Mystery & Thriller

Pimped is a simple tale: Sarah (Ella Scott Lynch) feels the need for a night out, hooks up with Lewis (Benedict Samuel) at a bar,...

The setup of The Ninth Passenger resembles that of a thousand better low-budget genre movies. A group of salacious, idiotic teens venture aboard a luxury...

Mile 22 is the fourth collaboration between rapper-turned-actor Mark Wahlberg and director Peter Berg in just five years. The other three were Lone Survivor, about...

Note: this review of Ozark Season 2 is based on the three episodes we were provided for review, and may be updated following the season’s official air date....

The Motive, or El Autor, by Spanish director Manuel Martín Cuenca, has a lot of things going for it. It’s darkly funny, built around a killer...

At this point, if you go anywhere near a cabin the woods, you’re just asking for trouble. Brad Baruh’s Dead Night – as generic a...

The only thing I really remember about watching 50 Shades Darker, aside from having a few cocktails under my belt, is being unnaturally excited by...

There are many films about people trying to stop a crime they just know is going to happen: The Warning (El Aviso) is another. And...

The Purge was a home invasion story; the sequels brought the same scenario into the streets and into politics. The First Purge presents the proof of...

This review of Calibre contains minor spoilers. Airing on Netflix today, just a week after its home-turf debut at the Edinburgh Film Festival where it...

My goodness, I really didn’t enjoy Tau. It’s a thriller in the very loosest sense of the word – I can’t really think of a time where...

Kiss Me First is based on a book of the same name by Lottie Moggach, and even though it was first published in 2013, the story...

In the opening scene of Secret City, a young Australian girl on scholarship to China noisily demands a free Tibet. Then she sets herself on...

This review contains spoilers for the season finale of Bulletproof. You’ll have to excuse the absence of regular Bulletproof reviews here. Thanks to each episode...

In Escape Plan, the first film, Sylvester Stallone played Ray Breslin, a former prosecutor whose wife and child were murdered by an escaped convict he...

I’m sure you’ve all noticed that Netflix is getting hold of more and more films and TV shows from around the world in recent months;...

This review contains spoilers for the Condor premiere episode, “What Loneliness”. Okay, let me get this straight. First, in 1974, was the novel Six Days...

In the 19th century, persons suffering from mental illness were thought to be alienated from their own true natures. Experts who studied them were therefore...

Sara’s Notebook is remarkable throughout, raising important questions of morality and exposing the true fickleness of mortality. Following Laura, we are taken on a journey of...

Neeraj Pandey’s Aiyaary is a messy and overstuffed espionage thriller that runs for 160 agonizing minutes. Checking your watch during a bad movie is nothing...