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Producer-director Alan J Pakula’s dazzling and brilliantly acted classic 1971 thriller is a real mesmerising humdinger. It’s the first film of Pakula’s unofficial political paranoia trilogy that continued triumphantly with The Parallax View (1974) and […]
Writer-director Peter Berg’s 1998 black farce crime thriller is an intriguing mixed bag of grisly dark-toned fun. It can boast some Very Good Things (the star performances) as well as some Very Bad Things (the […]
The Long Kiss Goodnight is a very cynical, fast-driving, exciting 1996 action thriller from director Renny Harlin, who likes to deliver sadistic moments, creating a hard edge for what is essentially a rather corny piece. […]
Pedro Almodóvar comes up the weirdest and most contrived of plots for his 1991 movie High Heels (Tacones Lejanos) starring Victoria Abril and Marisa Paredes. ‘I hated you sometimes, but even on those times I […]
Christian Bale is great in a stylish and unsettling study of paranoia in director Brad Anderson’s 2004 psychological horror thriller that’s as chilling as it is gripping. Bale lost four stones to play Trevor Reznik, […]
Britain’s Ralph Fiennes is oddly cast as American ex-cop turned cynical cyberpunk Lenny Nero in a sea of troubles in director Kathryn Bigelow’s nastily violent ‘apocalypse soon’ sci-fi thriller, made in 1995 but set cannily […]
Jeff Bridges stars as sea captain Christopher ‘Skipper’ Sheldon, who teaches a bunch of teenage lads the ropes aboard ships, in this 1996 thrilling, old-style high-seas adventure. It’s based on a real tale in 1960 when […]