Collider has published a ranked list of the 25 best psychological thrillers released since 2000, compiled by writer Jeremy Urquhart. The article opens by acknowledging that "psychological thriller" is a slippery genre label, generally applied to films focused on a character's internal or mental struggle amid high-stakes or stressful circumstances, and notes that films from 2000 itself (such as Memento and American Psycho) are excluded as belonging to the 20th century.

The countdown begins at number 25 with M. Night Shyamalan's Split (2016), praised for James McAvoy's performance as a man with dissociative identity disorder holding kidnapped women captive, and continues with Michael Haneke's Caché (2005) at number 24, an atypically thriller-oriented entry from a director better known for psychological dramas. The full ranking proceeds through 25 titles in total, though only the top two entries are detailed in the excerpt provided.