Collider has published a ranked list of the six best thriller films released since 2000, arguing that the genre's peak years fell between 2000 and 2015. The list counts down from six to one, with each entry chosen for how it subverts audiences' sense of control and order.

– Nightcrawler (2014, ranked 6) — Jake Gyllenhaal plays a driven freelance cameraman whose pursuit of gruesome news footage becomes a dark commentary on capitalism.
– Sicario (2015, ranked 5) — Emily Blunt's idealistic FBI agent is thrown into a morally murky, unregulated task force fighting cartels on the US-Mexico border.
– Gone Girl (2014, ranked 4) — Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike star in this psychological thriller about a marriage that unravels after a wife's mysterious disappearance.