were quite a number of Tarantino knockoffs to come out — hard - boiled and very violent thrillers that featured lots of quirky characters and attempts at amusing, anecdotal conversations between them that were meant to entertain above push the plot forward.

In the 65th annual Golden Globes, Atonement fought off strong competition from violent thrillers American Gangster, Eastern Promises and No Country for Old Men, legal drama Michael Clayton, historical saga There Will Be Blood and Oprah Winfrey - produced feelgood film The Great Debaters, for the best film award.

«Nocturnal Animals» Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Adams, Isla Fisher, Armie Hammer Director: Tom Ford Release Date: Nov. 18 What it's about: In an adaptation of Austin Wright's 1933 novel «Tony and Susan,» Adams stars as an art gallery owner who begins receiving the manuscript of her ex-husband's violent thriller novel.

Lars von Trier imagines the mind of a serial killer in the gruesomely violent thriller The House that Jack Built

Kill Me Three Times is a comedy at its base but on the other hand it also tries to be a violent thriller, neither of which works out well and leaves a disappointing taste as a result.

Such concerns become moot once the picture passes a certain point, however, as Death Wish transforms into just the sort of unapologetically ruthless and violent thriller that rarely gets made nowadays (ie its very existence is a delightful novelty)- with the movie's second half boasting a series of gleefully over-the-top instances of R - rated mayhem (including an awesomely cringeworthy torture sequence involving a scalpel and battery acid).

A noisy and violent thriller, a plot that becomes absurd with too many characters and none of them with much depth.

Returning to the festival with another violent thriller so stripped back its veins are oxidising, Refn has reunited with Drive star Ryan Gosling and the results are... troubling.

What It's About: «An art gallery owner (Amy Adams) is haunted by her ex-husband's (Jake Gyllenhaal) novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a veiled threat and a symbolic revenge tale.»

Arnold Schwarzenegger gets one of his most complex roles yet in this messy, violent thriller, another trip to the dark side for filmmaker David Ayer.

It's not clear that using a woman's rape to kick - start a violent thriller is any more noble when it's done by a female film maker, but at least this movie by the French director Coralie Fargeat is fantastically self - aware in its attitude to genre conventions.

As the film shifts gear from engaging buddy movie to violent thriller, whilst juggling tonal shifts from the moody, gritty and intense to the comedic and surreal, what would perhaps normally feel cluttered, fragmented or in - cohesive, Maclean relishes in the juxtaposition he creates, handling the tonal shifts with confidence, skill and utter conviction.

Lastly, we've got something that shows Jay Baruchel in a brand new light, something that's not a comedy, the violent thriller Good Neighbors.

Scott Thomas plays the tough - as - nails crime boss mother of Gosling's character in Film District's violent thriller.

This comedy puts a spin on the popular «game night» concept and turns it into a crazy wacky, violent thriller.

The movie's bad idea is that this comic notion needs to be surrounded by a violent thriller.

It's as funny a violent thriller as Tarantino on a good day, with the gritty visceral pleasures of Training Day or The Terminator, that locks you in with a riveting intensity that often has you laughing out loud in nervous relief.

An art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband's novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a veiled threat and a symbolic revenge tale.

The film is about an art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband's novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a veiled threat and a symbolic revenge tale.

ONLY GOD FORGIVES reunites DRIVE director Nicolas Winding Refn and lead Ryan Gosling in a violent thriller centred on drug dealer on the run forced to seek revenge on the corrupt Thailand cop who murdered his brother.

The films seem to have an identity problem where they are unsure if they want to be a scary, violent thriller, or offer some real - world discussion points.

Ryan Gosling and Nicholas Winding Refn team up again for the violent thriller, Only God Forgives.

«La Femme Nikita» begins with the materials of a violent thriller but transcends them with the story of the heroine's transformation.