Mystery & Thriller

Years ago, when I lived alone, my neighbours were bonkers nocturnal drug addicts who never stopped banging on the walls for reasons I could never...

Wall to Wall is essentially two movies in one. The first is a genuinely involving and claustrophobic thriller with proper themes and compelling mysteries. The...

The premiere wasn't a fluke. Episode 3 of Dexter: Resurrection, aptly titled "Backseat Driver", feels like a return to the franchise of old with a tight focus on Dexter himself as he works to claim another victim.

I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that in Episode 2, “Shot for Dots”, The Institute still has a lot of the same problems it showcased in the premiere.

I get the sense we’ll have to cut The Institute a bit of slack. There’s a compelling core story here, and Episode 1 hints at it repeatedly.

For at least an hour, Push is one of the best, most nail-biting movies of 2025. It’s a masterful work of horror-thriller craftsmanship, brought to...

I’ve had more problems with Murderbot than most, but you have to give credit where it’s due. I was right, at least, in my prediction that the...

Even if it wasn’t my job, I’d still find myself watching a movie like Ziam. As played out as zombies might be these days, the...

Murderbot is a weird show. I’m pretty sure I’ve said that before, but it’s worth reiterating, since even this deep into the season – Episode 9 is the penultimate outing – I’m still not sure what works best about it.

As a self-important critic, I’m very much a champion of films being Very Serious works of illuminating art intended to expand our horizons and fundamentally...

Demonic possession peaked in the ‘70s with The Exorcist and hasn’t been bettered since, which means that every movie about the subject is necessarily derivative...

I never thought The Old Guard was as good as everyone else seemed to. It was fine, don’t get me wrong. It had kinetic hand-to-hand...

The segment of The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon that opens Episode 8 of Murderbot goes on for so long that I genuinely worried that it would constitute the entire 22-minute runtime.

Look, I’m a reasonable man, so there’s no way I was expecting the ending of The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 to be any good. Too...

I decided to rewatch the 28 Days Later films in anticipation of 28 Years Later, with a small voice in my head wondering if there’s any...

You can make a lot of simple declarative statements about Episode 7 of Murderbot.

E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars is famous in large part for a significant last-minute twist which completely recontextualises the entire story, and fans of the...

You know how racists claim not to be able to tell people of colour apart because they all look the same? That’s kind of how...

One of the most pernicious zombie media tropes is seasoned survivors suddenly becoming brain-dead to allow some drama to happen.

The best way to adapt a video game in live-action – animation is a different kettle of fish, as proved by Castlevania, Arcane, and most...