Tagged Thriller

This review was originally published as part of our London Film Festival coverage on 18/10/2018.  Most of us will one day be made to face our own mediocrity, contend with the fact we’re only ordinary and...

Democracy only returned to Brazil in 1989, but the threat of another backslide into authoritarianism is dangerously imminent today. Far-right agitator Jair Bolsonaro was elected president in January 2019 and...

It’s an odd feeling to have a potentially career-ending story about Liam Neeson hit the headlines hours before seeing his latest film. It’s even stranger to digest when that film is a darkly comic and,...

With a young teen’s understanding of sex, corruption and public administration, The Shadow Play is a captivating display of bold, shambolic filmmaking. Lou Ye’s conspiracy thriller tangles its wicked web...

After a dragon tattoo (twice), a fire and a hornet's nest, this time it's The Girl in the Spider's Web. And now the girl is The Crown's Claire Foy – breaking well and truly away from the part she's best...

Most of us will one day be made to face our own mediocrity, contend with the fact we’re only ordinary, and find ways to fit into a world where we are merely spectators to more powerful, exceptional...

Hotel Artemis is set during one chaotic night in the eponymous hotel, run by The Nurse (an incredible Jodie Foster) as an emergency hospital for criminals, and is apparently somehow not a John...

Sicario 2: Soldado is an all-you-can-eat buffet of Trumpian anxieties – Mexican drug cartels are smuggling terrorists from the Middle East across the border into Texas. CIA enforcer Matt Graver (Josh Brolin)...

Let's get the elephant out of the room straight away: Red Sparrow is not a pseudo-Black Widow. Despite some undeniably shared DNA and a similar title, this is a different beast. But, marketed as a slick, sexy...

Of all the thriller directors that Liam Neeson has worked with in his latter day reinvention as an action movie star, Jaume Collet-Serra probably knows best how to tap into Neeson’s presence. In The...

When Martin Scorsese was on a streak with his muse Robert De Niro in the 1970s and 1980s, they gave us characters who would leap from the screen in a flurry of violence and rage. Paragons of toxic, unimpeded...

Wholly unrelenting and uncensored, Hungarian writer-director Arpad Sopsits’ Strangled (A Martfüi Rém, in its native translation) is a true crime neo-noir that rarely lets up. Strangled effectively...

It’s always weird going back to the beginning. So many great directors seem to arrive fully-formed, but that’s usually because by the time they break out and hit the spotlight, they already have a solid...

We hate to break it to all the 14-year-old boys and alt-right shitheads out there, but Fight Club is not the best film ever made. Nor is it David Fincher’s best film. The same is true of Se7en, The Social...

https://vimeo.com/116816457 A hitman thriller with a sci-fi edge, SCION is a precise and slickly produced piece that feels almost like an extended trailer for a longer film. Like a lot of good science...