Mystery & Thriller

As obviously dreadful a film as Citizen Vigilante is, its cult success has become impossible to ignore (and has perhaps even spawned a sequel already)....

You know exactly where Agent Kim Reactivated is going in Episode 1 and 2, but this isn’t a criticism. It’s one of those stories – think John Wick or Nobody – that hinges on the catharsis of a seemingly ordinary, run-of-the-mill guy secretly being an all-action killing machine, so the premiere is about fostering that vibe.

John Sugar is an immigrant, a literal alien, which is probably worth keeping in the back of your mind when watching Season 2 of Sugar. Not that the show is going to let you forget it, at least not based on Episode 2, “Downer Town”, which is very much backdropped by the idea of people making their way in strange places that are often hostile to them, and feeling, privately, that they’re completely on their own in doing so.

Uwe Boll is a filmmaker best-known for producing at least three movies – though arguably many more – that are among the very worst ever...

Season 2 of Sugar is already a much different proposition from the first outing. Apple TV’s startlingly well-shot neo-noir initially masqueraded as a pretty straight-up crime thriller,...

The problem with shows like I Will Find You chewing through plot so fast is that it’s feasible for them to run out. And in many ways...

Oh, man, I liked him too! I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, since I Will Find You has made Hayden a bit too reasonable and helpful, but even so,...

Just when it seemed like I Will Find You was becoming a bit too uninteresting and obvious, Episode 6 throws in a few curveballs. Sure, the idea...

I think we’re beginning to get a pretty clear picture of what’s going on in I Will Find You now. Ever since Season 1 slowed down...

That’s more like it, right? When I Will Find You stops to take a breath, it becomes a much more coherent show. I appreciate that Harlan Coben’s...

Oh, boy, a lot is going on in Episode 3 of I Will Find You. The breakneck pace that continues to define Season 1 does this outing no...

Somewhat naively, I assumed that I Will Find You might slow down a bit after that breathless premiere. Based on Episode 2, though, this seems to be...

Harlan Coben shows famously move at quite a clip, but even by those standards, the premiere of I Will Find You is positively rocket-fuelled. It’s...

The Harlan Coben adaptation is a wonderfully specific and peculiar thing. Having become an annual New Year’s treat for Netflix, it feels like a bit...

By the end of Disclosure Day, Hugo Wakefield (Colman Domingo; The Madness) has managed to jolt the memories of Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt; Oppenheimer) and...

Initially, I could not tell if Disclosure Day felt off because of the times we live in or because Steven Spielberg and David Koepp (You...

Criminal Record isn’t your average police procedural. While it’s a perfectly respectable thriller with compelling characters and performances, its real strength is in how it builds...

Colors of Evil: Black is a sequel to Colors of Evil: Red, both Polish thrillers adapted by Adrian Panek for Netflix from Malgorzata Oliwia Sobczak’s...

Colors of Evil: Black isn’t a whodunit. From an early stage, it’s pretty obvious who’s at fault, and the answer is pretty much everyone. The...

Continuing a long and effective tradition of thrillers set in provincial towns with dirty secrets buried in their foundations, Colors of Evil: Black is nothing...