People call it espionage or thriller, but I think it's a mixed genre, perhaps most close to old-fashioned film noir.

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Joining a hive could be as simple as laughing or gasping along with an audience at a comedy or thriller (movie attendance is up 17.5 percent this year).

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Sometimes the story is front and center, like in a thriller or whodunit.

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When Costner and Hurt are fighting with each other, or just chatting, this peculiar thriller, written by Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon and directed by Evans, is witty and fresh.

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He assesses the options - an "unplugged" album of his hits, a reunion with Thriller producer Quincey Jones, or teaming up with a new, cutting edge producer.

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So I might typically bring one long thriller novel and one business book or biography.

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The movie doesn't do apps, or, for that matter, drop calls, but this particularly violent thriller is distinguished by elegant design.

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Whether her partner deserves better or worse is just one of the troubling question marks this superior mystery thriller dares to leave hanging in the air.

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Other strong contenders include US director Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke, and French film-maker Barbet Schroeder's thriller L'Inju: la Bete dans l'Ombre, or The Beast in the Shadows.

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