Michael Clayton proves that a legal thriller can also be one of the great character studies of the century.

Send Help is a wickedly funny survival thriller that uses a deserted island to skewer workplace politics, corporate entitlement and the question of whether people ever really change.

Minority Report still feels eerily ahead of its time, blending blockbuster spectacle with unsettling questions about surveillance, free will and the cost of safety in a technology-driven future.

The Secret Agent is clearly an ambitious film with a lot of craft behind it. I admired many of its individual elements, but as a whole, it never quite came together for me the way I hoped it would.