The critics reckon Ben Affleck's debut in the director's chair is a colourful peek into low-rent Boston which also manages to be a compelling thriller.

I think this story about heroic dogs and their heroic owner makes for an instructive, compelling thriller.

In the race to discover whether the message is a technological gift or the formula for the ultimate weapon, the author grapples with the issue of scientific responsibility in a compelling sci-fi thriller.

A Criminal Defense is a compelling and strikingly intelligent thriller that crackles with legal and psychological authenticity.

Booklist praised it as a "A perfectly balanced, fast-paced, and compelling thriller.

Now onstage at the minuscule but ornate Studio Dante, he is the De Niro-ish star attraction in Julia Jordan's compelling one-act psychological thriller "Dark Yellow."

A preview performance on Saturday afternoon revealed "D Train" to be a compelling thriller.

Markus Naegele, Editor for Heyne, called it "The most compelling ecological thriller of our time".

Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.

So we genrefied it, and turned John Nash's life into more of a compelling thriller.