Crime films
The Beasts review – unsettling rural noir is a Euro-arthouse twist on Straw Dogs
Middle-class incomers to a remote village in Spain’s ‘wild west’ expose fear, resentment and nationalism in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s disturbing true-crime drama
Peter Bradshaw
22, Mar, 2023 @9:00 AM
The Killer review – super-violent South Korean thriller with well-coiffed assassin
A retired mercenary must free a kidnapped teen in this lurid and drum-tight thriller
Leslie Felperin
21, Mar, 2023 @7:00 AM
The Whisper of Silence review – coffee-taster drama makes most of stunning locations
Alfonso Quijada’s feature follows a young woman gifted with an extraordinary sense of smell. It looks great, but fails to satisfy
Leslie Felperin
20, Mar, 2023 @11:00 AM
Boston Strangler review – Keira Knightley serial-killer story tells fierce tale
Knightley and Carrie Coon star as journalists whose persistent reporting forced the cops and city hall to take notice of a series of murders of women in the early 1960s
Peter Bradshaw
16, Mar, 2023 @1:00 PM
Marlowe review – worldweary Liam Neeson makes for low-energy private eye
Raymond Chandler’s gumshoe hero is resurrected in this period adaptation of a novel by John Banville – a film that looks good but lacks a spark
Peter Bradshaw
14, Mar, 2023 @7:00 AM
The Irish Mob review – cat and mouse with the gardaí in knock-off gangster flick
There are sloppy geezerisms, flat-pack tough talk and an overexplaining narration that kneecaps the tension in Patrick McKnight’s dud crime thriller
Phil Hoad
08, Mar, 2023 @10:00 AM
Charcoal review – tremendous thriller has family looking after mafia interloper
A Brazilian family struggling with their ailing grandfather are offered an unusual way out in Carolina Markowicz’s darkly comic and suspenseful feature debut
Leslie Felperin
07, Mar, 2023 @11:00 AM
Bandit review – shallow crime caper is saucer-eyed over real-life 1980s bank robber
Josh Duhamel charms as ‘flying bandit’ Gilbert Galvan, who pulled off nearly 60 robberies across Canada, but this light-hearted retelling lacks any insight
Cath Clarke
28, Feb, 2023 @11:00 AM
Bad City review – retro homage to 80s Japanese thrillers is elegantly pulpy
A taskforce of honest cops is assembled to tackle the gangsters menacing Kaiko City. Many punches are thrown in choreographed style
Leslie Felperin
28, Feb, 2023 @7:00 AM
Luther: The Fallen Sun review – grisly violence takes starring role
Feature incarnation of the Idris Elba cop drama sees a ropey but savage snuff-porn plot get too much explicit attention
Peter Bradshaw
24, Feb, 2023 @6:00 AM
Cocaine Bear review – critter-on-drugs thriller struggles to live up to sensational title
Not since Snakes on a Plane has a title promised so much, but despite a great cast the plot is too tame
Ellen E Jones
23, Feb, 2023 @9:00 PM
Limbo review – hardbitten outback noir with a compassionate heart
Simon Baker plays a ruined cop investigating a cold-case murder in this tough, sandblasted thriller that coolly lays out the racism and discrimination the Indigenous population face
Peter Bradshaw
23, Feb, 2023 @6:30 PM
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