thriller

The task may not have had the pressure of a five-set thriller, but given Carlos’s visibility as one of the world’s best tennis players, it was not without hazard.

On paper, a world where one kills to work sounds like a dismal dystopian thriller.

He hopes people are embracing the thriller elements of “Task,” of course.

“Gone Before Goodbye” is not some magpie creature patched together from shopworn thriller tropes, even if certain plot elements feel a bit much.

The writer and director won an Oscar for Promising Young Woman in 2021, but is best known for last year's psychological thriller Saltburn, which gained cult status for a succession of provocative and confrontational scenes.