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thriller

[thril-er] / ˈθrɪl ər /






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Watch an unhinged new thriller: Verity, starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett, brings Colleen Hoover’s most bonkers book to the big screen.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026

The bookish thriller "Verity" cleaned up in its North American box office debut this weekend while Tom Cruise flopped in "Digger" playing a rich old guy who thinks he can save the world.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

Iñárritu first started noodling on the idea of what would become “Digger” after making the 2015 frontier thriller “The Revenant,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Hartnett plays the hapless man well but his naivety could be concealing something more sinister, as it did in the M. Night Shyamalan thriller “Trap.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

I open up an old thriller and focus on the first line.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

The film marks a departure for Gilroy, who cut his teeth writing action movies like the "Bourne" films and legal thrillers like "Michael Clayton."

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

The fall TV season has the return of hit series, new thrillers and adaptations of Steinbeck and Austen classics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

It’s a style that has served him well in modern action thrillers like his installments of the “Bourne” franchise, and films depicting recent real-world events like “Captain Phillips” and “The Lost Bus.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

When he was not socializing or sleeping, he lay on his cot smoking or chewing gum and reading sports magazines or paperback thrillers.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote




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