Rolling Tag

From lurid Eighties noirs to sleazy Nineties suspense flicks, Fatal Attraction to Wild Things — the best thrillers designed to make your pulse race and your palms sweat When Fair Play, Chloe Domont’s splendidly salacious thriller, premiered at Sundance this past January, festival audiences immediately reacted to this tale of two financial analysts gunning for a golden-ticket client and C-suite brass ring. It wasn’t just the now-notorious opening scene of a pair getting it on in the lavatory during a marriage, or the kinks that keeps a secret relationship between these competitive Wall Street sharks in maximum-horny mode, and even the looming threat of violence lurking around every downtown Latest York corner. What people keyed into was the throwback thrill that...