suspense
Send Help is an unbelievably effective look at two people pushed to extremes, with director Sam Raimi’s visual bombast not just enhancing, but powering this story of two people circling each other until only one remains.
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I think the best thing about Martin Campbell’s Cleaner is that it knows exactly what it wants to be and doesn’t aspire to push beyond those limitations. Better yet, it doesn’t want to try to one-up its obviously biggest influence, Die Hard, both being movies about a corporate party interrupted by terrorists while someone runs […]
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What an irresistible, damning blast of a conceit I.S.S. executes in thrilling fashion. Nick Shafir’s script, appearing on the 2020 Black List well before the current Russia/Ukraine war, posits one simple conflict that bears so many implications on humanity itself: What if the US and Russian astronauts aboard the International Space Station watched war break […]
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Adapting the character- and plot-thick “Luther” into a two-hour film comes with a big caveat. Series creator and film scriptwriter Neil Cross has whittled away to the barest of what draws us to “Luther,” keeping us fully in the legendary hard-bitten detective’s shoes while spinning a terrifying web around him that threatens to strangle him […]
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