Mystery & Thriller

Although today’s ending wasn’t quite as shocking as others, Trolley Season 1 Episode 7 still did a stellar job of retaining its excitement level. With Ki-young (Ki...

Complete with a surprisingly happy ending, as well as a very good overall conclusion to proceedings, Alchemy of Souls season 2 wrapped up excellently with Episode...

The Japanese battle royale series Alice in Borderland was a tremendous hit for Netflix back in 2020, taking the Haro Aso manga series and turning...

This revenge thriller has felt unique in many ways. Blum (Anna Maria Mühe) is a character difficult to understand, but you truly vouch for her....

Netflix is routinely criticized for its release schedule — the weird timeliness of some titles and the zero justifications given as to why. Here, we...

Park Chan-wook’s film is a murder mystery romantic thriller about an ominous romance; it is an atmospheric masterpiece overflowing with obsession, jealousy, and loss of...

The Pale Blue Eye follows Augustus Landor (Christian Bale), a detective of some renown from New York City. It was a cold October day in...

Sprung from the obviously rather demented mind of Nicolas Winding Refn, Copenhagen Cowboy is a deliberately confounding show, a kaleidoscopic, macabre dreamscape that doesn’t play...

Throughout these recaps, I’ve speculated about Miu. I’ve described her often as a kind of moral good in human form, sheer will in a tracksuit....

What is Miu? And by that, I don’t mean is she an angel or an alien or anything like that. I mean what function does...

Appearances can be deceiving. A family home might be a secret sex trafficking operation. A Chinese restaurant might hide a body-chomping pig farm being utilized...

Lonely — that’s the word. That’s what everyone in Copenhagen Cowboy seems to be. Even in group scenes, everyone is quiet, looking at the ground...

If most shows opened with a woman being strangled in a pig farm, her choking interspersed with the frantic squealing of sows, I’d think it...

Every director has at least one bizarre, self-indulgent work in them, the kind of thing the studio system won’t let them make, that audiences can’t...

Season 3 of Bungo Stray Dogs almost saw the elimination of the leaders of the Port Mafia and Armed Detective Agency. Now that the first...

Did you know that on every equinox, the late afternoon sun casts a shadow down the northern staircase of the Temple of Kukulcán at Chichen...

Not only does Trolley maintain a consistent level of quality, but it also manages to inject its episodes with a seemingly unending intensity. Gripping from minute one,...

Although every episode of Trolley ends with some form of hook for the viewer, today’s might have been the season’s finest so far. Seeing Joong-do (Park Hee-soon) alongside...

You have to wonder what drew Scott Cooper, the director behind gritty crime films (Out of the Furnace, Black Mass, Crazy Heart), to Louis Bayard’s...

We get a unique experience with the Netflix series Kaleidoscope. A heist over 25 years in the making is about to go down in front...