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Tag: Thriller

Take Shelter (2011)

Thriller Rated R

“With that frowning face – including a right eye that looks sleepy and a left one that looks crazed – Michael Shannon could play Jekyll and Hyde at the same exact time.

Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)

Thriller Rated R

…centers on a cult, and by the movie’s end you feel as if you’ve been indoctrinated.

Contagion (2011)

Thriller Rated PG-13

“…a paranoid disease thriller for our glocal age.

Marnie (1964)

Thriller Rated NR

By 1964, it had become habit to psychoanalyze Alfred Hitchcock’s movies. So with Marine he seems to have decided to beat everyone to the punch. This is a crazed and lurid character portrait that spends most of its time psychoanalyzing itself. Tippi Hedren, having barely survived The Birds, stars as a serial thief who uses

North by Northwest (1959)

Thriller Rated NR

The VistaVision widescreen process results in perhaps the definitive cinematic sequence of the Alfred Hitchcock oeuvre: Cary Grant versus a crop-duster. Hitchcock uses every inch of the yawning screen to tease and terrify us, letting us think we know what is about to happen – and how – before yanking us in an unexpected direction.

American, The (2010)

Thriller Rated R

"…cleverly, disconcertingly hushed."

Secret in Their Eyes, The (2009)

Thriller Rated R

The Best Foreign Language Film winner at this year’s Oscars plays Wednesday at the Beverly Arts Center.

Inception (2010)

Thriller Rated PG-13

“Inception opens with a dream within a dream. Then it gets complicated.”

Salt (2010)

Thriller Rated PG-13

“Salt is a spy movie on the wrong side of ridiculousness…

Shutter Island (2010)

Thriller Rated R

Shutter Island begins as a fun and crazily creepy popcorn thriller, but the movie eventually turns into something far more disturbing. By the end, it’s not fun at all – the preview audience I saw it with was stunned into silence. So does this mean the film makes a serious misstep or that it’s a

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Horror Rated R

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Tony (2026)

Drama Rated R

“Sessa gives you the sense that he could not care less about the likability of his character.”

The Circle (2000)

Drama Rated NR

“A portrait of women stuck in a loop of patriarchal oppression…”


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