Top 10 Movies: Thrillers
The highest-graded thriller movies we have reviewed, best first.
Pulp FictionThe film that rewired 1990s cinema and still talks faster than its imitators.Read the review
ParasiteA perfect con movie that rings a doorbell at the midpoint and becomes something far worse.
No Country for Old MenThe Coens strip out the score entirely and let wind, boots and a cattle gun do the scoring instead.
The DepartedScorsese's nastiest entertainment, a two-mole thriller that keeps tightening until the elevator opens.
Se7enRain, rot and a box: Fincher's procedural commits to its nihilism and never blinks at the end.
The Usual SuspectsA magic trick with a bulletin board, and knowing the ending only makes the construction more impressive.
The Silence of the LambsDemme's straight-to-camera close-ups make the audience the one being interrogated, and Foster carries it.
PsychoHitchcock murders his own star at the halfway mark and dares you to keep watching.
The ShiningA haunted hotel built as impossible architecture, undercut by a lead who starts unhinged.
ZodiacFincher's most patient film, a procedural about paperwork that refuses to give anybody a solution.
