1.   This excellent thriller is fast paced and believable.

2.   Because this blunt, threadbare thriller is more of a blueprint than a book, despite the occasional flourish that undeniably aspires to the literary.

3.   A thriller should be a dramatic intensification of the possible as well as a tightly constructed puzzle.

4.   Erotic thrillers are easy to distinguish by their boxes, as are all the genre films.

5.   If a thriller is unmoored from a sense of the possible, it loses the capacity to inspire the dread that makes both for suspense and intellectual coherence.

6.   No matter what they call it, neither picture is as good as a thriller should be.

7.   Roman Polanski knows that a sleek, stylish thriller is often the best route to weightier matters.

8.   Set in contemporary Los Angeles, this brilliant satirical thriller is a profoundly thoughtful meditation on the interplay of mass communications, violence and paranoia in modern life.

9.   So to find a historical figure like Dietrich Bonhoeffer packaged in what is essentially a moral thriller is a surprising joy.

10.   The Clancy thriller may have been a hit, but these days, terrorism is no laughing matter.