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Fans call this Denzel Washington political thriller "good and unnerving" and think that it is one of his most underrated films.

On this installment of The Overlook Motel, Tyler Doupe’ looks back on the harrowing psychological-horror-thriller Pacific Heights.

The books we love coming out this week include new titles by Daniel Pyne, Gal Beckerman, and Maja Lunde.

Oh, for the innocent days when a movie like "The Sum of All Fears" could be enjoyed as a "thriller." In these dark times, it is not a thriller but a confirmer, confirming our fears that the world is headed for disaster. The film is about the detonation of a nuclear device in an American city. No less an authority than Warren Buffet recently gave a speech in which he flatly stated that such an event was "inevitable." Movies like "Black Sunday" could exorcis...

Amazon Prime Video has released the Bosch final seasontrailer for the upcoming return of their longest-running original series, starring Titus Welliver.

In the mesmerizing “The Kaiser’s Web” (Minotaur, 452 pages, $28.99), the tried and true Steve Berry exceeds even himself in crafting his most ambitious and relevant thriller to date. A no-holds-barred, high-stakes romp with echoes of class spy novelists like John le Carré, Len Deighton, and Alistair MacLean. Berry’s Hitchcockian “McGuffin” this time out is a Soviet spy dossier dating back to World War II that has the potential to upend the balance of power in Europe and, thus, the...

Thomas & Mercer: 356 pages, $25 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. When “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” was published some 15 years ago, it accelerated an unofficial crime subgenre with a rebooted style of heroine — the kick-ass female. Of course this wasn’t exactly new: Sue Grafton, Marcia Muller and other writers of previous generations wrote female protagonists who take no tea for the f...

There is nothing very remarkable about "The Hard Way," except for its comic energy, but the energy of this movie is everything, reminding me of the wisecracking, hard-boiled screwball comedies of the 1940s, back when they assumed the audience knew how to listen fast. You have to listen really fast during this movie, but what you get is an earful of James Woods in full flower, and Michael J. Fox so hyper he ventilates. Woods plays the kind of role where, if they hadnt been able to hire him, they...