#revenge-thriller

#revenge-thriller

If a film could be a vine and the dialogue the fruit, would hang heavy with delicious diction and succinct, unforgettable themes. In other ways, it's harder to tell: Is God Is hardly feels like the work of a first-time director, if only because Harris approaches every beat with an astonishing confidence and coolness. One could see Tarantino's Kill Bill in her stylistic flourishes, the righteous, long-festering fury in her heroines. The bones of Greek tragedy are resurrected here, too - but the fact that they're here to serve an ensemble of justifiably angry Black women turns a straightforward revenge story into the most surprising thriller of the year.

The face of a Syrian refugee is the enigmatic key to this slow-burning drama-thriller, the fiction feature debut of French film-maker Jonathan Millet; it is hard, blank, withdrawn, yet showing us an inexpressible agony, a suppressed, unprocessed trauma, complicated by what is evidently a new strategic wariness. The refugee is Hamid (played by Adam Bessa), a former literature professor from Aleppo who is now in Strasbourg in France in 2016,

It felt like there was nothing to salvage,

In 'Never Flinch', Holly Gibney investigates a case involving an anonymous letter threatening to kill jurors, showing King's trademark chilling storytelling amidst social themes.