Mystery & Thriller

I know what you’re thinking – does the dog die? Let me save you the suspense. No, he doesn’t. Indy makes it out of Good...

It has long been said that animals, especially dogs, are a cinematic cheat code. You can have a fairly run-of-the-mill story to tell, but stick...

I wasn’t a huge fan of Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite, a too-glossy triptych boasting too many stars and a recursive storytelling gimmick that...

Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite is built on a great idea, rippling with urgency and tension. Out of nowhere, an ICBM is launched at...

The Last Frontier isn't a procedural, but it feels like one in Episode 4, which isn't intended as a criticism.

It’s very hard to come up with a happy ending in a zombie movie, which is probably why The Elixir doesn’t even try. This, I’d argue, is...

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...