Thriller Movies · 2010s Ranked
Best Thriller Movies of the 2010s, Ranked by IQ Score
The decade thriller cinema converged with prestige drama. Ranked by IQ Score.
The 2010s in thriller cinema is the decade the genre converged with prestige drama. Auteur directors (Villeneuve, Fincher, Aronofsky, Bigelow, Refn) operated inside thriller register at scale subsequent decades will struggle to match.
Anchor picks: Gone Girl (2014) is the canonical Fincher entry. Sicario (2015) is the canonical Villeneuve entry. Nightcrawler (2014) is the genre's most-formally-disciplined character study. Prisoners (2013) is the genre's most-difficult moral architecture. Get Out (2017) reset the social-thriller register.
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