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...notion of collecting mug shots of potential criminals has sparked comparisons to the futuristic thriller Minority Report, in which a fictional high-tech police unit identifies criminals before they commit crimes, an analogy that Szczerba says is laughable. He adds that it is "highly improbable" that innocent people were caught up in the sweeps. But police statistics show that nearly 20% of the more than 600 people detained thus far were not charged with any offense...
...procrastination. If Palahniuk wears his spleen on his sleeve, for a lot of Lullaby he wears it well. Too bad that in the final stretch he steers into some demented supernatural gore, and you recall that the publisher is billing this book as Palahniuk's first attempt at a thriller. Anybody looking for chills in the Stephen King mode is going to wonder when the shivers are supposed to start. Readers looking for another of Palahniuk's funny anti-valentines to modern life will know where they are from page 1. --By Richard Lacayo
DIED. J. LEE-THOMPSON, 88, versatile English film director of The Guns of Navarone (1961), an adventure epic that landed him in Hollywood, where he directed the suspense thriller Cape Fear (1962) and a score of films over the next 25 years; in Sooke...
...army of monsters may be chasing us - let's hide in the cellar!). But Signs is, after all, a chamber piece, handsomely acted by its small cast, in which two sets of siblings must learn to be their brother's keepers. This makes the film a sober, superior thriller. - By Richard Corliss...
...them is that they face a common paradox. Civilization has made them men of learning, but in order to save it they must leave their studies and become men of action. "Right action is a pale material reflection of the divine," Pears writes. And after all, a good Euro-thriller is all about reconciling the virtues of the contemplative life with the sinful thrills of a good car chase. What could be more civilized than that...