thriller
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Bautista also appeared in 2021's Dune and its 2024 sequel, James Bond film Spectre, Army of the Dead and Knives Out detective thriller Glass Onion.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Ryan Murphy’s new psychological thriller, based on a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, follows the charmed teens of 1980s Los Angeles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Meyer is a screenwriter-turned-filmmaker who met Stewart on the set of the underseen 2015 comic thriller “American Ultra.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Matthew McConaughey had plenty of reasons to select "The Rivals of Amziah King," a honey-themed thriller set in the American Southwest, for his return to the big screen after more than five years away.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
If a novelist put some of this stuff into a fictional thriller, the reader would be justified in throwing the book aside and shouting, “Come on, that would never happen!”
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
Working with cinematographer Ashley Connor, DeYoung drew from 1970s conspiracy thrillers like “The Parallax View” and “All the President’s Men.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Author of The Housemaid, Freida McFadden, recently posted on Facebook about his thriller Kill for Me, Kill for You, saying it is "one of the best thrillers I've ever read".
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Two thrillers, unalike in style and attitude yet with much in common, arrive Wednesday to television.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Seventy-five years ago this summer Alfred Hitchcock released “Strangers on a Train,” the first in the great series of suspense thrillers he would make in the decade to come.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Yes, he’d made the phone call to Jenny Yen on an untraceable “burner” phone, just like the kidnappers and spies always did in paperback thrillers.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
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