Word: thrillers
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...terror from an audience, but it at times feels like Paxton is trying to stretch the skin of an hour-long episode onto the frame of a full-length feature. Frailty doesn’t delve into the father’s psyche, leaving the psychology out of the thriller, and uses one huge leap of improbable FBI procedure to span the gaping hole in his plot and stitch together the two disparate halves of his story...
Panic Room, David Fincher’s new thriller starring Jodie Foster, has something for everyone, yet the individual viewer ends up with nothing. Fincher and screenwriter David Koepp have created a thriller that is much more concerned with packing in every single convention of the horror film than actually creating any original chills...
Although Jodie Foster’s Academy Award for her performance in Silence of the Lambs testifies to her competency as an actress in a thriller, she struggles with this belabored script, posturing, grimacing and trembling through each scene in an attempt to convince the audience of the horror of her situation. Yet, in order to recreate herself as a believably unlikely heroine, Foster applies an air of uncertainty to the character of Meg, attempting to portray a normal woman who is pushed to courageous limits by exceptional circumstances. Unfortunately, the resulting combination of hyperactive anxiety and vacillation results...
...spots for In the Bedroom, Miramax sells the domestic drama as a thriller through dynamic editing and by focusing on a few carefully chosen scenes. "It's all a question of degree," says an executive at a rival studio. "In the case of In the Bedroom, even if they cheated to get you in, chances are you still liked the movie." Indeed, moviegoers usually don't complain about obfuscation in trailers; they do complain that trailers give too much away. There's a reason for this, and studios have the test results to prove it. When trailers are market-tested...
Coupled with Friday night’s 4-1 Crimson win, the Game 2 thriller earned Harvard a berth in the ECAC Final Five at Lake Placid, N.Y. next weekend. The Crimson will face Clarkson in Friday’s 4 p.m. semifinal game...