Crime fiction
Sew Torn review – seamstress thriller turns into Run Lola Run-style alternative-reality caper
A sewing supply shopowner who stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong is faced with three choices – commit the perfect crime, call the police, or run away
Leslie Felperin
25, Mar, 2025 @1:00 PM
The Alto Knights review – Robert De Niro mob movie makes an offer you can refuse
The actor’s false nose is the star attraction as he plays dual roles in Barry Levinson’s baffling latest
Wendy Ide
23, Mar, 2025 @3:00 PM
When Autumn Falls review – a small gem of a mystery from François Ozon
Hélène Vincent is a treat as a devoted grandmother who isn’t quite what she seems in this understated French tale of family dysfunction
Wendy Ide
23, Mar, 2025 @12:00 PM
Santosh review – gripping police procedural about the murky side of modern India
Documentary-maker Sandhya Suri’s remarkable feature debut pitches a new female cop into a complex rural murder case
Wendy Ide
22, Mar, 2025 @3:00 PM
Bad Boys review – 30th anniversary of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence blowing stuff up
The franchise created a bromance for the ages, with this first outing featuring gunfights and wisecracking – and an at-the-time more established Lawrence pulling focus
Peter Bradshaw
21, Mar, 2025 @11:00 AM
Santosh review – terrifically tense cop movie digs into sexism and caste prejudice in India
Sunita Rajwar and Shahana Goswami lead a sinewy crime drama as a cynical veteran and a wide-eyed rookie who has inherited her late husband’s job
Peter Bradshaw
21, Mar, 2025 @7:00 AM
The Alto Knights review – double De Niro makes for a laborious true-story mafioso movie
The actor plays Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, two warring mob bosses in 1950s New York, in a caper that lacks the richness of its writer’s earlier Goodfellas
Peter Bradshaw
19, Mar, 2025 @4:00 PM
Joseph Wambaugh obituary
Bestselling crime writer whose work drew on his own experience as an LAPD detective
Michael Carlson
10, Mar, 2025 @4:44 PM
Papa review – brutal family murder is backdrop for study of parental culpability
Sean Lau is tremendously subtle as a Hong Kong man whose own son brutally murders his wife and daughter
Cath Clarke
25, Feb, 2025 @1:00 PM
Girls on Wire review – Chinese behind-the-scenes stunt drama is a spectacle
A stunt double who plays roof-bouncing ninjas before the lead steps in for the closeup is stuck in a family/mob triangle in Vivian Qu’s occasionally silly thriller
Peter Bradshaw
17, Feb, 2025 @2:30 PM
To a Land Unknown review – Palestinian migrants face tough choices in taut Athens-set thriller
Two stranded cousins scrap for a better life – whatever the cost – in Mahdi Fleifel’s powerful feature
Wendy Ide
16, Feb, 2025 @3:00 PM
Scarlet Winter review – chopped-up narrative method decorates corpse-disposal thriller
The non-linear structure of Munjal Yagnik’s debut aims at Memento-like noir but doesn’t gather the narrative shards into a compelling whole
Phil Hoad
03, Feb, 2025 @9:00 AM
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