Mystery & Thriller

Despite a lot of Spanish-language content dropping on Netflix this weekend (see also: Green Frontier and 45 rpm), the low-key highlight might be the eight-episode...

Netflix is thinking of the kids in their breezy ten-part series The InBESTigators, about four-grade school kids who start up a detective agency to solve...

You can sometimes trace a film’s history and make a reasonably accurate guess of what it’s going to be like. The Operative, written and directed by...

Sara Seligman’s Coyote Lake is just interesting enough to be annoying. Most vigilante thrillers don’t even get that far, so credit where it’s due. But this new...

It isn’t cool to be a man anymore. Perhaps it never was. Either way, the oppressive gender isn’t easy to garner sympathy for these days,...

In this bizarre Spanish film that arrived on Netflix today, writer-director Jorge M. Fontana concerns himself with imagination. And, if we’re being frank, absurdity. Boi,...

When I first began to watch Dev Patel in The Wedding Guest, I had a passing thought that he found a script that could play...

Brian De Palma directed multiple box office smash films that have stood the test of time, that were not necessarily even critical darlings. Whom they...

If anyone has a secret obsession, it’s Netflix — though to be honest it isn’t much of a secret. The obsession is with cookie-cutter made-for-TV...

In the wordless opening scene of Kidnapping Stella, two men, one older, heavier, and hairier, the other younger, fairer and lighter, kidnap Stella (Jella Haase). Her...

Shadow Wolves is a timely, diverse little action thriller, with a political viewpoint plugged straight into the cultural mains, with things to say about immigrant scaremongering...

This City on a Hill Episode 4 recap for the episode titled “The Wickedness of the Wicked Shall Be Upon Himself” contains spoilers. You can...

There’s little happiness in Skin in the Game, a film that bases itself on real events. And there’s an inevitable reality that attaches itself to the writing...

Dolph Lundgren is one of the few actors whose acting roles are more realistic than their real lives. His new film The Tracker, by long-time low-budget...

When I saw the freezing exterior in 2019’s Cold Blood, I was prepped for Jean Reno‘s version of Polar, witnessing the older man stark naked near a frozen lake,...

This review of Hulu’s Into The Dark Episode 10: “Culture Shock”, contains minor spoilers. In partnership with Blumhouse Television, Hulu Original Into the Dark is...

This recap for Netflix’s The Chosen One Season 1, Episode 6, “Gift of Death”, contains significant spoilers. We have provided extensive coverage on the thriller,...

This recap for Netflix’s The Chosen One Season 1, Episode 5, “Holy Refuge”, contains significant spoilers. We have provided extensive coverage on the thriller, and...

This recap for Netflix’s The Chosen One Season 1, Episode 2, “Science’s Faith”, contains significant spoilers. We have provided extensive coverage on the thriller, and...

This recap for Netflix’s The Chosen One Season 1, Episode 3, “The Relic”, contains significant spoilers. We have provided extensive coverage on the thriller, and...