1.   At the same time, the film assiduously avoids all the little audience-pleasers and de rigueur scenes that have become the cliches of the romantic thriller genre.

2.   Both, though, fell more into the realistic, science-fiction thriller genre than the horror category.

3.   By cloaking such themes in the thriller genre, Hitchcock helped change the way critics looked at suspense movies.

4.   Cross is one of the best protagonists in the modern thriller genre, and one of the most likable.

5.   In Whitefield, Perry has created one of the smartest and most engaging female characters in the thriller genre.

6.   Publishing is in a muddle after the terrorist attacks and in no way more so than in worrying about the thriller genres.

7.   The movie is an action film that both honors and wryly mocks the thriller genre by twisting its conventions.

8.   Two decidedly different writers whose books often transcend the thriller genre, George V. Higgins and Scott Turow, have something in common.

9.   Two of the best writers of the historical thriller genre are Robert Harris and Joseph Kanon.

10.   It also established the movie as a classic in the political thriller genre.