The best thrillers to watch on Netflix in April
Netflix has a large selection of movies to watch, but only some can be winners. Each month, we pick five great thrillers to watch that feel like great fits for that specific month. Maybe the movie is seasonally appropriate, maybe it’s leaving Netflix soon, maybe the people involved have a new project coming out, or maybe it just feels right — sometimes, it’s just vibes.
This month, our picks for you to enjoy at home include an Alfred Hitchcock classic, a rare successful modern Hitchcock imitator, an exciting Denzel-led remake of a classic, and more for you to watch this month.
Year: 2009Run time: 1h 46mDirector: Tony ScottCast: Denzel Washington, John Travolta, John Turturro
One of my favorite runs for a filmmaker is Tony Scott from 2004’s Man on Fire to his final film, 2010’s Unstoppable. Scott embraced the arrival of digital filmmaking tools and used them to enhance his work, with rapid-fire editing and amplified color tones bringing the most out of his action thrillers.
This era also saw Scott repeatedly work with Denzel Washington, and the two never missed. In addition to Man on Fire and Unstoppable, the two collaborated on the sci-fi thriller Deja Vu and this remake of the 1974 classic train heist movie.
Washington stars as subway dispatcher Walter Garber, who finds himself as the negotiator in an ongoing hostage crisis on board the titular train. John Travolta is appropriately unhinged as the lead hijacker, and the movie has a sprawling cast that features John Turturro (NYPD’s hostage negotiator, who Travolta rejects in favor of Washington’s Garber), Luis Guzmán, and James Gandolfini, among many others.
The movie features some great train action scenes, but the highlight is the interplay between Washington and
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