Movies in the Thriller genre

Seeking Justice is making a token theatrical stop on the fast track to home video (which is where the distributor, Anchor Bay, makes most of its money). A cheap and cheesy thriller that feels like it was (badly) adapted from a beach novel (although...

Self/less begins with a promising (albeit well-worn) science fiction premise, degrades it by turning it into a generic thriller, and finishes it off with a rushed, disjointed ending. The film, from director Tarsem Singh (whose most recent credit was ...

Send Help answers the long-simmering question of what would happen if director Sam Raimi—the mastermind behind The Evil Dead and Spider-Man—were to direct a big-screen reimagining of Gilligan's Island. Okay, that's not quite true, but you get ...

The Sentinel is a movie in which one's perception of the proceedings will be impacted by a familiarity (or lack thereof) with the TV series 24. For those for whom that number means little more than "two dozen," The Sentinel is a Michael Douglas mo...

The 1972 Olympics, the first to be held in Germany since the infamous 1936 “Olympia” edition was presided over by Hitler in Berlin, was intended to be an opportunity for the country (in this case, West Germany) to show how much had changed sin...

For a while, it seems like Serenity is going to a be a fairly routine neo-noir thriller. That’s not necessarily a bad prospect with a scraggly-looking Matthew McConaughey playing a down-on-his-luck free-spirit and a blond Anne Hathaway as the...

Frequently, mystery/thrillers present us with a cast of about six or seven characters, set up a sequence of grizzly murders, then "surprise" us by revealing which of those six or seven characters is the guilty party. It's a time-honored method...

For about 75 minutes, Seven Psychopaths is a rollicking good movie - kinetic, clever, funny, and brutal. Then, inexplicably, it falls apart. Perhaps writer/director Martin McDonagh (In Bruges) didn't know how to end it, or perhaps his attempts to d...

The oddly-titled Sexy Beast (oddly titled because neither of the main characters is sexy, although both are certainly beasts) focuses on a husband's determination to honor a promise he made to his wife. The movie, the debut effort from British dir...

Shadow Conspiracy marks Charlie Sheen's second consecutive conspiracy thriller. Of course, there are several notable differences between this and The Arrival, the most obvious of which has to do with basic quality. For, while last summer's alien ...