Our reviewer, Jim Holt, noted that the book is propelled by “the quality of the author’s mind, the boldness of his aims and the suspense of his argument.
Source: The New York Times
This makes the story much more unpredictable, adding more suspense and forcing players to go down paths they usually would not go.
Source: ClutchPoints
A way of creating a tense scene
Directors are constantly searching for new methods to add suspense to scenes and they do that in various ways.
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Fincher’s fascination with technology plays well into the ALIEN universe, where the complete absence of technology—and for that matter, weapons—is used as a compelling plot device to generate suspense and amplify the hopelessness of the characters’ scenario.
Source: Indie Film Hustle
Two tournaments, two Saturdays, and one school filled with excitement and suspense as almost 2,000 Dallas ISD elementary and secondary students competed against each other in the fall chess tournaments hosted by the Student Activities department at Obama Male Leadership Academy.
Source: Dallas ISD
Haddad’s nomination ends weeks of suspense that have led to stock volatility and ups and downs of the country’s real currency, amid intense pressure from financial markets for da Silva to make his choice known.
Source: MyMotherLode.com
Herrera crafts plots that build and release suspense to powerful effect.
Source: Harvard Crimson
This would give the image a lot of suspense and energy.
Source: Fstoppers
The slavery side of the story becomes interesting more in generating suspense as to what it will take to get Dana back than as a world of its own.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Following along in the not-too-distant footsteps of popular women’s suspense novels such as Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, Luckiest Girl Alive tells the tony yet unsavory tale of a successful career woman who struggles to once and for all come to terms with a highly traumatic youthful episode.
Source: Deadline
But even though the baker monitored the long-anticipated decision with suspense on Wednesday, she never had any real doubts about the outcome.
Source: The Washington Post
Off to the pole store I go!
My cold half
Have I told you people about my new Carhartt coat? No? Sorry to have kept you in suspense so long.
Source: Lewiston Sun Journal
Following along in the not-too-distant footsteps of popular women’s suspense novels such as Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, Luckiest Girl Alive tells the tony yet unsavory tale of a successful career woman who struggles to once and for all come to terms with a highly traumatic youthful episode.
Source: Deadline
Deploying deft editing, story structure, graphics, suspense, social-media virality and, yes, a touch of showmanship, the hearings made a public service into the show of the summer and the most important TV of the year.
Source: The New York Times
How do I know this? Because during my moviegoing experience this summer, not only did his refreshingly original tale (a rarity today!) of a rogue UFO elicit many of the hallmarks of grade-A horror during the screening itself — audience members gasping, the unbearable suspense cutting off all popcorn nibbling and soda slurping as the climax approached — it received the greatest seal of approval: After the movie, when I was waiting for my wife to use the restroom, another guy who was waiting for his date kept looking at me out of the corner of his eye, finally blurting out, “Crazy movie, huh?” NOPE has plenty of blockbuster trappings (flying saucers! Huge set pieces! Blood raining from the sky!) but it’s the questions you’re left with after the credits that reveal its power.
Source: InsideHook
Between the chaotic suspense of each scene, the scandalous affairs happening left and right, the fan theories on social media and Jennifer Coolidge hilariously and effortlessly stealing every scene, this season is much more entertaining than the previous.
Source: HuffPost
Half of the thrill is simply the suspense and excitement.
Source: The Clarion
It feels like a better suspense film where we constantly wish the nightmare of these people to end.
Source: High On Films
HBOSeason 2 Episode 6 of The White Lotus, “Abductions,” doubled down on the building suspense of the season.
Source: Inverse
Sinema and Democratic Senator Joe Manchin have kept Washington in suspense over the last two years as they repeatedly withheld needed votes for legislation sought by Biden.
Source: FierceWireless
The commentary boys are having a fine old time ‘a theatre performance has turned into a suspense drama’ says Clive.
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I could care less about a movie that lacks genuine suspense and resorts to all these pop-up scare monsters like riding a carnival ride.
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Seriously, though, we do write some creepy characters so I can imagine being married to a person who writes domestic suspense could be a little terrifying.
Source: CrimeReads
Undone is funny, tragic, hopeful, and packed with suspense that will make you want to consume the entire series in one day.
Source: Nerdist
For this reason, the suspense is not built by what Charlie will do, but through Amy unraveling that her closest confidante is not who she thinks he is.
Source: Daily Bruin
Missing
Director:Will Merrick and Nick Johnson
Genre: Thriller
Cast: Storm Reid, Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney and Nia Long
Theatrical Release Date: January 20th, 2023
Estimated Netflix Release Date: ~June 2023
Picture: Sony Pictures
A new suspense thriller coming from Sony’s subsidiaries Screen Gems and Stage 6 Films.
Source: What's on Netflix
I just think that once the situation starts to devolve, it deteriorates at too fast of a rate to sustain the apprehension and suspense that the film had built up by that point.
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It would be one thing if she just served as the north star that’s motivating him back to his family, but “Emancipation” also forces the actress to deliver a clunky monologue in a cold sweat before using her character to gin up some awfully cheap suspense an hour later.
Source: IndieWire
Mitzi can tell that from watching the boy's first film, which employs multiple, dynamic angles to capture the crash, and uses editing to build suspense and set up visual jokes.
Source: Roger Ebert
Was that an interesting dynamic?
The wonderful tightening of the screw, the gradual heightening of suspense in this first season, is: “When are these two guys finally going to be forced to engage, and be in the same scenes together?” And the only time they interact at all, at the end of the first episode, is when I’m on the phone with him for about eight or nine minutes, telling him what he has to do.
Source: Under the Radar Mag
The suspense has been continuous and sometimes awful.
Source: The Disney Business: What Would Walt Say? by Jim Korkis MousePlanet
While watching a man struggle under immense weight could get boring after a while, Scott ups the suspense by introducing the fact that his own gun has fallen in such a way that the barrel is pointing directly at his face, and could go off at any second.
Source: Indie Film Hustle
However, there is one longstanding source of suspense that Cassian alone can settle.
Source: The Ringer
Haddad's nomination ends weeks of suspense that have led to stock volatility and ups and downs of the country’s real currency, amid intense pressure from financial markets for da Silva to make his choice known.
Source: 69News WFMZ-TV
If the tale is too winding, which it is, and the “mystery” of Irma Vep secondary to the farce, which it is, who cares? The suspense in Diversionary Theatre’s production is entirely about what Banville and Jacobs will do or say next and whether it will top what came just before it.
Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune
The piece, named after an iconic line from Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five,” perfectly translates the chaotic time-travel-driven suspense of the novel into musical form, with different musical ideas repeating themselves unpredictably in varied voices throughout its brief duration.
Source: The Michigan Daily
He is also set to helm suspense thriller movie “Projekt M,” which is likely to shoot this fall in Barcelona.
Source: Variety
The suspense heightens throughout the film, culminating in a dramatic revelation and conclusion.
Source: Etownian
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Men picks up Garland's career-long strategy of using genre and suspense to examine gender themes.
Source: BBC
Many thrillers try to balance suspense with social commentary, but few hit the mark.
Source: The Michigan Daily
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The suspense of the plot is less interesting to Kennedy than the indelible sights and sounds that accompany it, the memories that linger in Suzanne's mind no matter how much time passes: the sound of her roommate, Iris Ann (a waiflike Abigail Stephenson), practicing her violin; the cruel laugher of a white girl in the dorm (haunting sound design by Justin Ellington); Hampshire's icy blue eyes betraying the only hint of emotion (this is something Pinkham affects with unsettling rigor).
Source: TheaterMania.com
Unfortunately, such arguably worthwhile matters as narrative coherence, appealing characterizations and suspense struggle to emerge here amidst a veritable logjam of intentions and tones.
Source: Deadline
The suspense came in the final two positions because of some unexpected results on the final weekend.
Source: USA TODAY
In this sense, they are to fantasy sports what fantasy sports are to real sports, John Fortunato, a Fordham University professor who studies fantasy sports, told me: If the point of fantasy sports is to inject extra suspense into otherwise meaningless real-life games, then the point of the punishments is to inject extra suspense into otherwise meaningless fantasy games.
Source: The Atlantic
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With the threat of an unknown disk in the sky, the first act of the movie is steeped in suspense that leaves viewers guessing as to what exactly the nature of the antagonist is.
Source: Daily Bruin
This makes the story much more unpredictable, adding more suspense and forcing players to go down paths they usually would not go.
Source: ClutchPoints
The suspense was worth it.
Source: 247Sports
Flanagan and Macy, who carved the rights to The Dark Tower out of their Netflix and Amazon Studios overall deals, are taking on the famous property having previously done two feature adaptations of King books, 2019’s Doctor Sleep and 2017 Gerald’s Game (based on the 2013 novel and the 1992 suspense tome, respectively), both directed and written/co-written by Flanagan.
Source: Deadline
The anticipation, the suspense that comes with waiting for the photo to develop makes the process that much more compelling for photographers like Gonzalez and Steblay.
Source: Marketplace
This is a smaller, more somber picture, where the suspense comes not from the machines but from the men.
Source: Vulture
Yellowjackets (Showtime)“A lesbian cannibal suspense story.
Source: The A.V. Club
LOLtron predicts that this issue will be filled with suspense and excitement as Batman attempts to save Commissioner Gordon.
Source: Bleeding Cool News
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The magazine teases the manga as an idol industry suspense story centering on an incident involving an idol group whose star is quickly rising to the top.
Source: Anime News Network
Harris’s historical novels hew closely to historical fact, while having the suspense and excitement of dramatic fiction.
Source: Stanford Law School
At the same time, it had a plot full of intrigue, mystery, suspense and danger.
Source: New York Post
The film’s unmotivated jumps in time dull any hope of director Eli Horowitz developing momentum that could result in suspense or mystery.
Source: Decider
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)
Coming to Netflix: Friday
The master of suspense and horror is coming to Netflix with something slightly different this week in the form of a new iteration of the classic character, Pinocchio.
Source: What's on Netflix
Highlights:
Engaging narrative
Maintaining suspense around killer
Crisp runtime
Standout moments like encounter scene
Drawback:
The usual tropes of thrillers
Lack of exceptional sequences
Analysis
"HIT 2" is the second instalment in the series, and a third is on the way.
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The Sea Beast is full of images like that, in which director Chris Williams uses the timing, scale, and other tools of the visual-language tool kit to put the audience in suspense before ultimately rewarding them — just as all the best action films do, whether they’re live-action or not.
Source: Vulture
Miranda brings the slow-burn suspense and some observant character work to bear in this exemplary thriller.
Source: CrimeReads
Haddad's nomination ends weeks of suspense that have led to stock volatility and ups and downs of the country’s real currency, amid intense pressure from financial markets for da Silva to make his choice known.
Source: Laredo Morning Times
Following Lolita are the suspense films Cry Terror! (1958) and The Decks Ran Red (1958); the romantic comedy/fantasy Forever, Darling (1956); and the romantic drama anthology The Story of Three Loves (1953).
Source: Channel Guide Magazine
Our addiction to Korean cinema intensified this year with this gorgeous movie from Park Chan-wook, who has recently pivoted to luxurious suspense thrillers, away from the gonzo-ultraviolent revenge pictures that made his name.
Source: The Guardian
The suspense is in full effect as Sister Hildegard (Tiffany Cornwell) threatens Weston (Daniel Bielinski) and warns him to stay away from the mysterious box she carries.
Source: Fargo Monthly Magazine
Tick…
Tock…
Tick…
Enough of suspense and the low-key music in the background, let’s jump to the answer.
Source: Jagran Josh
F/X2 (1991) – Bryan Brown (Cocktail) and Brian Dennehy (Legal Eagles) are back as Rollie and Leo in an all-new action-thriller that continues the F/X saga with stylish wit, unrelenting suspense and amazing high-tech action.
Source: Geek Vibes Nation
The production values are immense, making the tension and suspense all that more palpable.
Source: CNET
The latest from Seven and Fight Club director David Fincher, Panic offers a model of tightly orchestrated suspense, compressing Fincher’s technical mastery into a pressure cooker of a film .
Source: The A.V. Club
Since then the ballad and singing pubs competitions, in particular, have been getting fantastic support, and suspense is mounting in the great £1,000 ballad competition, as two local groups have reached the semi-finals.
Source: OddsChecker
It was an action-adventure with a unique twist, packed with thrills, suspense and some laughs.
Source: The Peterborough Examiner
Yet he manages to maintain suspense via viewer dread.
Source: Moviejawn
There’s also a strong sense of suspense in the book, something that hasn’t happened in the past and is fueled by redemption, and revenge.
Source: The Indian Express
First published in 1972, “Death on the Ice” has the emotional intensity and high-wire suspense of a thriller.
Source: The New York Times
While Punjabi cinema has been largely known for its comedy dramas, action films and suspense thrillers in particular, have been steadily rising in prominence.
Source: The Indian Express
It is always a tricky business discussing plot points and twists of a thriller for there is the danger of spoilers, but if the above synopsis makes you feel Resurrection is a run-of-the-mill suspense drama about a woman avenging an abusive ex-lover, think again.
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On the contrary, the tension and suspense that infuse his novels get more compelling with every new title.
Source: Jersey's Best
Sinema and the Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia have kept Washington in suspense over the last two years as they repeatedly have withheld their needed votes for legislative initiatives sought by Joe Biden.
Source: The Guardian US
Sinema and Democratic Senator Joe Manchin have kept Washington DC in suspense over the last two years as they have repeatedly withheld their needed votes for legislative initiatives sought by Biden.
Source: The Islander
The race was still too close to call, meaning the suspense will continue.
Source: USA TODAY
Dean and DP, Patrick Golan, ultimately decided to commit to a raw, unfiltered camera movement and style to help convey the pace and suspense of the heist.
Source: Little Black Book LBBonline
A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) – Face Off Wes Craven is arguably the master of suspense as he defined and shaped the horror genre during three different decades….
Source: JoBlo.com
— The suspense late in the fourth set of Nebraska's win against Kansas in the second round Friday shows you that no win in the NCAA Tournament can be assumed.
Source: Lincoln Journal Star
By focusing on the hunt, the action and suspense take center stage.
Source: AIPT
Of its genesis, he said: “I have always wanted to direct a horror/suspense play, set in a foggy Victorian London.
Source: Boston College
A ‘B’ grade thriller, this film does fairly well to build a fair bit of taut suspense and increments its thrills along the way before it falls completely flat with a twist that comes across as totally incredulous - belying much of what came before it.
Source: mid-day.com
The slight delay between subject and verb holds a nanosecond of suspense — a gift to a good actor.
Source: Poynter
If it does, these games are thrilling, cerebral contests that have elegance, aggression, subterfuge, brilliance and suspense — “Game of Thrones” boiled down to its regicidal essence.
Source: The New York Times
And it felt to us like the comedy and the suspense and the food were all fueled by the same pressures.
Source: No Film School
Its chief attraction is Reed Birney’s gift for keeping us in suspense about a character’s secrets.
Source: Eurogamer.net
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