as in suspenser
something (as a close contest) that induces much suspense as to its outcome
those television awards are hardly thrillers since the same people win year after year
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Recent Examples of thriller
The paranoia that now governs American life echoes the paranoid logic of the domestic thriller.
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Judy Berman, Time, 30 Jan. 2026
For example, the 20th Century Studios release The Amateur, a spy thriller starring Rami Malek and Laurence Fishburne, opened in theaters on April 11, 2025, and arrived on PVOD on June 10.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
Greenwich Entertainment is out with Jan-Ole Gerster’s vacation noir thriller Islands at circa 44 theaters including the Quad and AMC Empire in New York and Laemmle Glendale, Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, Frida Cinema, Laemmle Monica Film Center, AMC Burbank and Laemmle Town Center in LA.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 30 Jan. 2026
The spy thriller also stars Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Samuel West, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Ruth Bradley, Tom Brooke, Joanna Scanlan and Jonathan Pryce.
—Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
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Judy Berman, Time, 30 Jan. 2026
For example, the 20th Century Studios release The Amateur, a spy thriller starring Rami Malek and Laurence Fishburne, opened in theaters on April 11, 2025, and arrived on PVOD on June 10.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
Greenwich Entertainment is out with Jan-Ole Gerster’s vacation noir thriller Islands at circa 44 theaters including the Quad and AMC Empire in New York and Laemmle Glendale, Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, Frida Cinema, Laemmle Monica Film Center, AMC Burbank and Laemmle Town Center in LA.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 30 Jan. 2026
The spy thriller also stars Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Samuel West, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Ruth Bradley, Tom Brooke, Joanna Scanlan and Jonathan Pryce.
—Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thriller
suspenser
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Directed by Nelicia Low, the suspenser follows a young fencer struggling with keeping his secret crush on a fellow fencer from his homophobic mother.—
Vivienne Chow,
Variety,
17 May 2022
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On the other hand, the story introduces fictional characters and elements that give it the air of a suspenser, exactly the sort for which Harris is so popular.—
Frank Scheck,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Jan. 2022
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“Thriller.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thriller. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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