Crime

There’s a grace and efficiency with which Slow Horses moves through its plot that is genuinely admirable. There are a lot of moving parts here in Season...

It’s mostly business as usual in the Season 2 premiere of Tulsa King, but there are a couple of hints of a step up in...

It’s hard to tell if the cliffhanger ending of Sector 36 is hinting at a sequel or providing a resonant note of deliberate ambiguity. This...

Sector 36 is an odd film based on a heinous string of real crimes in Nithari, a residential enclave in New Delhi, in 2005-2006. “Odd”...

The ending of Officer Black Belt sums up the theme that has been running throughout the entire movie – the burgeoning sense of duty and...

There’s a problem with Officer Black Belt, a well-intentioned Netflix movie about an athletic idealist punching and kicking recidivism out of South Korean criminals –...

Yancy spends most of Bad Monkey Episode 6 languishing in jail for reasons we’ll get to in a minute, which is not as disappointing a development as...

Slow Horses Season 4 continues a string of rather obvious titling practices with Episode 2, “A Stranger Comes to Town”, which is about, among other...

River Cartwright is dead. Not really, of course, but the premiere of Slow Horses Season 4 would you like you to believe so, at least...

It would be an incredibly bold move for a crime drama to kill off its lead detective halfway through the season, so it’s perhaps just...

Action movies have been knocking off First Blood ever since it debuted in 1982, but Jeremy Saulnier’s Rebel Ridge is the rare example of a...

A swanky wedding, a tiny island, and a murder — this is how Netflix’s The Perfect Couple begins, and it unfurls in the tense and white-knuckle...

If there’s a complaint to be leveled at Netflix’s otherwise very good whodunit The Perfect Couple, it’s that the ending is a little predictable. I,...

It wouldn’t take much effort to count up the obvious influences running through the veins of The Perfect Couple, Netflix’s six-part all-star whodunit. Both Knives...

It really does seem like you can’t tell any story without a few flashbacks these days. I’m skeptical of the general premise, but I’m not...

The ending of The Frog has just the right amount of ambiguity and payoff. Some things are left unresolved, sure, but some important matters are...

Set across two timelines and multiple viewpoints, Netflix’s Fincher-like serial killer thriller The Frog isn’t exactly easy to follow. Fear not, as I’ve put together...

The Frog continues a loose trend I’d vaguely describe as the Westernization of Korean television. It’s not necessarily something you’d notice unless you watch as...

What is the price of freedom? It’s a hefty toll for most, and a fortune for some. The ending of Lady in the Lake finds both Maddie...

Bad Monkey is even more relaxed than usual in Episode 3, which is both a good and a bad thing. The upside is that it...