Thriller

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  • "Perfect Stranger"

    Halle Berry seduces Bruce Willis -- but alas, not us -- in this twisty-turny thriller.
    By Stephanie Zacharek April 13, 2007

  • "Life's not simple"

    In this interview and podcast, Joseph Gordon-Levitt talks about his new film "The Lookout" -- and why movies should be as complex as people are.
    By Andrew O'Hehir March 28, 2007

  • "Premonition"

    This supernatural thriller, in which Sandra Bullock plays a woman living each day as if it were her husband's last, is too serious for its own good.
    By Stephanie Zacharek March 16, 2007

  • Beyond the Multiplex

    Opening weekend at the Austin filmfest offers a controversial documentary about (not by) Michael Moore, an outrageous horror-comedy by Alan Cumming and a few Tarantino impersonations.
    By Andrew O'Hehir March 12, 2007

  • "The Night Gardener"

    George Pelecanos' engrossing crime novel -- perfect for fans of "The Wire" -- tells parallel stories of cops and criminals in Washington, D.C.
    By Laura Miller June 19, 2006

  • "Moonlight Hotel"

    This thriller about U.S. involvement with a fictional, Cold War-era Middle Eastern nation seems uncannily relevant to today.
    By Laura Miller June 19, 2006

  • "The Ruins"

    A lazy Mexican vacation turns sinister -- and grisly -- when a group of middle-class tourists become trapped at an archaeological site.
    By Laura Miller June 19, 2006

  • "End of Story"

    From the author of "Oblivion," a gripping psychological suspense novel about a young aspiring writer who befriends a convicted killer.
    By Laura Miller June 19, 2006

  • "The Dead Hour"

    When you're a cub reporter working the graveyard shift, there's little else to do than become involved in the domestic disputes -- and murders -- of Glasgow's upper class.
    By Laura Miller June 19, 2006

  • "Cast of Shadows" by Kevin Guilfoile

    A father uses cloning technology and a video game to track down the man who killed and raped his daughter in this near-futuristic thriller.
    By Laura Miller June 6, 2005

  • "In the Shadow of the Law" by Kermit Roosevelt

    A terrifically idiosyncratic and colorful bunch of characters make this K Street thriller about corporate law a standout.
    By Laura Miller June 6, 2005

  • Perfect Circle: Chapter 4

    Life is a firework, a burst of light in the sky. When you die, it's like the rocket is falling. But for a ghost, like the girl Hanlon killed, death is a bad photograph, transfixing you.
    By Sean Stewart July 30, 2004

  • "Cold Creek Manor"

    In this predictable Mike Figgis thriller, Sharon Stone and Dennis Quaid buy a cute old country house. Then the creepy guy with the bed-head 'do shows up!
    By Stephanie Zacharek September 19, 2003

  • "demonlover"

    Olivier Assayas' unclassifiable porn-capitalism thriller is a theory-addled nightmare -- but it's also a profound and troubling movie about contemporary life.
    By Charles Taylor September 19, 2003

  • "The Cutting Room" by Louise Welsh

    A Glasgow antiques dealer finds horrible pictures in a dead man's house, in this captivating thriller from a new Scottish writer.
    By Charles Taylor April 8, 2003

  • "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown

    Catholic secret societies, lessons in obscure art history and a gruesome murder in the Louvre! Dan Brown's conspiracy-theory thriller is the pulp must-read of the season.
    By Charles Taylor March 27, 2003

  • Who's bad?

    Amid a messy $200 million dispute with Sony, Michael Jackson adopts temporary blackness and summons Al Sharpton to his cause. But racism hasn't torpedoed your career, Michael: Your music sucks.
    By Bomani Jones June 26, 2002

  • "Domestic Disturbance"

    John Travolta and Vince Vaughn sleepwalk through a big, dumb thriller.
    By Stephanie Zacharek November 2, 2001

  • "Don't Say a Word"

    Car bombs? People buried alive? What the hell is 20th Century Fox thinking?!
    By Charles Taylor September 28, 2001

  • Blue screen of death

    In Jeff Deaver's latest thriller, "The Blue Nowhere," a killer hacks his victims' computers, invades their lives and lures them to their deaths.
    Read by Dennis Boutsikaris May 14, 2001

  • "The Gift"

    A certain magic moves this ghostly Southern Gothic nail-biter. Forget the cards: It's all about Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves and some great acting.
    By Stephanie Zacharek January 19, 2001

  • "The Pledge"

    Jack Nicholson as a hallucinating ex-cop is almost as good as he's ever been, but he can't save Sean Penn's pretentious thriller.
    By Charles Taylor January 19, 2001

  • "Unbreakable"

    In this soggy follow-up to "The Sixth Sense," Bruce Willis sees damp people.
    By Ray Pride November 22, 2000

  • "The Watcher"

    Dude! Keanu Reeves tries to fill Hannibal Lecter's shoes in an unconvincing thriller.
    By Mary Elizabeth Williams September 13, 2000

  • "The Cell"

    Tarsem Singh's opulent serial-killer thriller descends into special-effects hell.
    By Andrew O'Hehir August 18, 2000
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