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...enough for The Interpreter. The thriller pieces feel assembled rather than organic: this from The Manchurian Candidate, that from Pollack's own Three Days of the Condor, the rest from the Robert Ludlum oeuvre. And the issue of whether a genocidal dictator will be killed doesn't have much emotional weight. Nor does the moral question--Can a person do good by killing a bad man?--mean a lot when a star is pointing a gun at a defenseless supporting player...
...York City—the ’75 Daily News headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead” showed that even the federal government had given up hope on the cesspool the city had become. Coated in a mob-thriller plot and realist filming techniques, this exploration of the nature of friendship continues to be relevant, amusing, and heartbreaking almost 30 years later...
...absence of actual post-graduate plans, a couple of my roommates and I plan to spend the summer writing a lucrative and trashy thriller. It is going to be—in the words of one of my collaborators—“like ‘Desperate Housewives’ meets The Da Vinci Code.” It will be set, of course, at Harvard...
Never Let Me Go could easily be mistaken for a political novel or a futuristic thriller, but at its dark heart it's an existential fable about people trying to wring some happiness out of life before the lights go out. Because death comes for all of us, and too soon: the ending that spoils everything. --By Lev Grossman
When Harvard women’s hockey defeated Mercyhurst 5-4 in a triple-overtime thriller, the official attendance figure was 1,013. That number represents barely a third of Bright Hockey Center’s capacity of 2,800 people...