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Stephen Spielberg’s Reckless, Audacious “Disclosure Day”
Margaret is entirely aware of what she’s doing when she pulls off these empathetic maneuvers, but she remains oblivious to how she herself…
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The Heretical Energy of “Is God Is”
Night rarely falls on the harsh, sun-bleached world of Aleshea Harris’s film “Is God Is,” a revenge parable about the breaking, or the…
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“No Other Choice” Eliminates the Competition with Style
Paper cuts are the worst. In “No Other Choice,” a new comic thriller from the South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook, You Man-su (Lee…
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‘All Her Fault’ Star Sarah Snook on the Thriller’s ‘Crazy!’ Twists and What Shiv Roy — That ‘Cold-Hearted Bitch’ — Might Be Up to Post-‘Succession’
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for all eight episodes of “All Her Fault,” now streaming on Peacock. The wild ride that is…
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“A House of Dynamite” Is a Major Misfire from a Great Filmmaker
Little of this plays to Bigelow’s strengths. She has directed at least one screw-tightening nuclear-crisis movie before, the…
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Keira Knightley on How ’The Woman in Cabin 10’ Calls Back to Iconic Thrillers, Playing a Role ‘That Is Normally a Man’ and Why She ‘Can’t Wait’ to Watch Netflix’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ Series
When director Simon Stone first read the script for Netflix‘s latest psychological thriller “The Woman in Cabin 10,” it was as if he was…
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Huma Qureshi, ‘Bayaan’ Team Reveal Toronto Indian Thriller’s Real-World Inspiration: ‘Trying to Make Sense of the Systemic Patriarchy’
Ahead of its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, the team behind “Bayaan” is revealing how real-world events inspired the Indian…
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The 10 Bleakest Thrillers of All Time, Ranked
The thriller is among the most atmospheric and haunting genres in cinema, to the point where levity is scarce and often non-existent.…
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“Cloud” Is a Cautionary Tale of E-Commerce—and the Summer’s Best Action Movie
Ryosuke Yoshii (Masaki Suda), the thirtysomething protagonist of the mesmerizing Japanese thriller “Cloud,” is never more content than…
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The 10 Greatest Kurt Russell Thrillers, Ranked
With an acting career spanning six decades, the legendary Kurt Russell has partaken in some of the most exciting and iconic films in major…
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The Shrewdly Regenerative Apocalypse of “28 Years Later”
Perhaps because cannibalism comes with the territory, the zombie movie has proved uncommonly immune to a certain strain of critical…
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“Babygirl” Never Really Makes a Mess
In November, the reality star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian posted a series of images and videos to her social-media accounts, in which…
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“Emilia Pérez” Is an Incurious Musical About a Trans Drug Lord
The artifice of musicals and the exaggeration of melodrama derive their importance not as escapes from reality but as illuminations of it.…
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Jean Hanff Korelitz’s All-Time Favorite Sequels
Jean Hanff Korelitz is the author of nine novels, including “The Latecomer” and “You Should Have Known” (upon which “The Undoing,” the HBO…