Browsing: thrillers

The screenlife subgenre is officially enshittified thanks to Mercy (now on Amazon Prime Video), an empty-skulled thriller that gives us the deeply unstimulating pleasure of watching…

Before it ever hit Prime Video, The Silent Service: Season 2 was originally released in Japan as a 2025 political thriller movie called The Silent Service:…

Anniversary (now on Hulu) takes place in absolute Hell: a Thanksgiving dinner table populated by conservatives and progressives. But this being The Movies, it’s not just…

It’s once again time for a BOATS (Based On A True Story) movie with actual boats in it, namely, Not Without Hope (now streaming on Paramount+).…

Emma Thompson pulls up her snowpants and pulls down her stocking cap for Dead of Winter (now streaming on HBO Max), an odd little thriller set…

Firebreak (now streaming on Netflix) drops another piece of kindling on the assertion that wildfires seem to be the next disaster-movie scenario du jour. This Spanish…

We were mostly OK with the first season of Apple TV’s The Last Thing He Told Me because we wanted to see Jennifer Garner in a…

Too many times, we’ve watched thrillers that withhold information from viewers in a way that makes us feel like we’re being manipulated. Unfamiliar, a new German…

Beast of War (now streaming on Shudder) offers a rather grim game of Would You Rather: Would you rather face a big hungry great white shark…

Nightsleeper, a thriller that debuted earlier this month on BritBox, imagines what might happen if an overnight train between Glasgow and London was hacked, and two…