Mystery & Thriller

You can’t make zombies interesting in 2025. It’s impossible. The shambling undead in Kimo Stamboel’s Netflix streamer The Elixir are nothing you haven’t seen before. They...

Predictably, Harlan Coben’s Lazarus has one of those endings that seem to go on forever, delivering twist after twist just for the fun of it....

The work of Harlan Coben is perfectly suited to our current era of relentless home entertainment, where audiences swallow stories wholesale and barely have time...

"Circus" is a very good episode of Slow Horses, in all the ways we've come to expect. It's laugh-out-loud funny in places, effectively tense in others, and moves along at a real clip.

The Perfect Neighbor is an engaging and quite uniquely constructed true-crime documentary that, at about the midpoint, morphs into one of the most harrowing films...

Good News (2025) opens with a disclaimer that, while the story is based on real events, most of it is entirely fictional. And this largely...

It takes some real stones to pitch a movie like Good News (2025). Sure, retellings of vital historical events are ten-a-penny, so the idea of...

Alaska is full of amazing sights. Caribou roaming the tundra.

Slow Horses is a very smart show about people who're indescribably stupid or much cleverer than they look.

Look, nobody, least of all me, thought that Everybody Loves Me When I’m Dead was going to have a happy ending. But I didn’t expect...

There’s no such thing as a victimless crime, which seems to be the underlying point of Netflix’s demented, bleak, hyper-violent Thai thriller Everybody Loves Me...

The latest in an increasingly long list of Netflix animations adapting recognisable video game IP, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch joins stuff like Castlevania, Tekken, Onimusha, and...

Across eight episodes, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch tells the closest thing we’ve had to an original Splinter Cell story since 2013’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist. It’s appropriately on-brand in its global scope...

Splinter Cell: Deathwatch has a pretty conclusive ending, let’s be frank about that. Theoretically, there’s no need to continue it any further. The bad guys are...

Splinter Cell: Deathwatch is pretty good, and it’s also likely to annoy almost everyone who watches it. At this point, Ubisoft’s edging of long-time franchise fans...

Vicious doesn’t have the kind of ending you can explain. Everyone who watches it will likely take something different from it and have a different...

A friend of mine’s dad once nailed his garden gate shut during Halloween to stop kids knocking on his door, which seemed a bit curmudgeonly...

The ending of The Woman in Cabin 10 has the curious distinction of being both too silly and ridiculous to be believed but also nowhere...

Given what The Woman in Cabin 10 is about and where it’s set, it’s hard not to feel like it misses some open goals. A...

It would have been difficult for The Last Frontier to compete with its premiere in pure action terms, so in Episode 2, "Wind of Change", it doesn't bother.