Salon.com > Thrillers http://www.salon.com Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Pick of the week: A class-war thriller from Putin’s Russia http://www.salon.com/2012/05/18/pick_of_the_week_a_class_war_thriller_from_putins_russia/ http://www.salon.com/2012/05/18/pick_of_the_week_a_class_war_thriller_from_putins_russia/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12922332 As readers of Chekhov and Gogol and Dostoyevsky are well aware, the pervasive melancholy of Russian culture long predates the Soviet era, and there was no reason to believe that the end of communism would lift the gloom. Some Western reviewers have described "Elena," the mesmerizing new family drama from the brilliant Russian filmmaker Andrei Zvyagintsev, as an updated film noir. That may be a workable shorthand, in that "Elena" is about an ordinary person who persuades herself to commit a terrible crime, with uncertain consequences. But it attaches the movie to the wrong heritage and the wrong set of expectations. "Elena" is a moral drama, all right, but one pitched in a dark and ambiguous Russian register reminiscent of a 19th-century short story or a fairy tale, with no clear lesson delivered at the end.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2012/05/18/pick_of_the_week_a_class_war_thriller_from_putins_russia/feed/ 0 “Season of the Witch”: Nicolas Cage’s ludicrous medieval mashup http://www.salon.com/2012/04/27/season_of_the_witch/ http://www.salon.com/2012/04/27/season_of_the_witch/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 03:13:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/andrew_ohehir/2011/01/05/season_of_the_witch So if I tell you that a medieval action-adventure starring Nicolas Cage, directed by the guy who made "Gone in Sixty Seconds" and released in January -- traditional burying ground of cinematic failure -- is kind of trashy and stupid, I'm guessing you're all, like, yawn. I mean, Cage, who seems compulsively unable to turn down a role, playing an overamped tough guy in a bad movie? Surely not! Now, if I add that the movie in question, which is called "Season of the Witch," resembles a Hollywood-by-way-of-Hungary remake of Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" filtered through the B-movie aesthetic of, say, Roger Corman, then maybe I can get your attention for a couple of minutes.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2012/04/27/season_of_the_witch/feed/ 41 Pick of the week: A disturbing Aussie serial-killer drama http://www.salon.com/2012/03/02/pick_of_the_week_a_disturbing_aussie_serial_killer_drama/ http://www.salon.com/2012/03/02/pick_of_the_week_a_disturbing_aussie_serial_killer_drama/#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2012 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12462801 Can some kind of deeper meaning be extracted from exploring terrible crimes and the depths of human depravity? That's the implicit question asked in "The Snowtown Murders," an impressive but exceptionally disturbing feature debut from Australian director Justin Kurzel that pushes the new wave of Aussie crime films up a notch. (This film played the Cannes and Toronto festivals earlier this year, and won four Australian Academy Awards, under the original title "Snowtown.") If you found some enjoyment in David Michôd's grueling Melbourne family saga "Animal Kingdom," then you're probably a candidate for this thoughtful, impressionistic portrait of life in a downtrodden suburb of Adelaide that produced Australia's worst real-life serial-killer case.

But I want to be honest, both about my own mixed feelings and about the aesthetic and, I don't know, epistemological challenges posed by "The Snowtown Murders." This is a beautifully crafted and largely non-sensationalistic film that captures the late-'90s, working-class decrepitude of its setting in intense detail: the cramped cinderblock houses and overgrown, rubbish-strewn yards; the flat, gray skies and flat, open landscapes. The real Snowtown case was first exposed, after all, when police found several plastic barrels full of decomposing body parts in an abandoned building.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2012/03/02/pick_of_the_week_a_disturbing_aussie_serial_killer_drama/feed/ 18 Woody Harrelson’s Oscar-worthy moment http://www.salon.com/2012/02/09/woody_harrelsons_oscar_worthy_moment/ http://www.salon.com/2012/02/09/woody_harrelsons_oscar_worthy_moment/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12320961 There are all kinds of reasons, good and bad, why Woody Harrelson doesn't usually play leading roles: He's not handsome in exactly the right way (although I'm confident lots of people find him sexy), he's associated with comedies and action flicks rather than romance or drama, he's losing his hair, he doesn't seem quite the right age and never did. (For the record, Harrelson is exactly the same age as George Clooney and a year older than Tom Cruise.) Another problem is that this big, loping, vulpine guy with the enormous head and the electric-blue eyes sometimes seems as if he's going to swallow the movie whole, which is what happens in Oren Moverman's intriguing indie cop drama, "Rampart." This movie's too small and too dark to have gotten Harrelson into the overcrowded best-actor race, but it's without question one of the year's great performances.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2012/02/09/woody_harrelsons_oscar_worthy_moment/feed/ 16 A clever British horror-thriller nods to Tarantino http://www.salon.com/2012/02/03/a_clever_british_horror_thriller_nods_to_tarantino/ http://www.salon.com/2012/02/03/a_clever_british_horror_thriller_nods_to_tarantino/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12285521 Ben Wheatley certainly isn't the only filmmaker who built his reputation making wannabe-viral video clips for the Internet, but he might be the most talented one, and the one who's made the most impressive transition to the big screen. A 39-year-old from suburban London, Wheatley will perhaps never attain the heights of popular success he hit in 2005 with a 10-second video titled "Cunning Stunt" (it's a spoonerism -- get it?), which I should not spoil in case you haven't seen it. Go ahead, the rest of us will wait. Honestly, the combination of good cheer, cleverness and outright cruelty achieved in "Cunning Stunt" pretty much tells you what you need to know about Wheatley. You'll either conclude, hell yeah, I want to watch whatever that dude makes next, or you'll say get me the Sam Hill out of here. In either case, I understand.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2012/02/03/a_clever_british_horror_thriller_nods_to_tarantino/feed/ 6 Pick of the week: The ultimate female action hero http://www.salon.com/2012/01/20/pick_of_the_week_the_ultimate_female_action_hero/ http://www.salon.com/2012/01/20/pick_of_the_week_the_ultimate_female_action_hero/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12191831 During one of the brief interludes in Steven Soderbergh's action-thriller "Haywire" when super-double female secret agent Mallory Kane (played by Gina Carano, an athletic and sultry mixed-martial-arts star) isn't elaborately kicking some guy's ass, she enjoys an enigmatic walk-and-talk with a suave French evildoer who wants to show her around his immense Irish estate. The guy is played by Mathieu Kassovitz, himself an action director of some note ("La Haine," "Gothika" and the forthcoming "Rebellion"), and already you know a lot about "Haywire": It stars a female professional fighter, it's got lots of fancy-dress locations, and it's got weird little film-buff in-jokes. A Soderbergh movie, in other words.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2012/01/20/pick_of_the_week_the_ultimate_female_action_hero/feed/ 9 “Miss Bala”: Ballad of the beauty queen and the drug lord http://www.salon.com/2012/01/19/miss_bala_ballad_of_the_beauty_queen_and_the_drug_lord/ http://www.salon.com/2012/01/19/miss_bala_ballad_of_the_beauty_queen_and_the_drug_lord/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12190411 Much of the celebrated Mexican cinema of recent years has defied conventional norteamericano expectations about what life is like in our oft-misunderstood southern neighbor. Gerardo Naranjo's action-packed "Miss Bala," on the other hand, seizes all the stereotypes and runs with them. In the vision of this ruthless and abundantly talented young director, life in Tijuana isn't merely as bad as you think. It's worse.

I heard one prominent critic complaining after the Cannes premiere of "Miss Bala" that some of Naranjo’s plot twists were implausible, to which I say: Give me a break. First of all, while “Miss Bala” strives for a naturalistic feeling and pulls facts from some recent headlines on some recent criminal history, it’s a bullet-riddled downhill thrill ride about a would-be beauty queen and a drug lord, not “The Bicycle Thief.” Second of all, Naranjo’s point is that almost nothing is implausible in the upside-down borderlands of Tijuana, where Mexican sovereignty is almost meaningless and it’s impossible to identify a clear line between cops and criminals.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2012/01/19/miss_bala_ballad_of_the_beauty_queen_and_the_drug_lord/feed/ 18 “Contraband”: A thriller Mark Wahlberg can’t juice http://www.salon.com/2012/01/12/contraband_a_thriller_mark_wahlberg_cant_juice/ http://www.salon.com/2012/01/12/contraband_a_thriller_mark_wahlberg_cant_juice/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12088491 My Icelandic vocabulary doesn't go very far -- OK, it doesn't go anywhere at all, although I know that the Icelandic parliament is called the Althing and is more than 1,000 years old, which is awesome. But if I knew the word for "craptastic" I'd haul it out now. Our subject today is the Mark Wahlberg star vehicle "Contraband," a smuggling thriller that boasts three appealing tough-guy actors, locations in New Orleans and Panama, and a whole bunch of expensive second-unit photography involving freighters and shipping containers and dockland cranes and helicopters. It's exactly the sort of movie that Hollywood specializes in, the kind which seems on paper as if it ought to be entertaining, but winds up a massive and chaotic drag.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2012/01/12/contraband_a_thriller_mark_wahlberg_cant_juice/feed/ 6 “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”: A bigger, darker Swedish nightmare http://www.salon.com/2011/12/20/the_girl_with_the_dragon_tattoo_a_bigger_darker_swedish_nightmare/ http://www.salon.com/2011/12/20/the_girl_with_the_dragon_tattoo_a_bigger_darker_swedish_nightmare/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10657331 There's no question that David Fincher and screenwriter Steven Zaillian have found a degree of depth and subtlety in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" that I'm not sure Stieg Larsson knew was in there. As always with Fincher, you get a beautifully engineered production, where even at an unwieldy 158 minutes, every shot and every ominous sound cue are there for a reason. Among living Hollywood directors, only Martin Scorsese is Fincher's equal for meticulous brilliance. Given the sprawling procedural novel to which the filmmakers had to remain faithful (mostly), this is an ingenious and engrossing work of pop cinema. That said, when it was over I felt a wave of ennui wash over me upon reflecting that we've got two more of these to go. Do we really need an entire new series of these films? (Sure, the marketplace will provide an answer, but that might not be the only answer.) And do we really want Fincher devoting the peak years of his career, not to mention a significant portion of his mortal existence, working his way through the pulpy twists and turns of this franchise?

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/12/20/the_girl_with_the_dragon_tattoo_a_bigger_darker_swedish_nightmare/feed/ 74 “Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol”: At long last, the year’s best action flick http://www.salon.com/2011/12/16/mission_impossible_ghost_protocol_at_long_last_the_years_best_action_flick/ http://www.salon.com/2011/12/16/mission_impossible_ghost_protocol_at_long_last_the_years_best_action_flick/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10427581 Take an aging star often viewed as a weirdo, a director who's never made a live-action film and the fourth installment of a 15-year-old movie franchise whose roots go back to 1960s television. What do you get? Well, it certainly could have been a total disaster, or an awkward nostalgia exercise, but instead "Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol" is something even more unlikely: the most exciting action flick of the year, by a huge margin. Director Brad Bird brings all the wit, style and imagination of his animated films ("Ratatouille," "The Incredibles" and "The Iron Giant") to this slick secret-agent techno-fantasy. As for 49-year-old Tom Cruise, he's surely ready for a comeback after weathering the worst publicity of his celebrity career. He's back in his comfort zone here as renegade super-spy Ethan Hunt, who is exactly the kind of charismatic, overamped control freak we all believe (rightly or wrongly) that Cruise is too.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/12/16/mission_impossible_ghost_protocol_at_long_last_the_years_best_action_flick/feed/ 12 “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows”: Guy Ritchie’s cheerful, idiotic sequel http://www.salon.com/2011/12/15/sherlock_holmes_a_game_of_shadows_guy_ritchies_cheerful_idiotic_sequel/ http://www.salon.com/2011/12/15/sherlock_holmes_a_game_of_shadows_guy_ritchies_cheerful_idiotic_sequel/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:45:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10364811 It's definitely possible to have a good time at "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows," the latest motion picture offering from Guy Ritchie, the erstwhile Mr. Ciccone. If you saw Ritchie's egregious but enjoyable Christmas 2009 hit "Sherlock Holmes," you already know the rules: Don't expect anything that bears any resemblance to Victorian England, beyond the top hats and some mud. Basically, we're talking the authenticity level of a suburban St. Louis high school production of "Oliver Twist." And definitely don't expect any relationship to the canonical stories of Arthur Conan Doyle, beyond the names of the characters and the suggestion that the relationship between Sherlock Holmes and John H. Watson, M.D., has a kind of homoerotic subtext. Given Robert Downey Jr.'s queeny, hilarious, cranked-to-11 performance as the titular genius, you might actually not want to call that subtext. It's more like supertext, if that's a word. (Is Downey's full-scale "queering" of the Holmes character a liberatory act or a homophobic stereotype? Get to work, grad students!)

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/12/15/sherlock_holmes_a_game_of_shadows_guy_ritchies_cheerful_idiotic_sequel/feed/ 13 The state of the post-Cold War spy novel http://www.salon.com/2011/12/09/the_state_of_the_post_cold_war_spy_novel/ http://www.salon.com/2011/12/09/the_state_of_the_post_cold_war_spy_novel/#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:15:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10296955 How did the end of the Cold War change the modern spy novel? Why is it that Cold War tales still seem to resonate so deeply with international audiences? How is our sense of who our enemy is reflected in contemporary spy fiction?

As "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," based on the classic John le Carré novel, hits theaters today, Salon asked a round table of bestselling thriller writers, intelligence specialists and historians to share their thoughts.

We want to know what you think, too. Post your thoughts about the future of spy stories in our Comments section, or blog it on Open Salon (tag it: FutureSpy) and we'll add the best thinking to the list below.

Jeffery Deaver, bestselling thriller writer and author of "Carte Blanche"

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/12/09/the_state_of_the_post_cold_war_spy_novel/feed/ 13 “In Time”: Justin Timberlake’s OWS sci-fi thriller http://www.salon.com/2011/10/27/in_time_justin_timberlakes_ows_sci_fi_thriller/ http://www.salon.com/2011/10/27/in_time_justin_timberlakes_ows_sci_fi_thriller/#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10147604 On my way out of the New York preview screening of "In Time," I overheard another moviegoer cheerfully describing what he had just seen as a "Marxist propaganda film." So it wasn't just me. But it says something about our times, I guess, that the phrase would even come up in reference to a motion picture that could just as well be called grade-B dystopian sci-fi, or an attempt to position Justin Timberlake as an action star. New Zealand-born writer-director Andrew Niccol, he of "Gattaca" and "S1m0ne," has been making chilly, satirical, almost-excellent science-fiction movies and thrillers for years; he cannot possibly have known that this particular one -- which advocates nothing short of full-on class warfare -- would land right on top of the Occupy Wall Street moment. I mean, could he?

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/10/27/in_time_justin_timberlakes_ows_sci_fi_thriller/feed/ 15 Pick of the week: Elizabeth Olsen in “Martha Marcy May Marlene” http://www.salon.com/2011/10/21/pick_of_the_week_elizabeth_olsen_in_martha_marcy_may_marlene/ http://www.salon.com/2011/10/21/pick_of_the_week_elizabeth_olsen_in_martha_marcy_may_marlene/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10131035 When first we meet the title character of the indie thriller "Martha Marcy May Marlene" (played by 21-year-old Elizabeth Olsen, who apparently has famous sisters), she is sneaking out of a communal household somewhere in the rural Northeast, and escaping into the woods. We don't exactly know why she's running away, except that it clearly seems to be the kind of place where you don't simply say "so long" and catch a lift to the Trailways station. When Martha, which is actually her given name, makes it to the nearest town, a guy from the house (Brady Corbet) tracks her down and tries to convince her to go back with him. He doesn't threaten her or lay hands on her, but the implication that he holds power over her is obvious. Martha successfully resists, and phones her sister in Connecticut -- but she doesn't even know the name of the town she's calling from, and won't explain why she's been missing for almost two years.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/10/21/pick_of_the_week_elizabeth_olsen_in_martha_marcy_may_marlene/feed/ 4 “Margin Call”: Inside the dreaded 1 percent http://www.salon.com/2011/10/20/margin_call_inside_the_dreaded_1_percent/ http://www.salon.com/2011/10/20/margin_call_inside_the_dreaded_1_percent/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10128284 One friend of mine couldn't resist a little acrid commentary when she heard about the premise of "Margin Call," a feature film that follows 24 frenzied hours inside a fictional New York investment bank during the great financial collapse of 2008. "Oh, great," she snarled. "Now we're supposed to feel human compassion toward the lizards who screwed the whole world?" (OK, the words she used were not "lizards" or "screwed.") Thankfully, the answer to her question is yes but also no. Writer-director J.C. Chandor's impressive debut film does indeed capture its cast of high-powered bankers as human beings, and features one of Kevin Spacey's best screen performances as the firm's middle-aged ace salesman, trapped between his longtime loyalty and his waning sense of ethics. But explaining how these guys justified their rapacious and immoral behavior to themselves is not the same thing as excusing it.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/10/20/margin_call_inside_the_dreaded_1_percent/feed/ 4 “Texas Killing Fields”: A murky cop thriller from Michael Mann’s daughter http://www.salon.com/2011/10/15/texas_killing_fields_a_murky_cop_thriller_from_michael_manns_daughter/ http://www.salon.com/2011/10/15/texas_killing_fields_a_murky_cop_thriller_from_michael_manns_daughter/#comments Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10114760 Atmospheric and creepy, with several strong acting performances and an overdose of hard-boiled angst, the serial-killer drama "Texas Killing Fields" is clearly the work of a raw but talented young director. In this case that director comes with a recognizable last name and a whole bunch of connections: Ami Canaan Mann is the daughter of Hollywood heavyweight Michael Mann ("Miami Vice," "The Insider," "Heat," et al.), who serves as her principal producer here. The younger Mann has been trying to develop her own filmmaking career for at least a decade; she made the little-seen feature "Morning" in 2001, and has directed several TV episodes. If "Texas Killing Fields" is something short of a breakthrough, it's an intriguingly murky B-movie that should satisfy genre buffs.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/10/15/texas_killing_fields_a_murky_cop_thriller_from_michael_manns_daughter/feed/ 2 “Trespass”: Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman need new agents http://www.salon.com/2011/10/13/trespass_nicolas_cage_and_nicole_kidman_need_new_agents/ http://www.salon.com/2011/10/13/trespass_nicolas_cage_and_nicole_kidman_need_new_agents/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:54:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10112255 Can someone explain what Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman are doing in a chaotic and sadistic home-invasion thriller, shot in digital colors so radioactive they appear to have leaked out of the Fukushima nuclear plant? "Trespass" looks and feels almost exactly like a late-'90s straight-to-video release, right down to Cage's enormous aviator-style glasses and the gun-wielding, drugged-out stripper in lacy underwear. Indeed, this basically is a straight-to-video movie, in the 21st-century iteration; it's available right now on VOD nationwide, simultaneous with its limited theatrical opening, and DVD and Blu-ray release will follow almost immediately.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/10/13/trespass_nicolas_cage_and_nicole_kidman_need_new_agents/feed/ 12 Pick of the week: “Take Shelter,” a potent fable of marriage and madness http://www.salon.com/2011/09/30/take_shelter_potw/ http://www.salon.com/2011/09/30/take_shelter_potw/#comments Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:01:00 +0000 An intense psychological thriller that builds toward an explosive conclusion, indie writer-director Jeff Nichols' "Take Shelter" may be the most powerful American film I've seen this year. Having said that, I want to manage expectations a little bit. One can argue, and I will, that "Take Shelter" is a terrifically crafted little movie that bounces off current events and the nation's downbeat mood ingeniously, and that it variously suggests comparisons with the early work of Terrence Malick, Stanley Kubrick and the Coen brothers. Yeah, I think it's that good, but please note that I also said "little." This is a modestly scaled, character-based drama, shot quickly on a low budget in heartland locations. So don't go expecting big-screen spectacle, and don't complain to me about the limited production values or the imperfect CGI effects (although both are actually fine). I should add that I saw this movie while soaking wet, after walking through the residue of a recent tropical storm, and that given its obsessive depiction of extreme weather, that definitely heightened the firepower.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/09/30/take_shelter_potw/feed/ 7 “Killer Elite”: Jason Statham and Clive Owen's dark, stylish thriller http://www.salon.com/2011/09/23/killer_elite/ http://www.salon.com/2011/09/23/killer_elite/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:30:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/andrew_ohehir/2011/09/23/killer_elite I somehow keep forgetting that the spy thriller called "Killer Elite" actually exists and that I've seen it. That probably reflects the fact that it's a generically enjoyable action film with a bit of hardboiled based-on-a-true-story-ness about it, and since it's set in the '80s and feels like an '80s movie, it seems a lot like something you must have seen years ago. This is shaping up as an awfully tepid endorsement, isn't it? But I had a reasonably good time, on the whole; if you'd enjoy watching Jason Statham and Clive Owen blow things up, and the idea of a movie that splits the difference between, say, Statham's "Transporter" films and the cynical espionage universe of John le Carré's "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" appeals to you, then this is a highly viable Saturday night option. Put that on your poster!

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/09/23/killer_elite/feed/ 7 “Abduction”: Taylor Lautner's chest gets a movie http://www.salon.com/2011/09/23/abduction/ http://www.salon.com/2011/09/23/abduction/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:45:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/andrew_ohehir/2011/09/23/abduction Writing a review of "Abduction," the new thriller designed as a star vehicle for "Twilight" hunk Taylor Lautner, is pretty much a free-fire zone. Lautner's fan base -- which I would presume to be young and female and interested in viewing his hairless and monumental chest -- isn't super-likely to read reviews before rushing out to see the movie. On the other hand, if you're here reading this, the likelihood that you're actually going to pay to watch "Abduction" is exceptionally low. So I can pretty much make up any damn thing without fear of contradiction: The sequence where aliens destroy the earth was pretty cool, but the B&D sex scene between Lautner and Sigourney Weaver was somewhat disturbing. Unless it was the other way around.

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