thriller

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Brass's attempt at a thriller is therefore quite light in tone and if you consider this his nod to Antonioni, like Snackbar Budapest seems like a parody of Fellini, then you may enjoy it and its flaws very much.

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  1. noun One that thrills, especially a sensational or suspenseful book, story, play, or movie.

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  • She has recently completed a novel which she describes as a thriller Hunched and ugly, the little coal town squatted sullenly in the weak morning sun like a frog on a urinal, contemplating its few dreary options. —  EQMM,December2006
  • It's a great premise for a thriller, and Bear handles his plot and the complex ideas at its heart with all his usual skill. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 03 - March 2000
  • The film's too scattered to work as a thriller, the comic material isn't good enough for the actors, and the special effects are thrown at you until your senses overload. —  Home
  • A really superb crime thriller which is better than pretty much any other film in the genre I can think of (with the exception of Training Day). —  VideoGamer.com - All Updates
  • As befits this kind of thriller, the plot zips from Berlin to New York to Milan to Luxembourg to Paris to Brussels to Istanbul, with fine turns by Armin Mueller-Stahl as IBBC's chief of security and Brian F. O'Byrne as its top hitman. —  Marine Corps Times - News
 

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