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John Woo directing a revenge-themed thriller…what could be more perfect? After all, Woo is a living legend for his acclaimed action films, The Killer and Hard Boiled, even if his English-language movies haven’t been on quite the same level. St...
U.S. Release Date: 2023-12-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Bloody Violence, Drugs)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: John Woo
Cast: Joel Kinnaman, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Kid Cudi, ...
There’s a trick to doing a psychological thriller right. Hitchcock understood it. So did Chabrol and the Coens. Paul Feig, however, needs to brush up a little more on his technique. Tone is one of the biggest problems with A Simple Favor, a...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-09-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity, Violence)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Paul Feig
Cast: Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding, ...
Beware things that are described as "simple." While this is not the central message of A Simple Plan, it's certainly a byproduct. From the real world, we all know that things which are supposed to be simple - a basic plumbing job, minor car repai...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-12-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Sam Raimi
Cast: Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda, ...
For those who appreciated Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's 2005 campy, kinetic film noir homage, Sin City, the 2014 follow-up, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is unlikely to disappoint. It's more of the same and, although a good deal of the freshne...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-08-22
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER/ACTION
Director: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller
Cast: Mickey Rourke, Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, ...
Sisu is one of those unheralded films that comes seemingly out of nowhere to grab the adventurous movie-goer by the throat. For a perfectly-pitched 90 minutes, it glories in the excesses of gore and violence with an exuberance rarely experienced t...
U.S. Release Date: 2023-04-28
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: Jalmari Helander
Cast: Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan
The Skin I Live In is an old-time horror movie told in anything but an old-time horror movie fashion by the iconoclast Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar. There’s a mad scientist, a faithful servant, a beautiful woman trapped in a prison, and...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-10-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Nudity, Sexual Content, Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, ...
Skyfall can take its place alongside From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, and On Her Majesty's Secret Service as the best Bond can offer. With an Oscar winner at the helm and Oscar winners in two prominent roles, Skyfall overflows with talent but, as...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-11-08
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: Sam Mendes
Cast: Daniel Craig, Rory Kinnear, Ben Whishaw, ...
It would be fair to say that Skyscraper does what it sets out to do but the unambitious agenda isn’t something I’m especially interested in watching. A dumbed-down Die Hard with a Towering Inferno infusion, the film exists solely as a showca...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-07-13
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Scenes of Peril)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, McKenna Roberts, Byron Mann, ...
Sleuth, a 1972 "thinking person's thriller," is a rich, engaging motion picture with surprises lurking in the shadows behind every narrative corner. The film opens with a shot of Michael Caine making his way through a hedge labyrinth in search...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine
Sleuth is Kenneth Branagh's re-make/re-imagination/re-invention of the 1972 Joseph L. Mankiewicz film which, in turn, was based on Anthony Shaffer's stage play. In the original, Laurence Olivier played the high-born snob Andrew Wyke and Michael Cai...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-10-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Michael Caine, Jude Law