Croatian Crime Thriller Goran Is Cold-Blooded

Nevio Marasovic’s wintry thriller is a master class in suspense

"...Nevio Marasovic's wintry thriller is a master class in building suspense beat by..."

March 10, 2017 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Nacho Average Thriller

Elijah Wood and Nacho Vigalondo update 'Rear Window' for the Digital Age

"...Really know? Do you even want to know? With techno-thriller Open Windows, director Nacho Vigalondo said, "I wanted to..."

March 7, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Texas Thriller Coyote Lake Draws Suspense From True Crime

On the shores of the border with filmmaker Sara Selig­man

"...The real lake's sinister history inspired this dark thriller: In 2010, McAllen resident David Hartley went jet skiing..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Survival Thriller Asks What Keeps You Alive

Not just another Cabin in the Woods

"...Minihan concocted his intimate thriller after reading a handful of articles about husbands who..."

March 9, 2018 Screens Feature by Jenny Nulf

Lucky McKee Talks His New Thriller Kindred Spirits

Austin-made twisted tale of family bonds hits VOD this week

Jan. 31, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lucky McKee Talks His New Thriller Kindred Spirits

Austin-made twisted tale of family bonds hits VOD this week

"...In Kindred Spirits, his new Austin-made darkly comedic psychothriller, that chaos engine is Sadie (Caitlin Stasey) who appears..."

Jan. 25, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sicario: Day of the Soldado Director Finds International Themes to Tex-Mex Thriller

Stefano Sollima goes border to border

June 29, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin Filmmaker Greg Kwedar On His Acclaimed Thriller Transpecos

Blood on the border

Sept. 9, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Horns Win Thriller at Kansas, Yes Kansas

Case McCoy comes off the bench to lead 21-17 comeback

Oct. 27, 2012 Sports Post by Michael Corcoran

The Manchurian Candidate

Is it Gulf War syndrome or justified paranoia? The Manchurian Candidate thrills again.

"...Candidate is a smart update of the 1962 political thriller of the same title, which was brilliantly directed by..."

July 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Little Woods

Tessa Thompson takes all the tough choices in a grimy tale of downtrodden life

"...A trademark of the thriller plot is a ticking clock, some deadline that our..."

April 19, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Interpreter

Although The Interpreter is intelligent, intriguing, and topical, it's hampered by its own good intentions, too many plot convolutions, and character ambiguities that try to pass for suspense.

"...shoot inside the United Nations, which means that this thriller is blessed with a truly incredible set-piece. The movie..."

April 22, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Consenting Adults

"...nudge-nudge confines of the notion and create a swiftly-paced thriller that packs a solid punch. When husband and wife..."

Oct. 23, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Watcher

Stalker thriller is coldly gorgeous and creepily enthralling

"...American abroad in Chloe Okuno’s feature directorial debut, voyeuristic thriller Watcher, that both redresses the balance and addresses the..."

June 3, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Can You Help? Paul Feig Needs A Simple Favor

Director talks cameos, thrillers, and mommy vloggers

"...it inevitable that, when Paul Feig made his first thriller, he'd have a little Hitchcock-esque cameo in there? But..."

Sept. 13, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Point Blank

In this frenzied French thriller, a man races to save his wife's life – and then races some more.

"...be confused with its namesake, John Boorman’s grisly metaphysical thriller from 1967 with which it bears no resemblance, Point..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Chloe

Atom Egoyan's new film is an erotic thriller that stars Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, and the mismatched Amanda Seyfried.

"...what starts off as a plausible and provocative erotic thriller leads toward a laughable conclusion that perpetuates hoary clichés..."

March 26, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Deception

In this so-called erotic thriller, busy New York City power brokers partake in a decadent sex club that eventually proves fatal.

"...Like so many sausages, Hollywood continues to grind out thriller after thriller, rehashing implausible twists and half-baked explanations without..."

May 2, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Insomnia

"...film Insomnia, a reworking of a 1997 Norwegian psychological thriller of the same title. Insomnia can't possibly match the..."

May 24, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Score

"...generations -- were announced as co-stars in a crime thriller directed by Frank Oz, a man heretofore known for..."

July 13, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Wedding Guest

A simmering thriller of international abduction and pursuit

"...The stage has been set for a crackling crime thriller. However, this being a film by Michael Winterbottom, the..."

March 22, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Elijah Wood Plays Impossible Tunes in 'Grand Piano'

Director Eugenio Mira and Wood on real time thrills and music lessons

"...That's the basic story behind Grand Piano, the new thriller starring Elijah Wood. As the actor admits, even if..."

March 6, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Looper

Crackerjack thrills, time travel, violence, humor, and action: Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis are characters who share the same morally conflicted core.

"...bluster and imprudence? The clever conceit of this time-travel thriller, however, is that when Joe, the former assassin played..."

Sept. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Traitor

This Don Cheadle movie is a rare Hollywood creature: an action picture with ambiguity, a blockbuster with more questions than answers, a shoot-’em-up thriller with a sense of moral and geopolitical ambivalence.

"...a blockbuster with more questions than answers, a shoot-’em-up thriller with a sense of moral and geopolitical ambivalence. That..."

Aug. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Paradise Now

Inside the mind of a Palestinian suicide bomber: That’s the guarded territory broached in Paradise Now, a film fashioned as a thriller rather than a psychological study.

"...penetrating psychological study, Paradise Now is fashioned as a thriller, not so much a whodunit as a whetherdunit. Conviction..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Keane

An unconventional psychological thriller without much plot, Keane is the gripping and uncompromising story of a man's attempt to hang on to his sanity.

"...stories filled with tension and suspense. Kerrigan’s films become thrillers in the purest sense: His characters create dangerous situations..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Memento

Christopher Nolan's breakthrough movie is a film noir thriller with a gimmick.

"...questions unanswered. Memento is modeled as a film noir thriller, a story formula rife with amnesiacs and untrustworthy characters,..."

March 30, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Felicia's Journey

"...despoilment by adults. Bob Hoskins stars in this psychological thriller and delivers one of his most restrained performances ever..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Simple Plan

"...epic proportions. In horror stylist Sam Raimi's first mainstream thriller, everything is gratingly complex: the tangled skein of emotions..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Enemy of the State

"...of the State is littered with echoes of previous thrillers -- everything from The Conversation to The Parallax View..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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