Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Dementia Complicates The Search For 2 Lost Women In 'Elizabeth Is Missing'
'Elizabeth Is Missing' is a new television film on PBS' Masterpiece channel that stars Glenda Jackson as a woman battling dementia.
An Insignificant Hustler Yearns To Be A Big-Time Operator In The Ironic 'Norman'
Israeli filmmaker Joseph Cedar centers his new movie on a wannabe dealmaker, played by Richard Gere. Critic John Powers calls Norman a mordantly funny drama with a "dazzlingly revelatory" ending.
'Get Out' Mixes Satire, Race And Horror, And The Result Is A Scream
A young white woman brings her black boyfriend home to meet her parents in director Jordan Peele's first feature film. Critic David Edelstein says Get Out is a comic thriller worth seeing.
In The Northern Ireland Period Thriller '71,' No One Dies Well
The film is about an English private who is cut off from his unit in the middle of a riot in Belfast in 1971. It's a conventional and smashingly good chase melodrama, but it's also a tragedy.
Liam Neeson's Action Chops Take Flight In 'Non-Stop'
Neeson became a bankable action hero in 2008 after the thriller Taken. Now almost 62, he's still getting out of tight corners with his fists. His new film unfolds on a transatlantic flight.
A Korean Cult Thriller Gets A Spike Lee Makeover.
Oldboy, the director's remake of a 2003 film of the same name, follows a man who's held captive for 20 years — and out for revenge after his release. Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen and Samuel L. Jackson star.
With Vengeance And Violence, 'Olympus Has Fallen' Flat.
This macho action film starring Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman is a vigilante fantasy about terrorists and turncoats invading the United States. It's a popular genre, but critic David Edelstein says he's tired of the American addiction to these tropes.