Thriller Movies

War of the Worlds

There are more stories every day about A.I. becoming powerful enough to create entire pieces of filmmaking. Want to see…

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She Rides Shotgun

Jordan Harper’s award-winning debut novel, She Rides Shotgun, now a film starring Taron Egerton, is written in short, blunt sentences banging up…

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Cloud

After a character begs for his life in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s excellent “Cloud,” another man says, “Too late to live now.”…

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Sovereign

Men like Jerry Kane (Nick Offerman), rural citizens who have twisted common laws to serve their own reality, were once…

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To a Land Unknown

This somber, sometimes frankly grueling movie opens with a quote from the cultural critic and historian Edward Said: “In a…

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Brick

The locked-room mystery has been a staple of the thriller genre since time immemorial; there’s a perverse delight in throwing…

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Pretty Thing

A waiter and a well-dressed party guest lock eyes. In an alley, she casually tells him her room number. After…

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40 Acres

“40 Acres,” like most sci-fi media of the 2020s, is an imagining of our world, our society, after the ramifications…

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Heads of State

“Heads of State” is a buddy movie. The buddies are the President of the United States, played by John Cena,…

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Ice Road: Vengeance

The life of a late-career Liam Neeson character is often a tragic one: In one film or another, he’s a…

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