Five Screwball Thrillers that Kill

Five Screwball Thrillers that Kill

Thrillers flirt with the absurd. Everyone knows this, except the people in thrillers, who are far too busy misplacing briefcases, dangling from cornices, falling in love with the wrong people, and being chased through cobblestoned foreign capitals to notice how ridiculous everything has gotten. The “screwball thriller” is a genre of fiction that’s been celebrated on these pages before. But in my corner of the world, which is cinema, I’ve never h…