6 Perfect Thrillers That Rival 'Gone Girl'

Gone Girl was annoying. It was genius but it made me fidget. It spoiled a certain kind of thriller for everyone who fell hard for it. After Amy’s (Rosamund Pike) diary, Nick’s (Ben Affleck) television smile, the Cool Girl monologue, and that marriage turning into something closer to mutually assured destruction, ordinary twists started feeling cheap. You wanted a movie that could lie to you intelligently. Something where the characters were complicated enough to remain interesting after the mystery had been cracked, and where a second viewing made the first one look even smarter.