Words similar to thriller
Example sentences for: thriller
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Ulee's Gold does evolve into a sort of thriller, as Ulee's family runs afoul of his convict son's ex-partners in crime.
The latest in a wash of Scream -bred teen horror flicks is roundly panned as a "disappointing adolescent thriller starring no one you ever heard of" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). Despite a promising premise--high-school students are lobotomized into conformity by a guidance counselor and their parents--the film is said to be packed with clichés (faces in windows, hands on shoulders) and lacking either an ironic or a frightening touch.
The director, Wolfgang Petersen, made his mark with Das Boot , a masterfully absorbing thriller set on board a claustrophobic German U-boat.
This possibility occurred to Chatterbox a few months ago when he rented the classic French thriller The Wages of Fear , which has for its can't-lose premise the transport by truck of highly explosive material through bumpy jungle roads.
So, for instance, Culturebox, who lives in suburban Pelham, N.Y., and works at Microsoft--where Alice McDermott's novel Charming Billy and Bill Gates' Business @ the Speed of Thought are the two top books, respectively--gets not only to spy on her neighbors and co-workers but also to find out what her fellow citizens in Anniston, Ala., and counterparts at a competing high-tech company, IBM, are reading: Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye's wacked-out Christian sci-fi thriller Apollyon: The Destroyer Is Unleashed , and a boring-sounding book called The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow's Profits , respectively.
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