You know, I could keep you in suspense for a long time. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was silence again, everyone straining to hear in an agony of suspense. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are, to be sure, stand-up comedians, shaggy- dog raconteurs, consummate essayists, and authors of mystery novels who can build up curiosity and suspense and then resolve it all with a sudden revelation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He only wished that the midday break would conclude, that the audience would reenter the Auditorium, and the suspense would end. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

All four of us lie there in heavy, watchful suspense and breathe as lightly as possible. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, having caught their interest, he puffed long in concentration to draw out the suspense. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Around him, he sensed the crowd, absolutely silent, paralyzed with suspense. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

After about two seconds of this, the dickweed cameraman zoomed in on the bloody sidewalk while the reporter blabbed offscreen, building up the suspense as to why this wasn’t just another “tragic traffic accident.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Since the Presbyterians weren’t involved, there was no suspense at our preachin’ service. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

An increase in plankton in the water drawn from the boreholes around the ship—a sure sign of approaching spring—didn’t ward off the suspense that all the men now felt. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“I said, the suspense is killing me. Are you actually using the earplugs?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

My stomach is a swarm of wasps in suspense. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“The suspense of everything is killing me. I can’t take being out here.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then I heard Selvam clearing his throat to speak, and at once heads turned, surprised, lightened of suspense, very much alert. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This suspense is a thousand times worse than the most horrible event; tell me what new scene of death has been acted, and whose murder I am now to lament?” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

To earn more points and add an element of suspense to your hunt, a seeker can declare a book. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“The English flight officer has studied the craft of the novel. She is making use of suspense and foreshadowing.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Bigger’s entire body tightened with suspense and dread. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He felt her heart, and after a few moments of agonising suspense said:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they feel it would spoil the suspense. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

We were trembling with anticipation, and a good deal of the suspense was caused by the fact that none of us knew just what was going to happen. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there was the even more important consideration that Delbriick hated any form of secrecy in scientific matters and did not want to keep Pauling in suspense any longer. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Besides, she had reached the point where the suspense was giving her a stomach ache. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Dove?” he asked, and he held his breath in suspense. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The cables thrumming beneath the pavement struck a minor chord of suspense, and held it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It has suspense, tragedy, startling developments—a soap opera growing out of the ground. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But each rumor proved to be false and did nothing but add to the already intolerable anxiety and suspense my father and I were feeling as we read the papers and listened to the radio. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He’d wanted to prolong the ceremony, get as much of the drama and suspense out of the situation as possible. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably the suspense is killing me, but I will just have to wait a few years till he works out the final answer, tune in for the next thrilling installment, he writes, in block letters. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Please tell me—the suspense is killing me.’ The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Since there were only a handful left, they didn’t even have to have heats, which took away a lot of the suspense. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

My babysitters handled the suspense better than I did. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ambitiously, Haiselden meant to market his film as a “date night” movie: it had love, romance, suspense, and humor—with some retail infanticide thrown in on the side. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Imagining that all his efforts were being followed with suspense, he bit down frantically on the key with all the force he could muster. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was very much as it was today, Jonas—the same suspense, as one Eleven had been passed over when the Assignments were given. Then the announcement, when they singled out the one—” Jonas interrupted. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

A ripple went through the crowd, a quickening of tempo, a sweep of suspense. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

—The Great Father myth of the Aranda people of Central Australia All was in suspense, all calm, all in silence; all motionless and still; and the expanse of the sky was empty. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden I couldn’t stand the suspense any longer—the waiting for Miss Alice Ann to get to Mama. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Discovering new places, the suspense of where they would go next. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Only in late January did my suspense end, with the arrival of a letter from Washington: I was sacked. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

As Deb slides her finger under the tape, the suspense brings a second of silence, and I’m grateful. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“This worked out rather better than I expected. I was prepared to wait, but your mother arrived ahead of schedule. It’s easier this way, isn’t it? Less suspense, less anxiety for you.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

As he walked the streets of Japan’s capital, Mishima could feel the agonizing suspense in the air; he could see it in passing faces. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the bride keeps the guests in suspense by not answering the question until the third time it’s been posed. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

As a trafficker in climaxes and thrills and characterization and wonderful dialogue and suspense and confrontations, I had outlined the Dresden story many times. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Discovering new places, the suspense of where they would go next. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He dragged out the suspense, poking around at the bottom of his bag until we yelled, “Uncle D!” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly, as though he couldn’t bear the suspense any longer, Charlie tore the wrapper right down the middle...and on to his lap, there fell...a light-brown creamy-colored chocolate candy bar. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes during which the only sounds were our little mini-symphony of slurping and crunching, I guess my dad couldn’t take the suspense anymore. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of Father off visiting someone in the Jewish Hospital and completely unaware of what was happening, the long wait for Mother, the heat, the suspense—all this reduced us to silence. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Sherman’s clue order got the kids thinking as broadly as possible early in the show, but still preserved the suspense of penguin until the end. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know the stall is part of her strategy to keep me in suspense. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Bigger’s head began to ache with the suspense of it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The only suspense comes from whether I can access things fast enough. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He was satisfied, and mother and sister, who had looked on in suspense, began to breathe easily and to smile. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under those eyes he felt a curious suspense, but not fear. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A thousand dollars a throw in Madison Square Garden wouldn’t have gotten any more breathless suspense. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes of awkward suspense, Bobby looked up and read aloud a reporter’s name, his affiliation, and the first question. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

To earn more points and add an element of suspense to your hunt, a seeker can declare a book. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Thank goodness she didn’t leave him in suspense any longer, but brought him upstairs. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I moved away, down the bar, looking at them out of a feeling of suspense. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

No more suspense, and no more delusion of freedom. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Only a few of us know who the winners are, and Dr. Matthews is building the suspense. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chaplain licked dry lips with a dry tongue and leaned forward in suspense on the edge of his chair. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We trembled with suspense, hoping he would be alone. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved that anxiety, that terrible and oppressive anxiety which he experienced during the game of dice, during the suspense of high stakes. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t stand the suspense and I didn’t want to walk in a silence that was so full of questions. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m not like the fools who watch my show. I don’t like suspense. Cut to the chase.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There was the suspense I felt when I heard the taut, sharp song of a yellow-black bee hovering nervously but patiently above a white rose. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aurelia and Marcus were unashamedly clinging to each other, their eyes, huge with suspense, fixed on the scene being played out directly below them. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

But now the suspense about Italy and the hope that the war will be over by the end of the year are keeping us awake... The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the night, Houseman and Stewart labored over the script, adding details, sprucing up dialogue, and building suspense. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The nurse took another drink of wine and examined the scroll, turning it about while Aurelia sat in suspense. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He loved giving gifts, drawing out the suspense, and he always chose wonderful things. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He stood still, paused to build suspense, and thrust his bloody dagger victoriously into the air. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inured as I was to sick beds and death, this suspense grew, and grew upon me. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

After the war ended, Elizebeth’s work offered no more moments of nail-biting suspense, just endless tedium. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We soon lost interest, though, for there was no suspense at all: the Congolese children always passed us right by on their march to victory. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A skilled writer can interleave multiple story lines, or deliberately manipulate suspense and surprise, or engage the reader with a chain of associations, each topic shunting the reader to the next. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The moments of suspense ticked by for what seemed ages until Matthias managed to squeeze past the serpent’s head. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Richard Chizmar’s “The Long Way Home” offers nearly 500 pages of consistently readable horror and suspense, with an occasional piece of nonfiction for variety. Analysis | Just in time for Halloween, the best horror fiction of the year 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

But, more importantly, Hitchcockian fixations and modes shaped espionage, suspense, horror and action pictures generally — so widely that audiences may have become desensitized to that influence. Review | In ‘The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock,’ it’s the contradictions that made the man 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z

Scott was quoted as calling the ceremonies "a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons." Strange but true stories from Academy Awards past 2013-02-20T16:36:13Z

But — not to make the suspense too excruciating — I surrendered midway through to the film, to the wayward torque of its plot and the near-perfect pitch of its acting ensemble. 'Tamara Drewe' review: Sex, Cows and Rock 'n Roll 2010-10-07T16:10:00Z

The menace here is ugly and the suspense genuine; things do not end well. Stories That Look Askance at the American Midwest 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

A book should have suspense and grab you right from the beginning.  Malala Yousafzai: By the Book 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Anything that has a bit of suspense and a twist — and, of course, characters I care about. Brad Taylor Has a Theory About What Makes for Good Thrillers 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

Spy novels, and suspense novels in general, start with a tear in the fabric of our usual lives, and often, by story’s end, deliver the promise of a restoration of the normal. The Trump era is posing some major challenges for thriller novelists 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

And Abbott steadily commands our attention with a suspense plot that unexpectedly somersaults and back flips whenever a landing seems in sight. ‘You Will Know Me’: Mean girls, tiger moms, Olympic dreams — and murder 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

You worry, well, can we sustain suspense for an hour and a half? Michael Douglas on The Reach: ‘It’s more fun to be b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-bad!’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Young readers crave emotional directness, and they appreciate a little buildup and suspense. Chelsea Clinton’s ‘It’s Your World’ 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

Everyone wants a good story, with both narrative and emotional suspense. When Covid struck the Wolitzers, Meg and Hilma bonded by creating a book. Let them tell you about it. 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

Hitchcock warrants icon status in part because he worked hard to craft a persona: the puckishly macabre master of suspense. The blur between acting, fakery 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

The full version is a superior entertainment on every level, building heart-pounding suspense as Freder and Maria work together to save the children from the rising tide and, in so doing, cement their own relationship. Dvdsdave Kehr: It?s Overlords vs. Lower Depths in a Future City 2010-11-20T19:15:00Z

This enjoyably chilling suspense tale by Gytha Lodge conveys both the thrills and the dangers of being a teenager on the brink of adult independence. Beware Strange Psychologists: The Latest in Crime Novels 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

In the absence of an arcing narrative, the series wants us to accept as its mission of suspense the mystery of this crypto drag-king-meets-shopaholic friendship. Television Review: Detectives From Tess Gerritsen?s Novels, on TNT 2010-07-11T21:22:00Z

Chabon presents these family legends with vibrant immediacy, extending certain mysteries, heightening suspense, setting us up for poignant revelations later on. Michael Chabon’s ‘Moonglow’ is a cunning dance with autobiography 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

These efforts to rethink, rebrand and reboot that original, comparatively simple exercise in suspense have failed and succeeded in roughly equal measure. ‘Halloween’ and the Problem With Its Sequels 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

There is enough emotion and suspense to hold your attention and an intimation of political allegory to give you something to think about. | 'Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame': ?Detective Dee? With Andy Lau - Review 2011-09-01T21:38:44Z

It amps up to a less digestible level of metaphysical hoo-ha, but the pages turn rapidly with well-orchestrated suspense. New Books From Louisa Hall, Christian Kracht, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Others 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

Our pace was slow, but the journey was filled with suspense. Journeys: Hunting for Mushrooms in Colorado 2011-09-09T18:55:14Z

The suspense of the next supply I would collect kept me going. Apptitude: ‘Zombies, Run!’ might scare you into healthy habits

But by the ninth or 10th meeting, I actually wanted to be called on: the suspense was worse than the actuality. Joining Toastmasters to Overcome a Fear of Public Speaking 2013-12-24T21:13:15Z

The conductor’s subtly elastic pulse intensified a sense of anxious suspense — to marvelous effect in the first movement’s drawn-out coda. At Seattle Symphony, cosmic radiation from Beethoven and Messiaen 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

“The Little Drummer Girl” is subtly nutty: a geopolitical thriller distilled to an exercise in psychological suspense. “The Little Drummer Girl,” Reviewed: A Fever Dream of Glamourous Espionage 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

One of these masterpieces was young Campbell’s 1938 novella, “Who Goes There?,” which Nevala-Lees calls “the greatest science fiction suspense story of all time.” Review | Let us praise the giants of science fiction: Campbell, Asimov and, yes, L. Ron Hubbard 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

“The movie is a viscerally exciting, adrenaline-soaked tour de force of suspense and surprise.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘30 for 30’ and ‘A.P. Bio’ 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

“We’re going to put a bit more ‘psycho’ in the text and production, a little more horror and suspense,” he said. 'American Psycho' Musical Coming to Off Broadway 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

These interconnecting storylines rise and converge, but they generate more unintentional laughs than suspense or emotion. Despite a steely performance, Sandra Bullock's dreary film of life after prison is "Unforgivable" 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

Now working on the script for her next movie, a suspense thriller, she has caught herself wondering whether certain plot details will pass censorship. Chinese director lands a hit after censorship woes 2011-04-27T11:49:11Z

The suspense turns like a screw as each of the dinner guests in an island mansion are bumped off one by one. Gregg Olsen's top 10 deadly reads 2012-11-15T12:39:02Z

“Sinking Sand,” produced by locals from Savannah and Georgia, is a suspense thriller set against the backdrop of Savannah. Savannah back in Hollywood spotlight 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

In short, there’s enough action and suspense to satisfy anyone, even Dr. Watson, who knows a thing or two about adventure. Review | William Clark Russell’s ‘The Wreck of the Grosvenor’ is a transporting nautical adventure 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

With just the right amount of suspense, Simon delivers the verdict on the judges' save: Big Mike will be back next week. 'American Idol' results night recap: Big reprieve for Big Mike 2010-04-08T14:42:00Z

A subtle stylist and a self-willed Everyman, Murakami is a master of both suspense and sociology, his language a deceptively simple screen with a mystery hidden behind it. The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

For anyone who wonders where he gets the precise details on which his books’ suspense depends, the answer isn’t shoe leather. Plot Twist! John Grisham’s New Thriller Is Positively Lawyerless 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

That whole speech, for me, was informed by the suspense of how he would handle the Lewinsky debacle. Don DeLillo and Move-In Day 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

The real world intrudes on the stylized suspense with a thud rather than a bracing jolt. ‘The Boy Behind the Door’ Review: Best Friends in Peril 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

When the Academy Awards get underway Sunday, they'll bring plenty of suspense and surprises. Oscars 2015: Five story lines to watch 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

The question here is twofold: whether any of the individual Cloud Atlas tales packs enough suspense to fascinate the viewer; and, lacking that, whether the various story snippets, in concert, form some grand symphony. The Wachowskis' Cloud Atlas at Toronto: Unique and Earthbound 2012-09-10T19:47:36Z

That the story is predetermined does little to dry up the narrative suspense. The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson – review 2012-08-16T07:00:01Z

This complete guide to the work of the legendary British filmmaker provides all there is to know about all 53 of his suspense and horror movies. New & Noteworthy 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

De Palma also drew on Hitchcock’s brilliant use of editing to generate suspense, augmenting conventional crosscutting with his taste for split-screen action. ‘Sisters’ Isn’t ‘Psycho,’ but It’s a Lacerating Spin on Hitchcock 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

This season of “Hannibal” is chock full of homages to other horror and suspense. 'Hannibal' Season 3, Episode 3 Recap: He Left Me With a Smile 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

But it would be unfair to say that there’s no suspense in “The President’s Daughter.” Review | Bill Clinton and James Patterson are back in action — and still ridiculous 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

These people, now remembered mostly only by historians, offer riveting accounts of adventure, intrigue, suspense and unimaginable violence. 'The First Frontier': the bloody centuries before America's revolution 2012-02-15T22:17:06Z

That, in turn, is what raises the stakes and suspense in the subsequent action footage, which shows Spider-Man trying to restore his former glory and return to the status quo the trailer established so quickly. ‘Wonder Woman,’ ‘Spider-Man’ and How Trailers Push the Familiar 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

It accomplishes this not by means of melodrama, but by a mixture of understatement and thriller-worthy suspense. Movie Review: ‘What Maisie Knew’ Stars Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan 2013-05-02T21:53:30Z

It’s definitely not a haunted house, but this Poseidon Theater production has plenty of suspense — eventually. ‘Not Much Scares Me.’ Then She Entered the Haunted House. 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

Throughout, Child does a masterly job of bringing his adventure to life with endless surprises and fierce suspense, and he’s peerless on the logistics of killing. Spoiler alert: Jack Reacher survives, but the 19th Lee Child novel is fascinating

And while the melodrama “Easy Virtue” may seem like an odd fit for Hitchcock, the director cited it in a 1962 interview with François Truffaut to illustrate the concept of suspense. Movie Listings for May 13-19 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

It’s also a master class in literary suspense. A thriller with heart: Hannah Tinti’s ‘The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley’ 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Clips variously identify Laura Palmer’s killer in Twin Peaks, the ending of World War Z, and the winners of the Hunger Games – a cheeky celebration of the end of suspense. The Netflix effect: why don't we care about spoilers any more? 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

Darnielle is a master at building suspense, and his writing is propulsive and urgent; it’s nearly impossible to stop reading. In 'Universal Harvester,' John Darnielle walks into cornfields, family and horror 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

“Margin Call” may remind you of “The Social Network” in the way it charges the stubbornly undramatic activities of looking at screens and scrabbling at keyboards with intensity and suspense. Critic?s Notebook: Modest Methods, Big Ambitions 2011-03-22T22:58:03Z

What suspense there is here involves the characters’ waiting for the reviews to see if their show will survive. Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane and Stockard Channing in 'It's Only a Play' on Broadway 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Dividing stories into units of time, into hours and days, is a familiar structuring device, sometimes used for suspense or to create a countdown. Review: In Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Paterson,’ a Meditative Flow of Words Into Poetry 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

“Inception,” “Dunkirk” and the Dark Knight installments all aimed for new heights in tightly coordinated suspense and spectacle. The Technical Stars Who Help Pull Off a Christopher Nolan Narrative 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z

But there was a third stream, not quite cozy, not quite noir, dominated by women, almost entirely rooted around suspense of the psychological variety. ‘Killing People in Fiction Was Fun’: Mysteries That Have Stood the Test of Time 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

He brought dramatic suspense to the line, tugging on it but never stretching it too far. Bringuier does Shakespeare; a young cellist impresses 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

From there, Chin’s novel becomes a kind of suspense tale as Edwina struggles to make sense of her husband’s disappearance — and find him. Review | ‘Edge Case’ begins with a husband’s disappearance and turns into much more 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

And with her voluminous arms and lush sense of suspense, Ms. Phelan floated across the stage in dreamlike walks that made her seem more sylph than woman. New York City Ballet Is Back, and the Real Jewels Are the Dancers 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Despite flashes of droll humor, the film builds up an undercurrent of suspense, with the prospect of violence always near. ‘Let It Be Morning’ Review: After the Wedding, the Siege 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

This scene unfolds over 40 pages, and it's a stunning performance, full of suspense, searing particulars, and deep emotion. The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally – review 2012-11-09T22:50:01Z

It's full of revelations, surprises, agonising suspense, moments of terrible darkness and challenges to characters' deepest ideas of themselves – the sort of fundamental turning points that audiences have always demanded of dramatists. U Be Dead's inconvenient truths 2010-09-01T20:59:00Z

Tourists still haunt this sleepy town 53 years after the master of suspense filmed Tippi Hedren and a bunch of creepy crows. Hitchcock’s ‘Birds’ and the real birds of California’s Bodega Bay 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

As a result of these bolted-on, plot-by-committee decisions, there's little suspense about what will happen: the Nasty Bits will, of course, rescue AC in both its finances and reputation. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1 Finale: As Confused as Ever 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z

Or a dramatic one, for that matter; mild suspense was stoked, in me at least, by the suspicion that one of the students or instructors would be revealed to be an infiltrator from the enemy. Review: From Chile, ‘Escuela,’ a Drama About Education 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

But there’s no denying that murder and random death have become rocket fuel for heightening the narrative suspense of our best TV shows. 'Mad Men' achieved high drama without all the dead bodies 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

The suspense is muted, but it's a gripping book. Crime fiction: lingering shadows of World War II in three new suspense novels 2011-04-06T23:05:04Z

As Houston’s voice approached the high note on the word “free,” she slowed for suspense and for air, then rang the E-flat above middle C like a bell. Anthem of Freedom: How Whitney Houston Remade “The Star-Spangled Banner” 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

The showrunner, Mike Flanagan, builds a dreadful atmosphere, which is crucial, because the creeping pace of his ten episodes would be intolerable if not for its ambient suspense. Halloween TV in a Time of Frightful Crisis 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

He spoke from there by telephone in Spanish, reflecting on the nature of suspense in film and fondly recalling his time in New York. From Chile, That Hollow Feeling of Vengeance 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

I'm similar in how vividly I see things when I read, and I also prefer movies with dialogue and relationships over suspense or thrills, so I get it. Perspective | A sensitive 10-year-old is scared by movies and stories. What’s a parent to do? 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

And other series with more conventional story lines of violence, horror and suspense, like “Hellbound,” “Sweet Home” and “All of Us Are Dead” were turned into hits on Netflix. Comics That Read Top to Bottom Are Bringing in New Readers 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z

The way Cortés and writer Chris Sparling control the twists and turns is tremendously assured, and the suspense is unbearable right to the very end. Film review: Buried 2010-09-30T21:00:00Z

But this is a feature-length thriller, and it needs to buy some time and build suspense, so the faithful wife is obliged to be very, very obtuse and draw some very foolish conclusions. ‘Intrusion’ Review: We’re All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

"Argo" - Directing just his third feature, Ben Affleck has come up with a seamless blend of detailed international drama and breathtaking suspense, with just the right amount of dry humor to provide context and levity. AP critics pick the year's best movies 2012-12-14T21:29:02Z

Every minute between your tests and your results is a uniquely agonizing one, full of the suspense of wanting to know, and the dread of what you might hear. Cancer has a “game-changing” moment 2012-12-11T21:02:00Z

As “The Babadook” proceeds, ratcheting up both the suspense and the odd, surreal comedy that accompanies but does not diminish it, every boundary in Amelia and Sam’s world seems to collapse. In ‘The Babadook,’ a Frightfully Unwelcome Guest 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

Maia provides flashes of humor and suspense as she outwits Jax. ‘The Good Fight’ Season 1, Episode 3: Who Voted for Trump? 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

For suspense, look to the new U.S. version of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" or "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy." A starry, starry weekend at the multiplex 2011-12-23T02:01:04Z

It's appealing for audiences — it has suspense, action, and romance in the same film. William Levy defied convention to make his own Spanish-language assassin flick 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

In “Borgen,” you become caught up in the suspense of whether the Danish Parliament can muster the votes to pass its farm bill. John Grisham Brings Back His Hero Jake Brigance for a Third Case 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Hitchcock helped him write his 1977 film "High Anxiety," a parody of suspense films that he dedicated to the legendary director. Mel Brooks: 'I'm finally getting recognized as a good director' 2013-05-14T13:02:16Z

It’s a setup that’s familiar from many a Lifetime movie, and one guaranteed to generate suspense. ‘When We Were Young and Unafraid,’ With Cherry Jones 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

Things sort themselves out, as they tend to do in this kind of movie, without too much suspense. 'Iron Man 2': Superhero sequel has charm but no Bam! Pow! 2010-05-06T18:07:00Z

To say that this creates suspense would be an overstatement, but it at least provides a semblance of closure. Memories of “Cats” 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

It’s very difficult to create any suspense if you’re riding into a commercial break every few minutes. ‘Do No Harm,’ ‘The Walking Dead’ and Other TV Horror 2013-01-18T23:36:30Z

This produces more suspense for riders, as you can’t tell which way you are going next, making the tricks and special effects more impactful. Rehoboth Beach’s Funland: A timeless treasure 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

To build suspense, riddles are available online for passengers to try to decipher. Want to travel but don’t care where? ‘Surprise vacations’ have you covered. 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

In other words, the three-hour ceremony wasn't about suspense or surprises.  Billboard Music Awards 2015: What's the point again? 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

Cale is operating, as he has been for over 35 years, within the parameters of the monologue — a style demanding of writer and actor, and not one usually associated with white-knuckle suspense. Review: In ‘Sandra,’ a Search for a Friend Leads to Self-Discovery 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z

The newest Netflix series, “Puffin Rock,” arrives on Tuesday full of action, suspense and topicality. Review: ‘Puffin Rock’ Joins Parade of Shows Aimed at Youngest Viewers 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

But this antsiness helps create an atmosphere of nervous, almost absurd suspense. Review: ‘Steve Jobs,’ Apple’s Visionary C.E.O. Dissected 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

The sound design, for its part, is a formidable creator of dread and suspense; it emphasizes the cow’s breathing rate, which grows distressingly fast during stressful situations. ‘Cow’ Review: Dairy Cogs in the Machine 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

“It starts in the city, creates this noir-type tension and atmosphere, then transfers to the farm, but loses none of that momentum and keeps you in suspense until the end,” he says. The Inspiration Issue: Rian Johnson Builds a Better Time Machine 2012-09-26T16:08:34Z

He was writing the book in brief, self-contained sections, and as he began to fit them together he found himself exploiting classic crime-genre techniques in order to create resonance and heighten suspense. Truman Capote's In Cold Blood - rereading 2011-08-05T09:00:06Z

Of course, questions aren’t action or suspense but merely motives for the artist, prods for creation; filmmakers craft their work on the basis of the questions they choose to address—and the ones they ignore. What's Missing from “The Martian” 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

Somehow, even the most banal possibilities — an empty hole in the ground, a trove of worthless junk, a find worth fighting over — are weighted with dread and suspense. Review: In ‘The Treasure,’ Digging for Something of Value in Romania 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

As she panics, the story — which starts out as conventional suspense — veers into sci-fi and horror territory. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

“Deliverance” is a great movie, as long as you don’t think about it too hard, and it’s a showcase for some of Mr. Boorman’s strengths — shimmering pictorial beauty, gliding movement, white-knuckle suspense. John Boorman Tribute at Film Forum Goes Beyond ‘Deliverance’ 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

New McNally projects always incite anticipation but not a great deal of suspense. We’ll Always Have Paris, at Augustine 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

"It sounds strange to think that there was a suspense drama inside of legislation," Ms. Kennedy said. The Carpetbagger: From a Chance Meeting, 'Lincoln' Emerges 2013-01-29T22:35:33Z

He confronts the crowd, slowly creating tension and suspense. The Tears (and Fears) of a Clown 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

What also stays in suspense, though, is whether the piece as a whole will work in terms of dance expression. A New ‘Winter’s Tale’ for Royal Ballet 2014-04-11T13:19:32Z

The plot was fast-paced, thrilling, with the perfect amounts of suspense, description and dramatic pauses. The Seeing by Diana Hendry - review 2012-10-07T08:00:00Z

The attenuated scenario more or less demands that Lucy and Lee fall in and out of each other’s affections so as to generate suspense in between the pro forma name-dropping — Bette Davis! A Mexican-Style ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

They indicate the passing of time, they suggest ageing and they create suspense. Clip joint: Timepieces 2012-07-18T12:31:00Z

Yet those small shifts of position provide an intense suspense and drama, as does the occasional sight of a whole face, turned up to the light. Dance Review: Poetry of Stillness, in a Moment Stretched to Infinity 2011-03-31T00:00:16Z

Dramatic suspense stems from her discovering, along with Alex, what exactly this might be. Love, trickery and the drama of uncertainty: It's 'Heisenberg' at the Taper 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

It’s payoff and suspense, all at once from a player who has often been unfairly footnoted as the ambassador of a thwarted movement. David Murray: A jazz innovator leads from the center to the edge 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

And the emphasis on physical stunt work and on the classical construction of suspense sequences has deepened the films’ niche appeal over time, contrasting sharply with a superhero cycle that’s embraced the plasticity of CGI. Perspective | Why Mission: Impossible is the best blockbuster franchise right now 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

Life-or-death suspense is built into the existence of its young characters, and even the hard-bitten Danish soldier who oversees them develops sympathy. A Quick Guide to the Foreign-Language Oscar Nominees 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

“The Wife” pulls off the not inconsiderable feat of spinning a fundamentally literary premise into an intelligent screen drama that unfolds with real juice and suspense. Review: ‘The Wife’ Looks Behind the Closed Doors of a Literary Marriage 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

But Ritchie is such a lazy filmmaker that he lets the suspense fizzle out as the action unfolds. Guy Ritchie's 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

It produces an aura of suspense without a sense of real risk, and offers devotees of fashion an appealing, shallow fantasy of inside knowledge. Review: ‘Dior and I,’ a Documentary That Peers Into a Storied Fashion House 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

If he's dancing with a random body guard, who is going to keep us in suspense? An open letter to 'American Idol' producers: How to improve results shows 2010-04-17T18:31:00Z

When the torpedo strikes, the reader has little sense of suspense, and little concern for who will live and who will die. Erik Larson’s ‘Dead Wake,’ About the Lusitania 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

If you work with suspense, it's not correct. The Carpetbagger: A Filmmaker Comes to Terms With a Modern Medea 2012-12-12T20:00:48Z

Andrew’s novel is yet another clever example of what’s been dubbed the “Gone Girl on a Train” school of suspense. Review | ‘Who is Maud Dixon?’ In this inventive thriller, you’ll be turning the pages to find out 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

In shallow or deep water, at twilight or midnight, the battles make spatial sense and build melodramatic suspense. Pacific Rim: Transformers Transcended 2013-07-10T01:50:23Z

There’s always tension in the sustained string chords of the soundtrack, and it imbues everything with suspense and darkness. The New ‘It’ Trailer Is Here to Give You Nightmares 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

It’s a setup that drains a lot of the usual suspense: Cora is sitting in jail, and no one else appears to be in any danger. Review: Jessica Biel in ‘The Sinner,’ a Whydunit 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Wheeldon’s choreography often operates like a dam to this sonic flood, building up suspense by its sheer power of calm resistance, poetically contrasting background with foreground, machine rhythms with flowing currents. Dance Review | Ballet Corella Castilla y Le?n: At City Center, ?ngel Corella and a Surfeit of Bravura 2010-03-18T22:40:00Z

For Mr. Williamson less gore on TV means more suspense: “Everyone keeps asking me about the scary, the scary.” ‘Do No Harm,’ ‘The Walking Dead’ and Other TV Horror 2013-01-18T23:36:30Z

On the face of it, the ballet demonstrates the opposite of suspense. How ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Tells Its Story Through Ballet 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

Most everywhere else, the instrumentation stays traditional, so as not to siphon any suspense from the story lines. Review | Ashley McBryde makes brutal honesty sound bright as hell 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z

They are scenes that build up suspense, which is then slowly released to the audience as we watch our heroes and anti-heroes try to get in and out of danger. Clip joint: Heists and getaways 2012-05-30T11:52:40Z

Since the wild success of “Gone Girl ” and “The Girl on the Train,” girls — or women referred to as girls — are popping up everywhere in suspense stories, and there’s no end in sight. What ‘Gone Girl’ and ‘The Girl on the Train’ have wrought 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

Simon was getting desperate and trying to invent imaginary suspense. "American Idol" recap: Down to the final four 2010-05-12T12:13:00Z

Lapena’s menacing suspense thriller traces the consequences — including murder — when a teenager in suburban New York breaks into his neighbors’ homes and snoops through the secrets on their computers. New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From Ernest Hemingway to the Baby-Sitters Club 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

Whether in a school, a house, a hotel or even a spaceship the corridor gives film-makers a location in which to ramp up suspense or cripple viewers with anxiety. Clip joint: Corridors 2013-04-26T15:48:24Z

Full of romance and suspense, this is a tale that will leave readers hungry for the next book in the series. No Rest for This Teenage Mercy Killer 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

Carter previously mined the suspense genre in works such as 2009's "Jericho's Fall" and his debut 2003 novel "The Emperor of Ocean Park." 'The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln': turning history on its head 2012-07-20T18:55:34Z

In “The Mirror and the Light,” she builds suspense by turning us into alarmed onlookers who want desperately to seize him by the shoulders and cry, “Don’t you see what’s happening?” Review | ‘The Mirror and the Light’ is a masterful finale to Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

A suspicious car crash leads the investigating cop into Mumbai's seamier side in this suspense thriller. This week's new films 2012-12-01T00:05:52Z

This book is a combination of everything: adventure, suspense, mystery, humour, sorrow, joy and much, much more. Watership Down by Richard Adams - review 2012-08-15T08:00:00Z

But don’t sleep on the meticulously executed original, which blends slow-burn suspense with a workplace black comedy. 6 Podcasts for the Drama Lover 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

I would say when it went to deliberations in Brendan’s trial, there was very little suspense. Making a Murderer Creators: Juror Feared Being Framed by Police 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

Because these novels, even more than most suspense tales, are so plot-driven — distinguished by baroque story lines that intensify the general paranoid atmosphere — their endings tend to collapse in damp exhaustion. What ‘Gone Girl’ and ‘The Girl on the Train’ have wrought 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

Ms. Miranda brings heightened suspense and a twist to this familiar scenario by telling the story, which unfolds over 15 days, in reverse chronological order. This Summer, Girls in Titles and Girls in Peril 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

But this inaugural entry is a lean, mean, scare machine, filled with terrifying images and well-crafted suspense. Stream These 10 Titles Before They Leave Netflix in August 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z

In addition to suspense, “You Should Have Known” serves up witty and pointed observations about the higher reaches of society in contemporary Manhattan. Ten books of fiction and nonfiction we love, so far

After working the historical romance genre for 15 years, Ms. Garwood began writing contemporary novels with a strong component of suspense. Julie Garwood, Best-Selling Romance Novelist, Dies at 78 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z

Not much suspense here either, but lots of comfortable detail about food. A Roundup of the Season’s Romance Novels 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

These choices, like the eschewing of suspense and of other elements a reader would expect to find in a more traditional novel, are deliberate. “Sight” and The Pleasures of Overthinking Motherhood 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

The book is laced with the core ingredients of travel, and life: adrenaline, humor, suspense, sorrow, kindness. Lessons in travel — and bravura writing — from ‘The Best of Outside: The First 20 Years’ 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

"There was a lot of suspense and excitement, building of tension and explosive victory or black tragedy." Warp speed, Mr. Sulu! George Takei is a guest at Emerald City Comicon 2012-03-28T23:11:04Z

Furtwängler sometimes takes boldly restrained tempos, as in the opening of the first movement, which hovers with suspense yet maintains intensity. The Ultimate Beethoven Symphony Collection 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

Guojing amplifies the suspense and sentiment of her story with the skill — and mercilessness — of a great Disney or Pixar director. Are You a Dog Person or a Cat Person? Or Hamster, or Turtle, or ... 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

Despite repetitions, Twomey manages to maintain suspense as the tragedy builds to its inevitable finale. The U.S. military expected a Japanese attack in 1941 - but not in Hawaii, explains 'Countdown to Pearl Harbor' 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

The suspense of her narrative comes not from any interpersonal drama but from the formidable challenges posed by the physical world. ‘The Facemaker,’ a Grisly but Inspiring Story of Surgery During World War I 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

Deploying deft editing, story structure, graphics, suspense, social-media virality and, yes, a touch of showmanship, the hearings made a public service into the show of the summer and the most important TV of the year. Best TV Shows of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

Instead, the loss would go into a suspense account and be usable only when the investor sells out or has taxable income from other passive sources. Buying Buildings For Cash 2011-01-26T23:00:00Z

"It really doesn't seem like there's much suspense, but I will say this, there will be tension until the last minute when best film is announced," said Dave Karger, movie writer for Entertainment Weekly magazine. Hollywood's Oscar contenders chart course for gold 2010-02-28T21:10:00Z

With equal parts sensitivity and suspense, "Elizabeth is Missing" displays an emotional range that is sometimes uncommon in crime by interweaving it with an intensely personal drama. "Elizabeth is Missing" is a poignant portrait of dementia cloaked as a Masterpiece murder mystery 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

Serritella’s debut is a sweeping and beguiling novel called “Ghosts of Harvard,” which carries forward some of the tropes of her mother’s fiction but also ventures into territory that’s rarely explored these days: supernatural suspense. Review | Lisa Scottoline’s daughter, Francesca Serritella, makes a name for herself as a novelist with ‘Ghosts of Harvard’ 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

But it’s waiting for you right on your phone, laptop or smart TV, bristling with almost unbearable suspense, easy to find yet difficult to endure. The best films of 2018 … that you didn't see 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

“I thought it was completely unjustified. It was a suspense thriller, and I was always interested in finding new ways to kill people.” Brian de Palma: 'Film lies all the time … not just 24 times a second' 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

Taut with suspense and moments of tenderness and replete with a cast of unforgettable characters, "Deep Down Dark" ranks with the best of adventure literature. Hector Tobar's 'Deep Down Dark' chronicles Chile's mine-shaft miracle 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

A result is a play that zips by, maintaining suspense by keeping the audience slightly off balance. | 'Any Night': When Sleep Opens the Door to the Dark Side 2011-06-10T22:46:24Z

I can see that this might add a bit of suspense to the story, but I'm not sure why I haven't pressed him for more information before. The Quarry: Iain Banks – digested read 2013-06-23T19:00:02Z

“The Silver Star” will drum up suspense, “God willing and the creek don’t rise.” Books of The Times: ‘The Silver Star,’ a Novel by Jeannette Walls 2013-05-29T20:54:36Z

Once this bit of bogus suspense is cleared up, “The Double” becomes a tedious, impenetrable cat-and-mouse game involving Russian double and triple agents. | 'The Double': ?The Double? With Richard Gere - Review 2011-10-27T23:00:56Z

Jamie possesses a serious lack of memory regarding his childhood, which factors into the suspense that builds as he initially denies Frank's shocking news, yet cautiously begins to investigate. Review: Secrets swirl in 'The Great God Pan' 2012-12-19T04:16:07Z

These include a story arc to make conventional episodic drama out of a stew of contingent and chaotic events, as well as some new, perhaps invented plot elements to add humor and suspense. ‘Inventing Anna’ Review: The SoHo Scammer, Explained at Length 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

The title really blew the suspense of this two-part teen . Bluestone 42; The Crash – TV review 2013-03-05T22:30:01Z

The pregnancy supplies some suspense, of course, but the situation becomes curiously static, and the provocations increasingly mechanical. ‘Titane’ Review: Auto Erotic 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

This helps build suspense, and adds a flavour of parable. Poem of the week: The Man by Maitreyabandhu 2013-07-01T10:29:17Z

More important, she did a terrific job conveying the conflicting emotions of the icy princess awakening to love - and managed to inject some suspense into the final moments of the story. Modern 'Figaro,' timeless 'Turandot' in Sydney 2012-03-11T05:02:10Z

My first impression was that “Blindspotting” worked best as a suspense narrative, with its countdown structure, ticking off the days before Collin’s probation ends. Review: ‘Blindspotting’ Walks a Tense Line in a Gentrifying Oakland 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

The writers of this show are not reaching for heightened levels of suspense in episodes like “Rico.” 'Better Call Saul' Recap: What Kind of Show Is This? 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

As clever as such sequences are, “The Visit” is hardly strong on subtlety or even suspense. Review: Chita Rivera Stars in Kander and Ebb’s ‘The Visit’ 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Amid the drama, suspense, and sadness of his novel, he tried to show what happiness looked like—to make its plainness rich, its simplicity luminous. The Question at the Heart of “The Good Wife” 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

Here, the simple acquisition of a sugar cube takes on the suspense of a bank heist. Arrietty ? review 2011-07-28T21:05:07Z

Illusion is a staple in all kinds of theater, but it is doubly vital to “Paradiso,” a suspense thriller that is also a game. From Dante to ‘Walking Dead,’ He’s a Master of Immersive Theater 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Speaking for the loyalists: End the suspense, Fox. 'Sleepy Hollow' recap: 'Awakening' of Katrina 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

That’s hardly a spoiler, but “The Two Popes” observes the transition with an attention to detail that produces a surprising degree of suspense. ‘The Two Popes’ Review: Double Act at the Vatican 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

When I became a writer, I wanted my own work to reflect their soundscapes of surprise, suspense, and wonder, as well as their air of having read everything and metabolized everything in utterly idiosyncratic ways. Our Favorite Dylan Lyrics 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Power, a literary critic in London, surely must have been thinking of Graham Greene’s “The Third Man” when he wrote this elegant suspense novel. Review | ‘A Lonely Man’ is an elegant suspense novel in the tradition of the ‘The Third Man’ 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

His pilgrimage to find answers is not only a coming-of-age story, but also a suspense tale with deft twists and bright jolts of psychological insight. The top 50 fiction books for 2014

Paying homage to cinematic forebears with another dummy named Hugo, 1964's Devil Doll bills itself as a 'most unusual suspense thriller'. Clip Joint: ventriloquists 2010-09-01T17:06:00Z

So the genre wasn't something I usually like, but the suspense and shock in every page was too sharp to ignore. The Story Of My Life by Anne Cassidy - review 2013-07-28T14:00:00Z

There's no sense of suspense to speak of because the conclusion doesn't hinge on anyone's potential for survival. Cut worthless 'L.A. Slasher' from any might-see list 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

And McCarthy fails to create suspense or jerk tears as Bill faces critical decision points. In the heavy-handed "Stillwater," Matt Damon is an Oklahoman in France trying to free his daughter 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Craven was not a flashy or technically virtuosic filmmaker like Mr. Tarantino, although he developed into a superb director of suspense scenes. Wes Craven, a Filmmaker Who Invaded Your Dreams 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

He tells a story torn from slightly faded headlines, filling in some details you may have forgotten, and discreetly embellishing the record in the service of drama and suspense. Review: ‘Snowden,’ Oliver Stone’s Restrained Portrait of a Whistle-Blower 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Karen Russell: writing stories 'wild and full of suspense'. Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell – review 2013-03-24T12:00:01Z

This is a neat idea: autofictional garnishes on a suspense novel can create a sense of claustrophobia, or become an eerie extra quotient of human consciousness, as if another pair of eyes were watching. In “Afternoon of a Faun,” James Lasdun Mixes Autofiction and Psychological Thriller 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

The master of elegant suspense is suddenly positioned as a maverick, forced to put up $800,000 of his own for . Hitchcock: To Psycho with Love 2012-11-20T13:00:50Z

That's challenging, because the nature of suspense is buildup and the nature of surprise is no buildup. Joshua Jay explain how magicians think — without ruining the magic 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z

This weekend’s second noteworthy commercial parody is also an effective little suspense thriller. ‘S.N.L.’ Spoofs Merrick Garland’s Hunt for Classified Documents 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

The suspense may be somewhat circumscribed, Glenn Kenny wrote in The Times, but Ms. Lively “acquits herself well here, especially in the vulnerable-to-shark-attack department.” What’s on TV Saturday: ‘War Machine’ and ‘Take 5: A More Perfect Patriot’ 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z

"Audiences realized that the feeling of suspense and the anticipation of horror is actually more emotionally impacting than graphic horror itself in these low-budget movies," Derrickson said. Ghosts scare off gore for Halloween movies 2012-10-29T20:22:21Z

Tessa Klein is delicately nervous as mysterious newcomer Valerie, whose unknown reasons for coming to this secluded area from Dublin add to the suspense. Review: Haunting, effective revival of 'The Weir' 2013-05-24T17:12:08Z

Plan B — finding the rightful owner — is Rahim’s idea, and whether it’s an impulsive, impatient act of conscience or something more calculated is a source of much complication and suspense. ‘A Hero’ Review: Debts No Honest Man Can Pay 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

She takes the not-uncommon concept of a newly dating couple deciding to hunker down together in mid-March 2020 and mines it for a twisty tale of suspense. New Crime Novels from Louise Penny and Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

To my mind, Binet doesn’t really do enough with these familiar metafictional tropes, and he’s much better at satire and suspense. Who killed Roland Barthes? Maybe Umberto Eco has a clue. 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

During the summer I like to read crime and suspense novels by individual authors in chronological order. The Best Book That Amor Towles Ever Received as a Gift 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

I resurrect the debate to caution that, if you’re the type who looks for friends in the books you read, you’d best avoid Paula Hawkins’s new suspense novel, “A Slow Fire Burning.” Review | Paula Hawkins has a new thriller, and let’s just say it’s no ‘The Girl on the Train’ 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

In local bestselling author Fisher’s new suspense novel, “The Wives,” the narrator is one of three wives — and isn’t allowed to meet the other two. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for January 2020 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

He asked the violinists to inject more suspense into one phrase. Gustavo Dudamel’s Favorite Part of ‘Otello’ is a Quiet Prayer 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

The New York Times reports that Wilson has a book deal with Penguin Group USA for a series of international suspense novels. Report: Valerie Plame Wilson to pen suspense books 2011-03-19T08:31:04Z

Rather, it’s in the construction of the fight scenes and the suspense that’s built into them. Ridin’ Dirty: “Mad Max: Fury Road” 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

The search, for all its real hazards, isn’t exploited for suspense or terror, as Sam and Oliver blunder awkwardly through the woods until they run out of light and collapse on the ground. | 'True Adolescents': Great Outdoors Beckons as a Test of Manhood 2011-07-28T22:03:05Z

There follows a long working out of the film’s title, as Jen transforms herself from victim to warrior and Ms. Fargeat turns her skills to suspense and gore. Review: In ‘Revenge,’ the Trophy Turns Hunter 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

They are intentionally “burying the lead”—usually a cardinal sin in journalism—for the sake of suspense. How The Jinx and Serial Strain the Ethics of Crime Reporting 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

All thrillers depend on tension, but the final part of a successful TV crime drama brings an extra element of suspense: whether the conclusion will satisfy the large audience that has tuned in every week. Happy Valley TV review – Sarah Lancashire gives her best performance 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

It mines every chemical drip and gurgle for suspense. ‘Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain’ Stars Martin Sheen 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

"Plugged" is that rare book that mixes terrific suspense with laugh-out-loud humor. 'Plugged': Eoin Colfer writes a grown-up, laugh-out-loud crime novel 2011-09-01T19:10:05Z

As Judy moves deeper into the investigation of Iris’s death, she is sucked into a centrifuge of fast-paced and nerve-wracking suspense. In ‘Betrayed,’ Lisa Scottoline has created a modern Nancy Drew

Pregnant with suspense yet maddeningly vague, the film intercuts the tale of the investment manager Martin A. Armstrong’s downfall and his discussions of his predictive models. Review: ‘The Forecaster’ Traces the Downfall of an Investment Manager 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

But her “Rock-a-Bye,” one of three world premieres on the BalletX’s Summer Series program, suggests that she is a remarkably fresh mind, with talents for suspense and surrealism. Review: At BalletX, a New Work Alive With Suspense and Surrealism 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

But when the series shifted its focus from suspense to all-out combat against dark forces, it foundered. Critic?s Notebook: Zork to Amnesia: The Dark Descent: Horror in Video Games 2011-10-27T22:10:39Z

Early in their first duet, he and Ms. Centurión simply paused, together, midphrase: the suspense was masterly. Dance Review: Gabriel Miss? and Analia Centuri?n at Dardo Galletto Studios 2012-03-08T00:28:13Z

Sometimes, though, a suspense tale takes longer to get going and, so, in this Age of Distraction, runs the risk of losing readers. Review | Forget about 007. This heroine has her own brand of spycraft. 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

Perhaps fittingly, given its title, the second half of the novel — the trip back from the House of the Dead — has more narrative momentum and suspense than the first half. Into the Woods 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

Among the highlights is The Lodge at Pebble Beach, where Doris Day ran through the entry in the suspense drama, "Julie." New tour offers glimpse of New Orleans movie sites 2011-12-21T12:44:16Z

There was gimmickry — almost unbelievably, the show doubled down on the tedious suspense building and presented the big reveal via a tortured Rick flashback. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 Premiere: Negan’s Victim Is Revealed 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

In its balance of emotional patience and chapter-by-chapter suspense, “The Marsh King’s Daughter” is about as good as a thriller can be, I think. Summer Thrillers: Daring Escapes and Other Acts of Derring-Do 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Often, the weight of suspense proves too much for some viewers. From speed viewing to watching the end first: How streaming has changed the way we consume TV 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z

The great problem with fatalism as a form of entertainment is that its monotone palette quickly turns monotonous unless it’s generously spiced with suspense and empathy. Review: In ‘Thérèse Raquin,’ Keira Knightley as a Baleful Adulteress 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

In the 1960s, as a student first at Columbia and then at Sarah Lawrence, Mr. De Palma was drawn not to violence or suspense but to mischievous, countercultural comedy. Review: Brian De Palma Says He Is Hitchcock’s True Heir 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

An amazing read, with such an imaginative storyline and full of suspense. The Treasure House by Linda Newbery - review 2013-04-05T11:00:00Z

With the winner already known, no one has to endure the suspense of the horse race or the rictus grins of disappointment. The PEN/Faulkner finalists: A sign of new diversity in books? 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

And yet they were wonderful, full of rhythmic continuity, suspense and brio, apparently loving the choreography’s wit. Review: British and American Ballets Showcase Youthful Blend of Style and Skill 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

In terms of a cardinal rule of suspense fiction — that things are never as they seem — it's Cole who sees more clearly. 'The Sentry': Robert Crais' story of a strong man with a blind spot 2011-01-13T21:05:05Z

Operas of this ilk nearly always involve an element of suspense — will the devil or his intended victim prevail? Review: Better the Devil You Don't Know? 2010-03-02T12:00:00Z

For all of its polish and cleverness and suspense, “For All Mankind” ultimately puts the soap in space opera. Apple TV Plus: More Than ‘The Morning Show’ 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Hitchcock’s masterfully constructed suspense classics contain many levels, but we already knew they documented an intense and partly hostile obsession with a certain variety of unavailable, unfaithful and untrustworthy woman. How do we watch Woody’s movies now? 2014-02-08T17:00:00Z

Mr. Santos de Silva is particularly mesmerizing, as a dancer and a personality; there’s not much suspense regarding whether he will land a spot with a major ballet company. | 'Only When I Dance': Inspiration Through Movement 2010-07-01T22:10:00Z

“What do you mean you’ll keep us in suspense?” he added. 'Like an impression of Alec Baldwin': late-night hosts on Trump's debate lines 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

As a technical feat, “Actual Size” is full of pleasures; the baffling part, given the Hitchcock, is its scarcity of suspense. Review: ‘Actual Size Plus,’ Sally Silvers’s Hitchcock-Inspired Work 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

In fact, part of the fun was the suspense: who would tumble next? Explorer: In Estonia, Jiggling and Bog-Trekking 2010-08-20T17:51:00Z

It was a good exercise in the value of suspense. The Life Lessons of “Little Lulu” 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

The city broke 91.4 percent for Obama in 2012, so any suspense was imported, building slowly in volume from over the horizon, beyond the firewall of the Beltway. What it felt like to be in Washington on Election Day 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Unraveling the Ames family deaths provides the main suspense in “The Big Seven,” but much else transpires. Book review: In ‘The Big Seven’ by Jim Harrison, a detective behaving badly 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

There are so many genres in it, like mystery, suspense and even a bit of science fiction. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead - review 2011-04-13T11:43:46Z

The festival organizers played down security concerns, but conceded that the event was taking place at a time of great "suspense". Nicole Kidman fans get a treat as Cannes festival lineup unveiled 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

So, I really think there's something exciting about when you apply heat to cheese — there's always that moment of suspense before it hits the table. "Who doesn't love hot cheese?": Cookbook author shares grilled cheese tips & a creamy burrata pasta 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z

A bleaker, Nordic version of “The West Wing,” “Borgen” finds a remarkable amount of drama and suspense in center-left alliances, pension plans and televised debates. Television Review: ?Boss,? With Kelsey Grammer on Starz - Review 2011-10-20T20:03:50Z

In suspense, terseness and economy, they belong together. Want to Try a Robert Bresson Film? Look to Clint Eastwood 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

Without the “will Claire get the vice-presidential nomination or won’t she?” suspense that has fueled much of the season, things suddenly feel less focused. ‘House of Cards’ Season 4, Episode 11: An Odd Threesome 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

As the suspense slackens and blood starts spilling nearly to the point of self-parody, it almost seems designed as a test of mettle — for both the filmmakers and the audience. Review: A Crooked Cop Is Caught Between 2 Brutal Masters in ‘Asura: The City of Madness’ 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

There is enough suspense just in the premise alone that the show doesn’t need to ramp it up. 60 Days In: a captivating look at corruption and American justice 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

It let in a little bit of Texas sunlight, upped the suspense and cut the number of silent people in white. Wake up and smell the … television: 10 shows to binge in time for their spring returns 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

Hitch was often fascinated by gambling and I'm sure he'd have approved of the suspense I'm now in. Jason Solomons's Trailer Trash 2011-02-06T00:06:17Z

Koryta, who made the jump from crime writing to crime writing with a twist, knows how to build suspense. Michael Koryta's 'The Cypress House': a whiff of doom in a whisp of smoke 2011-02-03T00:02:06Z

Full of secrets and suspense Mister Creecher is the perfect book for people who enjoy quests, friendship and surprises all wound into one thrilling tale. Mister Creecher by Chris Priestly - review 2012-06-15T08:00:00Z

His scenes are uniformly excruciating in their tension, and they create the foundation of the film's suspense. The lifesaving, silent power of the Marcel Marceau Nazi-era drama "Resistance" 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

This episodic piece alternates assertive outbursts of fleeting themes with restless passages of suspense, where strings and woodwinds swim around and the percussion section percolates. Music Review: National Youth Orchestra Takes Purchase; Washington Is Next 2013-07-12T21:08:59Z

Lovers of suspense fiction, take heart: The thrill is not gone. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Cutting into a melon is like a drumroll: You slice with anticipation, suspense. The one-ingredient trick to make any bad melon much, much better 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z

The book is full of suspense and action with lots of scary description. My top five worst witches 2012-07-20T11:00:00Z

Physical attempts to connect are the stuff of both slapstick and the sort of suspense you associate with horror movies. Theater Review: Conor McPherson’s ‘The Night Alive,’ With Ciaran Hinds 2013-12-13T03:00:09Z

The first season is a tightly plotted suspense thriller and family drama with philosophical heft. Paul and Justin Theroux on Eccentric Patriarchs and ‘The Mosquito Coast’ 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

And then the book becomes a kind of emotional suspense story, an extended examination of grief, responsibility, guilt and redemption. Review: Owen Sheers’s ‘I Saw a Man’ Examines Grief and Responsibility 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

The last thing working mothers with young children need to be reading in their nanosecond of downtime is this psychological suspense novel about a “perfect” nanny who snaps. Review | Worried about your nanny? Here’s a novel in which your worst nightmare is realized. 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

Methodically constructed, “Under the Shadow” quietly builds its suspense. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Humans’ and ‘Rectify’ 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

If Lilly Pulitzer manufactured suspense novels, they would read like “The Herd”: colorful, but devoid of imaginative depth. Review | If you could travel, ‘The Herd’ would be your ideal airplane novel 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

But here, the master of suspense’s winking hide-and-seek games coincide with Pedro Almodóvar’s brazen rebelliousness in a movie that feels like a fashion editor’s glossy tribute to that Spanish iconoclast. Review: In ‘The New Girlfriend,’ a Widower’s Secret Life Is Revealed 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Many readers will find it refreshing that the novel’s pace and suspense result not so much from physical violence, of which there is little, but from these well-drawn characters’ uncertain feelings and motives. ‘The Real Justine’: A thriller about an elusive, mysterious woman 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

The song has had an endless afterlife, and a broad influence, for its precise chemistry of melancholy, suspense and propulsion. Everything but the Girl Breaks a 24-Year Silence With a Bang 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

“Revenge,” on ABC, which is a modern-day “Dallas” or “Dynasty” set in the Hamptons, keeps a straight face as it wallows in soapy suspense and arch satire. Television Review: ‘Dallas’ Is Updated in New TNT Series 2012-06-12T22:27:52Z

Against these beautiful fragments from the archives, Robinson’s scenes are lovingly crafted, both stark and intimate, and we watch in suspense as the Dawsons begin unraveling purpose from prejudice. Her Great-Grandfather Fought for the South but Went On to Preach Equality 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

So far, the fourth season of “Homeland” is a string of episodes working frantically to propel the show’s trademark suspense without the driving narrative of Carrie’s evolving relationship with Brody. “Homeland”s antiheroine problem: How mentor-mentee relationships are ruining the show 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

It featured three great goals, breathless suspense, heart-stopping action and a heroic effort from the underdog Americans. Learning 'Lear': Torn Between Soccer and Shakespeare 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

The suspense begins to build as the British diplomats and their Nazi counterparts head toward their destiny in Munich. The Plot to Kill Hitler 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

On 28 October, after days of intolerable suspense, Moscow radio broadcast Khrushchev's response, "the discontinuation of further work on weapons construction sites". October 1962: the month that modern culture was born 2012-09-29T22:12:23Z

The action rises with greater patience and more suspense than earlier treatments. A New Adaptation of “Native Son” Reaches the Limits of What the Text Has to Offer 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

Even if viewers know the facts of the story, there is an undeniable thrill and incredible suspense during the racing scenes in "Gran Turismo." Get revved up for "Gran Turismo," the summer's suspenseful thrill ride based on a true story 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z

Get too close to one, and its intricate mechanism shoots its hooks into you, pulling you through a portal into a gyre of suspense from which there’s no escape. Review: ‘Bodyguard’ on Netflix, Britain’s Biggest TV Hit in Years 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

And he derives most of his suspense this time from the question of how dangerous Jama will be. Books of The Times: As Pirates Swash Their Buckles 2010-10-10T19:00:00Z

The scene is set by the corpulent Hitch lying in a bath reading a article about the challenge to his supremacy as "master of suspense" by European directors. Hitchcock – review 2013-02-10T00:05:00Z

What kind of suspense writer would be so reckless as to invoke Henry James’s masterpiece of terror and ambiguity and expect to see her own work do anything but suffer in the comparison? Review | Think you’ve read every twist on the nanny-in-distress novel? Ruth Ware adds a new wrinkle. 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

Tracing the events of that night hour by hour, Caroline Shenton's book recreates the suspense and drama so well that it is easy to forget that we know what happened in the end. The Day Parliament Burned Down by Caroline Shenton – review 2012-10-05T21:55:06Z

We know only as much as she does, and her risky insistence on knowing the truth is what drives the story through harrowing suspense and potential heartbreak. ‘A Chiara’ Review: A Mobster’s Daughter Dares to Ask Questions 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

Networks and streaming services were now “vacuuming up books and comic books and short stories,” he argued, which presented new opportunities for writers who worked with “suspense and high concepts.” With ‘NOS4A2,’ Joe Hill Finally Sinks His Teeth Into TV 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

Subplots involving stolen property and an older brother’s aspirations deepen suspense and secondary characters. Our top three children’s and YA books to start off your new year 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

Abbott rightly refuted this theory, in part by detailing the virtues of the suspense novels that the collection reprints, which do not, in fact, gives us female characters who are mere “victims or corpses.” The Secrets of Vera Caspary, the Woman Who Wrote "Laura" 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

Just like the true crime shows it is based on, there is more emphasis on suspense than showing us the cause of the terror. American Horror Story season six review – a scarily shaky start 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

The suspense over the Tony Awards is usually about which show will win for best musical, the prize with the most lucrative consequences. A race for the record books: Can anything stop 'Hamilton' from making history at the Tony Awards? 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

But none offers the suspense, general interest, and instant gratification of the Berlin Philharmonic. Chasing a leader: The great music director search 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Nor was it just the body count that was impressive; where some cop shows sling in more stiffs as a substitute for suspense, these six genuinely added to it. TV review: Silent Witness and Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent 2011-01-04T08:00:05Z

As the decisive moment draws near, Mr. Padilha uses a dance performance — by a company that includes the girlfriend of an Israeli soldier — to amplify the suspense and vary the film’s visual texture. Review: ‘7 Days in Entebbe’ Revisits a Notorious Hijacking 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

Sawhney will write the music for Hitchcock's first suspense thriller, the 1926 film The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, to be performed with the London Symphony Orchestra. Score revamp for early Hitchcocks 2011-07-04T13:49:34Z

For long swathes, she maintains suspense with a kind of danced click track, a ticking like a stopwatch or a bomb which the dancers rhythmically embroider. Dorrance Dance and a Mythili Prakash Premiere at Jacob’s Pillow 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z

The audience truly hangs on the pauses in this Hamlet’s monologues, and even if you know the speeches, you wait in suspense for what he’ll say next. Hamlet and the Surveillance State of Denmark 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

Whenever someone asks me to name today’s top suspense novelists, my short list always includes Tana French. Tana French’s ‘The Secret Place’: The Dublin Murder Squad takes on the Mean Girls

This ambitious new horror series is the latest show based on Thomas Harris’s suspense novels, which most famously include “The Silence of the Lambs.” What’s on TV This Week: Documentaries on David Driskell and Abraham Lincoln 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

Although these scenes present ample opportunities for action, suspense and melodrama, the characters rarely come to life. Movie Review: Jeremy Irons and Lena Olin Star in ‘Night Train to Lisbon’ 2013-12-05T23:12:57Z

Through interviews with schoolteachers and business owners and writings on topics ranging from Shakespeare to American sports, Lehrer makes an enticing case for how humans have harnessed mystery and suspense to revolutionize society. Newly Published, From the World Trade Center to a Cheeto-Loving Crow 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

Whatever the sources of its larger cultural appeal, “The Push” is an ingenious reincarnation of that most forbidden of suspense narratives: the mommy-in-peril-from-her-own-monstrous-offspring. Review | Why is ‘The Push’ so popular? Perhaps because it plays into a mother’s worst fears. 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

When I studied with you, you were talking a lot about suspense. Ben Marcus: Jonathan Franzen’s cultural commentary is really embarrassing 2014-02-10T01:00:00Z

"You want to turn the page," she says, explaining the appeal of suspense novels. Mary Higgins Clark active as ever at age 85 2013-04-11T11:46:10Z

Obviously, this doesn't have the suspense value of contemporary counts, as we know who wins – Edward Heath's Conservatives, in something of an upset of Harold Wilson's Labour party. BBC Election 70 2010-10-09T05:45:00Z

Along the way the series occasionally generates some suspense, and it’s pretty to look at, thanks to the cinematographer Hubert Taczanowski. Review: A Netflix Legal Thriller Weighs Genocide and Guilt 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Donoghue manages to engage these larger mysteries of faith, doubt and evil without sacrificing the lyricism of her language or the suspense of her story line. ‘The Wonder’: From the author of ‘Room,’ another tight, intense drama 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Instead of inundating readers with trial maneuvers, Mr. Guinn homes in on the tight suspense and drama of the trial, not to mention the bits of inadvertent comedy. Books Of the Times: A New Look at Charles Manson, by Jeff Guinn 2013-08-06T21:46:25Z

The only real suspense is whether the girls' on-again-off-again friendship will survive long enough for them to play their first gig. 'Neighbors' having good, not-so-clean fun 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

If, after the election, you aren’t completely exhausted by the very idea of suspense, try any of these five late-in-the-year top-notch mysteries and thrillers, which are a welcome reminder that suspense can be fun. Review | Love suspense? Here are 5 new thrillers that will have you on the edge of your seat. 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

What made the movie so compelling was that Mr. Lee filmed these comics the way Brian De Palma shoots a suspense scene, with swirling, dreamy camerawork that aggressively tells us where to look. Spike Lee Enhances Jerrod Carmichael and Katt Williams 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

Repeated shots of a ticking grandfather clock add weight rather than suspense, and a last-gasp appearance by Anson Mount as Sobecki, the Aryan Brotherhood’s big cheese, seems added purely for celebrity value. ‘Supremacy,’ With Danny Glover 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

At the same time, I wanted a feeling of suspense at the end. The Carpetbagger: A Chat With the Writer-Director of 'Bachelorette' 2012-01-22T18:06:30Z

Monarch of suspense Stephen King is abdicating, sort of. Stephen King's September 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Shot with a hand-held camera in airy, diaphanous light, the film dwells as much in Jo and her family’s everyday moments together as it probes the suspense and sorrows of her predicament. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

Obnoxious, thumping music in the background can create tension and suspense, no matter how banal what’s going on in the foreground may be. Television Review: Economic Crisis Unfurls in Hushed Suspense 2011-05-22T21:06:40Z

Mr. Young handles it reasonably well, but I was struck by an unavoidable truth: These scenes of suspense and scare excel on a large screen, in a reasonably crowded theater. War of the Past, War of the Future: Netflix Tries Both 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

The couple decided to try a suspense novel set in the world of horse racing – and every year for the rest of their life together they published one. Secrets of the Dick Francis mysteries: One family kept the "greatest fiction factory" under wraps 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z

But, at its best, an admirably short, 80-minute evening generates a pleasurable suspense and conveys Dahl's peculiar fascination with human cruelty. Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales - review 2011-01-25T00:52:54Z

So began The Washington Post’s front-page account of what became a 35-day-longsaga that delivered what this year’s Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, promised at his final debate against Democrat Hillary Clinton: suspense. Sixteen years ago, the election night that would not end: Gore vs. Bush 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

His increasing discomfort provides a smidgen of suspense, when he calls the desk to see if there’s a doctor in the motel. A Revival of A. R. Gurney’s ‘Wayside Motor Inn’ 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Even if you think you know what’s coming, “Selma” hums with suspense and surprise. In ‘Selma,’ King Is Just One of Many Heroes 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Judges called Snowdrops "a hypnotically seductive and compelling exploration of moral danger", while Franklin's novel is "a poignant suspense novel drenched in the languid atmosphere of small-town Mississippi", they said. Males in the frame as Gold Dagger shortlist revealed 2011-08-19T10:52:59Z

So instead, Ms. Hempel and Ms. Ciment, writing under the pen name A. J. Rich, took Ms. Rich’s premise as a jumping-off point and transformed it into a psychological suspense story. ‘The Hand That Feeds You,’ a Thriller Written as an Act of Love for Its Originator 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

Rice’s situation — the stickling intruder bent on curtailing the freedom of action customarily enjoyed by denizens of a backwater — may be nothing new to readers of suspense fiction, but Rice himself is full of surprises. Review | Deep in the heart of Virginia, it’s man vs. bear 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

So there is persistent suspense throughout “News of the World” about what will happen to Johanna when she and Kidd reach their destination. Review: In ‘News of the World,’ Unlikely Companions Bond on a Perilous Journey 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

The novel is chilling in its suspense in two main plot lines: how her relationship with Axel grew, and the source of her mother’s depression. Dark Magic and Other Escapes in These Summer Y.A. Novels 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

The latest from the “Await Your Reply” author is a masterful suspense novel about Dustin, a Cleveland psychologist whose brother has been released from jail for a mass murder he didn’t commit. Best books of 2017: The best fiction 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

And audiences get a thrill out of the suspense and the violence, perhaps more so when they are dealing with a stressful situation in real life, analysts and movie executives said. In spite of violent national tragedies, horror films endure 2013-01-11T12:02:37Z

Lights flicker all over town, and ominous sound and music cues relentlessly pump the suspense. Review: With ‘Dark,’ Netflix Delivers Science Fiction With European Roots 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

Most of the film is a slow burn, but there are a few moments of suspense. "This film is Poe's origin story": "The Pale Blue Eye" director on his gothic whodunit at West Point 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

Keeping the suspense going for more than a few episodes is also a challenge. Television Review: Andre Braugher Commands a Renegade Vessel in ‘Last Resort’ 2012-09-26T22:06:40Z

“Angels Wear White” is plotted like a suspense thriller. Review: ‘Angels Wear White’ Is a Searing Tale of Moral Rot in China 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

For those who can stomach it, “A Certain Hunger,” by Chelsea G. Summers is a macabre banquet of a suspense novel, serving up carnal and gustatory surprises. Review | Sure, you may be grossed out, but ‘A Certain Hunger’ is a naughty pleasure 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

Unfortunately, there’s just no real suspense to the various challenges facing our heroes. Review | The action-packed saga ‘Monkey King: Journey to the West’ gets a modern take 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

It’s engaging material, but the decision to interweave it throughout the present narrative slows down the plot without heightening suspense. A 500-Story Tower Has Collapsed. Can Humanity Be Rescued From the Rubble? 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

And yet the progress of her disease is just one aspect of the play’s interconnected levels of suspense. Review: Mary-Louise Parker, Resounding in ‘The Sound Inside’ 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

Season two of the award-winning drama traded suspense for shouty action, and didn't always benefit from the shift. Catch-up TV guide: from Homeland to The Town 2012-12-15T00:05:19Z

Linklater captures the drama and suspense surrounding the Apollo 11 mission, and also the way it was folded into the patterns of daily life. ‘Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood’ Review: OK, Boomer 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

If the story has many potentially edge-of-your-seat moments, they generate only mild suspense. | 'Mr. Nice': Reliving a Drug Dealer?s Halcyon Days 2011-06-02T21:47:04Z

Still, there is plenty of suspense surrounding the proceedings. Watch Live: Donald Trump’s Impeachment Trial Begins in the Senate 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

Thursday morning, our long national nightmare of suspense ended. Dwight Garner Reviews the 'Serial' Season Finale 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Mr. Hill’s flair for orchestrated tumult is here augmented by some skillfully contrived suspense. ‘Southern Comfort’ and 'Hearts and Minds' on DVD 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

His dances are all predetermined universes, a wonderful clockwork of certainty, yet with feeling: suspense, uncertainty. Mark Morris Dance Group’s many surprises flow naturally at GMU 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

The five-minute adagio has as much eventful suspense as a thriller. How ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Tells Its Story Through Ballet 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

I liked the idea of this, as the suspense of what happened in the years that she 'disappeared' builds up throughout the book, not to mention the big question: why were her memories erased? Shadows on the Moon by Zoe Mariott- review 2013-05-14T14:00:00Z

As in the best suspense fiction, the tension in Liese's story is internal, lying not in events but in her interpretation of them. The Engagement by Chloe Hooper – review 2013-01-25T20:00:02Z

Souhami tells the story plainly, without recourse to red herrings or fake suspense. Murder at Wrotham Hill by Diana Souhami – review 2012-11-23T22:55:04Z

This familiar premise leads to a twist: Instead of adrenaline rush suspense scenes, this plot languishes in mundane melancholia. Review: In ‘The Night Eats the World,’ Zombie Apocalypse Now, Again 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

But what suspense is there in their comings and goings? Dance: Sinatra, Focused on Sex and Sizzle 2010-03-26T23:19:00Z

And a revelation as the second act opens dissipates any remaining suspense surrounding her firstborn’s future. ‘The Oldest Boy,’ by Sarah Ruhl, Opens at Lincoln Center 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

At a crucial juncture he chooses to play a story point for shock above suspense, which winds up feeling a little cheap. ‘Strange but True’ Review: Family Dysfunction Wrapped in a Thriller 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Unable to stand the suspense, I opened the sleeve to stare at the disc while riding on the subway, as if the melodies would somehow reveal themselves to my eyes. Elvis Costello’s New York Soul 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

It might be that these shows are best watched with breaks between episodes to build suspense. Television: Life Without Cable TV? Not Such a Tragedy 2012-11-24T22:12:05Z

It was important for us to have a strong visual, cinematic language to pull the audience through a tough ride with tension and suspense and leave them in a place of thinking. In knockout thriller "Catch the Fair One," a boxer infiltrates a ring of human traffickers 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

“My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.” Review: In ‘Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Life,’ Fear Drives a Master of Suspense 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

Heading into “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” the stress and suspense, at least as far as I could tell, had everything to do with the absence of the first movie’s star. We’re Out of Movie Stars. Whose Fault Is That? 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

Their particular secret is that, while moving with extreme slowness, they are masters of suspense. Dance Review: Into the Pool, Slowly but With Feeling 2011-07-31T22:14:39Z

The tunes are waltzes, lullabies, elegies, glimpses of suspense or tentative questions, and they move just far enough into the foreground to separate them from his film music. If Friends Play Your Songs, They Just May Change Your Tune 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z

Laughs increasingly double as sighs of relief as the suspense of discovery escalates through the show’s taut two-hour running time. ‘Lucy’ Review: There’s Something About the Babysitter 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

In the slower numbers, she and Mr. Leonhart, 75, explored the spaces between phrases, building an emotional suspense that left you hanging on every syllable and vocal inflection. Review: Barbara Carroll Sustains a Profound Jazz Symbiosis 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Mangan, who has a doctorate in English, wrote her dissertation on 18th-century Gothic literature and she knows all the notes to hit to create lush, sinister atmosphere and to prolong suspense. In a Thriller About Girlfriends, Which Femme Is Fatale? 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

It reminds us of the secretive nature of MI5’s work, while heightening the suspense of the not entirely implausible plots. Gems to See, Sail and Serve 2010-10-03T15:00:00Z

But each one reinforces, complicates or undermines the others in a bewitching feat of theme and variation that is rich in emotion, suspense and humor. Review | With ‘Kudos,’ Rachel Cusk completes a literary masterpiece 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

Unger serves up all the standard entertainments of the psychological suspense tale, along with the bonus delights of sharply drawn characters and occasional rest breaks of humor. The dead are more dangerous than the living in the thriller ‘Crazy Love You’ 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z

Both offer fans pleasurable suspense with only the faint intimation of actual pain. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Downton Abbey’ Begins Third Season on Sunday on PBS 2013-01-03T12:59:00Z

"In a way that is an invitation to look for suspense because you're waiting for it to happen." Ruth Rendell: a life in writing 2013-03-01T10:00:01Z

But a surprising amount of suspense reveals itself within the ridiculousness of it all; that's what makes "Spring Breakers" so hard to shake. Review: `Spring Breakers' is a hypnotic mix 2013-03-13T21:55:13Z

Structurally, his best work owes a debt to the 19th-century ideal of the "well-made play" in that it relies on suspense, surprise, calculated contrivance. Henrik Ibsen: the demon inside A Doll's House 2012-07-16T15:08:37Z

But the book builds enormous suspense around the questions of how, when and why she will die. 17 Refreshing Books to Read This Summer 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

The genre is the star, and if a filmmaker can create tension and suspense with minimal resources, the cash can roll in. Stream These 10 Movies Before They Leave Netflix in August 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

Most shorts follow a setup, suspense and payoff formula, but your short eschews that narrative structure. Short films, big Oscar hopes: Inside 4 Academy Award contenders for Best Live Action short 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z

Moore is every bit as deft in constructing suspense. Review | ‘Long Bright River’ is that wonderful thriller that subverts your expectations till the very last page 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

Among the disenchanted: See More » “In creating false suspense and undermining the life-or-death stakes it thrives on, ‘The Walking Dead’ just lost at its own game.” ‘The Walking Dead’: Reacting to the Big Reveal, and Looking Ahead to Next Week 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

In the second we have provided them with fifteen minutes of suspense. Conjuring a fright: what makes a great horror movie? 2013-07-26T12:00:00Z

This is a perfectly constructed book as well as being exciting, funny and full of suspense. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z

Such is the suspense that electrifies “The Boston Girl.” Book review: ‘The Boston Girl,’ by Anita Diamant 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

Back when “Idol” was a watercooler sensation, the finales would belabor the suspense over the final reveal. ‘American Idol’ Ends With One Final Argument Over the Winner 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

Her melodies, as always, are bold, declarative, and delivered with passion and suspense. On ‘Fossora,’ Björk Is a Daughter, a Mother and a Universe 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

The only surprise is that Roberts shuns cheap jump scare surprises in favor of well-crafted suspense scenes that play out like a game of three card monte. ‘Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City’ Review: They Go Way Back 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Director Agnieszka Holland displays great visual control over the material and, with assurance, incrementally tightens the noose on the suspense. Stylish horror: new ‘Rosemary’s Baby,’ ‘Penny Dreadful’ 2014-05-08T22:16:20Z

ALL marriages are suspense thrillers, in a way. It takes grit 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

I wish Ward had not employed the tricks of lesser novelists, such as contrived cliffhangers and misdirection in order to engender suspense. A Widow Takes Her Grown Kids on a Cruise. What Could Go Wrong? 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

The first section jangles along with some broad comedy and even offers a little suspense as Des tries — with deadly repercussions — to keep Uncle Asbo from discovering his tryst with Gran. 'Lionel Asbo': from brothel to brawl and back in dystopian England 2012-09-13T20:25:05Z

But with his construction of so many mystery boxes and his insistence on a certain rhythm and intensity of suspense, he runs the risk of repeating himself. Filmmaker J. J. Abrams Is a Crowd Teaser 2011-05-29T01:23:02Z

Have to say, though, the suspense between Tommy & Ghost & Milan was well played. Did You Watch the ‘Power’ Season 3 Finale? Let’s Talk About It 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

Fast-paced contemporary books, full of suspense and the bells and whistles of modern fantasy, have left them lukewarm to quieter classics with antiquated language. My children are hooked on Faulkner! 2012-12-03T20:30:00Z

With “Take the Night,” McTigue crafts a visually daring game of suspense. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

It's the main reason Psycho, of all his films, hasn't worn so well: shock dates, but suspense does not. Conjuring a fright: what makes a great horror movie? 2013-07-26T12:00:00Z

“Marcella” piles on crime after crime, which helps it stand out in a saturated field: Shows like “Broadchurch,” for example, rely on suspense, on postponing the big revelations. What You Should Watch This Fourth of July Weekend 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

This, Ettie has warned, is the danger involved in bringing a golem to life, and much of the novel’s suspense hinges on Ava’s evolving humanity, which Lea has been told is dangerous. Alice Hoffman Brings Magical Realism to the Holocaust Novel 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

The documentary is a courtroom thriller, crackling with suspense and with a kind-of happy ending. The Uncondemned: the heartbreaking story behind the first conviction of rape as a war crime 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

At least the uncertainty adds a touch of suspense to the evening. Analysis | Golden Globes: 11 things to watch, from Oprah’s speech to Seth Meyers’s monologue 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

That's because, like any child wanting to know what happens next in a story at bedtime, I want to know at the right time, and wouldn't care to spoil the suspense for the uninitiated. Harry Potter: Hail and Farewell to a Hallowed Franchise 2011-07-10T05:45:00Z

There's almost no suspense, since anyone who has the dimmest acquaintance with thriller plots knows that the ultimate villain is always played by the performer billed just below the two stars. Killers: My Husband Is an Assassin (in a Very Bad Movie) 2010-06-05T02:35:00Z

Old-fashioned suspense is more engaging than immediate violence. Gillian Flynn: By the Book 2014-05-08T16:21:40Z

Whether he catches a pickpocket or snares a vendor who gave incorrect change, Woodman builds up scenes like a suspense movie and may have you convinced that travel is more sleazy than not. A world of small-screen adventure: Here are the best travel TV shows for streaming 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

Danny Boyle masterfully turned a potentially off-putting true story into a riveting tale of suspense, wit and just plain celebration of life. 10 favorite movies of 2010 ? plus 10 runners-up 2010-12-31T01:23:13Z

Unfortunately, in the chapters that follow Standiford doesn't sustain the suspense or atmosphere that marks the book's early pages. 'Water to the Angels' dives into L.A.'s water history 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Or like this set: full of suspense and dramatic tension, and wise, abrupt solos by this bandleader on alto saxophone and flute. From The Times, the Best Bands and Acts Heard All Year 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

In short, Sorkin undercuts the suspense at once to make his favorite characters seem astoundingly prescient, while others come off as clueless. Will McAvoy, you’re so smart! 2012-07-23T18:30:00Z

The film, full of black humour and suspense, opened in France a few weeks ago to public and critical approval. Alain Corneau obituary 2010-08-31T15:39:00Z

Franklin, with her brilliant sense of dramatic timing and penchant for suspense, delays the resolution as long as possible. “My Soul Is Satisfied”: An Intimate New Documentary Explores the Source of Aretha Franklin’s Power 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

"It’s a rare combination — readers will be drawn to the suspense, of course, but they’ll also be given an inside look into what it’s like to be President." Bill Clinton and James Patterson are writing a book together 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

A wonderful summer blockbuster with action, suspense, and heart. The best films of 2013 (so far) 2013-06-21T15:49:46Z

In fact, a bumbling boss and his cohort of office workers are serving as a source of guidance in the adaptation process of the suspense thriller. TCA 2015: Comparing A&E's thriller 'The Returned' to 'The Office' 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Two big events intertwine to create some drama and suspense. Review: 'Quartet' has a winning, classy charm 2013-01-08T14:37:08Z

That business with the drug overdose builds almost intolerable, prolonged suspense by planting the idea that two children have been left alone by their screw-up father for days while they're unconscious. 'Daddy Longlegs': A wildly irresponsible father creates chaos 2010-06-24T19:29:00Z

We have waded through scores of suspects to get here, and even as the investigation narrowed, it maintained suspense by suggesting that any number of men in Trish’s life could have been responsible. Broadchurch is a place overrun with casual misogyny – just like real life 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

The methodical movements of the dancers and Ms. Sweeney’s allure as a storyteller imbued the work, which ended its run at the Performance Project at University Settlement on Sunday, with a sense of suspense. When the Body Is a Canvas, Accented With Paint or Peanuts 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

The young women’s somewhat mystifying relationship is as tension-filled as any suspense tale. Review | The tragic timeliness of a novel about a World War II internment camp 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

I would give this book 10/10 because of the way author keeps you in suspense and you really don't want to put the book down. Reader reviews roundup 2013-06-07T08:46:18Z

Deploying chapters that alternate between the three characters to build momentum and suspense, Krist inserts some social commentary here and there, but he keeps it minimal and to the point. In ‘The Mirage Factory,’ a Thriving Los Angeles Born From Humble Beginnings 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

And when, late in the film, a police car shows up, is it any wonder the audience exudes a palpable wave of nervous suspense? A horror movie for our time: “Get Out” is frighteningly topical 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Paul Michael narrates this great book in a rolling, engaged voice, evoking all its suspense and disastrous miscalculation. Review | For summer vacation, the best audiobooks are about long, strange trips 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

The movie’s suspense comes from the anticipation of what will happen when the story catches up to Aug. 9, 1969, the night the Manson Family murdered five people in the home of actress Sharon Tate. Review | Quentin Tarantino turned his last movie into a novel, but don’t think you know the ending 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

Gross is a master of suspense, and "No Way Back" will put him on the best-seller lists once again. Review: `No Way Back' is suspenseful tale 2013-04-02T18:00:10Z

Perhaps no subsection of romance straddles the lines of the genre more than romantic suspense. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance novels for March 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

No sketch is part of any larger story, and there’s no suspense to take you through them. Saying Goodbye to “Key & Peele” 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Turnout was predicted to be low, based on low numbers of early voters, and with little suspense about who would win. Mitt Romney wins Maryland GOP primary 2012-04-04T00:03:00Z

The intense narrative suspense, Gothic-horror and Romantic passion of “Sonnambula” are related to currents that run deep in many of Balanchine’s other ballets. Dance Review: From the Classical World of Apollos and Fauns to a Romantic Passion 2011-05-19T21:29:13Z

This “Medea” is definitely shaped by the sensibility that animated her “Doll’s House,” which had the suspense quotient of a Hitchcock nail-biter. Theater Review: ‘Medea,’ Kathleen Turner and Noël Coward on London Stages 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

He is using a standard reality TV tactic: Building suspense by promising big revelations and exciting new twists. Donald Trump’s reality TV bamboozle: A political style shaped by “The Apprentice” 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

Advertisement Advertisement Mr. Franzen adroitly dovetails these story lines, using large dollops of Dickensian coincidence and multiple plot twists to construct suspense and to entertain. Review: In ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen Hits a New Octave 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

Those extras are too brisk; you want to spend an hour, not two minutes, with Anthony Dowell and Antoinette Sibley, who tell a story, with marvelous suspense, of dancing “Méditation” at its premiere. Bounding Across Space and Time, via DVD 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

How far she can push back against that outer world without provoking forces arrayed against her generates much of the novel’s suspense. Review | In Lauren Groff’s hands, the tale of a medieval nunnery is must-read fiction 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

At the risk of spoiling its suspense, I will tell you that this book does not propose a definite answer to its title question. What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

There's little originality but a decent amount of suspense, a great deal of blood and some promise. Crawl – review 2013-02-24T00:05:32Z

He wrung deep suspense from a slow series of chords at the end of “Sinatra Never Left the Building.” Music Review: Terje Rypdal at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-06-28T22:33:32Z

The producers probably have a mandate to milk as much suspense out of the story as possible. Now, where were we? “Game of Thrones” returns with an hour that resets the board 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

Yet four mesmerizing novels — built on a grand scale and chock full of suspense — are an admirable record. The writer who liberated the mystery story from drafty castles 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

I will be keeping the suspense – I know how to keep the reader on the edge of their seat. Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey to be reworked by Val McDermid 2012-07-19T14:42:25Z

Taken as a fast, creepy exercise in suspense, “Collision” might be reasonably diverting. Theater Review: Lyle Kessler’s ‘Collision’ at Rattlestick Theater 2013-01-23T23:19:08Z

“Mr. Mercedes” was both shockingly normal and filled with expertly wrought suspense. Review: Stephen King Leaps Through Time in ‘Finders Keepers’ 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

Du Maurier's novels are notable for their sour view of humanity and the often macabre suspense plots, which led Alfred Hitchcock to film three adaptations of them. Lost Daphne du Maurier stories discovered 2011-02-21T16:10:04Z

While “Salt and Spirit” had a way of gently holding and supporting its audience, other works in the festival held us in a state of high suspense. A Raucous New Festival, With a Friends and Family Vibe 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

There are a couple of truly frightening, patiently established suspense scenes, including one inside a subway car during Halloween that’s filled with people in costumes of horror villains, including multiple Ghostfaces. ‘Scream VI’ Review: Yes, Another Scary Movie 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z

Schweblin builds tension and suspense, and ultimately a bleak acceptance of inescapable dread. The best and boldest new must-read books for May 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

It was "an exquisite novel of mesmerizing depth and suspense," wrote Margo Kaufman at the time. Henning Mankell is gone, but he leaves enduring legacy with Wallander novels 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

Like many of the better suspense thrillers, from “Psycho” to “Jaws” to “The Silence of the Lambs,” the original “Crazies” was based on a plausible premise as well as one with an ecological subtext. Film: Homicidally Unhinged, but for a Cause 2010-02-19T23:58:00Z

But that fact drains the show of any larger suspense. 'Halt and Catch Fire' Recap: Can Geekiness Be Entertaining? 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z

But this novel of suspense by the lead songwriter for the Mountain Goats is also a graceful exploration of family, loss and rural life. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

As he meets political activists and agrees to drive one client to clandestine meetings, Fly’s episodic life builds some suspense, but this energetic novel is all about the voice, and the fares. Neil Gaiman’s ‘Ocean at the End of the Lane,’ and More 2013-06-26T18:50:28Z

Bilton’s focus is on the hunt, and the book seems determined to sustain the suspense, even when it’s baked into the plot. How the Dark Web’s Dread Pirate Roberts Went Down 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

And, of course, there was the cliffhanger in 1980 that left the whole world in suspense. 'Dallas' returns to city it made famous 2011-12-10T22:16:04Z

That's it -- except for the suspense of seeing the final verdict  delivered by a massive, anonymous audience of shrieking kids, most of them 14 year old girls. Why I'm still watching "American Idol" after all these years 2011-01-19T18:01:00Z

It destroys the suspense and seals a sense of the movie as both slick and amateurish. Review: In ‘Unlucky Plaza,’ a Comic Hostage Crisis via Tabloid Storytelling 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

The downside of a feel-good marketing film about the police is that its underlying lack of suspense rapidly turns it into a feel-bad experience for the viewer. TV review: The Story of British Path?; Motorway Cops; Lee Nelson's Well Good Show 2011-08-25T22:05:01Z

One-person, multicharacter stories often fail to develop suspense and momentum, but Miller has structured this one precisely. Review: In ‘Prima Facie,’ Jodie Comer Makes the Case 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z

And like most their films, it too is a suspense thriller about moral conscience, one that takes place in and around a gray, Belgian city. ‘Tori and Lokita’ Review: Precarious Lives in Exile 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

There’s nothing “good” about a match that produces deprivation, suspense and self-doubt. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Does love have to be mutual to make it ‘such a good match’? 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z

The first season is mostly a family drama — both the men and their loved ones have irremediably changed over the years — while the second adds white-knuckle suspense without losing psychological integrity. Need to Escape? Stream These 12 Great Foreign-Language TV Shows 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

As her career progressed with mystery, suspense and science fiction novels, Stabenow bought land in Homer with the possible idea of selling it at a profit later in life. Alaska author wants to build writers' retreat 2013-04-15T10:31:06Z

Some may find that Amelia's story adds a necessary jolt of suspense and catharsis to the mix, but it's a tricky ingredient in an otherwise well-made tale. Review: Food talk, split families in novel's mix 2013-06-03T14:44:07Z

Whether that’s a comedy or a tragedy is the abiding suspense of this plot. Review | In ‘Kraft,’ German author Jonas Lüscher pokes fun at Silicon Valley’s shiny elitism and rabid faith in technology 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

As she’s known to do, Ms. Tanowitz pushes these dancers to the brink of what’s possible, assembling devilishly difficult steps that keep us — and them, it seems — in a state of curiosity and suspense. Review: Juilliard Students Try Out a Searing New Dance 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Cliffhangers between chapters build suspense, and alternating narrators keep the story moving forward. Review: Sports guy shows sensitive side in novel 2013-04-03T19:28:11Z

For a true story, "The Finish" is hard to beat for sheer suspense. The killing of Osama bin Laden 2013-01-15T23:46:09Z

Turner builds suspense not with battles and gore but through strategizing and charged, subtle dialogue. A new book by Lemony Snicket and other best books for young readers this month 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

And there was real suspense about the outcome. In Hamptons, Ammon Twins Put Horror in Perspective 2012-11-14T22:17:45Z

But Act III is often the chief problem of “Coppélia”: a series of ambiguously allegorical dances without narrative after two acts of character-led suspense. Dance Review: ‘Coppélia,’ Performed by the Bolshoi Ballet 2012-05-30T22:29:15Z

“In the usual form of suspense,” he told François Truffaut, a French director, “it is indispensable that the public be made aware of all the facts involved.” Join the dots 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

By the time the Oscars roll around, there is little suspense about who will win what, and the honorees themselves have a catatonic look, having been trotted from one awards podium to the next. Oscars to Add ‘Popular Film’ Category, Creating Questions 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

He’s decided on a different sort of drama, a territory of intrigue and tricks, entirely absorbing, with other sources of suspense. In His New Book, a War Novelist Turns to More Intimate Battles 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

A declamatory and virtuosic cadence by Mr. Dicterow led into a muted passage that was utterly absorbing in its balance of stillness and suspense. Music Review: Farewells Begin for New York Philharmonic’s Glenn Dicterow 2014-01-20T22:26:57Z

First, the world — always a scary, unstable place in suspense fiction — is made more so with female characters who wrestle with disorders that throw into question the reliability of their storytelling. What ‘Gone Girl’ and ‘The Girl on the Train’ have wrought 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

The Dardenne brothers married their plainly told social drama shtick with a muted murder mystery in The Unknown Girl, which sailed through thriller checkpoints but refused to provide us with the expected suspense. Sex, ghosts money and sainthood – now playing at Cannes 2016 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

“The Plot” opens in yet another fecund setting, this one a perfect container for the vile emotions and behavior that distinguishes the suspense genre: a master of fine arts program. Review | The plot of ‘The Plot’ — the best thriller of the year (so far) — is too good to give away 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

Undeterred and seeking inspiration for her next effort, she perused her own book collection and realized that a large portion of her library consisted of suspense novels. Mary Higgins Clark, best-selling author of suspenseful tales, dies at 92 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

And the oblique approach it takes to what is a fairly standard plot creates a mood of suspense quickened by the accelerated heartbeat of Herbert Grönemeyer’s unobtrusive music. | 'The American': A Man of Few Words and an Artisanal Weapon 2010-08-31T18:35:00Z

There’s little in the way of awe, suspense or surprise. ‘65’ Review: What on Earth? 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

The movie cagily clutches its cards to its chest the better to build up what paltry suspense it can generate. | 'The Ledge': Looking for Answers Before He Leaps 2011-07-07T23:33:23Z

It’s this composure that gives the trilogy its suspense — and it’s a kind of composure that is much misunderstood. ‘The Copenhagen Trilogy,’ a Sublime Set of Memoirs About Growing Up, Writing and Addiction 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

It is often recognized for its cameo in the opening scene of Alfred Hitchcock's iconic suspense flick. Phoenix building featured in 'Psycho' sold to developer 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

And as the “Sonnambula” Harlequin, he kept the audience in constant suspense. Dance Review: Casting Balanchine the Way the Master Did 2010-11-22T22:36:00Z

After months of suspense and typically inscrutable standoffishness, Bob Dylan, the elusive Nobel laureate, will finally accept his literature prize at a meeting with members of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm this weekend. Bob Dylan Will Receive His Nobel Prize While on Tour in Sweden 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

This series follows those same rules, but the deaths here don't happen right away, prolonging the dreadful suspense. Hide your muscular calves! On "Yellowjackets," sex is violence 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

“Tragedies tunnel through life, and the suspense comes from seeing how these spaces will be filled,” our reviewer wrote. 50 States, 50 Love Stories 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

She also wrote dozens of dark suspense novels that seemed to peer inside the murderer’s state of mind. Ruth Rendell, prolific British crime novelist, dies at 85 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z

Her character is constantly placed in some heightened state of suspense. Try to keep up with "Miss Bala": Gina Rodriguez stars in this entertaining if bumpy ride 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

But the play, meticulously staged by Stuart Gordon in a gleamingly neat modern apartment, relies too much on the suspense and gore of its macabre action. 'Taste' and 'Backyard' revel in gore and lack style 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

Once again, an empty building near Islington's Pleasance Theatre will become the HQ of a shadowy pharmaceutical company, with guided tours mixing comedy, suspense and terror. This week's new comedy 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z

But any origins story of a famous person, real or fictional, lacks the ultimate suspense of wondering what will happen at the end. Nowhere Boy: Lennon and McCartney Before the Beatles 2010-10-08T20:20:00Z

In 1962, François Truffaut, the French New Wave auteur, spent a week in Hollywood with his idol, Alfred Hitchcock, who at the time was considered little more than a master of suspense. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Hitchcock/Truffaut’ and Michael Phelps at the Rio Olympics 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

Too often, chapters end on a cliffhanger — frequently sleight-of-hand tricks rather than solid suspense. ‘Cold Barrel Zero’: A fast-paced thriller with a final scene set in D.C. 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

This is pure suspense, and I think one of the finest thrillers I’ve read. Authors Steve Cavanagh and Adrian McKinty: How growing up in Northern Ireland's Troubles shaped them 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

It might be described as a philosophical science fiction romantic comedy — with suspense. From the sci-fi mind of author Philip K. Dick to a movie screen 2011-03-05T00:27:18Z

“Even if you think you know what’s coming,” Scott added, “‘Selma’ hums with suspense and surprise.” What’s on TV This Week: The Oscars and a Greta Thunberg Documentary 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z

In this selection of clips he concentrates on the master of suspense's often overlooked British films. The Great Offices of State | Wallander | Paul Merton Looks At Alfred Hitchcock | Enid | Wonders of the Solar System and more | Watch this 2010-03-27T06:45:00Z

Out of the darkness of these ugly times, and the tenderer moments conjured in a family of seven children, Butterworth weaves an enthralling tapestry of melodrama, wryness and suspense. Review | ‘The Ferryman,’ an explosive, exhilarating human drama 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

You might have overlooked all this if there had been just a minute of suspense. TV review: DCI Banks: Aftermath, Horizon: Back From The Dead and Titanic: The Mission 2010-09-27T23:05:00Z

Laura Griffin’s Tracers books are an action-packed romantic suspense series about an elite, private team of forensic experts who consult with law enforcement on challenging investigations. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance novels of the month 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

It helps that the individual segments in “The Tenth Inning” are longer than the Burns norm, allowing more suspense to build. | 'The Tenth Inning': Ken Burns & Co. Return to the Old Ballgame 2010-09-27T22:42:00Z

Alas, this isn’t a new development; the Mariinsky and other Russian companies seldom perform “Swan Lake” as a serious emotional drama involving moment-by-moment suspense or development, but rather as a much more generalized mood poem. Dance Review: The Mariinsky Presents Its Shimmering ‘Swan Lake’ 2014-01-31T22:42:57Z

The narrative is sprawling and crowded, but it achieves the suspense and focus of a Kafkaesque thriller, and it presents the ethical dilemmas of life under Communism with remarkable clarity. Movies 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

“Passion” is often sleek and enjoyable, dispensing titillation, suspense and a few laughs without taking itself too seriously. Movie Review: Brian De Palma’s ‘Passion’ Stars Rachel McAdams 2013-08-29T22:04:14Z

Fleeting moments of suspense or melancholy are undermined by Cioma’s unremitting insouciance — no matter the situation, he wears a smirk — and a series of underwritten relationships muck up the narrative rather than enrich it. ‘The Forger’ Review: Hiding in Plain Sight 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

Building suspense, drama or action in a show about serial killers with no blood, no action and no guns, that’s the choice. Anna Torv of ‘Mindhunter’ on Playing It Cool, if Not Straight 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

Horrible things happen in the pilot, and the only release from the intensity and suspense is during commercials. Television Review: ‘The Following,’ Starring Kevin Bacon, on Fox 2013-01-20T20:35:11Z

The season will open in October with a recent Broadway suspense drama, Theresa Rebeck's "Mauritius," and continue with the Seattle debut of British playwright Alan Ayckbourn's family comedy, "My Wonderful Day." Arts news: SPT shows, Brown honors 2010-04-15T00:05:00Z

We know that reveal is coming, but the agonizing speed of the camera movement heightens the suspense considerably. ‘Fargo’ Season 2, Episode 8: A Man Without a Country 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

Skillful but standard crosscutting imparts suspense, the suggestion of infidelity, as Mr. Lidberg appears. Dance Review: Morphoses, at the Joyce Theater 2012-11-08T22:23:04Z

“Hitchcock”: Anthony Hopkins plays the master of suspense in this film about his time during the making of “Psycho.” Eagles, living history and nature books | Weekend Preview 2012-11-28T22:58:50Z

As in most good crime movies, a lot of suspense is generated by planning and preparation. ‘Night Moves’ Tracks Three Eco-Terrorists in Oregon 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Now, after dedicating herself to protecting the nation from its enemies, Plame turns to fiction with suspense writer Sarah Lovett—delivering all the knowledge, experience, and authenticity only they can bring to the page. Exclusive: An Excerpt from Valerie Plame’s Upcoming Spy Thriller 2013-05-28T19:43:55Z

It’s a fight for survival, and it immediately drew me to the language of suspense, and the thriller, rather than all-out combat. Christopher Nolan: Dunkirk Is My Most Experimental Film Since Memento 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

He had a wonderfully mellifluous, clear drawl of a voice, and a storyteller’s instinct for timing, humor, and suspense. Stanley Greene, a War Photographer Who Stayed When Others Left 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

Keith Richards and Ron Wood, the Stones’ guitarists, played nonstop games of syncopation and suspense amid the band’s well-known riffs, while Mr. Jagger raced all over the stage without missing a note. Review: At Desert Trip, Rocking Beyond the Hits With a Vengeance 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

What Hitchcock did in The Trouble With Harry was to remove the suspense: an extraordinary act of formal daring. The Trouble With Harry: Hitchcock's lost masterpiece 2012-07-02T18:00:01Z

Every time a reader turns the page, there’s a moment of suspense followed by surprise at the sight of the new illustration, he said. D.C. library celebrates author and illustrator Brian Selznick 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

The limited series takes viewers through four episodes worth of suspense as it slowly reveals who killed Emma. "The Girl Before" ending explained: What happens to Jane? 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

It renders the movie, for all its suspense, violence, and moral outrage, as much of a joy to recall, moment by moment, as it is to watch. Review: Jordan Peele’s “Us” Is a Colossal Cinematic Achievement 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z

One of the most impressive things about , which has now been out in wide release for three weekends, is that it manages to maintain suspense even though we all already know what happens. Zero Dark Thirty, Declassified: Bigelow Dishes on Deeper Meaning of Closing Scene 2013-01-28T14:30:44Z

“The best actor would entertain guests and build up suspense. That can’t happen this year.” Fall’s Almost Here. Can We Still Go Apple Picking? 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

There is comedy in the shy clumsiness of the young couple, and also excruciating suspense as they make their way toward the hotel bed. Review: In ‘On Chesil Beach,’ a Honeymoon Gone Wrong 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

Though strictly speaking a suspense novel, “Cemetery Road” is, in fact, a great deal more. Review | Greg Iles bounced back from a catastrophic car crash with a monumental trilogy. He’s not done. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

Their stories are, of course, fated to converge, in a scene of suspense and violence that rivals in intensity anything in a Scorsese movie. Theater Review: ‘Brand New Ancients’ Stars Kate Tempest in a Tragic Tale 2014-01-14T23:43:02Z

Her new novel, “Most Wanted,” demonstrates again her skill with this kind of domestic suspense tale. Lisa Scottoline’s ‘Most Wanted’: A nail-biting story that asks, ‘What would you do?’ 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

I’m not saying she deserved to die, but it seemed strange to hang the suspense of an entire episode on the fate of a random fringe character. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 4: Negan Takes Over 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

In the past two months, I’ve reviewed two suspense novels whose plots center on a struggling or would-be writer helping themselves to another writer’s work and/or life. Review | The plot of ‘The Plot’ — the best thriller of the year (so far) — is too good to give away 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

I love mysteries and suspense most of all. Stephen King: By the Book 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

After his performance, it was time for more space fillers and faux suspense building. "American Idol" recap: So long, Big Mike! 2010-05-13T13:13:00Z

Unhappy, stuck, in suspense for the next outburst? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Partner with ‘unfortunate past’ becomes jealous, possessive, demanding 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

Hayes also fails to generate much suspense as the story builds to its dramatic conclusion. Zac Efron is worth his weight in "Gold," a harrowing thriller about greed and survival 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

“The Searcher,” by Tana French, is a slow burn of a suspense story. Review | Tana French’s ‘The Searcher’ nods to John Ford’s famous Western with the story of a loner on the hunt for a lost teen 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z

The shows affect a pulp or suspense writer's sense of play; they treat the genre as an exercise or a lark. Meet the worst new TV show of 2011: "Suspect Behavior" 2011-02-16T15:01:00Z

I think there’s some analogy to Hitchcock’s theory of suspense: that knowing a terrible thing is going to happen is far more terrifying than not knowing it’s going to happen. Dead Tree Alert: Don’t Fear the Spoiler 2012-07-19T14:50:06Z

Ms. Mearns not only makes that a moment of heroic suspense, she makes it never twice the same. Critic?s Notebook: From a Season Aloft, High Hopes Linger 2011-06-14T22:48:59Z

The men eventually start adopting some of each other's habits, as Villeneuve — who previously directed last year's stylish mystery/suspense picture "Prisoners" — plays up the surrealism and the philosophical pondering of Saramago's story. 'Cold in July' starring Michael C. Hall entertains in all its genres 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

The real mystery here is not some white whale but Franny herself, with much of the novel’s suspense driven by the patchiness of her testimony. ‘The Animals Are Dying. Soon We Will Be Alone Here.’ 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

More important, as the story progresses, the suspense becomes electric. Book review: ‘Irene’ by Pierre Lemaitre 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

The other showpiece moment was the gorgeously paced last-act scene on the train to Canada, a model of suspense designed to lead us to all the wrong conclusions. “The Americans” Finale Was Elegant, Potent, and Unforgettable 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

This scene from David Fincher’s American version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, first in the trilogy of Swedish thrillers by Stieg Larsson, displays a masterly construction of lightning suspense and action choreography. David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Thanks Very Much, But You Really Didn't Have To 2011-12-20T15:00:53Z

I don't blame any actors in either show but the directors for some of the more preposterous plot twists and manufactured suspense in the past season of The Walking Dead. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 8: The Zombie Code 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z

Q: How has writing romantic suspense novels prepared you to run for — and hold — office? How Stacey Abrams turned heartbreak into a career plan — and romance novels 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

Still, some parks invest in new woodies, where the suspense doesn’t come from wondering whether the rickety rails will survive the ride. Taking the Plunge on California’s Coasters 2013-08-01T20:30:31Z

It’s more than suspense: it’s the sense of excess, of an outburst that will exceed and even stagger expectations. Spike Lee’s Vampiric Remake 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Still, even without much suspense there is plenty to admire in this production. | 'Freud?s Last Session': Freud and C. S. Lewis Debate Faith in Mark St. Germain?s Play 2010-07-23T02:06:00Z

Telling an effective story — especially in romantic suspense — demands a similar skill set. How Stacey Abrams turned heartbreak into a career plan — and romance novels 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

The quartet played attentively, poised or just harsh enough, savoring the suspense; none of the new pieces overstayed. Review: Julia Holter and the Spektral Quartet in the Ecstatic Music Festival 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

But those events feed on zippy glitz, Top 10 hits and the no-net suspense of ordinary unknowns, exceeding expectations or belly-flopping. Television Review: Carrie Underwood Stars in NBC’s Live ‘Sound of Music’ 2013-12-06T17:45:01Z

But that’s OK, since van den Brink’s film throbs with suspense and lobs oddball scares, like an uncanny scene in which Betriek encounters a possessed kid in an elevator. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

The book has some of Martin Amis’s pith; only the introduction of high-stakes suspense near the end feels out of whack with the irreverent and charming rest. ‘Me Before You,’ by Jojo Moyes, and More 2012-12-26T20:50:12Z

And the strangely rustling middle section conveys suspense and mystery. ‘The Nutcracker’ Still Out-Dazzles ‘Hansel and Gretel’ 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

Talking about his penchant for suspense, Mr. Spielberg remembers how he used to trap his sisters in a closet with a skull that he’d dripped gory-looking candle wax on. Review: HBO’s ‘Spielberg’ Is a Close Encounter with Genius 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Jaws was a middling thriller with some fine suspense sequences, and not highly rated when it was published in 1974. Success of Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a true Hollywood box office triumph 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

In her singing, we hear beauty, eloquence, suspense. Alvin Ailey Troupe Gives Rushing’s ‘Odetta’ Its Premiere 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Amid the gun violence of recent months, though, suspense novels with trauma plots seem less like escapist mysteries and more like how-to manuals for survival. A Bloody Crime, a Mysterious Disappearance and the Long After 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

For all her mastery of the spooky trappings of suspense, Cameron also respects another, more fundamental element of the form — plotting. Pushed From the Clock Tower, Buried in the Yard 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

Eurovision also recently revamped its voting rules to add suspense to the results. After Conquering Europe, Eurovision Is Coming to Asia 1465-06-09T05:00:00Z

I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets to the endgame too quickly. Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey to be reworked by Val McDermid 2012-07-19T14:42:25Z

This climactic confrontation feels somewhat artificially delayed to stoke suspense. Theater Review: Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman Star in ‘Annapurna’ 2014-04-22T02:00:03Z

You can have some surprises and lots of suspense, but in a magic show you have to have them together. Joshua Jay explain how magicians think — without ruining the magic 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z

If you surrender to intrigue and suspense as a writer, you will eventually lose control of the book. ArtsBeat: Noah Hawley Talks About His New Novel, 'The Good Father' 2012-03-21T15:29:13Z

The researchers said in the study, which will be published in the journal Psychological Science, they found that the success of entertainment does not rest on suspense alone. Spoilers don't ruin stories or films: study 2011-08-12T16:08:44Z

The story also offers something else that was all but unheard-of in pre-Civil Rights-era trials involving African-Americans accused of crimes against whites: genuine suspense about the outcome. Michael A. Ross's 'Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case' 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

"For me, suspense is always harder and better than going for the quick, outright scare," she says. Gillian Flynn on her bestseller Gone Girl and accusations of misogyny 2013-05-01T18:14:56Z

“A Lonely Man” is a superb suspense novel, imbued with moral and narrative complexity and an omnipresent low cloud cover of dread. Review | ‘A Lonely Man’ is an elegant suspense novel in the tradition of the ‘The Third Man’ 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

It’s such a simple premise for a suspense tale; the best ones usually are. Review | Ruth Ware’s ingenious ‘One by One’ pays homage to Agatha Christie’s ‘And Then There Were None’ 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

For Parks, now an accomplished author, the book was a formative introduction to suspense. 50 years later, ‘The Monster at the End of This Book’ is still selling — and inspiring authors 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

The suspense generated by the possibility of his volatile uncle learning the awful truth sustains the trajectory of “Lionel Asbo” from one close call to the next. ‘Lionel Asbo,’ by Martin Amis 2012-08-18T00:06:07Z

This chaotic stew of fire, blood, mud and explosives is so devoid of terror and suspense that any metaphorical analysis is rendered moot. | 'Predators': Adrien Brody as a Hunted Earthling 2010-07-08T23:31:00Z

With thrilling confidence, he adapted Austin Wright’s much admired novel and made it live as a superb suspense thriller, with its daring double narrative. Golden Globes 2017: who will win – and who should win – the film categories 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Since anything and everything can happen in the berserk world of “Caught,” none of the suspense carries much weight, and no character has time to become particularly sympathetic. Books of The Times: Caught - By Harlan Coben - Never Look Away - By Linwood Barclay - Mom and Pop Thrillers 2010-03-25T22:42:00Z

Part of the success of “Slow Horses” lies in its combining ambient satire with smart spy work and authentically frightening suspense. An International Buffet, From Elena Ferrante to ‘Slow Horses’ 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

Asides don’t break the rhythm of the action; they keep a slow burn on the suspense and tension. 'The Fireman' may be the best apocalyptic read of the year, if you can stand the heat 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

In “Nearly 902” her duet with Mr. Mitchell — the last of the innumerable great duets choreographed by Cunningham — is a meeting of equal explorers, testing themselves and each other, keeping the audience in constant suspense. Spring Performance: Dance: A Grand Finale: Cunningham?s Last Dances 2011-02-20T02:00:56Z

SAT-SUN Book bargains, novels, suspense, fantasy, history, sci-fi, ethnic and women's studies plus movies and music to benefit Radical Women, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Community calendar 2012-07-25T17:48:06Z

History has provided Follett with some spectacular dramatic moments, and he takes full advantage, recreating them with a historian’s eye for detail and a novelist’s gift for narrative suspense. Review | Ken Follett returns once again to Kingsbridge in ‘A Column of Fire’ 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z

There’s a measure of suspense in watching him try to avoid being drafted. Carl Bernstein, Looking Back at His Start, Conjures the Newsrooms of the Early 1960s 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

Camp on the couch with the master of suspense, starting with “Vertigo,” at 10 a.m. and 2:30 a.m.; What’s on TV Saturday: ‘The Intervention’ and ‘Shame’ 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z

Misery's tale of torture and suspense takes place in a lonely, snow-covered town where novelist Sheldon crashes his car after skidding on some ice, with his latest manuscript in his briefcase. Bruce Willis joins Broadway's Misery 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

A limited handful have exploited the potential for pressure-chamber suspense inherent in a world under lockdown, all of them hasty and cheap. Corona-sploitation: is it too soon for Hollywood to make Covid-19 movies? 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

He is not the clown his television persona suggests, but nor does he come across as a brooding master of suspense. Jordan Peele on Us: ‘This is a very different movie from Get Out' 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

The whole thing plays like a movie trailer, all dramatic music and suspense. Dancing with the Stars Watch: Latin Week Results 2012-04-18T12:30:23Z

As DeLong and his crew attempt to save themselves, the story grows in suspense and psychological complexity. 'Kingdom of Ice' uncovers a polar adventure frozen in time 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

It’s uncharacteristically dark: no light-filled rooms, just undefined, shadowy space and a mood of uneasy suspense. Artworks That Shine in New York Museums 2013-01-04T00:50:22Z

Above all, he coördinates the various parts of his story with a juggler’s aplomb, maintaining an exquisitely calibrated balance of dramatic elements to heighten suspense with a musician’s sense of timing. The Stylish, Empty Realism of Michael Mann 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

On Donald Glover’s acclaimed FX series, “Atlanta,” the threat of police violence was an undercurrent that fueled satire and suspense, but never felt like the subject of a Very Special Episode. Review | Police-shooting drama ‘Shots Fired’ is thoughtful but won’t burst your political bubble 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

“Parasite” is a wickedly humorous suspense movie about class struggles set in modern South Korea, following a down-on-its-luck family of four who worm their way into jobs in a wealthy household. Cannes winner 'Parasite' captures rich-poor gap in 'basic unit of... 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

“The Girl on the Train” may contain a premise that Alfred Hitchcock or a similar director would have done better, but that doesn’t stop it from being a perfectly enjoyable suspense film of its own. 26 films Rotten Tomatoes got 100% wrong 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

The story of an unconventional inventor, Commander Caractacus Pott, and the magical car he and his family rescue from “a broken-down little garage,” it is playful and yet full of suspense. Celebrating 50 years of 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

To an extraordinary degree she makes the choreography both intimate and grand, and an unfolding drama of suspense. Critic?s Notebook: One Classic Ballet, Many Interpretations 2011-07-05T00:25:11Z

In 1958, though, some players began to complain that the shows were rigged, saying they were given the correct answers, or instructed to answer incorrectly, to boost suspense and attract viewers. Think presidential debates are dull? Thank 1950s TV game shows 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

Although “The Blackening” functions principally as a comedy, the film also delivers dynamic moments of suspense and chilling scares, a result of Perkins and Oliver’s enduring admiration of horror cinema. In ‘The Blackening,’ Rather Than Dying First, Getting the Last Laugh 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

“The result is rich, dense, often amusing and, above all, full of inner tension and suspense,” Jack Miles said here. Paperback Row 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

How he navigates her visit provides the film’s narrative and emotional suspense. An Oscar-Winning Short Film About Stuttering and Love 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

There are natural laws that govern the reading experience, some chemical process in the brain that responds to suspense and mystery, generating attention until those mysteries are solved, or subverted. Writing middle-aged men in crisis: Novelists Lindsay Stern and Andrew Ridker in conversation 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

When I began publishing, I wrote under the pen name Selena Montgomery for my romantic suspense novels. The One Book Stacey Abrams Would Require the President to Read 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

All in all, this book is perfect for anyone who loves adventure, suspense, shocks and mysteries!!! The Feluda Stories by Satyajit Ray - review 2012-08-16T08:00:00Z

Cutting back and forth in time, Doerr creates nearly unbearable suspense. Ten books of fiction and nonfiction we love, so far

In CBS’s summertime suspense drama “Salvation,” the Pentagon is trying to keep a lid on the apocalyptic news that a deadly asteroid is on course to collide with Earth in 186 days. Review | CBS’s ‘Salvation’ is about an asteroid headed for Earth. ‘Hurry up,’ Earth replies. 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

But, in general, the accusation raises fascinating questions about the technique of reviewing and the undue primacy we give to narrative suspense. Michael Billington on giving away the plot 2011-04-03T21:01:01Z

The remaining six and a half minutes put you in exhilarated suspense over when her top’s gonna blow. Aretha Franklin Had Power. Did We Truly Respect It? 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

But the beat falls away, and the song leaves the situation entirely in suspense. Shakira and Ozuna’s Breakup Bachata, and 7 More New Songs 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

After a season of suspect loyalties and shaky resolve among its main characters, the show’s finale promises a familiar source of suspense: Will Carrie save a Western city from a jihadist plot? How “Homeland” Helps Justify the War on Terror 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

But as it appears now, the performance by the suffering dancers is unconvincing; there is no dance interest, no visual suspense or drama. Dance Review: Celebrating Alwin Nikolais at the Joyce Theater 2010-05-05T23:06:00Z

The deeper fascination here is in the suspense of Mr. Morris’s construction. Dance Review: Journeying From Head to Toe, With a Layover at the Heart 2011-03-18T22:21:21Z

The political story offered more to talk about, but the suspense story was more fun to watch. 'The Good Wife' Recap: In a Campaign Commercial, Alicia Shows Off Her Acting Chops 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z

Spellbound led to another suspense film, The Spiral Staircase, in which she was strangled by the villain, George Brent. Rhonda Fleming, 'Queen of Technicolor' in the 1940s and 50s, dies aged 97 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z

The book, “Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of ‘Psycho,’ ” is a fast, diverting read that, true to its title, tracks how the master of suspense, sometimes with surprising effort, made his influential, perverse shocker. Movie Review: ‘Hitchcock,’ With Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren 2012-11-22T22:23:25Z

"The Boyfriend" is the 22nd crime novel from Thomas Perry, whose work is characterized by tight, clean prose, well-drawn characters and heart-pounding suspense. Review: Conclusion of `The Boyfriend' disappoints 2013-03-04T19:50:09Z

A brief notice in The New York Times described it as a “novel of suspense.” Hans Keilson, Novelist of Life in Nazi-Run Europe, Dies at 101 2011-06-02T21:23:44Z

The circumstances surrounding Constanza's death and the subsequent release of Crocker and Angel lie at the heart of this narrative, and there is an element of suspense here. Shooting Angels by Christopher Hope ? review 2011-08-26T21:55:01Z

In 1986, when her mother’s first suspense novel, “Where Are the Children?,” was made into a film, Carol Higgins Clark had a small role as a television reporter. Carol Higgins Clark, Mystery Writer, Is Dead at 66 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

If Mr. Ward can find a way to channel this suspense and urgency into his sculpture, that ambulance might be going somewhere. Amar Kanwar at Marian Goodman, Lyle Ashton Harris at CRG 2010-04-01T22:40:00Z

He usually combines men and women in uneven numbers, in continual suspense; and his mastery of changing geometries is another way in which he keeps surprising you. Celebrating Two Birthdays: City Center and the Ailey Company 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

No blood but quite a bit of suspense and violence, including an electrocuted shark and a decapitation. | 'The Nutcracker in 3D': A Dystopian Aftertaste to Those Sugarplums 2010-11-24T00:07:00Z

It is the sort of tinkly music usually heard in a suspense film just before a mystery is revealed. Movie Review: ‘Fire in the Blood’ Spotlights AIDS in Africa 2013-09-06T02:36:52Z

You watch it with both delight in its passing detail and suspense about what will happen next. Dance Review: At Miami City Ballet, Edward Villella’s Tenets Live On 2014-01-13T22:49:55Z

Public policy, political rhetoric and the administration of democratic institutions are not subjects of much suspense, humor or excitement. Donald Trump and the hobbling of shame: David Foster Wallace warned us about reality TV and we didn’t listen 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

This is more suspense than we saw at the end of either of the first two episodes, which seemed completely uninterested in leaving behind a bit of viewer bait. ‘Better Call Saul’ Recap: Season 2, Episode 3: Lone Star State of Mind 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

“Homunculus” exerts a special power with its serial suspense and haunting scenario. Serial Gems Are Painstakingly Restored for the Screen 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Which may be longer than you anticipate, since “The Clock” generates a peculiar kind of suspense. Critic’s Notebook: In ‘The Clock,’ You Always Know the Time 2012-07-16T20:15:34Z

“There’s no doubt about it that the social media team kept the suspense going and got everyone to become active participants,” he said. Box office: 'No Good Deed' at No. 1 with $24.5 million 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z

What passes for suspense on the ballot’s lower reaches are issues unlikely to keep viewers from drifting over to AMC for a peek at “The Walking Dead.” Oscars 2016: Doubts Swirl on Viewers and Chris Rock’s Approach as Host 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

And she sang in full-throated glory, capturing the vengeful bite of past hits like “Rolling in the Deep” and the hushed suspense and pealing chorus of her new one, “Hello.” Adele Cries to Her Music, Too 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Robinson manages some suspense, but the thriller’s ticking clock is a weak one. ‘Phantom’: Cast keeps submarine thriller from sinking 2013-02-28T01:51:59Z

Loud noises scare me, suspense music scares me. Jamie Lee Curtis Has Never Worked Hard a Day in Her Life 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z

His legacy is being re-examined in the upcoming feature film "Hitchcock," starring Anthony Hopkins, and the HBO film "The Girl" starring Toby Jones as the master of suspense. Still photos from Hitchcock's "Mountain Eagle" film up for auction 2012-11-09T01:23:59Z

It’s “Gossip Girl” tailored to this economy, with just enough campy suspense to be enjoyable. | 'Revenge': ?Revenge? on ABC Places Emily VanCamp in the Hamptons 2011-09-20T12:00:00Z

Framed by scenes of weeping, the narrative does not entirely pull itself into a satisfying arc, but the film nevertheless unfolds with dexterity and suspense. ‘Miracle’ Review: A Spiritual Investigation 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Most of Harrison’s stories lack the intensity and suspense of domestic terrorism. Want to reject America’s Puritanism, workaholism and toxic obsession with stuff? Read Jim Harrison’s brilliant books 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

The movie ends with a suspense sequence inside that fertile horror setting the bathroom. A Lord of Fright Reclaims His Dark Domain 2011-06-24T20:53:53Z

Since “The Shallows” is a star vehicle for the attractive and statuesque Ms. Lively, the suspense here is somewhat circumscribed. Review: ‘The Shallows’: Surfer Girl. Peckish Shark. Uh-Oh! 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Double-exit cubes keep you in suspense about which way the marbles will run. Top STEM toys are hands-on fun 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

But it is also fascinating — featuring encounters with luminaries like William Styron and Meryl Streep and Elaine Stritch — and Mr. Guare has imbued it with the suspense and dynamism of a long, enthralling mystery story. Theater Review: John Guare’s ‘3 Kinds of Exile,’ at Atlantic Theater Company 2013-06-12T02:00:12Z

The suspense is generated by a deceptively simple question, one that haunts most stories of addiction: Will Ben use again? ‘Ben Is Back’ Review: A Mother and Son Face the Horrors of Addiction 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

The action is active, the suspense tense, the actors game. 'The Lottery' gambles on a global fertility crisis 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

The movie's only suspense concerns which signed word will spark Marie's lightbulb moment. 'Marie's Story' follows a familiar, retreaded path 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

For the moment, the only source of suspense was the yeast. ‘The Great British Bake Off’ Changes the Way the British Bake 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

Ms. Coleman, a freelance writer, overworks the foreshadowing and omen-dropping, but she manages to weave a lot of real suspense into the question of what type of destruction is in the offing. Books of The Times: Back-to-the-Land Life Recalled in Dark and Light 2011-04-06T21:15:45Z

It is difficult to reconcile Hill’s perception of Wilder’s “evolution as a writer,” her “descriptive genius,” and her techniques for creating “tension and suspense” with the evidence of the manuscript. The Clunky Memoir That Became “Little House on the Prairie” 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

The quotidian lives that women lead become the stuff of drama and even suspense here. ‘Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles’: A Guide 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

“The Long Drop” is Denise Mina’s first foray into a suspense story deeply indebted to a true crime. Denise Mina looks inside the mind of a psychopath in her chilling novel ‘The Long Drop’ 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

Despite some initial problems with pace and a bland idea of suspense, “The Last Ship” is at least a break from all the detective and lawyer shows that characterize cable TV’s long summers. Summer TV: Quick takes on ‘The Last Ship,’ ‘Legends’ and more

Initially, suspense fans might wonder just how many times we can amble down these familiar mean streets without feeling like the pavement is wearing thin. Review | Based on serial murders that rocked Scotland, ‘The Quaker’ is a chilling suspense tale 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

This is one of the year’s best suspense novels, a mesmerizing, surprise-jammed mystery that works purely on its own, character-driven terms. Review: Noah Hawley’s ‘Before the Fall’ Is One of the Year’s Best Suspense Novels 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

Damon Lindelof, one of the creators of “The Leftovers,” remembered Ms. King from “Southland” and sought her for Erika, whose suddenly missing daughter becomes a source of mounting suspense. Regina King Has So Many Stories to Tell 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

It is hard to imagine a feature film conveying the events with a more vivid sense of drama or suspense. Television Review: Voices From the Buses on the Road to Civil Rights 2011-05-15T22:04:53Z

Suffice to say that Smythe is very good on the claustrophobia of his setting, and that he squeezes impressive amounts of suspense from his deliberately limited set-up. The Explorer by James Smythe – review 2013-01-18T09:31:02Z

Forget that the very best dramas of the current golden age — “The Sopranos,” “Six Feet Under,” “The Wire,” “Mad Men,” “Breaking Bad” — build suspense through careful character development, restrained dialogue and meticulous storytelling. Riff: ?Clues That Lead to More Clues That Add Up to Nothing? 2011-12-16T17:03:47Z

Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips said it "sets a stern suspense narrative against a blessedly unconventional cinematic backdrop." Indie film pared to the bone in "Winter's Bone" 2010-06-18T16:03:00Z

These two modes alternate, putting two kinds of suspense into play. Review: ‘Split’ Is Naked and Clothed, Formal and Savage 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

“Spellbound” led to another suspense film, “The Spiral Staircase,” in which she was strangled by the villain, George Brent. Rhonda Fleming, film star of ‘40s and ‘50s, dies at 97 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

But he learns the lesson all over again in “The Driver,” a three-part suspense series on Acorn TV starting Monday. Review: ‘The Driver,’ on Acorn TV, Stars David Morrissey 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

You always want there to be some kind of suspense in regard to what will happen next, or even in regard to understanding the motives or morality of the characters. This Week in Fiction: Victor Lodato on the Short Story as a Fling 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

For Headquarters And Pirates, a Test Of Wills and Wits In “A Hijacking,” his assured, intense second feature, the Danish director Tobias Lindholm turns tedium and frustration into agonizing suspense. Movie Review: ‘A Hijacking,’ a Modern Piracy Drama, Unfolds at Sea 2013-06-20T22:51:37Z

But there’s more suspense in watching the real thing. ‘Miracle Fishing: Kidnapped Abroad’ Review: Harrowing Home Videos 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

A sequence in which Carla finds the bag of money — while her husband showers down the hall — uses a nicely wandering camera to effectively build suspense. 'The Square': Shape of things to come from first-time director Nash Edgerton? 2010-04-22T21:14:00Z

So much tension and suspense come from quiet. "It's America's genre": Thandiwe Newton defends her land in "God's Country," a modern-day western 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

Maybe most impressive, though, is the comedy Zanetti weaves through the suspense. All’s Well That Ends Well: Fall Romance Novels 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

The suspense builds nicely, the twists come as surprises and its key characters are vivid enough. Nazi thriller "The Debt" set in wrong period 2010-09-07T01:47:00Z

I have nearly every book written by the romantic suspense author Sandra Brown. James Rollins: By the Book 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

More than a suspense flick, “Fever” proves to be a quirky parable of guilt, passion and social responsibility. Movie Listings for Sept. 4-10 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

With him, the many pauses between eruptions are structural techniques for creating suspense; during her solo, the audience needs the breaks as much as she does, such is the intensity of her performance. Review: Noche Flamenca, With Soledad Barrio, at Joe’s Pub 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

One big difference for United States audiences is that Netflix will release all the episodes of “Bodyguard” simultaneously, whereas British audiences largely watched the show from week to week, with cliffhangers building chatter and suspense. ‘Bodyguard’ Was a Sensation in Britain. But Can It Conquer America? 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

Eilish’s sound understands how adolescence can feel like a horror movie: the constantly looming suspense, the way the ordinary is suddenly pierced by the ghastly or the absurd. Best Albums of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

This is not quite enough, though, to sustain a suspense novel. A Quicksilver Mystery That Flickers, Flashes, Twists and Turns 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

The hangover sets in only when the film stirs in false suspense about its half-baked climax. ‘Book Club: The Next Chapter’ Review: Cinema Pinot Grigio 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

If the reader is aware of every character’s intentions at all times, opportunities for uncertainty or deception — for suspense and revelation — become scarce. In ‘The Pink Hotel,’ Delusional Newlyweds Head Toward a Grand Reckoning 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

It's not really a , either, in any meaningful sense – despite the suspense of the closing reel. My favourite Hitchcock: Rebecca 2012-08-07T10:54:25Z

The newspaper also described the White House’s attempt to set up a reality show-like competition to gin up the suspense about Trump’s Supreme Court appointment. The Trump administration has sprung a leak. Many of them, in fact. 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

And so in order to "maintain the suspense going until the last minute", they've hidden the results. Eurovision 2013: who's going to win? 2013-05-17T12:52:00Z

Withholding the family history from the audience is only moderately successful at generating suspense; it’s no spoiler to say that Nial did something dreadful and Niamh hasn’t forgiven him. ‘Moment’ review: Kitchen-sink realism makes this Irish drama shine 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

The horror comics will be written by someone more than familiar with tales of suspense: R. L. Stine, the author of the “Goosebumps” novellas for children. R.L. Stine to Write Man-Thing Series for Marvel 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

The play falls headlong into the trap of cheapening the suffering it intends to honor by milking it so shamelessly to stoke dramatic suspense. Theater Review: ‘Red Dog Howls,’ by Alexander Dinelaris 2012-09-25T02:30:05Z

To create suspense, I have to get rid of the sex right away. Movies Seek Laughs With All Manner of Sex Scenes 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

The suspense and drama leading up to Lendrum’s ultimate undoing are masterfully constructed and the outcome satisfying. Meet the ‘Pablo Escobar of the Falcon Egg Trade’ 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

This simple question generates quite a bit of curiosity and suspense, but “One Day” is at its best —observant, relaxed, touching and charming — when the central couple are apart. | 'One Day': Emma and Dex and July 15 2011-08-18T12:00:00Z

Predictability can be the death knell of any show, and one whose foundations are precariously built upon shocks and suspense is doubly susceptible. The Walking Dead: season 8, episode 12 recap – The Key 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z

The suspense of the podcast, thus far, hangs in the uncertainty of whether or not the Syed is guilty. Case from popular “Serial” podcast moves through the appeals process 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

Mr. Hooper relied on suspense more than gore, staging the kills with nary a drop of blood. In ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre,’ Sympathy for the Devil 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

Ms. Cline also understands — at the start, at any rate — how to build layers of suspense by withholding information. Review: ‘The Girls’ Has a Great Start. Too Bad About the Rest. 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

For the moment, at least, Mr. Weaver holds the political world in suspense: Is he going to broker a peace agreement or will he be the last man standing on the Bernie barricades? Will This Guy Shut Off the Lights in the Sanders Campaign? 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

The tale, Dougal Robertson’s best seller “Survive the Savage Sea,” was full of suspense, starting when a pod of Orcas destroys the hull of their sailboat and forces them onto an inflatable boat. For This Show, the Artist Went Overboard 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

Temptation Dominates the Road to Recovery Joachim Trier’s “Oslo, August 31st” is a perfectly linear story that bristles with suspense and ambiguity. Movie Review: ‘Oslo, August 31st,’ Directed by Joachim Trier 2012-05-25T00:41:58Z

The first ceremony, the program noted, had been nothing more than a dinner party — no production numbers, no suspense and with the winners’ names printed on the backs of the menus. Damien Bona, Creator of ?Inside Oscar,? Dies at 56 2012-02-10T00:29:17Z

While it might be called horror, it is also a suspense novel, a fantasy novel and a character-driven exploration of the state of humanity in our time. A Dark Cavalcade of New Horror Fiction 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

The questions of how the woman will act, and whether she was in fact behind the deaths of the man’s accomplices, assure constant suspense. Peter Eotvos Prepares the Opera ‘Senza Sangue’ 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Horror, suspense, confessional, epistolary tale, recovery memoir, cautionary tale, even, late in the novel, paranoiac noir — Petty leaps from genre to genre with dizzying velocity. A Spellbinding Debut Leaps Across Genres to Recreate the Confusion of Trauma 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

This is Molotov, the local company that specializes in horror and suspense. Oh, no, not the deserted mansion! 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Yet Mr. Washington’s more laid-back approach has a persuasive emotional logic, and it adds a different kind of suspense to “Raisin.” Theater Review: ‘Raisin in the Sun’ Brings Denzel Washington Back to Broadway 2014-04-04T02:00:14Z

Although we know how the mission turns out, the movie generates and maintains suspense. ‘Apollo 11’ Review: The 1969 Moon Mission Still Has the Power to Thrill 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

Mrs. Davis was the last surviving author of the 14 whom Weinman selected for her 2013 anthology of domestic suspense fiction, “Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives.” Dorothy Salisbury Davis, mystery writer, dies at 98

Herb gardens, honeysuckle and kirtles, but also ghostly suspense and fear foreshadowed. Teen book club: Lydia Syson's top 10 historical novels 2012-11-29T16:39:14Z

The complexity comes when the demands of drama – suspense, resolution, good guys, bad guys – meet the realities of suicidal despair, in which none of those frames are very helpful. Netflix's 13 Reasons Why and the trouble with dramatising suicide 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Look Left Look Right's latest immersive show, Above and Beyond, takes place at the Corinthia Hotel and is billed as a journey of intrigue and suspense. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-03-15T16:55:48Z

“I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” creates discomfort and suspense in part by playing off the discrepancy between the horror of the crimes and the placidity of the suburban locales. Liz Garbus Is Taking Back the Voices Stolen by the Golden State Killer 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

Why did you decide to mix comedy and suspense in “A Simple Favor”? Paul Feig Keeps Filmgoers Guessing 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

Two new trailers for the forthcoming Netflix documentary capitalize on the courtroom suspense. Watch the Trailers For Netflix's Amanda Knox Documentary 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

A little murder, a little blackmail, some psychological suspense, an epic battle to the death in a corner of Australia: There’s something for just about every mood in this season’s tasty batch of thrillers. Murder, Blackmail and an Epic Battle to the Death in Australia 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

A tale in which even the most minor infractions to male self-esteem are settled through the arcane code of dueling, “Rules of Seconds” exploits the suspense of its situation with an insouciant tongue-in-cheek spirit. Amy Brenneman as a damsel in distress? 'Rules of Seconds' has some surprises up its sleeve 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

There may not be much suspense about this year’s Tony Awards. A critic's take: Why 'Hamilton's' Tony Award record ushers in a new era for theater 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

Introspection shaded into aggression and back; the music was perpetually self-questioning, craftily precarious and full of suspense. Arca, Valued Facilitator, Steps Out Front 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Directed by Francis Lawrence, the film “mixes dread and suspense with contemplative, almost pastoral moods,” A. O. Scott wrote in his review for The Times. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Broad City’ and ‘I Feel Pretty’ 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Indeed, even though her Dublin Murder Squad series and her other stand-alone mystery, “The Witch Elm,” have been uniformly excellent, this hushed suspense tale about thwarted dreams of escape may be her best yet. Review | Tana French’s ‘The Searcher’ nods to John Ford’s famous Western with the story of a loner on the hunt for a lost teen 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z

It generates suspense and fright through ancient techniques of framing, cutting and focus. Movie Review: ?The Innkeepers,? a Paranormal Film Directed by Ti West 2012-02-02T22:50:06Z

Lurking in the dusk here is a moral thriller that at its creepiest brings to mind the movie "A Simple Tale," or any number of Stephen King suspense stories. Women on the edge, in 2 plays with local settings, on Seattle stages 2012-03-15T21:02:05Z

If this cartoon/drama fantasia felt less dated, and sported more urgency, suspense and some of the satirical zing Heffron usually injects in her plays, "Mother" might engage or alarm more. Review: 'Her Mother Was Imagination' is a drab showing of dystopia at Annex 2010-08-12T20:27:00Z

What mattered was detail and continuity: the timbre and articulation of each note, the presence or absence of chords, the shape and suspense of each phrase, the storytelling dynamics of every stretch of music. Sir Richard Bishop Offers Solos at the Issue Project Room 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

It all adds up to a nifty suspense. Redacting history in ‘The Letters’ 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

It is acted and directed with unflinching ambition, moving with deliberative slowness, periodically accelerating at moments of high drama and suspense. Cannes 2014 review: Leviathan - a new Russian masterpiece 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Surely even capable athletes will relate to the interplay between body and mind, muscle and emotion, which “I Got It!” captures with beauty, fluidity, wit and suspense. If Graphic Novels Are Hip for Adults, Why Not Picture Books? 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

The story of Americans in Berlin the year Hitler seized total power has been told before, but Seattle author Larson excels in building suspense and forcing the question: How do you deal with implacable evil? 32 of the year's best books 2011-12-07T23:43:04Z

Everything is held in a state of suspense. Artist of the week 109: Hernan Bas 2010-10-13T16:15:00Z

There are pathos and suspense in these tribulations, but the world of “Telegraph Avenue” is safe, symmetrical and fundamentally comic. ‘Telegraph Avenue,’ by Michael Chabon 2012-09-08T00:17:29Z

Jorgeson, a balletic boulderer whose struggle on the Dawn Wall supplies the film’s main suspense, came to the project after years of reconnaissance work by Caldwell. No ropes attached: behind two heart-racing free climbing documentaries 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

In other words, the book now moves into its psychiatric phase, which, unfortunately, carries no suspense and little interest. Review: In Liane Moriarty’s ‘Truly Madly Guilty,’ a Very Unfortunate Barbecue Indeed 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

It would be difficult to find a work of either fact or fiction more filled with excitement and suspense than "The First Frontier." 'The First Frontier': the bloody centuries before America's revolution 2012-02-15T22:17:06Z

There’s a feeling of dusky enigma in these compositions, but also a gripping suspense, especially as the album establishes a flow. New releases by Charlie Haden and Jim Hall, and Bill Frisell 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

Taylor is good at choreographing violence and orchestrating suspense, and also at finding the grain of humor in each performance. ‘Black and Blue’ Review: A Cop Thriller for Our Age of Dread 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

The kiss is held in a long moment of suspense, and there is then time for a heartbeat before Aurora rediscovers first life and then her prince. Dance Review: Under an Enchantment and Catching Z?s for a Century, but With Both Eyes Open 2011-07-06T22:11:45Z

And it had more than a little of that show’s knack for smartly paced suspense and authentic emotion. The 30 Best International TV Shows of the Decade 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

In a slow-burn buildup of character conflict and self-discovery, Eiffel and the Hephaestus crew find themselves in a proper space opera full of drama, suspense and a bit of psychological horror. Fiction Podcasts to Get Lost In 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

The Sharps’ saga plunges rapidly from the tranquility of New England to chaos and suspense in Europe. They risked their lives to rescue scores of people from the Nazis. Few knew their story until now. 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

Their progress is grueling and slow, but Mr. Kormakur generates suspense through deft crosscutting and an accelerating sense of doom. Review: ‘Everest’ Revisits a Fateful Adventure in 3-D 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

But it is the wisdom and resolve displayed by the precocious 15-year-old Bee Branch throughout her search for her mysteriously missing mother — a brilliant, agoraphobic architect — that drives the book’s suspense. Dear Match Book: Funny Pages 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

“Rix’s translation is deft, but Szabo’s frank, conversational prose takes a back seat to her sinuous plotting: The novel unspools its secrets over many pages, and the resulting tour de force is taut with suspense.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Editor Sarah Weinman called them part of a forgotten generation of female suspense writers whose subtle examination of human behavior in domestic settings faded from bookstores even as women made advances in other fields. Dorothy Salisbury Davis, mystery writer, dies at 98

From the opening rumbling in the basses, effectively projected in the sensitive Disney Hall acoustics, the score's suspense never let up. Pablo Heras-Casado leads the L.A. Philharmonic through a riveting performance of Ravel and Stravinsky 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

And because, almost from the start of “The Clovehitch Killer,” the identity of the offender already seems clear, a second source of suspense bites the dust. ‘The Clovehitch Killer’ Review: Unsolved Murders Haunt a Small Town 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

Yes, conventions are highly staged events; there’s no doubt who will get the nomination; and the whole process is as engineered as a Bachelor rose ceremony, except with less suspense. The Base, the Ratings and the Chair: The Conventions and TV 2012-09-07T14:48:45Z

Robertson was in plenty of suspense last summer when he submitted his novella “The Memory Thieves” for the Summer Writing Project, launched last year by Orange-based Black Hill Press and the serial-fiction website JukePop. The Summer Writing Project begins today 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

Yet even when the suspense wanes, plenty of substance remains. | 'Benito Cereno': ?Benito Cereno? From Horizon Theater Rep - Review 2011-10-04T21:55:39Z

Your daughter’s nervous system may be easily taxed by simple day-to-day living, so adding violence or suspense is just a bridge too far. Perspective | A sensitive 10-year-old is scared by movies and stories. What’s a parent to do? 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

Then there's the movie's cheaply exploitative use of the threat of child abuse as a last-act suspense ploy. A failing grade for 'Miss Meadows' 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Marnie is technically brilliant, the suspense shots are some of Hitchcock's best. My favourite Hitchcock: Marnie 2012-08-13T08:31:07Z

With moments of comedy and tongue-in-cheek suspense, that score was an early clue of “just how versatile John Williams could be,” said Mike Matessino, a producer of numerous Williams soundtracks. John Williams on ‘Indiana Jones’ and His Favorite Scores 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z

It is suspense, something like boredom; nothing happens for long periods and then everything happens at once in indescribable confusion. Why We Travel 2011-04-01T19:10:47Z

Mystery and suspense tales often begin with a knockout opening — a murder, a chase scene or a fateful knock at the detective’s door. Review | Forget about 007. This heroine has her own brand of spycraft. 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

Her new suspense novel, “Conviction,” nudges all of those excellent earlier novels into the shade. Review | In ‘Conviction,’ a woman’s innocent podcast addiction turns into something darker 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

The director edits the material so that, if the viewer doesn’t already know who this individual is, the end of the account plays as a suspense narrative “reveal.” ‘A Glitch in the Matrix’ Review: Is This All Just a Simulation? 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

Second, these girls tend to be more fragile than the preceding generation of “grrls” in suspense fiction who were shaped by the fiercer ethos of third-wave feminism. What ‘Gone Girl’ and ‘The Girl on the Train’ have wrought 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

Known to her legions of fans as the “queen of suspense,” Ms. Higgins Clark was an almost instant sensation with the publication in 1975 of her first thriller, “Where Are the Children?” Mary Higgins Clark, best-selling author of suspenseful tales, dies at 92 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

I won't say how Season 4 resolves that cliff-hanger, but the first episode plays out the consequences with taut and patient suspense. AMC's Breaking Bad: Elements of Style 2011-07-14T09:15:00Z

As she writhed in convulsions much too controlled to be believed, the suspense fizzled. Review: Ballet West Offers an Eclectic Mix at the Joyce 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

This hushed suspense tale about thwarted dreams of escape may be French’s best yet. Best thriller and mystery books of 2020 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

The resulting mess is then held together with a basic suspense hook. Lionel Asbo by Martin Amis – review 2012-06-08T21:55:05Z

They circle the elephant in the room for a while, injecting the movie with a modest jolt of suspense. Scent of Doomed Men: Al Pacino and Christopher Walken Team Up for Stand Up Guys 2013-01-31T12:59:25Z

Mr. Nemes orchestrates a tour de force of suspense, a swift symphony of collisions, coincidences and reversals that is almost unbearably exciting. Review: ‘Son of Saul’ Revisits Life and Death in Auschwitz 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

The book might have fallen unremarked into the great vat of sentimental suspense fiction that New York pumps out every year, except for an unprecedented collision of promotion and denunciation. Perspective | Threats against the author of ‘American Dirt’ threaten us all 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

For princes and princesses of American aristocracy, these bittersweet transactions hold little suspense. ‘The Nest’ review: What happens when that nest egg cracks? 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

What about presenting the horror elements in "It Lives Inside"? The suspense comes because many of the intense moments come unexpectedly. "It Lives Inside" director on his psychological monster and "counterintuitive" approach to suspense 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z

That first night, Salt Lake County remained open late, but many couples arrived too late and had to wait in suspense over the weekend. Our marriage can’t be denied 2014-01-12T00:00:00Z

True suspense is in short supply; in fact, the story is marked by an undertow of bleak inevitability. A Terrorist Attack Sparks the Plot of Megha Majumdar’s Powerful Debut Novel 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

Dee Gilbert Adair An entire book written without using the letter 'e' - sounds complicated but in fact the plot is hilarious and full of suspense. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z

The judge suspects a drive-by, but we know the sniper is a sharpshooter whose expertise is described with impressive precision and heart-gripping suspense. Rape, Torture, Murder, Beheadings — All in a Day’s Work for Marilyn Stasio 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

It’s notable that more movies than usual this year fall into genres of suspense, comedy, thriller and horror. Sundance is going online, for the second year in a row. Here’s what’s great about that. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

They have a special status, Flavel argued, “to be Number’d neither with the Living nor the Dead; their Lives hanging continually in suspense before them.” Exhibition Review: At the Folger, a 200-Year Survey of the Sea 2010-08-18T18:21:00Z

But it’s Ms. Sasamoto’s energy, the sudden violence with which this small woman in pigtails and a green jumpsuit tears and pierces the paper, that maintains the suspense. Dance Review: Aki Sasamoto’s ‘Centripetal Run,’ at the Chocolate Factory 2012-11-30T22:51:52Z

“The Background Hum,” our Profile of McEwan, is one of them; below, you’ll find more, each exploring a unique world of fictional foreboding, plus a few other pieces related to the broader world of suspense. Suspense in The New Yorker 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

You just start to feel starved for a movie with conflict, suspense and a little heart, rather than a repackaged version of a formula already flogged to death. Here is what film critics are saying about “Ocean's 8" 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z

My big problem is that there's little suspense, because the media has told me the winners with incredible accuracy. Oscars Show Growing Gap Between Moviegoers and Academy 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

Jason Zinoman wrote in The New York Times that Puddles “confronts the crowd, slowly creating tension and suspense.” 5 Comedy Shows to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

Mistress of suspense, she demonstrates that tension at the very start of a dance and never lets it slacken, while changing its nature again and again. Dance Review: Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca ? Joyce Theater ? Review 2011-09-29T00:11:26Z

The suspense hangs on the question of whether the visions of the men and the women will be compatible or, rather, clash so hideously that we must question the state of the marriages altogether. The Week Ahead: May 1 ? 7 2011-04-29T16:20:02Z

This summer, Laura Lippman’s suspense novel “Dream Girl” intertwines a plagiarism tale with a narrative that tips its hat to the Stephen King classic “Misery.” Review | The plot of ‘The Plot’ — the best thriller of the year (so far) — is too good to give away 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

By using repeating, slowly developing riffs; lots of energetic sliding; and some of the other textural techniques similar to some Ms. Adams used, Mr. Chiu caught the suspense of a ballgame without being overtly pictorial. Music Review: An Extravagant Farewell to Summer 2010-09-03T22:47:00Z

Does the suspense that builds through the film’s long, faultlessly executed middle section arise from the dread that something terrible will happen to her, or the premonition that she will do something horrible? ‘Tár’ Review: A Maestro Faces the Music 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

The obscuring effect of all this cryptic personal detail is regrettable, because when Khan concentrates on the suspense plot, she spins an exciting story that enlightens as much as it entertains. Review | A Muslim detective takes on hate crimes and other evils 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z

I know you are sitting there, quaking in suspense to find out the answer. The November Man – first look review: an asinine and horribly rote screenplay 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

Fox's bloody suspense drama "The Following" premieres Jan. 21. TV midseason: 'Downton,' 'Girls,' 'Idol' and more 2013-01-08T14:19:54Z

The primary plot strand in “The Harvest” — will Josh go, or will Michaela and maybe Tom persuade him to stay? — didn’t exactly have me gnawing my fingernails in suspense. Review: In ‘The Harvest,’ a Crisis of Feeling for Young Evangelicals 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

Rather, it’s an electrifying political narrative twinned with an old-fashioned crime story — of the sort that ought to be taught in journalism schools for its restraint, pacing and expert creation of suspense. Review: ‘Killing the King,’ on the Murder That Claimed a Peace Process 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

The stunt cinematography of “Mother”—which is done mainly in one very long take—is too tricksy for the standard but clever suspense story that it conveys; it’s broadcast-ready. My 2019 Oscars Predictions 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

Abrams’ previous books include the nonfiction “Our Time is Now” and “Lead from the Outside” and several romantic suspense novels under the pen name Selena Montgomery. Stacey Abrams novel ‘While Justice Sleeps’ coming May 25 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

The battle had at this point already masterfully used the tools of suspense to manipulate us. Review: 'Battle of the Bastards' Is One of Game of Thrones' Best Episodes Ever 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

It's a wonderfully gothic, "Turn of the Screw"-ish tale of suspense, set in a creaky old house in England just after the second world war. Books to movies -- but why? 2010-05-11T16:18:00Z

If plot-wise it feels a tad familiar, it's distinguished by some excellent production that creates vivid, evocative soundscapes that drive forward the mood and suspense. Radio head: The Minister of Chance 2011-03-16T08:00:03Z

When it comes to creating suspense, “The Honey Farm” succeeds almost too well. A Buzzworthy Debut About a Mysterious and Secluded Artists’ Retreat 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

After all, a great suspense novel requires much more than a satisfying romantic relationship. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance novels for March 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

Still, it manages to create genuine suspense as a sort of psychological detective story. Books of The Times: Julian Barnes?s ?Sense of an Ending? ? Review 2011-10-16T22:27:23Z

Eminently moving but never sentimental, Porter's powerful tale of a dysfunctional family at breaking point is plotted with the suspense of a well-paced thriller. In Between Days by Andrew Porter – review 2013-07-14T09:00:00Z

That adds to the movie's mystery, which some film buffs see as fitting for Hitchcock, because he was famous for creating mysterious stories full of suspense. Lost Alfred Hitchcock film found in New Zealand 2011-08-03T22:04:58Z

Of course, any show that features a hard-fought sporting event as its climax should have suspense. ArtsBeat: Running in Circles: 'Chariots of Fire' in London 2012-06-28T14:59:50Z

Lippman creates a complex suspense narrative that interweaves story lines about Tess’s harried home and professional life, Melisandre’s grandiose schemes to win back her daughters, and the damaged lives of those daughters themselves. Review: ‘Hush Hush’ by Laura Lippman 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

It’s an old tactic of his, building suspense by suggesting he is about to say something taboo. Dave Chappelle Stumbles Into the #MeToo Moment 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

The Washington Post’s Jonathan Yardley said he raised the suspense novel into “the realm of social commentary.” Elmore Leonard shoots his way into the Library of America

Adele and her label, if nothing else, certainly knew how to build suspense for the song. Adele's 'Hello' Breaks Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood' Record 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

For much of his ­career, ­Fin­der specialized in suspense novels set in the world of high finance; he also developed a series character, Nick ­Hel­ler — Finder’s so-called private spy. ‘The Fixer,’ by Joseph Finder 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

“Horror, suspense, confessional, epistolary tale, recovery memoir, cautionary tale, even ... paranoiac noir — Petty leaps from genre to genre with dizzying velocity” to show “the way trauma works on us.” New in Paperback: ‘Aftershocks’ and ‘Here We Are’ 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

It’s not clear how long “Lone Star” can keep Bob’s phony lives aloft, and that suspense is the allure of a drama that straddles the oil rigs of Midland and the skyscrapers of Houston. Television Review: Two Lives, Two Loves, One Con Man 2010-09-19T17:08:00Z

All the fuss began with what was a desperate and somewhat mercenary move by Ms. Hawkins to reinvent herself as a suspense writer. Paula Hawkins’s Journey to ‘The Girl on the Train’ 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

It is easy to get caught up in the suspense of the story, and to make the mistake of thinking you are watching filmed theater. Never Given a Close Look to Hitchcock? Start Here 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

The entire story is full to the brim with suspense, action and constant conspiracy over the happenings of Rachel's death. Killing Rachel by Anne Cassidy – review 2013-07-24T14:00:00Z

Receiving an email with a couple of paragraphs a day also builds suspense and encourages a close read of the text, she said. How Bram Stoker’s Dracula Became ‘Dracula Daily,’ and an Internet Sensation 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

It begins grippingly, like something by Claude Chabrol, and yet the film's suspense begins to leak before the end and the comic and serious sides don't quite mesh. In the House – review 2013-03-28T09:15:01Z

It may leave a bad taste in your mouth, but — unlike the slew of “Gone Girl” knockoffs that clog the offerings of suspense fiction these days — it won’t bore you. Review | Sure, you may be grossed out, but ‘A Certain Hunger’ is a naughty pleasure 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

The closest equivalent to “Victoria” is Tom Tykwer’s 1999 film, “Run Lola Run,” a race against a ticking clock, but that story was played for exuberant fun as much as suspense. Review: ‘Victoria,’ a Nonstop Flight Through the Streets of Berlin 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Those gifts are on offer here too, but in a scenario lacking in suspense. Captain Phillips: Tom Hanks and the Pirates of the Somali Coast 2013-10-10T17:49:20Z

Like its predecessors, “Scream 4” replaces the values of storytelling and suspense with the value of being in on the joke. | 'Scream 4': The Shrieks Continue 2011-04-15T05:58:41Z

What propels the book forward is in part the sense of suspense that hangs over the nascent relationship: Has our heroine made an enormous mistake getting together with an itchy-footed boat lover? The Brexit Romance: Finding Love in Irreconcilable Times 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

“Betrayed” is a rollicking suspense thriller and murder mystery, but Scottoline isn’t done yet. In ‘Betrayed,’ Lisa Scottoline has created a modern Nancy Drew

When “The Day After Tomorrow” was published in 1994, Los Angeles Times reviewer Robert Ward wrote, “The suspense is almost always unbearable, the story hugely entertaining.” Allan Folsom, author of blockbuster novel, dies at 72

"Isn't moviemaking all about creating suspense and waiting, waiting, waiting for your payoff?" said Tom O'Neil, a columnist for awards website TheEnvelope.com. Oscar organizers ponder earlier show time 2010-06-23T21:29:00Z

Norwegian by Night has all the ingredients of a top-notch thriller, but it's the superb characterisation of the protagonist that fuels true suspense. Laura Wilson's crime fiction roundup – reviews 2013-03-22T12:00:02Z

The only suspense lies in wondering which one will beat him up first. Movie Review | 'Shutterbug': Photographer, Camera, Subjects 2010-03-19T04:02:00Z

Overall, I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading mystery and suspense novels. Calling a Dead Man by Gillian Cross - review 2012-07-17T14:00:00Z

It runs on a simple yet carefully meshed double twist of suspense: How will the hostage-taking end, and what actually happened at Ibis? Jodie Foster's Boring and Exciting “Money Monster” 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

This book was a very satisfying sequel, and held onto the romance and suspense very well! Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick - review 2012-10-01T08:00:00Z

And television ads and trailers promise plenty of suspense, firepower and, of course, fighting in close quarters. Film: ?Bourne? Team Takes a Chance With Iraq War 2010-02-27T02:51:00Z

There’s some suspense among the show-within-the-the show’s creative team about whether white audiences will tolerate seeing two of the musical’s stars embrace during a number. Defining, and Proclaiming, a New Black Power 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Though Cameron signals the connection between the lives of Girl and Rose early on, the suspense lies in the way she laces together their stories. Books New and Old for the Would-Be Time Traveler 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

Why is there no suspense when 40 anonymous henchmen surround one unarmed hero? If Donald Trump’s America is Hell, who is Satan? 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z

But Season 3 of “The Wire” proved that it was also possible to find suspense and meaning in the seamiest margins of city council meetings and municipal elections. Television Review: ?Boss,? With Kelsey Grammer on Starz - Review 2011-10-20T20:03:50Z

The book’s greatest suspense centers on Osborne’s fealty to Chandler’s Marlowe, especially in the description set out in Chandler’s 1950 essay, “The Simple Art of Murder.” It’s 1988 and Philip Marlowe Is Retired. But Not for Long. 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

A conceit that has a couple of scenes unfurling in video form, on the submarine’s walls, seems arbitrary and unnecessary, but otherwise the visuals add suspense and atmosphere. Two classic Shakespeares, each with ups and downs 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

Watson concludes that “this is mimesis at its finest”; the semicolons hold the prose “in suspension,” and the reader in suspense, waiting, along with King, for justice. Sympathy for the Semicolon 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

The sailor is in the middle of the Indian Ocean when his boat is struck by a rogue shipping container, setting off a fight for survival that’s loaded with both suspense and metaphors. What’s on TV Monday: Avett Brothers Documentary and ‘Between 2 Shores’ 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z

Ms. Lloyd carved out a niche in the horror/suspense category, where relatively few women are working. How 3 Women Broke Through as Filmmakers 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z

It is a family drama, a black comedy, a suspense thriller, a class satire, even a domestic horror. Parasite director Bong Joon-ho: 'Korea seems glamorous, but the young are in despair' 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

The tone, particularly on Tuesday, was somberly meditative, with suspense that didn’t bode well. Music Review: Laurie Anderson Gets Political at River to River Shows 2013-06-20T22:39:21Z

Scott writing in The New York Times, “While King’s fast-paced direction doesn’t spare the suspense, it also makes room for sorrow, anger and even a measure of exhilaration.” Shaka King Goes to Hollywood 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

The scenario grafts a fictional Hitchcock-redolent suspense thriller to the reality of the school’s existence. ‘Six Minutes to Midnight’ Review: A Finishing School for the Nazi Elite 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

They will be joined by the striking “Amer,” which pays homage to the Italian suspense genre known as giallo, with its often eroticized horror. The New Season DVDs: New DVDs: ?Citizen Kane,? ?Going Places,? ?Birth of a Nation? 2011-09-18T00:13:03Z

He's reluctant to confess their shared father or bequeath the money, a suspense prolonged artificially. Review: 'People Like Us,' a drama in action style 2012-06-27T21:39:08Z

To mark the occasion, he compiled this series of horror and suspense films, which slyly address issues of race, class, gender and family life. Film Series in NYC This Week 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Amour begins with a pre-credit sequence that deliberately removes one of the film's two elements of dramatic suspense. Amour – review 2012-11-18T00:06:00Z

The last, least successful part of “This Bright River” takes a turn for plot-driven suspense. Books of The Times: ‘This Bright River’ by Patrick Somerville 2012-07-01T22:02:29Z

There are heist pictures that offer careful and detailed accounts of criminal procedure, generating suspense by focusing on the precise arrangements necessary to bring a brazen and improbable crime to fruition. | 'Tower Heist': Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy in ?Tower Heist? - Review 2011-11-03T20:29:01Z

The result is as swift and absorbing as the most gripping suspense novel. Crime fiction: Nothing like a good 19th-century mystery 2012-01-04T22:42:04Z

But that motive doesn’t crimp the book’s energy or its suspense because there are other larger themes at work besides Hillary’s basic goodness. Review | In Curtis Sittenfeld’s ‘Rodham,’ Hillary doesn’t become a Clinton. And Donald Trump isn’t president. 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z

As the suspense builds, Morrow periodically shifts the action to the past. Review: ‘The Forgers,’ a suspense novel by Bradford Morrow 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

As more and more pieces of Gaby's old life fall into place, more and more questions arrive - and more and more suspense. Shadows on the Moon by Zoe Mariott- review 2013-05-14T14:00:00Z

Karras’s other film credits included roles in the raunchy comedy “Porky’s,” the suspense thriller “Against All Odds” and the gender confusion comedy “Victor/Victoria.” Alex Karras, N.F.L. Lineman and Actor, Dies at 77 2012-10-10T17:24:05Z

It’s time that mystery writers noticed Europe’s newest arrivals, whose lives are filled with a degree of suspense none of them ever wanted or deserved. Review | Val McDermid’s heroine is no Jessica Fletcher — and that’s a good thing 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

Yet she also delivers the genre goods, packing the picture with taut suspense sequences and steering it to a rip-roaring, deeply satisfying conclusion. ‘Night Catches Us,’ ‘Ida’ and More Offbeat Streaming Options 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

The suspense comes from just waiting, in the crudest sort of sensory-deprivation tank, for something to happen. A Dark Ride 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

On Mars, each round of troubleshooting, as the rovers’ controllers on Earth figure out how to unmoor Opportunity’s wheels or how to get Spirit out of a rebooting loop, offers a fresh source of suspense. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

Point Blank is a taut suspense thriller that gets the adrenaline-inducing action going right from the start and never eases up. ArtsBeat: Hello, Ozzy: Tribeca Lineup Adds Ozzy Osbourne and Carol Channing Documentaries 2011-03-14T16:00:16Z

The briskly edited recap probably holds more suspense for those who didn’t follow the events than those who did. ‘King Otto’ Review: For Greece, a Whole Different Ballgame. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

Its triumph coincides with the launch of the BFI's Genius of Hitchcock season, a major retrospective celebrating the acclaimed "master of suspense". Vertigo is named 'greatest film' 2012-08-02T07:47:49Z

The larger part is rote exercise and bald suspense. The Problem of Wartime Guilt and Its Long Life Span 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

For the Kashmir stories, Roy relies on a looped, nesting structure familiar from “Small Things”; though occasionally ponderous, it heightens our suspense. Arundhati Roy’s Return to the Form That Made Her Famous 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

Ambrose is on-screen for virtually every second, emanating a gorgeous, doomed charisma, and holds you in suspense the whole way. Best of Toronto: Oscar candidates and indie breakouts 2011-09-16T00:30:00Z

He played a key role in the war’s most famous weather suspense story. Kurt Vonnegut’s POW nightmare: Inside the World War II battle that shaped “Slaughterhouse Five” 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z

While we’re waiting for that, however, there’s plenty of twisty suspense to fill the time. Why The Girl on the Train heralds the return of the Hitchcockian thriller 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

History and suspense collide in shocking ways - and the intensity never lets up. Review: Brad Meltzer delivers another winner 2013-01-14T19:35:09Z

Shot through with brooding suspense and punctuated by grisly murders, "Tombstones" is ultimately the story of a man looking for redemption in a brutal world, Frank said. Scott Frank stays on the case for 'Tombstones' 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

And on “The Rules,” he takes part in a series of small but steady accretions, helping Mr. Goldberg and the others unfold a narrative, aflutter with heady suspense. Critics' Choice: New albums by Dr. Dog, Sam Amidon, Laura Bell Bundy and Aaron Goldberg. 2010-04-11T21:37:00Z

While Annalise and her crew are fun to watch, all the mysteries and suspense that the show is ginning up are what will have people tuning in. How to Get Away with Murder: Shonda Rhimes' take on the procedural 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

At other times, he’d withhold information for seemingly no other reason than to maintain suspense. House of Cards Watch: I Ate the Whole Thing 2013-02-08T14:00:42Z

The strings hang on an unusual chord, creating texture and suspense. Audio advent calendar: Anna Calvi playlist 2010-12-10T15:55:00Z

Loud gasps were heard as suspense rose and secrets were revealed, and Buddy’s antics as a self-styled crime fighter triggered laughter. Fellowship in wartime, in SCT’s ‘The Edge of Peace’ 2013-03-11T19:08:49Z

To be fair to the 1958 Guardian critic, he found a lot to like in Vertigo and praised the director's mastery of suspense. Vertigo tops greatest film poll, ending reign of Citizen Kane 2012-08-01T17:32:00Z

In The New York Times, Bosley Crowther called it “a ‘big house’ cliffhanger that throbs with excitement and suspense,” approvingly adding that it “will never be confused with the works of the French New Wave.” ‘Le Trou,’ a Very French Prison Drama, Steals From Its Maker’s Life 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

There’s a reason people call Roberts “the queen of romantic suspense.” 50 States, 50 Love Stories 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

Janet Maslin wrote in a review in The New York Times in 1995 that the film “unfolds with perfect immediacy, drawing viewers into the nail-biting suspense of a spellbinding true story.” DVDs: Clair?s ?Italian Straw Hat? ? Farce With Eye on Past 2010-04-09T03:57:00Z

The story's late turn toward suspense — with the spectral rise of freethinking, artificial intelligence on the Internet — certainly ups the ante in unexpected, spooky ways. Review: Annex cyberpunk dramedy a little rough around the edges 2010-05-13T19:01:00Z

“The Witch Elm,” a stand-alone psychological suspense tale, is a departure for her. Review | Fans of Tana French are in for a surprise with ‘The Witch Elm’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere, Tom Ford’s sensationally good psychological suspense thriller Nocturnal Animals is rewarded, with best director and best screenplay nominations – but disappointingly nothing for Michael Shannon in the best supporting actor category. Golden Globe nominations: Mel Gibson resurrected as Scorsese snubbed | Peter Bradshaw 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

The preface removes some of the suspense from what follows, and also makes it clear that the counterterrorism plotline in the novel’s early pages isn’t going to be its primary focus. New Political Thrillers Head to the Brink of Disaster (and Dive In) 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

‘HANGMEN’ Feeling the need for a caffeinated jolt of stylish suspense, the kind that has your nails carving crescents into your palms? What to See and Experience in New York City This Spring 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

Given that Kobek has already told us where Adeline ends up and what she does with her life, there’s not much suspense attached to her voyage. Before the Internet ruined everything, we were real artists 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

Claire and Frank have mutually set themselves up to fail, and the suspense hinges on whether their marriage will ever be anything but a prison. ‘Outlander’ Season 3, Episode 1: All That Was Me Is Gone 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

More than that, DeLillo found a way to capture, through the magic of language, the exhilaration of a classic game — the suspense, the anticipation, the unpredictability, the communal sense of a shared moment in time. ArtsBeat: Reading Suggestions for Baseball's Opening Week 2012-04-06T16:28:27Z

The award is given annually to a writer of nonfiction "who has produced an excellent and substantial body of work in the general area of true crime, suspense, or narrative nonfiction." Lit Life: Jess Walter is a busy man; Ann Rule wins a Thriller 2012-05-18T19:40:04Z

“How ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’ became the site of the most deadly antisemitic attack on American soil and what happened afterward unfold with the precision of the best suspense stories.” 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

He began to announce “The Academy Award. . .” then looked down at the card he was holding, making it seem as though he was pausing to create suspense. You will remember this: Oscars 2017 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

And what is true of gourmet meals and cannibal feasts is equally true of the suspense novel: Knowing too much beforehand spoils the surprise. Review: ‘Hannibal,’ by Thomas Harris 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

The relative emotional openness of the women here lets oxygen into an airtight play in ways that detract a bit from its suspense. Critic’s Notebook: Watching ‘Mother Courage’ and ‘Beauty Queen of Leenane’ 2013-08-19T21:54:46Z

As the overseer of Honey West, Spelling made sure sensuality took precedence over suspense. Honey from the Forbidden Planet: Remembering Anne Francis (1930-2011) 2011-01-08T14:05:00Z

"I wanted suspense but without gore, without blood -- there are a lot of incisions in the movie but I did not want it to be a gory film," he added. Almodovar catches Cannes off guard with horror film 2011-05-19T14:17:35Z

And while it may appall you to thrill to the excruciating suspense of the climactic sequence, in which the Klan rides to the rescue, that’s as it should be. The New Season DVDs: New DVDs: ?Citizen Kane,? ?Going Places,? ?Birth of a Nation? 2011-09-18T00:13:03Z

They try to balance these ideas with the suspense of Verloc’s plotting and the progress of the police investigation. Review: ‘The Secret Agent’ Is Reimagined on AcornTV 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

Back at our beach rental at the north end of Long Beach’s Discovery Trail, I watched in suspense as the first batch smoked and sizzled on the rental’s Smoky Joe grill. Visit Oysterville on the Long Beach Peninsula for fresh oysters and a slice of history 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

This is one of those mysteries where both the suspect and the sleuth keep making the kind of implausible, idiotic mistakes that generate trite suspense. ‘Intrusion’ Review: We’re All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

Blood, Salt, Water,” however, is so relentless in exploring the despair that blankets Morrow’s corner of Scotland that the suspense plot becomes obscured. Denise Mina’s ‘Blood, Salt, Water’: An atmospheric, chilling thriller 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

And Hutton’s ability to find suspense, humor and poignancy in scenes of familial irritation is likely to strike a chord with every viewer. Review | The familial irritation in ‘Gulf View Drive’ is likely to strike a chord with every viewer 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

Suddenly, he begins delivering nonstop suspense only loosely rooted in Rachel’s story and its foundations. In Dennis Lehane’s ‘Since We Fell,’ a Troubled Woman Seeks Answers 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. McPherson, playing with brushes, made it a study in suspense, beginning with such whispery terseness that he seemed at first to be ushering the song to bed. Music Review: Fred Hersch Trio, Live and Recorded, at the Village Vanguard 2012-02-08T22:51:48Z

When Cristela Alonzo is telling a story, she has a specific if ambiguous look on her face that somehow generates suspense: a smiling kind of wonder that doubles as exasperation. 5 Smart Comedy Specials From Veteran Standups 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

As Ms. Cojocaru’s Prince in “The Sleeping Beauty,” he created a keenly three-dimensional character, bringing suspense and variety to passages that can easily seem formulaic. Critic?s Notebook: Injuries and Triumphs Color a Ballet Season 2011-07-10T22:01:07Z

“Darling Rose Gold” is a maelstrom of a suspense story through which mental illness, maternal meshugas and vengeful rage swirl unchecked. Review | The Gypsy Rose Blanchard case gets another twist in the novel ‘Darling Rose Gold’ 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

Successful shows of this stripe walk a careful line, building suspense and mystery even as they reward viewers with answers and insight. New TV thriller "Event" a test of viewer patience 2010-09-20T12:12:00Z

Crawl: 'Little originality, but a decent amount of suspense.' Crawl – review 2013-02-24T00:05:32Z

I just mean that I don’t have any sense that we are headed for a particular crescendo — that some specific element of suspense hangs before us, demanding we return to see how it’s resolved. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3, Episode 9: Miscalculations 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

The movie scampers mischievously through Hitchcock’s creative process as he makes the transition from suspense to more overt horror and simultaneously, we’re meant to believe, rediscovers the love of a fine woman. Hitchcock: To Psycho with Love 2012-11-20T13:00:50Z

I don’t want to spoil the suspense, so I’ll just say that Nori lives many lives in this riveting, occasionally melodramatic, always entertaining novel. You’re Going to Want to Join this Odyssey Through Postwar Japan 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

The mystery of her father’s life and death provides “Karl Marx City” with suspense, and with a concrete sense of profound moral and emotional stakes. Review: ‘Karl Marx City’ Revisits the Everyday Terror of Dictatorship 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

“Miguel’s work reminds me of the suspense and joy of being in the presence of something or someone truly unpredictable,” the visual artist Paul Chan wrote in an e-mail message. Jenny Holzer and Miguel Gutierrez Collaborate 2010-07-23T14:32:00Z

“Plot” may not be the right word, though the fragmentary structure generates its own kind of suspense. Exploring the Personal Legacy of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

“Last Resort” is an action-adventure mystery slickly coated with suspense, but some of the uncertainty lies over whether the story can stay afloat for more than a few episodes. Television Review: Andre Braugher Commands a Renegade Vessel in ‘Last Resort’ 2012-09-26T22:06:40Z

Beside Rossetti's passionate auburn stunners, Burne-Jones's figures are marmoreal, still and, in some of his best-known works, literally in a state of suspense within the picture frame. The Last Pre-Raphaelite by Fiona MacCarthy - review 2011-08-25T09:00:01Z

The pace just went full throttle and there was so much action and suspense – two of my very favourite things! The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore - review 2012-07-27T08:00:00Z

The 2019 exhibition calendar was unusually crammed with heavily hyped shows, not to mention floating suspense and sudden combustions of fear and loathing. Perspective | In a year of upheaval, the best art was also the bravest 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

But sometimes the structure is cumbersome, obscuring information and creating suspense in areas where none is required. In This Y.A. Novel, the Grief Comes Before the Tragedy 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

It’s a late stage capitalism horror story with all the elements of a classic tale of suspense. "Parasite's" Bong Joon-ho: "Voyeurism is an essential part of cinema" 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

That’s a shame, because the second and third episodes of “Goliath” improve considerably in terms of building suspense and quirky characters. In ‘Goliath,’ Billy Bob Thornton heads a cast that overcomes a legal thriller’s weak spots 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

The direction is so good it's practically invisible and the cast play the fear and suspense perfectly. TV highlights 27/02/2013 2013-02-27T07:00:10Z

Europe in the years before, during and after World War II has always been rich soil for authors, especially suspense novelists. Crime fiction: lingering shadows of World War II in three new suspense novels 2011-04-06T23:05:04Z

It’s a fake-found-footage supernatural suspense film with better technology and a back story so complicated it’s virtually unusable. Movie Review: ‘Devil’s Pass’ Wrings Laughs From the Found-Footage Genre 2013-08-22T20:47:19Z

Truffaut saw Hitchcock as “the most complete filmmaker of all” — a master of all aspects of production, including shooting, cutting and publicity — and not just a maker of successful suspense pictures, as his reputation suggested. At the Movies With François and Hitch 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

Rather than diminish the scenario’s suspense, these accents and off beats accentuate it. ‘A White, White Day’ Review: Confronting Grief in a Frozen Landscape 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

That’s a fresh New Year’s breath, and given Moore’s twisty plot, it’s also a book all suspense enthusiasts will want to pick up as early in 2020 as possible. The 10 books to read in January 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

There's something of the suspense film about the music of 2:54. This week's new live music 2011-04-08T23:07:52Z

My sense is that Mr. Romero did not relate to Hitchcock’s style of meticulous and elegant suspense, that he was as happy to gross you out as scare you. In George Romero’s Zombie Films, the Living Were a Horror Show, Too 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

Imagine a series in which suspense were contingent on whether the Patent and Trademark Office was going to approve the invention of a new kind of parking meter for deployment in municipalities of southern Ohio. Television Review: The Law? She?ll Do It Her Way, Thank You 2011-01-16T23:02:07Z

These are moderately cool, but they simply underline the paucity of nuance and suspense in the people parts of the movie. REVIEW: There's Nothing Urgent About "Insurgent" 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

The pages of “11/22/63” fly by, filled with immediacy, pathos and suspense. Books of The Times: Stephen King?s ?11/23/63? - Review 2011-10-30T22:44:25Z

The shifting points of view — from parents to children and back again — drain a certain amount of tension from scenes of otherwise surefire suspense. Crime Sprees, Both Creepy and Comic 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

But it is so vague, cliché-ridden and devoid of surprise and suspense that once you grasp its premise, watching it is like leafing through a design magazine kept in a refrigerator. Review: ‘Equals,’ a Futuristic Tale of Defying Deadly Conformity 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

She is currently working on an adaptation of “Every Secret Thing,” a suspense novel by Laura Lippman about two murderous little girls. Nicole Holofcener and Her Latest Film, ?Please Give? 2010-04-24T02:35:00Z

If "Primer" was cerebral and methodical in allowing its mystery to unfurl, "Upstream Color" creates a totally different kind of suspense as a hypnotic sensory experience. Review: `Upstream Color' a bold, artful challenge 2013-04-01T19:21:08Z

Ms. Deón writes with her nerves — she’s got a terrific knack for suspense — and thinks with her heart, showing just how devastating slavery was to families, and just how powerful maternal love can be. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

But the plot has about as much suspense as a deathbed vigil. 'God Looked Away,' and so should you: Why Al Pacino's play falls so short of expectations 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

The competition will lend a rare element of real suspense to the very end of the night. Grammys 2017: What to Watch For 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

Sonic suspense serves Czernowin well in the opera house — even when she seems hardly interested in traditional narrative. 8 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

Once he felt the audience’s suspense, however, he elongated the pauses, letting Burton and Menares cross swords while we wondered what Palmer would say next. Review | George Burton takes the audience on a wild ride 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

Throughout, Mundy leavens the rush of violence and growing suspense with urbane cynicism: “The street was as peculiarly empty as it sometimes is when a royal personage is due for assassination.” Review | For fans of Indiana Jones and Dan Brown, an adventure story for the ages 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

At the same time the movie, as if absorbing Leda’s ambiguities, has an uncertain quality that thickens the suspense. ‘The Lost Daughter’ Review: The Parent Trap 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

Their project of de-acculturating themselves is rendered matter-of-factly, without suspense, since — existing in a half-life of childish patter and reductive reasoning — they didn’t exhibit much tension of personality or emotional intelligence in the first place. To Sayaka Murata, Nonconformity Is a Slippery Slope 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

Though hobbled by an obviousness that dampens any suspense, this sensitive, environmentally concerned movie is most successful when steeped in the particularities of its location. ‘The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind’ Review: Saving a Village, Using Books and Brains 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

In other words, it’s trying for both slow-burning suspense and straightforward police procedural drama, but not really succeeding at either. Shades of Blue – Jennifer Lopez's cop show is a criminal waste of her talent 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Irène doesn't know what tomorrow would bring, so it's a way of building up a kind of suspense, almost to the point where you feel the film is a thriller. "She feels things deeply": How "A Radiant Girl" slowly realizes the persecution of the Holocaust 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

It’s a level of action and intrigue perhaps more familiar to romantic suspense than historical romance, but regardless of the time period, all romance is a response to the time in which it’s written. All’s Well That Ends Well: Fall Romance Novels 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

To his credit, though, Fuqua sustains the suspense until near the end of two hours; only in the final confrontation between Banning and Kang does the face-off seem over-extended and borderline risible. Review: 'Olympus' is tense yet generic 2013-03-20T13:11:11Z

So dangling the outcome as suspense would be a fool’s errand in telling this story. Mary Doria Russell’s ‘Epitaph’: vivid new life in an old story 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

Celebrated for her Garnethill suspense trilogy, as well as for her Alex Morrow police procedural series, Mina has now trained her moody sensibilities on an episode from the career of Scotland’s most infamous serial killer. Denise Mina looks inside the mind of a psychopath in her chilling novel ‘The Long Drop’ 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

Menapace, Leacock’s collaborator, said the biggest issue they were now grappling with was how to create a sense of pace and suspense. His Game Made Beating a Pandemic Fun. Can He Do It for Climate Change? 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

Later, though, he "clumsily tries to build suspense", and gothic characters appear who seem to have "wandered in from a Cormac McCarthy novel". Critical eye: reviews roundup 2012-06-15T21:55:16Z

The suspense lies in the audience’s anticipation of how these women will find intimacy. Todd Haynes: ‘She said, there’s a frock film coming up, with Cate attached … It sounded right up my alley’ 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

The film has it all - smarts, suspense, dark laughs, exacting attention to period style. AP critics pick the year's best movies 2012-12-14T21:29:02Z

Rippling with action, suspense and lovingly detailed baseball play-by-plays, there’s a sense throughout the book of both celebration and danger. Review | Gish Jen’s ‘The Resisters’ reminds us of the importance of standing up for what’s right 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

Scan today’s major releases of horror and suspense, and you’ll find that the frail, vulnerable, decaying, smushy human body has remained cinema’s favorite torture chamber. Invade and conquer: film's grisly return to body horror 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

A little more introspection would add suspense and psychological intrigue, but play it they do, at a blistering pace and like a street brawl. Hamlet’s ‘bad’ self and Kafka’s bug, on compact stages 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

Pitting them against each other—in small ways at first, but blowing up into big ways by the end of season three—injects a real sense of suspense into the otherwise grim and inevitable proceedings. Hillary’s “House of Cards”: What Claire and Frank Underwood tell us about marriage, gender and the White House 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

Stretched over 10 episodes, the suspense lies less in whodunit than in the strange ways these quirky characters react to violence. Television Review: ‘Fargo,’ a TV Series Riffing on the Film, Begins on FX 2014-04-14T21:28:35Z

Both a playwright and a screenwriter, Rebeck has learned a thing or three about constructing crime and suspense yarns from her years turning out scripts for "NYPD Blue" and other TV series. Review: 'Mauritius' at Seattle Public Theater is a taut, twisty thriller 2010-10-07T21:32:00Z

A terrible suspense builds up in this book, as Lev's sentence nears its end. Just Send Me Word by Orlando Figes – review 2012-05-30T07:00:02Z

But the movie, adapted from a novel by Tatiana de Rosnay, is ultimately more concerned with the genuinely tragic dimensions of the story than its suspense angles. Review: A Grieving Mother Seeks Her Own Justice in ‘Moka’ 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

There’s the occasional close election, though even those tend to be pre-polled and pre-analyzed beyond the point of true suspense, and we’re bathed in instant information and returns as soon as the votes are cast. The Papal Announcement: For a Day, (Very) Old Media Triumph 2013-03-14T12:23:31Z

Suburban suspense stories, by definition, are built on lies, lies, lies. Michael Connelly’s Mickey Haller Is Back. This Time He’s the Suspect. 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

I’m a big fan of horror and suspense stories, so I’ve always wanted to read Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” the book that started it all. Tina Turner: By the Book 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

Black squeezes every last ounce of suspense out of this story. ‘The Killing Lessons’ review: A thriller for abnormal psychologists 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

He goes through most of the story with a bad diagnosis and a viscerally described, mounting agony that becomes one of the book’s biggest elements of suspense. Review: In Stephen King’s ‘End of Watch,’ a Murderer’s Victims Kill Themselves 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

His presence in the movie has the effect of dialing up both the terror and the banality, and creating a certain amount of suspense about which will win out in the end. ‘We’re All Going to the World’s Fair’ Review: Is It Horror, or Just Ennui? 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

Ms. Macy leaves some suspense about what actually happened to this book’s principals. In Beth Macy’s ‘Factory Man,’ a Struggle to Stay Competitive 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

But there’s a big difference: Those things were viewed as bizarre and undesirable interruptions, amid a pageant full of glamour and suspense and drama and fantasy and mild self-mocking ribaldry. Oscars 2015: Nuggets of electric political theater, amid oceans of lame 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

Mr. Mear’s task in this “42nd Street” is not to worry about narrative suspense, or to evoke anything very real about the Depression-era poverty that is alluded to frequently. Review: A New ‘42nd Street’ Opens in Paris 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

But it maintains a tricky, entertaining balance between the violence and suspense of its conspiracy-minded mysteries and a continuous current of deadpan, fondly cynical wit. Review: Guy Pearce Is ‘Jack Irish’ in a Noir Down Under 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z

The demise matters less than the resulting spectacle or mounting suspense. My Favorite Summer Blockbuster 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

It creates suspense and forward momentum in the narrative. The Amish survive the apocalypse in 'When the English Fall' 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

With “The Revenant” taking on the contours of a sure thing, far more suspense resided in how the ceremony’s host, Chris Rock, would address the controversy that dominated the Oscars conversation for a second year. ‘Spotlight’s’ best-picture Oscar shows that big, noisy movies don’t always win 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

The suspense over where Axe will land gives the episode a lift, not least because we still don’t know enough to predict what he’ll do. ‘Billions’ Season 2, Episode 7: Greed Is Good. Except When It’s Not. 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

The narrative suspense and urgency of these scenes, and the drama of the two men’s deaths to Prokofiev’s thundering drum beats, is astounding theater from Mr. Bourne, offering blazing energy from his terrific cast. Review: In Matthew Bourne’s ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ a Story of Even More Woe 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

Smith carefully highlights this uneasy existence, adding further suspense to a story already filled with historical drama. Kids' books: Talking with 'Flygirl' author Sherri L. Smith 2010-05-21T21:55:00Z

I like this book because it has a lot of suspense and I love adventure books. The Famous Five Go Adventuring Again by Enid Blyton - review 2013-01-10T15:00:00Z

Despite its horror and suspense, Psycho is one of the simplest of Hitchcock's films because the central dynamic is so stark. What's wrong with Hitchcock's women 2010-10-21T20:30:00Z

Drama, comedy, suspense, action, kids’ movies — there was truly nothing James Caan couldn’t do. 9 James Caan Movies to Stream 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

It is the way in which the unraveling of Zack and Abby’s bond falls back on the conventions of suspense, in an effort to intensify the stakes. Amy Herzog’s ‘Belleville’ is strong on atmosphere but short on plot

It's a critical truism to say that the best horror movies rely on a slow, ambiguous buildup, and scare you more with suspense and atmosphere rather than shocks or gore. "Insidious": "Saw" creators go back to horror basics 2011-03-30T19:45:00Z

Anyway, Balanchine’s plotless creations abound in many of the values that underlie narrative: emotion, suspense, conflict, drama. Dance: Premieres by Christopher Wheeldon and Alexei Ratmansky 2010-07-02T22:14:00Z

This author’s sly debut, “The Expats,” was more notable for suspense and sub rosa ingenuity than for wall-to-wall action. Review: In ‘The Travelers,’ Danger at Every Destination 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

The question of her going through with it takes second place to the suspense of, yes or no, telling Max he’s about to be a non-father. REVIEW: Obvious Child: Do Not Abort This Movie! 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

“On a superficial level, ‘In Cold Blood’ is a murder story of riveting vitality and suspense. “In Cold Blood” turns 50: Capote’s spellbinding true crime novel gave us “The Jinx,” “Serial” and “Making a Murderer” 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

How do you balance creating and maintaining suspense with delivering an ending that justifies the journey? A Song No One Remembered. A Podcast That’s Hard to Forget. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

House of Secrets was an action packed book full of suspense, dark magic, witty siblings and, you guessed it, a house full of secrets. Reader reviews roundup 2013-04-19T08:58:54Z

The suspense is palpable, as is the sense of doom, as Marlowe finds himself in thrall to a devil’s bargain and his own inner demons. Murder, Mayhem and Menace: New Crime Fiction 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

Information leaks into the film via the radio and a few flashbacks, but “Wrecked” is mostly free of dialogue — and, unfortunately, suspense. | 'Wrecked': A Punishing Drive 2011-03-31T23:22:16Z

This being a story about fear and our hunger for it, suspense is the mode, and Waters’s high-contrast staging, with its abrupt shifts of pace and tone, could hardly be finer in supporting that mood. Review: Death Is a Two-Way Door in ‘The Thin Place’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Their next project was the ambitious, Hitchcockian thriller “Ada/Ava,” and they learned how to imitate the suspense master’s trademark rack focus effect. Don't call it a shadow puppet show. For Manual Cinema, this is the art of 'live film' 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

The first of a trilogy by American author Veronica Roth, packed with drama, suspense and independence, enthralling from the first page. Divergent by Veronica Roth - review 2013-03-25T12:00:00Z

After the last act, the ushers initiated a hesitant dance of confusion that held us all in giggling suspense: Who would get the flowers? Uncommonly intimate ‘Giselle’ at the Kennedy Center

Passages of mounting suspense — the riveting preludes to the Painter’s suicide in the first act and Lulu’s own demise in the third, for example — had a furious energy. Music Review: ?Lulu? at the Met, Now Conducted by Fabio Luisi 2010-05-09T22:19:00Z

The novel is not without flaws, but overall, in terms of plot, characters, suspense and innovation, it is outstanding. With ‘Orphan X,’ Gregg Hurwitz launches a Bourne-like series 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

In time, screenwriter Carl Foreman emerges as the story’s hero, but everyone enjoys sensitive handling, while helping to build unusual suspense. Review | ‘High Noon,’ the classic American film that almost got shot down 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Foreknowledge of these precedents, combined with the haze and the noise, creates suspense. Performance Art Review: Brian Rogers’s ‘Hot Box’ at Chocolate Factory 2012-09-20T21:32:33Z

In 1980, its “Who shot JR?” cliffhanger kept an entire nation in suspense for the eight months between the oil baron’s attempted murder and the big reveal of the culprit. Once upon a time from America: how US television took over our screens 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

What we should expect is high fun, high suspense and highly inventive action sequences. The Morning After: Ashley Judd?s European Vacation 2012-03-16T15:01:29Z

“It enhances every aspect of the three core ingredients of every single show that we have: the drama, the mystery and the suspense,” she said of the use of re-enactments. Television: Extras in ‘I Married a Mobster’ and Other Docu-Series 2012-08-10T17:44:23Z

It was only after I had laughed, cried and bitten my nails in suspense watching “Binti” that I realized it was tagged in the “kids” category on Amazon. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

All was fine in the Larghetto second movement, however, in this graceful performance, touched with a little suspense. Review: Stately Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, a Brave Danish String Quartet 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

They also quickly recall Mr. King’s novel and the mini-series — which allows the teaser to build suspense while exciting existing “It” fans. What Do Harrison Ford and a Homicidal Clown Have in Common? 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

And while the plot has a certain guaranteed suspense factor — will our heroes be allowed to end up with a baby safely in their arms? — it also deliberately keeps defusing tension. | 'The Kid': A Gay Couple Adopting, From New Group@Theater Row 2010-05-11T04:18:00Z

The opening scene of Scottish suspense master Denise Mina’s new novel is as odd as its title: “Blood, Salt, Water.” Denise Mina’s ‘Blood, Salt, Water’: An atmospheric, chilling thriller 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

While it’s somewhat surprising that Brown — who is known for his adrenaline-fueled and occasionally bloody suspense novels — is writing for the pre-literate crowd, “Wild Symphony” has some of his hallmarks. Dan Brown … Children’s Book Author? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

The Critics’ Verdict: The unusual, little-known story and heartstring-tugging suspense have gripped many critics, with a few reservations. A Quick Guide to the Foreign-Language Oscar Nominees 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

The story’s will-they-or-won’t-they suspense had audiences in weepy puddles, watching with bated breath as Gosling’s Noah insists — outside in the pouring rain, naturally — “it still isn’t over” before going in for a kiss. Analysis | From Fred and Ginger to Kate and Leo: When movie couples make fans hope for real-life love 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

The show’s goal seemed to be to gin up some suspense, leaving us in the dark about the fate of various characters. Fear the Walking Dead: Season two, episode 11 recap – Pablo & Jessica 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

Take science, add a dash of imagination, 40 thousand tons of suspense and you get an experience that defines a generation! #JURASSICWORLD Well. Chris Pratt of 'Jurassic World' is '(pre)apologizing' for potential press tour gaffes 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Power says his aim was to explore violence, and he generates some suspense from crosscutting the stories. Review: ‘Killing Ground’ Will Make You Rethink That Camping Trip 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

Like "ZDT," it pulls off a difficult feat: bringing suspense to a story for which we already know the ending -- and it just might get the ultimate happy ending come Oscar night. Oscar countdown: 'Argo' 2013-02-13T19:21:28Z

The scene is played for suspense – it’s the first introduction to the movie’s villain as invisible tormenter – but it also, for me, conjures a more relatable fear. Hidden figure: how The Invisible Man preys on real-world female fears 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

There’s compelling suspense in his process of feeling out each next step, plucking or strumming his way forward, unsure but never lost, And never completely on his own. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-12-14T07:30:19Z

The play retains all the suspense and relief one expects from fantasy fiction. London theater forecast after Brexit and Trump: Overcast skies with a chance of apocalypse 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

“The Death of Mrs. Westaway” is a perfectly executed suspense tale very much in the mode of Daphne du Maurier’s “Rebecca.” Review | Why Ruth Ware’s new thriller is a classic 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

His new suspense novel, “The Maidens,” also involves a London-based psychotherapist, a grisly crime and the silencing of women. Review | ‘The Silent Patient’ was a huge hit. Next we have ‘The Maidens.’ Don’t believe the hype. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

It’s not surprising that Susie Yang’s remarkable debut, a character study rich in plot twists and suspense is being developed into a Netflix series. Review | The best new audiobooks: Tales of deception, suspense — and some history 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

A Universe Like Ours, Only Weirder Not all filmmakers create complete and resonant fantasy worlds, rife with strange, sometimes frightening beings as well as mysterious movement, emotional suspense and uncanny detail. Art Review: Quay Brothers Retrospective at MoMA 2012-08-10T05:34:12Z

Kepler is a virtuoso at delivering scenes of suspense, proving it here with an unnerving sequence in which a woman senses the silent killer who is stalking her. Stalkers and Dead Wedding Guests: The Latest in Crime Novels 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

At the end of the day, I don't want audiences engaging with this film as spectacle; it's suspense. "It Lives Inside" director on his psychological monster and "counterintuitive" approach to suspense 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z

The question here is twofold: whether any of the individual Cloud Atlas tales packs enough suspense to fascinate the viewer, and, lacking that, whether the various story snippets, in concert, form some grand symphony. Cloud Atlas: The Wachowskis Struggle in the Stratosphere 2012-10-25T12:00:33Z

This generates a particular kind of suspense, as you wonder whether and how the two strands of the story might collide, and to what effect. ‘Hold Me Tight’ Review: An Étude in the Key of Grief 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

It prizes suspense over shock, realizing that waiting for The Thing is harder on a moviegoer’s nerve than seeing The Thing. Review: Toys Scare Us in the Halloween Horror Film Ouija 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Four new reality shows on cable are finding suspense in the normal business rounds of discoveries, appraisals and sales. Antiques: ?Auction Hunters? and Other Buy-and-Sell TV 2010-10-21T21:30:00Z

“Long Bright River” is both a suspense tale and a family saga that explores the relationship between two sisters — one a cop, the other an opioid addict — who live in Philadelphia. Best thriller and mystery books of 2020 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

The poetry of the “Dream” choreography bloomed; its narrative suspense enchanted. Review: The Royal Ballet Returns to New York With ‘The Dream’ 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Although maybe reading it for the first time at any age would still produce the riveting suspense of a great story. Diane Johnson Wishes More Authors Would Write About Friendship 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

It’s not as if such stories don’t still have the power to stir suspense and tears. Review: Return of the Little Copter That Wowed in ‘Miss Saigon’ 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

The suspense is brilliantly sustained though some might find the introduction of a deadly snake excessive, piling herpetophobia on claustrophobia. Buried 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z

There’s a focus on character and controlled suspense, plus shades of Get Out’s ironic and humour. Making a killing: what's behind Halloween's box-office success? 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

But for those whose taste for dystopian suspense is undiminished, Beukes’s tale of a mother and son making their way across a post-pandemic-ravaged landscape is prescient and taut. Review | In Lauren Beukes’s ‘Afterland,’ a mother and son go on the run in a post-pandemic America 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

These are not “just” suspense stories, police procedurals or crime novels. There’s a bit of Nancy Drew in Louise Penny’s masterful ‘A Great Reckoning’ 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

Or rather, it generates suspense by treading the boundary between two familiar narratives. Review: ‘Dheepan,’ About Sri Lankan Refugees, Looks Like a Prophecy 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

Nothing in the latter part of Super 8 matches the first 40 minutes, but the suspense is well sustained and the performances are attractive. Super 8 ? review 2011-08-06T23:05:42Z

But the tale, thrumming with suspense, revealed why it’s timeless. Who is Hamlet? Three actors make their case 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z

Paul Miller directs a play that, when it is neatly handled, can have all the tension and suspense of a wild west showdown and shoot-out. Theatre picks of the week 2010-05-14T23:27:00Z

Only the first half was presented on Tuesday, and it ended on a truly shocking note of suspense. ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Begins Previews in London 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

Rollins uses science and history to deepen the suspense in his books. Review: `Blood Gospel' is supernatural thriller 2013-01-07T20:46:04Z

Let me save you the suspense: That’s easily the best line in this review. ‘Secondhand Souls’ review: A wildly entertaining sequel to ‘A Dirty Job’ 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

“The Good Wife” heightened this existential suspense by spending much of its final season on a narrative fakeout. What Was “The Good Wife” Really About? 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

“He tells a story torn from slightly faded headlines, filling in some details you may have forgotten, and discreetly embellishing the record in the service of drama and suspense.” What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Sharp Objects’ and ‘Snowden’ 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

Susan tries to reach out to him, but it’s impossible, so she keeps turning to the novel instead, escaping in its violence, tension and suspense. Review: ‘Nocturnal Animals,’ Brutality Between the Pages and Among the Fabulous 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

But it’s also a shrewd way to build suspense. ‘Shoplifters’ Review: A Family That Steals Together, Stays Together 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

When Verlaine reunited Television in the early 1990s, the band seemingly picked up right where it left off in 1978, aiming for the same clarity and suspense. Tom Verlaine’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

Whether Conrad will reveal this to Albinus introduces a nice tilt of suspense in the novel’s third act. How Nabokov Retranslated “Laughter in the Dark” 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Good romantic suspense can never underestimate the audience, and the best political leaders know how to shape a compelling narrative that respects voters and paints a picture of what is to come. How Stacey Abrams turned heartbreak into a career plan — and romance novels 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

It was a smooth suspense ride that went nowhere new. Appreciation: Arthur Penn, the Miracle Worker of 'Bonnie and Clyde' 2010-09-30T18:15:00Z

The scale and ambition of the plan can’t fail to create some suspense, even as it falls apart. ‘Plan A’ Review: Seeking Vengeance for the Holocaust 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

That these women will connect in a number of ways is a given, and the suspense of how, and at what cost, is formidable. Dark Side of the Soul 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

Lee builds suspense through long dialogue-free sequences, and, like the main character, the audience soon realizes that in this film, “the thing is not the thing.” The 18 most memorable movies of 2018 — for better and for worse 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

The result is a suspense novel with deft twists and turns and an aptitude for quick, bright jolts of psychological insight. Review: ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage,’ by Haruki Murakami

And you bring up an interesting question which is if you have a sense of where this character is going, does that mean that you've lost suspense? Show runners examine the ever-changing television landscape 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Based on serial murders that rocked Scotland in the 1960s, “The Quaker” is a chilling suspense tale that reminds us why noir endures. The best thrillers and mysteries of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Each warrior is given equal time and the evidence is piled up on both sides to maximize the suspense around the weekly suspect’s guilt or innocence. Television Review: More Legal Drama for Wednesdays, From New York to Las Vegas 2010-09-21T22:54:00Z

In many ways, “Chaos” acts as the perfect encapsulation of the series itself: brazenly political and masterly at suspense, but sometimes ambitious in all the wrong ways. 'The Good Fight’ Season 1 Finale Recap: Trojan Horses 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z

The suspense could be just as compelling as the anticipation of what's inside all those envelopes. The Globes' and Oscars' new hosts: Dancing at the comedic edge 2013-01-09T16:36:23Z

As the film’s director, Laura McGann, relays these stories, she deliberately withholds certain material to keep audiences in suspense about whether a death occurred. ‘The Deepest Breath’ Review: A Perilous Drop Into the Ocean 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z

But for a thriller, “The Lighthouse” is short on suspense. Music Review: ?The Lighthouse,? From Boston Lyric Opera 2012-02-09T23:07:11Z

There was as much emphasis but less suspense in the trio’s clangorous, full-tilt arrangement of “A Brand New Day,” from “The Wiz.” Music Review: Orrin Evans Trio at Jazz Standard 2012-07-18T21:26:36Z

It's the "timeless beat and groove" that he loves about Neu! and he thinks Eno's "textures and suspense" are most influential. Baltic Fleet – New Band Up North #33 2013-07-22T16:00:00Z

If, in their knack for suspense, they imbue "People Like Us" with impatience, they also keep it entertaining, rendering a familiar, heart-rending melodrama as a gauzy and mostly pleasant diversion. Review: 'People Like Us,' a drama in action style 2012-06-27T21:39:08Z

I'm afraid I cannot tell you whether the suspense came from artful pausing, or just a nice, posh, HG Wells, Radio 4, understatedly-serious, we-are-now-at-war-with-Germany accent. TV review: A History of Art in Three Colours 2012-08-08T21:00:04Z

If the new films are to feel like Alien movies, they surely need to maintain the atmosphere of claustrophobic uncertainty and suspense that made the first two films such masterful works. Week in geek: Can Ridley Scott give Alien new life with 3D prequels? 2010-06-17T16:15:00Z

The crisis Coalhouse sets in motion with his righteous vigilante movement generates plenty of suspense as the show crests to a violent climax. Review | ‘Ragtime’ sings with purpose at Ford’s Theatre 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Their Curmudgeon Film projects included the movies My Sister’s Keeper and Cold Moon, a suspense thriller set for release in October, Griff Furst said. Stephen Furst, actor who shone in Animal House, dies aged 63 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

The intensity of the training, excitement of takeoff, suspense of the journey, exhilaration of the moon landing, and relief of splashdown constitute a riveting, semi-narrative arc. Remembering Al Reinert and “For All Mankind,” the Precursor to “Apollo 11” 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

Bosch may be out to pasture as far as the Los Angeles Police Department is concerned, but Connelly is still very much in his prime as a suspense writer. Michael Connelly’s ‘The Crossing’: Harry Bosch goes to the dark side 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days. What Danny Boyle did next 2010-12-05T00:04:00Z

While Nigel Westlake’s violin flurries froth up suspense whenever possible, the film has more impact simply letting the women pause to soak in the beauty of the ocean. ‘Blueback’ Review: A Heart for the Ocean 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

The border between the United States and Mexico has long been a place for vital cinema — a site for suspense, melodrama and tough-minded realism. Film Series in NYC This Week 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Argo piles up the dread, but it’s a feeling of unease familiar to the suspense films of Alfred Hitchcock and his myriad imitators. Ben Affleck's Argo: Can a Fake Movie Save Real Lives? 2012-10-11T12:00:13Z

Atkinson’s skills as a suspense writer serve her well here: It’s not till the final pages of the novel that we learn who makes it through the war and who doesn’t. ‘A God in Ruins,’ by Kate Atkinson 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

His surprise-released second album, “Wasteland,” which is full of songs and skits about romantic suspense — both good and bad — is poised for a big debut on the Billboard 200 album chart. Lizzo Conquers Self-Doubt With an ’80s Jam, and 7 More New Songs 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

Much like “The Revenant” and “The Hateful Eight,” Rosamund Lupton’s suspense novel “The Quality of Silence” pits its characters against a heartlessly cruel Mother Nature. A mother and daughter’s risky quest for truth in Alaska in ‘Quality of Silence’ 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

Along with the deliberate speed comes a lack of physical action, reflecting Mr. le Carré’s emphasis on moral and political questions over suspense and derring-do. Television: ?Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,? With Alec Guinness - Review 2011-10-22T04:00:07Z

The producers of A&E's upcoming suspense drama "The Returned" are more interested in being likened to "The Office" than "Gracepoint." TCA 2015: Comparing A&E's thriller 'The Returned' to 'The Office' 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Messud, the best-selling author of "The Emperor's Children," does a fine job of building suspense as she constructs the intricate machinery necessary to thoroughly humiliate Nora. A novel about obsessive love, lies and video 2013-04-29T13:01:34Z

“The Promise” is filled with suspense, surprises and ably drawn characters, but its most fascinating moments involve Maggie. In ‘The Promise,’ Robert Crais wins our hearts with an unusual hero: A dog 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

“As an avid consumer of legal suspense novels and political thrillers, I am excited to add my voice into the mix.” Stacey Abrams novel ‘While Justice Sleeps’ coming May 25 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

Most of all there is a complicated, convoluted mix of action, suspense and family melodrama, a combination that couldn’t be pulled off without good writing and a very strong cast. ‘The Honorable Woman,’ Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

We want our horror either campy or spooky, but for far too many pages, “Devolution” plods along a dull middle ground, not so much building suspense as venting it. Review | A great Bigfoot novel may be lurking out there. Max Brooks’s ‘Devolution’ isn’t it. 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

The performance is inspired by the themes of Shakespeare's Macbeth -- "guilt, betrayal, murder, ambition, suspense," according to Doyle. Haunting New York show draws crowds, masked stars 2011-08-16T16:52:32Z

The scene was MEANING?evocatively shot, sure, but too freighted with Meaning to manage much suspense or emotional punch. 'The Walking Dead' Recap: On the Road Again 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

Sometimes it all seems a little too smooth and easy: Aisholpan’s preparation for the festival seems to proceed without a hitch, and restless viewers may crave a little more suspense. Review: In ‘The Eagle Huntress,’ a Girl From Kazakhstan Soars 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

The characters' exploits unfold in different parts of the series so the reader is left in suspense and of course wants to grab hold of the next volume ... Reader reviews roundup 2013-04-19T08:58:54Z

The fine Blair Quartet brings intensity and suspense to the dense harmonies that move by turns with creeping dread and desperate urgency. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Beethoven, Mahler, Aaron Copland and More 2014-04-16T17:12:19Z

There is not much action, but rather a gathering mood of dread and suspense, intensified by Jeff Grace’s score and the alterations of the terrain. | 'Meek?s Cutoff': Out on the Frontier, Bringing All That Baggage With Them 2011-04-07T22:33:01Z

Rendell is unwell today, and I'm not sure if it's this or a general weariness with interviews that causes her to say, somewhat hopelessly, that she doesn't know what makes her a good suspense writer. Ruth Rendell: a life in writing 2013-03-01T10:00:01Z

What happens to her and her client I will let readers learn on their own; otherwise I would be serving as a reviewer who spoils suspense. ‘Chasing Gideon’: shocking failures of the justice system in defending the poor 2013-05-01T18:25:42Z

Another sojourn into the great outdoors with a grim forecast for the stag party in question, only this one privileges slow-burn ambient suspense over Bruckner’s straight-down-the-middle horror. The 10 scariest Netflix original movies 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

All these years later, the espionage genre remains one of the least diverse branches of suspense fiction. Review | The novel ‘American Spy’ breaks down barriers. It’s also a terrific read. 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

This tense wire of a novel thrums with suspense, but also unexpectedly poignant moments. Y.A. Thrillers to Give You Chills This Summer 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Makers of the suspense drama, "Hours," say this is one of the most challenging film projects yet for "The Fast and the Furious" star. Paul Walker filming Katrina drama in New Orleans 2012-04-25T23:00:11Z

The challenge in preparing the show for a planned Broadway run will be to add some dynamism to the narrative’s built-in suspense. Theater Review: ‘Hands on a Hardbody’ at La Jolla Playhouse 2012-06-05T22:12:18Z

This serves as a source of suspense, engendering races against time, tragic accidents, nail-biting imprisonments. The Cute Little Devices Are Watching You 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

With little objective conflict to depict, and with its phantasmagoric storytelling often ripped free from time and causality, the egregiously overlong “Widow Lincoln” feels almost devoid of forward momentum and suspense. ‘The Widow Lincoln’ at Ford’s Theatre shows a first lady in mourning 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

For me, suspense is a conversation with the audience. "It Lives Inside" director on his psychological monster and "counterintuitive" approach to suspense 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z

How his story will entwine with the other threads of the plot is a significant source of suspense. Review: ‘Sicario: Day of the Soldado’ Blends War Movie and Western 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

Katee Robert is a welcome addition to the romantic suspense genre. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance novels of the month 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

All the characters are kept in play without ever relinquishing the necessary suspense for a fascinating murder mystery. Crime fiction roundup – reviews 2012-07-13T21:43:00Z

Bussi is one of those thriller writers who heightens suspense by shifting from one character’s viewpoint to another with calculated aplomb. Review | Michel Bussi’s thriller ‘The Double Mother’ twists, then twists again 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

In “Traps,” then, the suspense revolves around two questions: What could bring this seemingly disparate group of women together? The lives of four damaged women intersect in MacKenzie Bezos’ ‘Traps’ 2013-03-08T18:22:10Z

The money shot has no real suspense; more tension is generated as the Killer quicky, quietly and cleverly leaves no trace as he escapes to his hideout in the Dominican Republic. David Fincher cast the wrong "Killer" in the Netflix thriller that lacks the auteur's usual edge 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z

But Ramsay would be an inspired and outside-the-box choice, and arguably someone who can bring suspense and intensity to a franchise that lacked requisite tension the first time around. The “man crisis,” continued 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

What you lose from the overall flow of the page, you gain in suspense and anticipation as the reading experience is slowed down. ArtsBeat Blog: Rating the No. 1's: 'Batgirl' and More 2011-09-08T19:21:23Z

“Conviction” is spectacular; if you, dear reader, can sanely spread your enjoyment of it out over, say, a week, you’re a more disciplined consumer of suspense fiction than I am. Review | In ‘Conviction,’ a woman’s innocent podcast addiction turns into something darker 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

"There's no better model for how to keep the action and the suspense going." Secrets of the Dick Francis mysteries: One family kept the "greatest fiction factory" under wraps 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z

A day later, a hard-boiled suspense novella called “Glue” began to appear, 140 characters and an occasional photograph at a time, in the Twitter stream of @Bitchuation, known to be Mr. Soderbergh’s handle. Critic’s Notebook: Soderbergh Explores a New Medium 2013-05-01T21:34:35Z

Separating the awards by category — so that all the comedy, limited-series and drama awards, except for outstanding series, were presented in succession — robbed the evening of some of its texture and suspense. The Emmys Joked about TV’s Lack of Diversity, and Then Demonstrated It 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

ABC described it as “daytime television’s first continuing suspense drama,” which is like saying Freddy Krueger is a grumpy guy in a cute sweater. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Dark Shadows’ 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

Repeat viewings don’t dull the suspense and only inspire awe at how Hitchcock handles the single set and the perspective of Stewart’s character. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

But there’s not much suspense about any of this in the book’s generous 438 pages. The worst of Bach 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

A note during the first scene in “The Little Things” — an effective cold opening, full of danger and suspense — indicates that it’s 1990. ‘The Little Things’ Review: Good Old-Fashioned Police Work 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

The historical irony provides a protracted Girl don’t go in there! brand of suspense; it’s enjoyable, if a little on the nose. When Witches Run in the Family 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

Now in its fourth season, this show ratchets up the stakes and suspense on a weekly basis, and at this point it's almost unbearably nervewracking. Scarecrow Video recommendations for "50/50" 2011-09-30T15:16:04Z

The latest psychological suspense novel from the authors of “The Wife Between Us” stars a directionless, solitary woman involved with sisters who seem to offer a gateway to perfection. New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From ‘The Office’ to Eating Well 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

She knows just when to amp up the suspense and begin sharply cross-cutting between Catherine and Stephen; the book eventually whipsaws, from action to reaction. Review: In ‘Disclaimer,’ by Renée Knight, Secrets Wind Up in Print 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

A promising buzz of suspense stirs the opening moments of “The Wrong Man,” Ross Golan’s solemn new chamber musical, which opened on Wednesday at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space in Manhattan. Review: ‘The Wrong Man’ Sets a Universal Nightmare to Music 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

How they arrive at a clear understanding of their oppression and potential liberation is the film’s subject, a source of suspense, emotion and inspiration. ‘Women Talking’ Review: The Power of Speech 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

Breakdown A simple yet incredibly effective Hitchcockian thriller, this 1997 exercise in suspense and paranoia deserves remembering for a multitude of reasons. Kurt Russell: five best moments 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

He’s just so good at building suspense and pacing and cutting through a scene, providing jolts and giggles as he builds toward a big scare or a hairs-breadth escape. ‘Jurassic Park’: Where the Wild Things Are 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

It works: The program unfolds in continual suspense. Review: French Dancers Show Three Faces of Merce Cunningham 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

There is, not surprisingly, some Hitchcock on the list — a couple of titles from the suspense maestro, in fact, including "Psycho" at the head of the list and "The Birds" closing out the grouping. Mensa members pick their favorite Halloween movies (really) 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z

Subsidiary characters, including Amity’s widowed sister and a clever police inspector, add to a plot that sustains the suspense in a novel that never loses its sense of humor. ‘Otherwise Engaged’: a killer with a wedding-dress fetish 2014-04-16T19:09:15Z

“The Guardians” is Grisham’s 40th novel; he’s now 64 and has been writing suspense novels pretty much nonstop since “A Time to Kill” was published in 1989. Review | What is left to say about a new John Grisham novel? ‘The Guardians’ has something to add. 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

These fast-paced competitions supply a great deal of suspense on the show. Pursuits: ‘Top Chef,’ Served at Sea 2013-06-27T14:46:10Z

That may be welcome news to Mrs. Clinton, who has not yet announced whether she will run for president in 2016, and who is still floating high on suspense and raised expectations. ‘Madam Secretary,’ ‘State of Affairs’ and Other Series Channel Hillary Rodham Clinton 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

According to a news release from Knopf, the novel "will offer readers a unique amalgam of intrigue, suspense and behind-the-scenes global drama from the highest corridors of power." Bill Clinton and James Patterson are writing a book together 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

On one level, the story this week is one of pure suspense, set in just a few locations, and with not a lot of action in comparison to what we have seen before. ‘The Last of Us’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap: There But for the Grace 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

Information is withheld from viewers in arbitrary and irritating ways simply to goose the suspense. ‘Fortitude’ on Pivot, Murder Mystery in the Arctic 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Along with millions of other dedicated viewers, I loved it: it was exquisitely made, and the suspense was delicious agony. 'Fifty Shades of Grey', 'The Fall', And Jamie Dornan's Bankability In Trailers 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Still, “The Night Watchman” has little interest in exploiting that suspense. Review | With ‘The Night Watchman,’ Louise Erdrich rediscovers her genius 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

But the 70 pages it takes to reach that point are a master class on suspense, shifting perspective and conflicting desire. ‘Prudence,’ by David Treuer 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

“Restless Creature” is tightly edited but patient, with as many uneventful scenes of physical therapy and cocktail parties as more dramatic footage of surgery and is-she-pushing-too-hard suspense. Review: In ‘Restless Creature,’ Wendy Whelan Dances Against the Clock 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

“Master Race” was published in 1955 by EC Comics, which specialized in horror, crime and suspense tales. ‘Master Race’ Original Art Sells for $600,000 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Whether they’ll ever attain any retribution offers a grim element of suspense as Li waits for the sun to rise again. Review | ‘The Day the Sun Died’ is a social comedy that bleeds like a zombie apocalypse 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

When the acrobats are performing, what is in play is balance, and when it’s the magician’s turn, it’s mystery and suspense. Revenge Tales Drawn from Everyday Indignities 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

Elliott, an associate professor of creative writing and English at Whitman College, layers suspense with Greek myth, native legend and personal back stories to create an existentialist puzzle. ‘Temple Grove’: war over Olympic Peninsula’s old trees 2013-05-22T23:10:19Z

Advertisement Even though I feel as though I know this case from top to bottom, there is still suspense in the details. ‘The People v. O.J. Simpson’ Premiere: The ‘Trial of the Century’ Retold 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

Ms. Hynes stokes the suspense with a steady hand; a hilarious, drunken monologue by Mr. Buggy gives us a brief reprieve before the play moves to its tragic climax. Theater Review: ‘DruidMurphy: Plays by Tom Murphy,’ at Lincoln Center 2012-07-09T22:58:53Z

This tension produces suspense, even though the action is so sparely distributed that a viewer can easily space out. Review: The Dreamy Precision of an Everyday Surrealist 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

It was easy for the audience to feel the suspense involved in the moment of extension and then the audacity involved in that transfer of weight: those girls were aiming those legs straight at us. Dance Review: The Balanchine Way, Imprinted 2011-06-08T21:28:34Z

It’s more like the filmmakers’ effort to build suspense as the pair, who are brother and sister, try to exact “five-fold misery” on Doyle. “Grey Lady”: A moody detective drama explores off-season Nantucket 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

As a teenager, he discovered Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” which proved a gateway drug to the rest of Hitchcock’s oeuvre, along with film noir and suspense novels like Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley series. Your Book Editor Just Snagged Your Spot on the Best-Seller List 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

Like other Clark novels, it also packs the heart-pounding suspense usually found in top-notch thrillers. Review: Clark's new mystery an irresistible read 2013-01-07T18:01:06Z

The writer and director Mark Williams doesn’t aim for surprise or suspense, so much as he aims to show competence. ‘Honest Thief’ Review: An Utterly Forgettable Thriller 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Nasseri brought judicious elasticity to the phrasing and taut suspense to the chromatic progressions. Review: Pianist Soheil Nasseri Puts a New Touch on Classical Standards 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

Until its characters behave illogically in the third act and the direction shows suspense fatigue, "Preservation" displays a flinty resolve to be better than your average woodsy-nightmare thriller. Hunters become the hunted in uneven thriller 'Preservation' 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

The finale of Season 3 was a smart, satisfying, though drawn-out denouement, with a few loose ends but none of the giant cliffhangers or suspense that leaves viewers eagerly waiting for Season 4. The TV Watch: Shock but No Awe in ‘Homeland’ Season’s End 2013-12-16T23:02:44Z

She will also star in “Messiah,” a biblical suspense thriller produced by Mark Burnett for Netflix, due out later this year. Stefania LaVie Owen, Snoop Dogg Co-Star and Vogue Darling 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

He seems uninterested in creating suspense or generating surprise, except through visual flourishes. The Demolition Artist: 3 Critics Debate Ivo van Hove 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

The Book Review called the reissue “one of the worst suspense novels ever written.” The Mystery Buffs in the White House 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

What Brady will become is an open question, a source of considerable suspense and emotion. Review: ‘The Rider’ Is an American Regional Film to Savor 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

Olivier Assayas made a scary suspense movie in the form of Personal Shopper – and a great performance from Kristen Stewart helped sell it to the crowd. Cannes 2016: Peter Bradshaw's festival verdict and award predictions 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

For a while it succeeds, mingling absurdity with suspense and finding an undercurrent of pathos in Claude’s brooding, watchful temperament and Germain’s simmering frustration. Movie Review: ‘In the House,’ Starring Fabrice Luchini 2013-04-18T21:57:15Z

“Who is Maud Dixon?” is light on character development and plausibility, but rife with the most important ingredient in this strain of suspense fiction: inventiveness. Review | ‘Who is Maud Dixon?’ In this inventive thriller, you’ll be turning the pages to find out 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

Cliffhangers and suspense need time to breathe… 3. Go Ahead, Binge-Watch That TV Show 2012-07-10T13:41:52Z

There’s something vestigially Hitchcockian in the elements of suspense and suspicion, of surveillance, fear, and paranoia. The Book That Reinvented Hitchcock 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

When Sofia falls for Saul, an unexpected and unsanctioned suitor, her confession to her parents unfolds in a scene of almost unbearable suspense. Review | Naomi Krupitsky’s ‘The Family’ is a Mafia tale with a unique perspective 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

A woman seeks her sister’s brutal murderer in Berry’s compulsively readable novel of psychological suspense, narrated in a striking, original voice. 9 Thrillers (One True) That Times Editors Think You Should Read This Summer 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

The point here is to build suspense, but also to draw attention to the level of difficulty. The Improvised Shakespeare Company’s Couplets Off the Cuff 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Timely, surprising, emotionally alive, this is about as good as suspense fiction gets. Review | The 5 best new thrillers and mysteries to read in August 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z

The tone and style are reminiscent of a reality dating show, but the surprising turns and high stakes of their story builds genuine suspense — and no shortage of “what would you do” empathy. ‘Flux Gourmet,’ ‘The Meddler’ and More Streaming Gems 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z

She writes with her nerves, generating terrific suspense. Review: Natashia Deón’s ‘Grace,’ a Tale of Slavery, Its Ghosts and Legacy 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

When Serena is finally summoned to the fifth floor, we accompany her with serious interest and suspense. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan – review 2012-08-23T07:00:02Z

There was a lot of weight on that leg, and suspense mounted as Mr. Kersels, who is usually labeled a sculptor or an installation artist, chipped away. Dance Review: Martin Kersels and Michael Mahalchick at St. Mark’s Church 2012-11-20T22:41:59Z

“It most of all allows the audience to spend a night in the opera in a state of suspense and meditation,” he said. A Decidedly French “Hamlet” Returns to Paris 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

This time, he demonstrates once again that he has a knack for violence and suspense. ‘The Rover,’ a Drama With Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

An intimation of suspense is provided by the possibility that unless the quartet is performed, the house — a luxurious stone pile played by the handsomely Downton-esque Hedsor House — will run out of money. Movie Review: ‘Quartet,’ Directed by Dustin Hoffman 2013-01-10T22:49:24Z

The fit is bumpy at times, but it introduces great, palpable suspense into “Fourth of July Creek” and its lineup of damaged characters. ‘Fourth of July Creek’ by Smith Henderson 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

Throughout the night, that’s what was lacking: a shape is nothing without a little suspense. Dance Review: Alone With Schubert and 2 Flying M.I.T. Robots 2011-07-19T20:54:16Z

But director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell, who originated the "Saw" series, also use silence quite skillfully to build real fear and suspense. Capsule reviews: `Hop,' `Source Code' 2011-03-30T15:37:20Z

Working off an advance-screening copy of the show, I didn’t see the previews for this week’s episode, which spoiled any suspense for those watching it live. 'Justified' Recap: Has This Been a Love Story the Whole Time? 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

This memory adds richness and texture to the generic paranoia and suspense of “Black Friday”; the mall isn’t just a palatial prison, but also a tragic space of cultural and political reification. ‘Black Friday’ Shares Sophia Al-Maria’s Vision of Gulf Futurism 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Bieber’s debut single was released 21 months ago, and the film’s central unsuspenseful suspense is, simply, can he sell out Madison Square Garden after only about a year of fame? Critic?s Notebook: On Screen, the Frenzied Yet Friendly World of Justin Bieber 2011-02-14T23:23:01Z

Like most effective suspense or horror movies, it is grounded in a potent subtext, in this case childbirth and its stresses on parents. Movie Listings for June 3-9 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

His precise, restless camera creates a feeling of claustrophobic suspense as the plot races against the clock. ‘Diplomacy’: Wartime tale explores why we still have Paris 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

We drove through the late morning fog as the park unfolded before us like the opening sequence of a suspense thriller. Unplugged Along the California Coast 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

A scene where Blake surprises Ruth at her carpentry job uses dramatic music to build suspense as Ruth carries a large weapon to confront the mystery intruder. Despite a steely performance, Sandra Bullock's dreary film of life after prison is "Unforgivable" 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

Not that flurried suspense is the only mode of this touring show, a restaged version of an award-winning Montreal production with a script by Greg Kramer based on the writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. David Arquette falls flat as Sherlock Holmes at the Warner Theatre 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

To convey the fast, twirling mind of Turing, Desplat employed computerized piano, with the orchestra filling out the emotion and suspense of the story. Oscar nominations 2015: Composer Alexandre Desplat scores twice 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Roupenian artfully, at times comically marshals Margot’s hesitation to create tension and suspense in a story that deals with power, sexual consent, gender norms, the limits of knowledge and that durable narrative theme: female paranoia. At Last Back at Sundance, Filled With Rocky Relationships and Glorious Writers 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

Psychological suspense is a genre that needs to be handled with kid gloves. Beware Strange Psychologists: The Latest in Crime Novels 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

More than two weeks ago, word buzzed through Hollywood that a deal was almost done, but things, as of this writing, are still in suspense. Waiting Around for 'The Hobbit' 2010-07-22T20:18:00Z

Occasionally he pushed Mr. Bychkov’s beat — just the right amount, for a moment or two of suspense. Review: Semyon Bychkov Makes the Philharmonic an Event 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

I read a few pages, and I didn’t really like that book and decided not to read it, as it had no suspense. Malala Yousafzai: By the Book 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

But if the narrative machinery expertly grinds out suspense, the details Ms. Ali feeds into that machine are ridiculously contrived. Books of The Times: Imagining a Secret Life for Diana 2011-06-13T22:41:42Z

Ms. Llosa is a sly and careful storyteller, and she creates suspense by slipping between past and present, hinting at and withholding important bits of information. Review: ‘Aloft’ Trains an Eagle Eye on Human Misery 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

The problem lies in the fact that the dead-end suspense and pill-popping, knife-wielding darkness of today’s TV dramas shove more subtle pilot candidates out of the way. Riff: ?Clues That Lead to More Clues That Add Up to Nothing? 2011-12-16T17:03:47Z

And to keep some suspense alive, it was announced that same day that her single would drop at 0:07 London time on Oct. Listen to Adele's Full Bond Theme, 'Skyfall' 2012-10-04T22:59:59Z

“I like to turn my head away in suspense, not in disgust,” he said in a 1987 interview with The Times. Richard Donner, Director of ‘Superman’ and ‘Lethal Weapon’ Films, Dies at 91 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z

The whole opera spells this out so clearly that it robs itself of its own suspense; every surprise in it has already been revealed along the way. Review | ‘Marnie’ is all too insubstantial at Met Opera premiere 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z

But until the end much of the cat-and-mouse suspense in “Now We Shall Be Entirely Free” is unwound and undercut — deliberately, it would seem — by the plot’s way of going off on tangents and detours. While You’re Waiting for the Next Hilary Mantel, Try Andrew Miller 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

The suspense is a nail-biter: Will she sign the petition or not? Review: A Vaclav Havel Trilogy Drives Evening of Political Theater 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z

This season, even more than last, the show became a workplace drama in which promotions, pink slips and client meetings were packed with emotion and suspense. Thrills More Boardroom Than Bedroom 2010-10-14T21:27:00Z

“Hollywood is all about suspense,” said Tom O’Neil, founder of awards website Goldderby.com. No host? No problem. Queen, Lady Gaga bring Grammys vibe to Oscars 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

Ms. Hunt is a graceful, sometimes poetic writer who knows how to build suspense. Samantha Hunt’s ‘Mr. Splitfoot,’ and More 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

Grant and Jay encounter a bunch of surprising obstacles, presented with humor and suspense, on their winding way to the finish line. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘The Million Dollar Race’ by Matthew Ross Smith 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

Sellers was the next to be sent home, after both he and Andrew Garcia were brought to the middle of the stage for a moment of suspense. "American Idol" sends home four competitors 2010-03-05T06:12:00Z

Leitch flips the novel’s opening sentence — “My life is not a thriller” — as the suspense kicks in. Review | Will Leitch’s ‘How Lucky’ follows a cheeky sleuth working to solve a mystery from the cockpit of a wheelchair 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

It made for some great television suspense, although people following online saw a different view. For media following Georgia, nail-biting and lots of numbers 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

But Shooting Angels is not a suspense novel in any conventional sense. Shooting Angels by Christopher Hope ? review 2011-08-26T21:55:01Z

But the only people who ever thought he was a good director, he says, were Oscar-winning director Billy Wilder, who also did comedy, and Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense and psychological thrillers. Mel Brooks: 'I'm finally getting recognized as a good director' 2013-05-14T13:02:16Z

Such details are the building blocks of suspense and also the scaffolding for the big themes that hover in the wintry air. Movie Review: Liam Neeson in Joe Carnahan?s Thriller ?The Grey? 2012-01-26T22:19:02Z

And on the last night of the tour, in Jerusalem, the artist crashes emotionally, and the question of whether he will rally provides some suspense. Review: ‘Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire,’ Portrait of an Artist in Chaos 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

Besides the suspense, he said, "Downfall" is also an "amazing spectacle." Wrestler Jericho plays it safe on `Downfall' show 2010-06-21T14:08:00Z

The formula is always different, always pregnant with suspense, so that we ask, “What’s going on here?” Even Balanchine’s Arithmetic Contains Drama 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

“The Graces” demands to be read twice: The first time for the suspense; the second for the subtleties you missed initially. Y.A. Crossover 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Based on the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888 — which, incidentally, began in late August — it remains even now a brilliant work of psychological suspense. Review | What if you saw something suspicious and did nothing? ‘The Lodger’ posits a consequence. 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hamner’s long list of writing credits included the best-selling 1961 novel “Spencer’s Mountain,” later made into a film, and eight episodes of “The Twilight Zone,” the suspense series created by his friend Rod Serling. Earl Hamner Jr., Virginia-born writer who created ‘The Waltons,’ dies at 92 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

And, as it forms the historical backdrop of Imogen Robertson's debut novel, it lends a heightened sense of danger and suspense to an already thrilling tale. `Instruments of Darkness' is suspenseful, engaging 2011-02-16T18:15:09Z

Her restraint created its own kind of suspense, as you waited to see how far she would go. Music Review: Dianne Reeves at Jazz at Lincoln Center 2012-02-26T21:36:23Z

And it will probably please fans of this simple genre with its solid suspense, murky lighting and “gotcha!” scares. Review: ‘Don’t Breathe’: Whose Bright Idea Was It to Rob a Blind Man? 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

And then suspense: no leaks from highly placed sources, no reports from advance men. The Papal Announcement: For a Day, (Very) Old Media Triumph 2013-03-14T12:23:31Z

As a suspense story that unrolls in real time, it also suggests stage chillers like “Rope.” ‘Selling Kabul’ Review: Trapped in a War, and an Apartment 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

There are shades of Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Hitchcock as suspense builds in the winding corridors of the house and the twisting turns of the psyche. Review | In Elisabeth Thomas’s ‘Catherine House,’ an exclusive university harbors sinister secrets 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

I love the way the show builds suspense through secrets - the power of secrets to hurt characters and the nail biting about whether another character will reveal the secret. ArtsBeat: Your 'Homeland' Questions Answered 2012-12-14T16:46:42Z

But the movie is, if nothing else, ruthlessly efficient enough in delivering its crowd-pleasing bits that truly starving suspense genre hounds, at least, won’t necessarily mind. ‘Hypnotic’ Review: A Twisty Thriller Sends Ben Affleck on the Run 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

This film is more of a caper-comedy than a crime thriller, although that shouldn't suggest to you that it's low on suspense. Scarecrow Video recommendations for 'Tower Heist 2011-11-03T13:01:07Z

The story moves in a straight line, gathering momentum and suspense even as it lingers over odd, everyday moments. ‘Richard Jewell’ Review: The Wrong Man 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Cellphones did a lot of damage to the suspense genre. Dennis Lehane on writing, family and his new novel, 'Since We Fell' 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

“En el Séptimo Día” pulls off the tricky feat of feeling utterly natural as it ratchets with the mechanics of drama and suspense. Review: In ‘En el Séptimo Día,’ He Wants to Work and Play. What Will He Do? 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

I don’t really think of myself as a suspense film-maker, though there are suspense scenes in both my films. From Rosemary's Baby to Suspiria, five directors on cinema's scariest moments 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

Though some of his up-and-out acting is better for an opera house than for a cinema close-up, the suspense with which he delayed Romeo’s first kiss on Juliet’s lips was sensational. Dance Review: Royal Ballet?s ?Romeo and Juliet? Live in New York Theaters 2012-03-25T22:09:28Z

But Mr. Bezmozgis is such an astute and compassionate observer, a meticulous historian and a gifted stylist that, even when suspense and momentum seem to be lacking, the pages still tend to fly by. Books of The Times: One Jewish Family in 2 Worlds, Outsiders in Both 2011-04-10T19:00:16Z

There’s no real suspense in the inevitable poetic justice as Brock gets his comeuppance, with lectures and deflating punchlines on democracy and a free press included. Review | The moralizing 1946 comedy ‘Born Yesterday’ is not dead yet 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

The characters' exploits unfold in different parts of the series so the reader is left in suspense and of course wants to grab hold of the next volume. The Thieves of Ostia by Caroline Lawrence - review 2013-04-12T14:00:00Z

Season 4 ended with drama, violence and, as always, a whole lot of suspense. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Fantastic Beasts’ and ‘The Americans’ 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

He mentions cycling, but his exercise still seems to derive from sentence construction, prying out lazy words, rummaging through dictionaries and wringing suspense from unlikely moments, as when he extends his Orange Trapper. In These New Essays, John McPhee Finds Poetry in the Material at Hand 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

The near collisions of overlapping flight build some suspense, and the shapes held at the highest points are real high points: a thrilling zero-gravity effect, acrobats briefly becoming astronauts. Fall for Dance Review: Splats, Blue Moods and Go-Go Grooves 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

Claustrophobic suspense arises from whirling attacks in rocky valleys and within cabins. Movie Review: In ‘Blood Glacier,’ Mutants Romp Through Alpine Valleys 2014-05-01T22:37:29Z

Thriller and mystery novels can offer just that — it’s easy to get caught up in the cat-and-mouse chase, the suspense, the unexpected twists, the exotic locales. Review | Escapist reads: New and upcoming mysteries and thrillers 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

As indignities accumulate, her exhaustion does battle with rage, and suspense builds around the question of whether she will collapse or explode. ‘Fire in the Mountains’ Review: The Mother of All Struggles 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

Great drama does not depend heavily on narrative suspense. In a Forest Dark and Deep - review 2011-03-15T00:35:22Z

The narrator, Robin Miles, paces the slow-building suspense perfectly, leaving the listener as disoriented and distraught as Penny, grappling with the loss of her independence — and her self — at the end of her life. The Best Audiobooks of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

And another subplot, or just a few additional colorful characters of substance, might give the story more heft and something echt-Holmesian it now lacks: suspense. Review: Holmes lore wrapped up neatly in Taproot production 2010-12-02T21:36:00Z

Saturday, is as jarring to watch as one of the master's own dark suspense dramas. HBO's 'The Girl' pits Hitchcock against Hedren 2012-10-20T00:31:05Z

Though played for suspense, things don't turn out as one might expect, which is refreshing, and so are the gorgeous autumnal wilderness shots. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-06-01T17:39:05Z

One inviting tradition in Kathak has the dancer vocalize a rhythmic phrase before dancing it; suspense builds as the phrases become trickier, and Ms. Dandekar’s calm played against that suspense pleasingly. Dance Review: ‘Dancing the Gods,’ a Festival of Indian Movement 2014-04-29T20:20:23Z

The suspense built as we barked questions and hypotheses and attacked the ground. The Time Capsule 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

“I prefer shows with lots of action, suspense and not much dialogue.” Here’s What 11 TV Writers Are Bingeing 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

Accounts of Garland in concert often speak of the suspense of them, of never knowing if she might suddenly turn on her audience or herself. Arts & Leisure: How Hugh Jackman?s Two Sides Make Women Swoon 2011-12-08T16:00:00Z

"The Private Lives of Eskimos": What would master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock make of cellphones? Coming up on Seattle stages: Fun-loving gents, a military widow, an aggravating sister and more 2010-03-18T21:22:00Z

"Those Who Wish Me Dead," sets up all these plot points, but it does not build suspense. "Those Who Wish Me Dead" wastes Angelina Jolie's action chops in a film that's more smoke than fire 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

This version, too, often artfully exploits the border area between humor, suspense and dread. A battle of wills and wits in Forum Theatre’s ‘The Pillowman’ 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

That creates not only suspense, as we wonder what will happen to Amin and his family, but also a powerful feeling of intimacy. ‘Flee’ Review: From Kabul to Copenhagen 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

Actors waited in suspense for each week’s script, some wondering if their characters would make it out alive. The Wire, 10 years on: ‘We tore the cover off a city and showed the American dream was dead’ 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

With a baritone voice that was as elastic as a steel-guitar string, he brought suspense to every syllable, merging bluesy slides with the tight, quivering ornaments of Appalachian singing. George Jones, Country Singer, Dies at 81 2013-04-26T14:38:56Z

“A wannabe shocker … shortchanged in terms of suspense, scares and thrills,” said the Hollywood Reporter’s Todd McCarthy. Flying high: how Bird Box became Netflix's biggest hit to date 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

Arney: I think there's less a sense of clear favorites this year, both in terms of the musicals and the straight plays, so it should be a good Tony Awards night in terms of suspense. A Tony Awards round table with L.A.-area theater leaders 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

The audience hangs upon her every movement in suspense. Dance Review: Taking Flight: A Season of Revival 2011-01-28T23:27:03Z

Not to ruin the suspense, but the answer is no. Tinder isn’t swiping out romance: Why reports of the dating apocalypse may be greatly exaggerated 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

But the world of Source Code seems to me more interesting, and more able to incubate real drama, real suspense and even some real humour. Source Code ? review 2011-03-31T14:00:01Z

The new "Poltergeist" is a pleasant enough diversion, better as a low-simmer suspense story than a full-blown effects extravaganza. 'Poltergeist' remake haunted by its original version 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

Publications ranging from the New York Times to USA Today and the Wall Street Journal are currently touting “The Girl on the Train,” a new psychological suspense novel, as “the next ‘Gone Girl.’” Not the next “Gone Girl”: Why “The Girl on the Train” can’t fill Amazing Amy’s shoes 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

The question of authorship within restaurants remains tantalizingly, or politely, open; the filmmakers fabricate suspense around the relative merits of Mr. Ono’s eldest son, Yoshikazu, whose managerial role is paramount. Movie Review: ?Jiro Dreams of Sushi,? Directed by David Gelb 2012-03-09T01:27:03Z

But when it was at its best, the show was equal parts suspense, horror, science fiction — and romance. As ‘The X-Files’ Returns, Do We Still Want to Believe? 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

As a writer, I don’t feel the need to have thinking about narrative or suspense. Ben Marcus: Jonathan Franzen’s cultural commentary is really embarrassing 2014-02-10T01:00:00Z

His “tales of suspense” are bound to please, since they’ve won, in the words of the book’s back cover, “an Edgar Award, an Anthony Award, three Agatha Awards, three Macavity Awards, and three Derringer Awards.” Review | One critic’s summer reading list: From a scandalous memoir to obscure literary journalism 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

Tuesday marked the biggest day of voting in the Republican primaries since Super Tuesday on March 6, but there was little suspense. Romney sweeps, looks to general election 2012-04-25T01:41:00Z

I think it's perfectly okay to write what is just a good suspense novel that entertains people and maybe to a certain extent informs the reader. Author Don Winslow: Trump's administration feels like it's "manifested itself" as the coronavirus 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

What becomes more apparent here than ever before is the toughness of mind underlying these proscenium works, and it enriches the choreography with qualities of suspense and tension. Review: From Trisha Brown, Three Last Dances (Maybe) in Brooklyn 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

The idea is to ratchet up suspense but also to leave copious room for doubt and questioning. Feeling guilty when the bomb goes off in ‘I Call My Brothers’ 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Since a white-knuckle suspense this is not, they fall in love and all ends well. Netflix Holiday Movies Ranked, From Tree Toppers to Lumps of Coal 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

New SPT associate Kelly Kitchens evokes some of the mounting anguish in her staging but not enough of the rising tension and danger that add eerie suspense. 3 late-October plays: grief, trauma, loneliness 2011-10-13T20:15:08Z

The core of the film is a simple suspense plot with overtones of psychological horror—which remain thinly developed. The Psychological Fakery of “10 Cloverfield Lane” 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

“Broadchurch” builds suspense with deliberate, often agonizing pacing and then explodes in dizzying bursts of action. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ and ‘Penn & Teller’ 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

And there’s little of the ticking-bomb urgency associated with classic suspense. At the London Theater, a Fear of the Foreign and Familiar 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

In an interview, Mr. Taylor talked about shooting suspense in daylight, building a makeshift neighborhood near an abandoned golf course and the camera techniques he employed to portray an unreliable narrator. Tate Taylor Narrates a Scene From ‘The Girl on the Train’ 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Whether Iris can find the courage and the language to critique the Pre-Raphaelites’ work provides the novel with an unusual element of intellectual suspense. Review | ‘The Doll Factory’ is a guilty pleasure wrapped around a provocative history lesson 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

Race, parenthood and privilege complicate this suffocating suspense novel from the author of “Rich and Pretty” and “That Kind of Mother.” Fall reading: 12 books to keep you occupied for the rest of 2020 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

Leonard, who first wrote westerns when he gave up his advertising agency job in the 1950s before moving on to crime and suspense books, suffered a stroke on July 29. U.S. crime writer Elmore Leonard dead at 87 2013-08-20T14:45:48Z

With Pharrell Williams the sole coach still in possession of a steal, the one-hour batch of battles lacked a certain sense of suspense, but compensated with businesslike briskness. 'The Voice' recap: The battles coast to an end 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

The suspense with which I tore through this novel ends with a whisper. Two women's lives dangerously collide in Harriet Lane's 'Her' 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

The style and approach to each short is pretty standard; most of the stories follow the setup, suspense, and payoff narrative strategy. "Berlin, I Love You" won't bring you down 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

Have to say, though, the suspense between Tommy & Ghost & Milan was well played. Did You Watch the ‘Power’ Season 3 Finale? Let’s Talk About It 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

The pundits, Catholic and otherwise, have been rapt in the suspense of awaiting the arrival of Pope Francis. Pope Francis doesn’t represent all Catholics 2013-03-21T14:49:00Z

What real-life tragedies such as Hall’s suggest and novels such as “Darktown” rely on for narrative suspense is the daily terror visited upon black people by whites in the Jim Crow South. A novel about police brutality in 1948 Atlanta that sounds eerily relevant today 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

How much intensity and suspense can you drain from a movie about cops and robbers without having the thing collapse into anecdote and whimsy? Review: Robert Redford Aims to Charm in ‘The Old Man & the Gun’ 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

And it is almost admirable that the writers of this moody, conflicted spy series on Showtime are so determined to upend expectations — even at the cost of action, suspense and drama. The TV Watch: Shock but No Awe in ‘Homeland’ Season’s End 2013-12-16T23:02:44Z

Yes, it’s a competition film, but there is plenty of suspense and surprises. The 18 most memorable movies of 2018 — for better and for worse 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Single scenes are interrupted by segments from other movies, intensifying their suspense and making us aware of the shot-by-shot approach to the time-related denouement. Art Review: As in Life, Timing Is Everything in the Movies 2011-02-03T21:43:44Z

Provided you can relax into the camp vibe once the suspense kicks into gear, "The Other Black Girl" is an easy binge that highlights its talent, especially Adebumola's ample comedic timing. "The Other Black Girl" peeks into the hidden horrors of being the only person of color at the office 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z

There’s suspense in the way they eventually connect, but it’s hard to summarize. Review: With ‘Heat and Light,’ Jennifer Haigh Drills Below the Surface 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

Her teenage son, Bones, discovers a secret road leading to an underwater town, leading to an adventure that will apparently weave elements of fantasy noir and suspense into a modern-day fairytale. Doctor Who star Matt Smith set to dematerialise in How to Catch a Monster 2013-02-07T12:17:03Z

Variety's Owen Gleiberman called "The Square" "a piece of high-wire sociological suspense" which outstays its welcome: "the more it goes on the less it hangs together". Bourgeois art world skewered in Cannes movie 'The Square' 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

It’s not easy to sustain suspense over the long arc of a network season. Television Review: New TV Fantasies: ABC’s ‘Resurrection’ and NBC’s ‘Believe’ 2014-03-07T00:03:48Z

Brookmyre is a pro at slowly injecting ever more anxiety into scenes where the suspense sweat-o-meter is already hovering in the red zone. A teen Web whiz and an investigative journalist team up to solve a crime 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

Leguizamo does not downplay the big chess match in the end, but while the outcome is never in doubt, there is some suspense generated because of what transpires between the two opponents. With "Critical Thinking," John Leguizamo directs a rousing "Stand and Deliver"-style chess story 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

He also starred in the suspense drama, “Hours,” a movie that is set for release this month. Publicist: ‘Fast & Furious’ Actor Paul Walker Dies in Car Crash 2013-12-01T03:39:12Z

Bollen, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, is a skilled purveyor of suspense. Review | ‘A Beautiful Crime’ is a deliciously diabolical suspense tale a la Patricia Highsmith 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

It's so unexpected, and the nature of suspense is encountering the unexpected. Otto Penzler puts the 'boo'! in 'Big Book of Ghost Stories' 2012-10-19T19:53:04Z

Again, no surprise that they want to slather on the suspense. 'American Idol' results night recap: Say goodbye to Andrew, Katie 2010-04-15T15:46:00Z

Go to My Ballot » Browse Nominees But let’s talk about a matter of infinitely greater urgency and suspense. The Tipsy Diaries: A Toast to the Nominees, With Drinks They Inspired 2011-02-24T15:56:45Z

The writer is the son of Stephen King, who knows a bit about New England suspense. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: Haunted Real Estate (and Hero) 2011-07-29T17:47:32Z

So rather than reveling in guts and gore, the original film’s emphasis is on suspense, terror and mood. ‘Halloween’ and the Problem With Its Sequels 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

At times, “Tangerine” reads as if it were reverse-engineered from a scholarly paper about suspense fiction. In a Thriller About Girlfriends, Which Femme Is Fatale? 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

Like “United 93,” “Hotel Mumbai” begins from the uncomfortable premise of turning an actual terrorist incident into material for a dramatized suspense feature. ‘Hotel Mumbai’ Review: Terrorism as Popcorn Movie? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

There's not so much a plot here, just a hoary, who's-double-crossing-who? scenario that generates minimal suspense. Riff Raff 2010-04-12T22:00:00Z

Some of those dreams evoke outsize awe and suspense. Circus Review: Big Apple Circus at Damrosch Park - Review 2011-11-04T22:16:52Z

Christenfeld and his co-author Jonathan Leavitt added that the findings could mean that commonly held perceptions about suspense may also be incorrect. Spoilers don't ruin stories or films: study 2011-08-12T16:08:44Z

Both Dr. King and Ray come to life in these remarkable pages, generating great suspense without surprise, thanks to readers’ terrible foreknowledge of what will happen when these two cross paths. Books of The Times: Hampton Sides?s ?Hellhound on His Trail? Traces Martin Luther King Jr.?s Killer 2010-04-21T22:24:00Z

Hubbard crafts unforgettable characters and masterfully builds suspense. Review | Ladee Hubbard’s ‘The Rib King’ is a fascinating look at ambition, race and revenge 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

The trouble is, if you've seen that one – as I have and you probably have too – just a teeny bit of the suspense is lost. TV review: Whistle and I'll Come to You 2010-12-27T07:59:00Z

Although they, and most of the audience, know what is going to happen—Desdemona will die, Beatrice and Benedick will wed—the goal is surprise and suspense. Nine Hours of Shakespeare 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

And while their destinies fatefully converge on the twin towers in a way that is almost novelistic, the book's suspense and momentum do not reduce the idea of narrative to page-turning compulsion. The human heart of the matter 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

The play’s suspense ebbs away, along with much of its comic momentum, as the plot grows more contrived and implausible. Theater Review: ‘Fly Me to the Moon,’ With the 1st Irish Festival 2012-09-13T02:00:00Z

The first season’s third episode, written by Will Smith and directed by James Hawes, best encapsulated the show’s seesawing mix of sardonic humor, deft characterization and sometimes brutal suspense. The Best TV Episodes of 2022 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

The episode cuts to black with his fate still hanging in the balance, the latest in a long series of manipulative cliffhangers designed to goose easy, short-term suspense. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 8, Episode 3: Cut to Black 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

Still, it isn’t the suspense novelist’s favorite book. Michael Dirda browses books that will make you love reading 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

James Grippando continues to deliver great legal suspense with his latest thriller, "Blood Money." Review: Jack Swyteck returns in `Blood Money' 2013-01-07T21:01:05Z

Locking the viewer in two cramped, drab rooms, he builds suspense with little more than a single character and a few voices on a telephone. Review: ‘The Guilty’ Places a Troubled Police Officer on Hold 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

It improves over time, but it’s not really until the finale that “Luck” quickens its pace and builds suspense and a sense of urgency. | 'Luck': ?Luck,? Starring Dustin Hoffman on HBO 2012-01-27T12:00:00Z

There’s always some potential in the double life of a mole, as the risk of discovery gives every twist an extra frisson of suspense. ‘The Policeman’s Lineage’ Review: Undercover and Overcaffeinated 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

Its slow pacing and diffuse suspense make the experience more like a book on tape than anything else, in spite of a few lively performances. ‘Doctor Sleep’ Review: A Duller ‘Shining’ 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

Big, bold illustrations that almost pop off the page and Freddy’s evocative facial expressions add to the suspense and hilarity in this high-energy holiday romp. Perspective | 10 great holiday-season books to enjoy with your little ones 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Our Pacific Northwest weather, so similar in nature, provides ample opportunity to curl up with this book, a sad, intricate tale taut with suspense. Book review: "Coral Glynn" peeks behind the facade of an English manor 2012-04-19T20:15:05Z

The movie forfeits that suspense, since Butterfield, who turned 15 when Ender’s Game was being shot last year, has the giant blue bathyspheric eyes and otherworldly winsomeness of Elijah Wood’s Frodo. Ender’s Game: Is This Boy ‘The One’? 2013-11-01T23:16:53Z

But as anyone who reads such books well knows, dreaming up suspense plots is much easier than resolving them. Books of The Times: Caught - By Harlan Coben - Never Look Away - By Linwood Barclay - Mom and Pop Thrillers 2010-03-25T22:42:00Z

A well-phrased one-liner may cause a chuckle, but it plays merry hell with suspense and oft means you have to go back and start ratcheting up the tension again. Let's start a comedy crime wave 2010-08-03T10:36:00Z

And Harris can get suspense just right, as in a spine-tingling scene where witches recreate a murder through an "ectoplasm." A 'Sookie Stackhouse' junkie comes clean 2010-05-05T22:34:00Z

Her ignorance helps drive the movie’s considerable suspense, because how can anyone prepare for a threat they don’t even know about? John Hawkes? Strange and Dangerous Sex Appeal 2011-10-21T20:04:15Z

In her by-now-characteristic fashion, Penny simultaneously unspools several suspense narratives, each of them accruing power and threat, faster and faster, until the novel closes in a crescendo of violence, unmasking and regret. Review | Louise Penny’s new novel shows once again why she’s a crowd favorite 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

The biggest moment of suspense has nothing to do with international politics or terrorism. Movie Review: ?Salmon Fishing in the Yemen,? With Ewan McGregor 2012-03-08T23:10:43Z

During a recent interview in New York, he spoke about creating suspense, choreographing action and building an Old West town in Louisiana. Antoine Fuqua Narrates a Scene From ‘The Magnificent Seven’ 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

And yet there is an underlying sense of suspense and risk. Review: A Choreographer Alone With Her Audience and Death 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

That definitely wasn't a bad thing though, as it kept me in suspense until the very last page. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead - review 2011-04-13T11:43:46Z

But the location captured here is less André’s grim little room than his mind, as he tries to ward off existential despair — a battle that lets Delisle transmute tedium into compelling suspense. New Graphic Novels Detail Personal Journeys and Twists of Fate 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Some of the suspense in the film comes from wondering what he will do with her, and whether, as much as he loves her, he can figure out how to set her free. ‘The Worst Person in the World’ Review: Oslo, Her Way 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

And besides those Brownian cycles of false suspense, there are weird stylistic ticks. Review | Attention, Tom Hanks: Dan Brown’s new novel, ‘Origin,’ is ready for you 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

David Cromer's taut direction creates suspense and ambivalence, as the initially appealing characters gradually reveal how far they might go to protect themselves or get what they want. Review: 'Really Really' is clever look at GenMe 2013-02-20T22:58:08Z

In addition to suspense, action, futuristic detail, and moments of comedy, the book brings a light, investigative touch to the question of what exactly human identity is. Review | Best new audiobooks to listen to as you head out on the road this summer 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

They are masters of suspense, drip-feeding details about each new film - title, locations, guest stars - to eager fans. No mid-life crisis for 007 as Bond films turn 50 2012-10-02T15:43:12Z

“Until they fight, it’s all about creating suspense and tension and fear.” ArtsBeat: Behind the Action of 'The Raid: Redemption' 2012-03-22T16:43:20Z

The movie reduces its fear factor to simple suspense that’s not insignificant but is pretty insubstantial. “Life” Is Full of Horrors 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

The big suspense was whether they’d be too exhausted by their 10k jog to the stage to give their acceptance speeches. Great Storytelling Was the Real Winner at the Golden Globes 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

“I’ve learned a lot about playing against men in the last 10 years,” said Gale Massey, whose debut title “The Girl from Blind River,” a suspense novel featuring a poker-playing heroine, came out in July. Researching Your Book? Hit the Casino 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

The suspense builds as we wonder whether he fulfills his promise of bubbly to his Italian girlfriend or must make do with fruit juice for their celebratory toast. A novelist's pub crawl across the Muslim world 2013-07-22T13:05:05Z

Most critically, however, Mr. Wolf cannot pull off a vital set piece toward the end, which lacks both emotional heft and genuine suspense. Books of The Times: ‘The Intercept,’ Dick Wolf’s First Novel 2013-01-10T19:26:43Z

There is considerable suspense as Cookie and King Lu are outside, gathering the next day's milk. Kelly Reichardt's "First Cow" is a captivating and unhurried look at race & class in 1800s Oregon 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

The thing I found most challenging is structuring the events of her life in a way that would create suspense and drama for the audience. “Lover, Beloved” is Suzanne Vega’s tribute to Carson McCullers and it is only the beginning 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

Saulnier showed his mastery of suspense in his previous film, Blue Ruin, and the tension in Green Room reaches new heights. The best films of 2016 ... that you probably didn't see 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z

While some spy novels are globe-trotting and action-packed, this one centers on a single meal — but with just as hearty a helping of suspense. Spy vs. Spy: Olen Steinhauer’s thriller ‘All the Old Knives’ 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

In its way, Ben Affleck's suspense thriller Argo, about the 1979 hostage crisis, is every bit as fiercely patriotic and it is now poised to become the wild card success of this year's awards season. Lincoln sets stage for celebration of US history 2013-01-09T10:53:59Z

But it never does: it just leaves you awkwardly in suspense, waiting for a cathartic, funky finale that never comes. Erykah Badu: New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh | CD review 2010-04-01T14:35:00Z

No number was a prolonged exercise in suspense. Review: Gypsy Flamenco With Play and Passion, Not Flash 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the producers at Magical Elves edit the episodes with an eye toward maximum suspense rather than ultimate clarity. Why "Top Chef" gets me cooking 2010-06-16T15:46:00Z

The winning auteur strides onstage, and any suspense about the ultimate prize evaporates. Oscars 2013: Richard Corliss’ Picks – Best Director 2013-02-21T22:05:35Z

Even so, Kyle Warren’s screenplay is potent enough to generate several moments of suspense, and Watts, an exceptional actor sidelined too often by poor choices, is not the problem here. ‘Goodnight Mommy’ Review: Behind the Mask 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

The real suspense of the movie lies not with the key and its supposed hidden message, but with his father’s literal messages, the ones on the machine. Brace Yourselves for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2011-12-21T15:15:09Z

Traditional talking drums heighten the suspense and the Yoruba language brings a new melody to this adaptation showing Friday at Shakespeare's Globe as part of a festival staging Shakespeare plays in different world languages. 'Winter's Tale' by Shakespeare gets African reboot 2012-05-25T12:16:04Z

His precise, restless camera creates a feeling of claustrophobic suspense as the plot races against the clock toward what is, for the audience at least, a foregone conclusion. ‘Diplomacy,’ Directed by Volker Schlöndorff 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

It makes up in suspense what it lacks in nuance, and its special effects are easy to visualize. Books of The Times: ‘Doctor Sleep’ Is Stephen King’s Sequel to ‘The Shining’ 2013-09-15T21:53:08Z

In examining what kind of society would begrudge an elderly man a chance at literacy, the filmmakers situate Maruge’s tale on the slippery ground between satire and suspense thriller. | 'The First Grader': Simple Quest for Literacy Hits a Wall of Politics 2011-05-12T23:10:04Z

It's just fun to watch and also increases the suspense for the grand categories of the show. 5 Ways to Fix the Oscar Ceremony 2010-03-08T15:22:00Z

A sense of unease and suspense shroud the work. Art and the hidden depths of the humble public pool 2012-08-03T16:55:30Z

On the other hand, the book business isn’t exactly thrilling, and efforts to gin up the sort of tension required to fuel a good suspense novel tend to lead to ludicrous excesses. VIP boxes and seven-figure advances: How fiction gets the publishing industry laughably wrong 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

The narrative rises inexorably, with the final 50 pages blurring by with white-knuckled suspense as these all-American underdogs pull off the unimaginable. ‘The Boys in the Boat’: UW team vanquishes Hitler’s crew 2013-05-29T22:21:04Z

Why is the Bolshoi so uninterested in narrative suspense or dramatic logic in the central classics? Dance Review: Bolshoi’s ‘Giselle,’ Geared to Virtuosity and a Vocal Audience 2014-04-06T21:59:32Z

There are unusual effects of suspense and contrast. At American Ballet Theater Gala, All Is the Same but Different 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

It’s a rather cheap, easy way of creating suspense. Pat Barker on Trauma and Myth 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

The sensuality of Setton’s prose and the electric atmosphere of suspense that envelops Daphne’s Berlin undermine the novel’s important critique, however. The Loneliness, and Danger, of Being a Young Woman in a New City 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

Despite the intrinsic suspense of the setup and the likability of the performers, “The Siege” often registers as sincere but static, like an animated chapter from a partisan history book. Bodies in Pain, Protest and Resistance 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

Any opportunities for suspense are undercut by the stylistic choices in framing and the shocking violence. Domestic-violence thriller 'The Living' proves DOA 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

The mystery of Leda — what happened to her, why her parents are so traumatized by her absence — adds a rich layer of suspense. During a Weekend in the Country, Secrets Simmer Between Old Friends 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

Thomas also wisely decides to rely on building tension and suspense for his scares rather than piling on the gore, which works well with this kind of psychological material. In Jewish horror film "The Vigil," a mythological demon manifests the trauma of anti-Semitism 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

Instead, it recalled the tension and suspense of the directors’ favorite movies, like “The Exorcist” and “The Shining.” ‘Blair Witch’: Shaky Cams That Left Audiences Shaking 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

"A Most Wanted Man," which also stars Willem Dafoe and Rachel McAdams, unravels with a quiet anxiety that may prove a challenge for audiences used to more visceral cues in their suspense. No one wears a white hat in the uncomfortably real 'A Most Wanted Man' 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Danger mounts as Pedro’s reporting leads him to government officials, but just as the movie shows the markers of a solid political thriller, the director Melina León resists building suspense. ‘Song Without a Name’ Review: A Tragedy in the Peruvian Hillside 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

By the time the stakes do achieve life-or-death heights, the novel has forced itself into an awkward stance of violence and suspense that doesn’t entirely fit with its crumpled class notes and teenage self-importance. Review | Can a thriller also be a feminist social critique? Lisa Lutz gives it a try in ‘The Swallows’ 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

The one thing critical to a good suspense novel is, well, suspense. A teen Web whiz and an investigative journalist team up to solve a crime 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

“Out of Bounds” is another terrific and intricate suspense novel by a writer who has given us 30 of them. Val McDermid’s ‘Out of Bounds’ shows how a female detective gets the job done 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

Grafton’s novel is not simply a historical curio, but a genuinely offbeat and entertaining suspense story. Review | The writer who inspired Sue Grafton — her father — gets a welcome new edition 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

Either way, though, there is not enough suspense here, like a July 4 fireworks exhibition that we’ve seen before. Stephen King's 'Drunken Fireworks' -- available only on audio 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

Grover Gardner delivers a truly inspired performance in reading this tale of adventure, suspense and drollery, some parts so funny as to make the listener laugh out loud. Best audiobooks of 2016 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

And when the triangular animosities of Americans, rebels and villagers seethe toward explosion, the movie achieves a suspense within its larger, darker inevitability. Amigo: John Sayles' Latest Declaration of Indie-pendence 2011-08-17T07:10:00Z

That's why suspense films usually end right after a bloodbath, with the surviving characters sitting on the front porch while distant police sirens wail. "Breaking Bad" 4x5, "Shotgun" 2011-08-15T06:01:00Z

But the many short sections fail to generate much suspense, momentum or historical illumination. Review: The Body Is Also a Percussive Instrument 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

The layers of intrigue and suspense show Mr. Lee’s sometimes underappreciated genre skills. Review: In ‘BlacKkKlansman,’ Spike Lee Journeys Into White America’s Heart of Darkness 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

A mishandled birthday, an unsatisfying call, some unwelcome suspense, release it all. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A long-distance courtship offers more one-on-one time with oneself 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

His big break came in 1950 when he was hired by CBS and became a director on the television suspense series "Danger." Sidney Lumet, director of modern film classics 2011-04-10T00:43:10Z

In this respect, “The Witch Elm” is an extraordinary example of the suspense novel as less a work of drama than as a work of suspended animation. Review | Fans of Tana French are in for a surprise with ‘The Witch Elm’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

These shows are happy to offer only the thrills and suspense that are inherent to the genre. Mission improbable: how The Americans changed the concept of the spy show 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

"He wanted to create suspense on whether the judge was guilty of such dark deeds," Forsythe said. John Forsythe of film and TV fame dies at 92 2010-04-02T19:02:00Z

Valancourt Books, located in Richmond, specializes in reissuing neglected works of horror and suspense. Michael Dirda’s Halloween book picks 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Its opening chapters are self-contained, giving the impression that this will be a collection of short legal suspense stories, rather than a novel. John Grisham’s terrific new thriller, ‘Rogue Lawyer’ 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

It wasn't about pyrotechnics and scene after scene of horror or suspense. A Minute With: Horror king John Carpenter on "The Ward" 2011-06-08T12:59:45Z

Even Andrew’s efforts to contact his father about what he knows is manipulative with miscommunications used to generate suspense. “The Kill Team” offers atrocities, but little insight into wartime murders of civilians 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

It was like Hitchcock's discussion of suspense and surprise when two people are having a conversation and there is a bomb under the table. "Susie Searches": A cautionary tale of a podcaster who finds a missing student & "insta-celebrity" 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z

Yet it’s pervaded by mystery, drama, wit and, above all, suspense. Review: Compagnie CNDC-Angers Dances Cunningham 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

As a thriller, it too frequently abandons the logic that’s necessary to maintain suspense. ‘Villains’ Review: Blundering Robbers Meet Their Match 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

It is equally a novel of psychological suspense, mystery, crime and horror. Review | ‘Mrs. March’ is a stylish suspense tale that’s both darkly alluring and just plain dark 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

The building of suspense leads to a spectacular dénouement, in which the killer is either caught or commits a final atrocity before evading justice. A True-Crime Veteran on Our Fascination with Serial Killers 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

Eventually everything comes out, even if he keeps you in suspense for a while. Jo Nesbo’s New Book Stars an Antisocial Loner. It’s Not Harry Hole. 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z

He said he was focused on suspense and mythology, arguing that the new Hammer films will have the spirit of Alfred Hitchcock. Hammer Makes ?The Woman in Black? With Daniel Radcliffe 2012-01-27T23:30:09Z

But “Halloween” was a purer and more uncompromising example of his brand of suspense filmmaking. ‘Halloween’ 1978: The Times Finally Reviews a Horror Classic 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

With Conner — and the public — waiting in suspense, he called a news conference. With Alicia Machado, Trump found his first pageant media circus. Many, many others followed. 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

The simple passage of time—under threat, in doubt, and in silence—creates an unbearable dramatic suspense, and Losey catches it in motion, in ordinary actions that seethe with menace and doom. “Mr. Klein,” a Political Mystery of Mistaken Identity in Occupied Paris 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

What our critic said: “‘The Wife’ pulls off the not inconsiderable feat of spinning a fundamentally literary premise into an intelligent screen drama that unfolds with real juice and suspense.” How to Watch ‘Black Panther’ Free and Other Oscar Movie Tips 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

A descent into darkness is the stuff of suspense. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum at Ground Zero Prepares for Opening 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

That question isn't charged with sufficient suspense or weight, in a script that emphasizes quasi-poetic language and atmospherics more than dramatic build and discovery. Review: Rep's 'The K of D' is stronger on acting and atmosphere, than on spooky suspense or small-town reality 2011-01-22T01:06:04Z

Anyone in suspense over the outcome probably never has seen a movie. 2010-01-29T07:11:00Z

Reichardt hits the thriller beats, but casually and modestly; her emphasis, as ever, is on character, and she finds as much suspense in interactions as in the action itself. ‘Skate Kitchen,’ ‘Night Moves’ and More Streaming Gems 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Daniels is much more interested in sensation than in conventional suspense, so the murder mystery is pushed into the background. Movie Review: ‘The Paperboy,’ by Lee Daniels, Stars Nicole Kidman 2012-10-04T12:00:00Z

It examined some of the graver issues of the time, notably torture and civil liberties, without interrupting the flow of comic-book suspense. Television Review: Kiefer Sutherland Returns in ‘24: Live Another Day’ 2014-05-02T22:21:07Z

But that’s no matter: This isn’t really a story of suspense. Review | In Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys,’ an idealistic black teen learns a harsh reality 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

Instead, quiet tales of domestic breakdown are strung on a thread of psychological suspense that tightens around the title character’s death. An errant gun threatens many lives in ‘The Death of Rex Nhongo’ 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

As Simpson peels away layers of secrets at the heart of her marriage, including her husband’s connection to the shadowy and dangerous titular character, the suspense ratchets up — slowly, slowly, then all at once. Anne Simpson Thought She Knew Her Husband. She Didn’t. 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

These long discussions help to ratchet up the film’s suspense, and “as many times as you’ve seen the movie before,” Mr. Scott says, “it’s always somehow full of surprises.” ArtsBeat: Critics' Picks Video: 'Pulp Fiction' 2011-12-12T19:15:29Z

They never made it together: to reveal why would be to ruin the suspense of Evers's careful plotting. If This Is Home by Stuart Evers – review 2012-07-27T21:45:11Z

I was looking forward to reading this as it sounded from the blurb a little like a modern day Enid Blyton story full of mystery, magic and suspense. The Andersons by Zoe Ward – review 2013-06-25T08:00:00Z

He knew the suspense game began long before the movie’s release. Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! and the art of Hollywood secrecy 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

“Deep State” and “Next of Kin” both offer mystery and suspense, and you could be drawn to either out of a taste for international intrigue tied to current events. The Mideasterner, TV’s Most Flexible Genre 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

He added that the videos' music, sound effects, camera angles and even costumes evoke suspense. ISIS and its increasingly sophisticated cinema of terror 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

A dollop or two of faux suspense as a celebrity presenter shouts the names of contenders in each award category, followed by a pregnant pause. Oscars Show Growing Gap Between Moviegoers and Academy 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

There are not a whole lot of what one could call “Easter movies,” perhaps because there’s no suspense involved in the holiday itself. From ‘Ben-Hur’ to ‘Hop,’ Slim Pickings From the Easter Bunny’s Basket 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

These quick recalibrations—from contemporary realism to suspense to epic—convey bravura, a giddy sense of possibility, a love of story. In Mark Haddon’s “The Porpoise,” Storytelling Is an Instrument of Violence and Solace 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

For a decade now, “American Idol” has been winning fans with its weekly wallop of suspense and surprise, along with a fairy-tale conceit that fortune can smile on even the most obscure among us. American Idol: Riveting despite itself 2012-05-24T11:51:00Z

Similarly, the cliffhanger storytelling makes this long show watchable — but periodically you squirm at the thought that you are enjoying the suspense too much. Review | The Klunch’s ‘How to Win a Race War’ is deliberately offensive 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

At the same time “Inhale” is a creepy medical thriller in the tradition of “Coma” that amps up the tension and suspense by slicing up time. | 'Inhale': A Life-Saving Journey to the Dark Side 2010-10-21T23:10:00Z

None of Wan’s skills as a builder of suspense sequences come in handy here. ‘Aquaman’ Review: Our Hero Swims. His Movie Sinks. 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

What suspense there is lies in waiting to see if Turner will respond to Gray’s plea and, more important, if the prisoner will in any way change the thinking of the other men. Review: ‘Nat Turner in Jerusalem,’ an Avatar of Divine Vengeance 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

Open Road Integrated Media announced Thursday that it was releasing the first e-editions of "A Case of Need," "Odds On" and other suspense thrillers. Early Crichton novels to be released as e-books 2013-05-30T12:23:11Z

Using eight 10-minute rolls of film, Hitchcock created a “single tracking shot” for “Rope,” using the backs of characters’ sports jackets to change reels, mark the passage of time, and ratchet up the suspense. The 10 best movies that take place in one day 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

She also, in this version, proves the power of the cliffhanger, either by leaving her hearer in suspense, or artfully allowing one story to fold into the next. The Arabian Nights – review 2012-12-09T18:01:14Z

Last year, the mantle was passed to “The Girl on the Train,” by Paula Hawkins, an addictively paced suspense novel that has sold more than 11 million copies worldwide. This Summer, Girls in Titles and Girls in Peril 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

On the plus side, Stanton works chromatic wonders with Mars’ mandatory burnt-sienna landscape, and he frames shots with a nice notion of visual suspense, hinting at something foreboding just outside our line of vision. John Carter: Andrew Stanton's Martian Mission Impossible 2012-03-08T16:11:02Z

The real suspense this weekend was in the showdown between Smith and the light-fingered illusionists of Now You See Me. A Magical Opening for Now You See Me. And Will Smith? Now You Don’t 2013-06-02T21:25:27Z

This is a book that does not depend on big, noisy plot developments, topical issues or deliberately withheld secrets to create suspense. Books of The Times: ?The Lake Shore Limited,? Sue Miller?s Latest Novel 2010-04-22T22:31:00Z

Choosing just one year of Johnson's presidency seems like an act of writerly restraint until you realize that each day contains enough suspense, emotion and character development for its own play. Better than Bryan Cranston? Star of South Coast Rep's 'All the Way' delivers a most convincing LBJ 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

And there are moments of real suspense: Where will it end? Visions of New Worlds, Both Hopeful and Nightmarish 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

It is as subtle and intrusive as “In Treatment” was on HBO, with some of the suspense and narrative feints that made “True Detective,” also on HBO, so addictive. ‘The Affair’ on Showtime Stars Dominic West and Ruth Wilson 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

“One more way that ‘Apollo 13’ unfolds with perfect immediacy, drawing viewers into the nail-biting suspense of a spellbinding true story.” What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Leaving Neverland’ and ‘Good Girls’ 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

Mr. Douglas does his unhinged thing again in “Beyond the Reach,” a sun-baked suspense tale that doesn’t add anything to the human-hunts-a-human genre but is effectively served. Review: In ‘Beyond the Reach,’ Michael Douglas as a Greedy Ogre in the Desert 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

Every tyro director at film school must be handed this assignment: create suspense with the most meager means — a tiny budget, a few characters and, please, no gore. Paranormal Activity 3: Three?s a Shroud 2011-10-19T12:57:15Z

A potentially stifling ambience is deflected by quiet suspense and the awe-inspiring compositions of the cinematographer, Clay Liford. | 'St. Nick': Portrait of Childhood 2011-04-22T04:43:01Z

The story — pop star falls for the fellow she hires to protect her from a dangerous stalker — fails to generate much suspense, even if you haven’t seen the movie. Review: ‘The Bodyguard’ Is Shadowed by a Stalker, and a Superstar 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Isn’t the suspense supposed to be on screen? Daniel Craig: a reluctant Bond who has made the role his own 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

The show is handsomely crafted and brimming with suspense. Fall TV: The five best new shows 2010-09-07T00:56:00Z

Rewarding, realistic romances even find their way into suspense novels. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance novels for January 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

Surprise is a bomb going off without the audience having prior knowledge of it; suspense means that they know it's there. Anne Billson 2011-02-17T21:31:01Z

The fact that Eric, for instance, suffered from an anxiety disorder that he recognizes in Max not only blurs the line between patient and physician but also intensifies the slowly building suspense. A psychiatrist and a sociopath face off in Lisa Scottoline’s latest thriller 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

But the movie, directed by Scott Teems and based on a novel by the South African writer Damon Galgut, proceeds to squelch any suspense surrounding the main character’s unmasking with an atmosphere of relentless solemnity. ‘The Quarry’ Review: Traveling With a Guilty Conscience 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

Filled with action, suspense and romantic fantasies that don't have a chance in hell of being realized, the tale of the misshapen cathedral drone has built-in popular appeal. 'Hunchback of Notre Dame' at La Jolla has identity crisis 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

With this movie, the master of suspense turns a nail-biting setpiece into a full-length feature, and shows us the ugly flipside of the violent thrillers that made his name. My Favourite Hitchcock: Rope 2012-07-27T11:23:27Z

But, while the result is perfectly entertaining and stylishly done, the suspense format doesn't allow the ideas enough room to breathe. Review 2010-10-06T23:43:00Z

During the next decades, she tried other kinds of writing, including historical fiction, but her suspense novels garnered the widest attention. Dorothy Salisbury Davis, mystery writer, dies at 98

Like those predecessors, “False Flag” is less fancy and more naturalistic than its American counterparts, with a dry humor and a low-key efficiency in generating suspense. Review: With ‘False Flag,’ Israel Exports Another Fine Thriller 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Writer/director Lawrence Michael Levine — who last helmed the hilarious mystery-comedy "Wild Canaries" — plays with genre, mixing suspense and romance with slapstick. The surreal manipulation of "Black Bear," a comic thriller with answers that "hover out of reach" 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

This converts the mildest of emotions into suspense: When a dater looks smitten or miffed, we hold our breath until we discover who produced the feeling. Netflix Finally Brings Romance to Reality TV 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

I was happy to be proved wrong; the entire family’s survival—Henry and the boys have their own heartwrenching challenges—provides its fair share of suspense. The Impossible: Naomi Watts Keeps This Disaster Film Afloat 2012-12-20T10:45:08Z

Furthermore, this episode has hardly any suspense or excitement, frankly, because it's pretty much a foregone conclusion which team will come out on top. "Top Chef" serves up an underwhelming Restaurant Wars thanks to uneven teams, lack of drama 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

The Bach dance is a male-female duet in which an enigmatic relationship keeps us in suspense. Review: Ballet Arizona Performs ‘Round’ in a Dreamy Desert Ambience 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Something as simple as a game of Connect Four becomes a source of suspense. ‘The Strange Little Cat,’ on a Day in a Berlin Apartment 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

His latest, “The Judge’s List,” due out from Doubleday on Tuesday, is a sleek suspense novel about the hunt for a serial killer who is also a sitting judge. John Grisham on Judges, Innocence and the Judgments He Ignores 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Scorsese’s camera sense effectively fills every scene with creepiness, but sustained, gripping suspense seems beyond his grasp. Movie Review | 'Shutter Island': All at Sea, Surrounded by Red Herrings 2010-02-18T15:49:00Z

Mr. George chooses to avoid the more heart-wrenching aspects of Ms. Copeland’s tough upbringing, and his presentation of her remarkable comeback is remarkably low on suspense. Review: ‘A Ballerina’s Tale’ Chronicles the Rise of Misty Copeland 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

Best of all is that one of her aunts is played by Kelly McGillis, who went Amish to play opposite Harrison Ford in the 1985 suspense film “Witness,” and ties on the bonnet again here. Lifetime, Hallmark and Up Focus on Singles With Children 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

The image relied heavily on the trappings of patriotism but was undergirded by a deep sense of suspense. The NFL Should Thank Trump for Finally Shaking Up Monday Night Football 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

A slight pause for suspense … and then: It was true, he told me, with a sly smile on his face. The secrets of "Psycho's" shower scene 2010-06-26T01:01:00Z

With the cool audacity of someone making a suspense thriller, Layton held back the awful twist until near the very end. Bafta judges share the love 2013-02-10T22:15:43Z

Part melodrama and part Cold War thriller, that film won an Oscar in 2007 and was embraced by many critics, including this one, for its blend of suspense and ethical precision. ‘Never Look Away’ Review: A Lush Adventure in Sex, Politics and Painting 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Which is to say that there are some fascinating internal tensions within the movie, along with impeccably managed suspense, sharp jokes and a beguiling, unnerving atmosphere of all-around weirdness. ‘Nope’ Review: Hell Yes 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

There is no cheap suspense, and there are no real tantrums. | ‘Wagner’s Dream’: ‘Wagner’s Dream,’ Documentary About Met’s ‘Ring’ Cycle 2012-07-18T23:04:08Z

To spare you from unendurable suspense, let me whisper that on that fateful morning one of the golden pears was — shudder — missing! Review | Books make the best gifts. Here are seven surprising choices for the readers on your list. 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

The complications kept piling up until, for me at least, the suspense began to shift. ‘Redemption Road’ and the problem of thriller-killers 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

The crosstalk and suspense Everett creates switching among “So Much Blue’s” narrative tracks delays both revelations of the secrets and how they explain each other. Percival Everett's 'So Much Blue' takes on art and secrets — and he doesn’t have the broad audience his writing deserves 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

It’s fun, and filled with a surprising degree of intrigue and suspense; an unlikely mix of Independence Day, Pearl Harbor, Jurassic Park and The Hunt for Red October. Battleship: More Fun Than a Board Game Blockbuster Has Any Right to Be 2012-05-17T15:11:50Z

But this is a film of process, mood, tempo and even suspense. Review: ‘Christmas, Again,’ About Holiday Loneliness 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

Frequent long-shot vistas of fields and waterways harbor a succession of threats, which are freely milked for suspense. Movie Review: Disney’s ‘Bears,’ Set in Alaska 2014-04-17T23:20:07Z

While Grisham's books for adults include a fair amount of violence, he steered clear of that in "Theodore Boone," choosing instead to build suspense in different ways. 'Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer' proves that John Grisham can write for kids 2010-05-27T21:59:00Z

Whether it's advertising or celebrity culture or some twisted mix of radio jingles, cartoons, soap operas, political speeches and suspense thrillers, our cultural marinade makes us fixate on easy answers, shortcuts, and magical thinking. "Mad Men" finale: Hello darkness, my old friend 2010-10-18T12:38:00Z

It’s a rather incoherent jumble, jumping around in time and never really building any suspense. Review: ‘Elvis Lives!’ (And Not Just in Your Head) 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

It was a resounding end to the scene, but just another step in Mr. De Palma’s nightmarish world of suspense. Brian De Palma Deconstructs Sequences in His Films 2013-08-25T22:04:16Z

I think this is a very good twist in the plot and builds up tension and suspense. Gone by Michael Grant - review 2012-12-05T15:00:00Z

Hong Kong continues to prove itself as a city with a large population of cinema lovers, with a smartly curated retrospective on the eternal master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock. In Hong Kong, Exploring Hitchcock's Early Days 2010-08-20T10:00:00Z

I would really recommend this book to teens with a passion for romance, suspense and mysterious lovers. Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick - review 2012-10-01T08:00:00Z

"The Nobodies Album" is brisk and engaging, though ultimately it features little in the way of conventional clues or suspense. 'The Nobodies Album': Trying to set right the stories of her life 2010-07-08T20:34:00Z

There has never been a question freighted with less suspense. Review | Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Archer’ aims for profundity but misses 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

But he also makes intelligent use of narrative delay and ellipses that help build suspense and suspicion. Movie Review: ‘The Conjuring’ Puts Lili Taylor in a Haunted House 2013-07-18T21:46:43Z

The literary suspense of “Leave the World Behind” hinges on that familiar guilt-tinged longing for a vacation that never ends. What Happens When a Vacation Goes Wrong — and Not in a Funny Way? 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

And so conducive to the creation of narrative suspense. ‘One Night in Winter,’ by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Even knowing that Roosevelt survived, you’ll be gripped by the suspense of the chaotic Battle of San Juan Hill. Review | Teddy Roosevelt and his pet cougar leap into action 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

The result is “Dear Edward,” a haunting novel that’s a masterful study in suspense, grief and survival. A Plane Goes Down, Killing 191. Only a 12-Year-Old Survives. 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

“Oh, suspense! Democracy’s going to end in a cliffhanger,” Colbert exclaimed. 'Like an impression of Alec Baldwin': late-night hosts on Trump's debate lines 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

The show is structured to evoke sentimental suspense. Review: Hip-Hopping With the Stars in ‘Half Time’ 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

If that gave critics an opening to unfairly label her a “she-Hammett” for some of her hard-boiled tendencies, her knack for suspense is still admired. Lillian Hellman is once again a presence in Washington 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

The plot builds such that the murder mystery hatches the suspense tale of Camille racing against the past, which is never dead. Amy Adams Unravels in “Sharp Objects” 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

Maybe he was bored by a story that, bar the attempted murder, relies little on surprise or suspense to entertain the audience: it's less whodunit then hedunit and will he get away with it? My favourite Hitchcock: Dial M for Murder 2012-08-06T11:39:25Z

Logan mostly keeps the suspense at a simmer. Conversion camp horror flick "They/Them" is a crafty, killer good time 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

The only suspense stems from exactly what sort of form that showdown is going to take. Books of The Times: ‘A Delicate Truth,’ by John le Carré 2013-04-30T18:00:41Z

Already optioned for a film by Ron Howard, “The Girl Before” is deservedly the anointed “top girl” of this season’s suspense novels. What ‘Gone Girl’ and ‘The Girl on the Train’ have wrought 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

Because if you'd seen Andrew Garcia, you knew for certain there was no drama or suspense when it came to him. 2010-02-17T16:01:00Z

The film builds suspense as viewers also will Ricky to stop - highlighting the paradox of a labor system where, in theory at least, contractors enjoy the freedom to do as they please. Cannes critics warm to Ken Loach's dig at gig economy 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

Although Mr. Brown is much the least experienced dance-maker of this program’s three, he’s the one with the strongest sense of structural suspense. Review: At Washington Ballet, 3 Affable, Immature Premieres 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, we seasoned suspense readers remain on the alert, waiting for those sporadic moments in the narrative when McGregor stokes our paranoia. What happens to a tranquil British town when a 13-year-old girl goes missing 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

It generates not just momentum but, as Chase recognised, suspense. Don't Stop Believin': the power ballad that refused to die 2010-12-16T22:14:01Z

Readers might guess the secret identity of Chester’s dad, but suspense builds as we wait for it to dawn on Chester. Young Sleuths Hot on the Trail of Their Own Identities 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

My idea of a good psychological suspense story is one that messes with your head. Bodies of Evidence 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

David Gernert, Mr. Pavone’s literary agent and an authority on the suspense genre, said he couldn’t think of any successful thrillers set in the publishing world. Chris Pavone’s Thriller ‘The Accident,’ Set in Book World 2014-03-10T21:39:56Z

Deceptively simple works such as Butterflies, above, seem to brood with suspense. Exhibitionist: The week's art shows in pictures 2011-01-28T15:45:00Z

Horror movies tend to be relentlessly linear, moving in a crescendo of suspense that grows out of our panicked curiosity about what will happen next. | 'We Need to Talk About Kevin': ?We Need to Talk About Kevin,? With Tilda Swinton - Review 2011-12-08T23:38:55Z

The suspense revolves around whether Bingley or Darcy will fall in love or be driven away by inferior social standing, or how badly the Bennet family will embarrass itself at the next ball. In Trying Times, the Balm of Jane Austen 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

Farhadi’s choreography of the shift from rowdy celebration to frantic desperation is the most effective part of the movie, and he keeps the suspense going on several fronts. ‘Everybody Knows’ Review: Penélope Cruz’s Homecoming Turns Frantic 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

Tales of suspense are addictive in part because, no matter how worldly we are, they return us to innocence. Suspense in The New Yorker 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

"This work captures that risk as well as the athletic encounters, interludes of suspense and humor and, always, the great beauty of horses." Vashon performance showcases humans', horses' grace 2010-08-12T19:35:00Z

The stakes suddenly become much higher, and the suspense tightens after a relatively slow start. Review: In John Grisham’s ‘The Whistler,’ a Serious Woman and Serious Crime 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

Purloined manuscripts used to be a staple device in traditional mysteries, but this latest wave of “who-wrote-it?” suspense stories is edgier, more socially aware. Review | The plot of ‘The Plot’ — the best thriller of the year (so far) — is too good to give away 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

Ware, author of “The Woman in Cabin 10,” delivers a perfectly executed suspense tale in the mode of Daphne du Maurier’s “Rebecca.” The 10 best thrillers and mysteries of 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

Ms. Shaw knows how to surprise and add suspense with wordless vocal contributions, and how to change atmosphere by means of instrumental texture. At Vail, Tiler Peck Choreographs and Michelle Dorrance Wows 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

Happily, the answer is: a superb suspense writer who is dead set on making her own distinctive mark on the governess-alone-with-weird-children-in-an-isolated-house formula. Review | Think you’ve read every twist on the nanny-in-distress novel? Ruth Ware adds a new wrinkle. 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

Ms. Novey, an accomplished poet and translator, sustains suspense throughout with beautifully restrained prose. Following a Punjabi Indian Family, a Missing Distinguished Novelist and More 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

What was missing from these performances was suspense. Review: Only Suspense at Summer Jam Was Outside the Stadium 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

“Well,” he said, and then paused, just long enough to arouse suspense. The wedding I almost ruined 2012-06-13T00:01:00Z

Rarely do meaninglessness and relevance, sham and suspense, smash up against one another with such flair as at the Golden Globe Awards. Do the Globes predict the Oscars? 2011-01-13T06:00:00Z

It also creates a culture of faux-Brechtian artifice that both kills moment-by-moment suspense and prevents the audience from being drawn into Frank's confidence in real time. 'Catch Me If You Can' on Broadway: Adaptation strays from script 2011-04-11T02:28:45Z

It refuses sensationalism or suspense, which may at times cause the hush of the seminar room to fall over the theater. Movie Review: ‘Jimmy P.’ Recounts a Case Study of a Noble Soul in Torment 2014-02-13T23:39:27Z

At the Paramount Theatre Saturday night, it was just one of many moments of genuine suspense the band pulled off live. Review: Sleater-Kinney end their American tour in Seattle, a place ‘we call home’ 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z

The suspense explodes into hysteria as two groups rush on to the strident sounds of Mendelssohn’s “War March of the Priests,” capturing a man and a woman and brutally forcing them to kiss. Review: Pina Bausch’s ‘On the Mountain’ in Paris 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

In Farhadi films, right and wrong are never clear-cut, and the suspense is intertwined with mounting moral complexities. ‘Dancing in the Dust’ Review: Marriage, Money and Morals 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z

His deceptively simple films and impersonal airbrush works, painted by commercial artists, seem to brood with suspense. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-29T00:06:24Z

One surprise of this book is its suspense. Dadaab refugee camp, detailed in 'City of Thorns,' is a world ripped from the world 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z

There’s a haunting suspense that permeates the series. Netflix takes a page from “Serial” in gripping documentary series 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

Both involve suspense, spectacle and holding the rapt attention of an audience through every nuance and peak. ‘Cirque de la Symphonie’ brings spectacle to Benaroya 2013-07-10T22:03:55Z

The novel is outstanding in every regard — writing, plot, dialogue, suspense, humor, a vivid sense of place. New life for the underground hit ‘The Never-Open Desert Diner’ 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

Claims are that the network didn’t show it to create fake suspense around Team USA which was performing after the Russians and already ahead in the previous events. Reality or “Reality”?: Should NBC’s Olympics Coverage Be More Straightforward? 2012-08-08T12:00:20Z

As before, the comedy doesn't diminish the suspense. TV picks: 'Wrong Mans,' 'No, You Shut Up,' 'Downton Abbey' 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z

It reiterated the never-ending suspense and drama of the show’s entire narrative. Open thread: tell us your favourite and most hated TV show endings 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

But being wronged, it turns out, can be a surprisingly liberating experience, and much of the novel’s suspense has to do with how drastic a form Rosemary’s revenge will take. Book World: ‘The Girl Next Door’ by Ruth Rendell

Michael Koryta grabs readers with tales of gripping suspense and just enough touches of the supernatural to keep them nervous on two levels. Michael Koryta's 'The Cypress House': a whiff of doom in a whisp of smoke 2011-02-03T00:02:06Z

What could be described as a story about gaslighting is complicated by the liberal use of eccentric camera perspectives that seem less aligned with expressing Molly’s distress than with pushing suspense. ‘Knocking’ Review: Domestic Disturbances 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

But there was action and suspense and undemanding historical context. Rewind TV: Hit & Miss; Hell on Wheels; The Fish Market: Inside Billingsgate – review 2012-05-26T23:05:38Z

Norman is less interested in generating page-turning suspense than he is in investigating and re-creating the comfort, longing and nostalgia that detective fiction provides for its consumers. An attack on a World War II photograph leads to revelations in ‘My Darling Detective’ 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

What suspense there is concerns an overseas letter to Thomas from his wife, Caitlin, that Thomas is terrified to open. Review: ‘Set Fire to the Stars’ Unleashes Dylan Thomas on America 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

The French are fussy and snobbish, the Indians clannish and boisterous, and the movie is in such a hurry to avoid real conflict that it also avoids suspense, drama and emotional impact. In ‘The Hundred-Foot Journey,’ Kitchen Wars Break Out 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

The movie achieves its nadir when a group of Schindler Jews, as they are known, find themselves in Auschwitz, heading for the showers…Spielberg unbelievably plays the scene for thriller suspense and last-minute rescue. In Praise of Film Critic J. Hoberman 2012-01-05T16:32:38Z

When will we insist on a media world that offers well-made, intelligent entertainment with plot, dialogue, character development and suspense instead of mindless, ever-escalating violence? Letters: A Diet of Brutality 2010-04-24T02:32:00Z

“Carol” filters a relatively happy romance through layers of anxiety, dread and psychological suspense. Review: ‘Carol’ Explores the Sweet Science of Magnetism 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

"I bet 98% of the of audience will have no idea what's going to happen - which all adds to the suspense." Whodunnit? 2010-04-16T07:23:00Z

A few more mysteries breeze in, but they generate little suspense. Review | Leif Enger’s fans have waited 10 years for ‘Virgil Wander.’ Was it worth it? 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

The movie has a didactic knowingness that undercuts suspense, and even curiosity, at every turn. Tarzan Cannot Be Rebooted 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Demos: The deliberations for Steven’s trial there was a sense of suspense. Making a Murderer Creators: Juror Feared Being Framed by Police 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

The tale’s resolution relies heavily on coincidences, a few of which strain even a seasoned suspense reader’s credulity. Review | In her new novel, Rene Denfeld draws on her experience as a homeless teen 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Pearce is also well-versed in staging and shooting decent action scenes, and building suspense enough to keep “Hotel Artemis” diverting in its overstuffed ambition. Review: Jodie Foster Presides at ‘Hotel Artemis’ 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

My heart sank as I read the opening sentences of Ruth Ware’s new suspense novel, “The Lying Game.” Does Ruth Ware’s new spine-tingler live up to expectations? 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

While the suspense and power of her story come through, the film can be clunkily expository and, with regard to tensions between Sara and Pavlo, frustratingly vague. ‘My Name Is Sara’ Review: Keeping Secrets in Close Quarters 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

Ms. Santos Silva’s work, whether stylized figurative portraiture or abstracted lightscapes, is imbued with that same sense of dynamic suspense. In Transit: Showcasing a Portuguese Artist Working in Paris 2011-04-08T10:00:04Z

Wallace asked, and Trump answered that he'll keep him in suspense. Fox's Wallace extracts headline with follow-up question 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Fleck may not be a master of plot engineering or suspense, but he is an expert at riling the unconscious and releasing the repressed like bats in a belfry. Despite a few bumps, 'Blacktop Highway' still leads to horrors inside the American psyche 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

This book was a pleasant mixture of suspense, mystery and humour. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead - review 2013-07-15T11:00:00Z

On the plane of physical suspense, a series of burglaries in the office-warehouse dreadfully endangers the hidden group. Revisiting Anne Frank’s Diary — ‘A Warm and Stirring Confession’ 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

Edgar Landa's swiftly moving fight direction infuses the climax with general suspense. Delightful 'El Henry' is a multicultural mash-up 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Du Maurier’s plot is a fine piece of gothic machinery, full of suspense and foreboding and subtextual kink. ‘Rebecca’ Review: A Classic Tale, but There’s Only One Hitch 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

But McGregor deliberately invokes that conventional suspense opener to challenge his readers’ well-worn expectations. What happens to a tranquil British town when a 13-year-old girl goes missing 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z