214 Best Releases From the Genre Crime (Page 2)
Memory
SimilarAnnie Hall (1977), Ben-Hur (1959), Cape Fear (1991), Dawn of the Dead (2004), Donnie Brasco (1997), Enough (2002), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), From Russia with Love (1963), GoodFellas (1990), Hitman (2007), King Kong (2005), Léon: The Professional (1994), Lucky Number Slevin (2006), Manhattan (1979), Maria Full of Grace (2004), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Pi (1998), Poseidon (2006),
Shaft (2000) Sliver (1993), Stranger Than Paradise (1984), Taxi Driver (1976), The Apartment (1960), The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), The Silent Partner (1978), The Terminal (2004), The Thirteenth Floor (1999), The Usual Suspects (1995), Twelve Monkeys (1995), War of the Worlds (2005), We Own the Night (2007), You Only Live Twice (1967),
Watch afterDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), Parasite (2019), Society of the Snow (2023), The Batman (2022), Top Gun: Maverick (2022),
StarringRay Stevenson,
Both the main characters in Michel Franco’s Memory are struggling to deal with the echoes of their past. Sylvia (Jessica Chastain), a recovering alcoholic and single mother to 13-year-old Anna (Brooke Timber), desperately wants to forget the unspoken traumas of her childhood. Saul (Peter Saarsgard), on the other hand, can’t grab a hold of his past. He’s powerless as early-onset dementia slowly but inevitably steals it from him. After their high school reunion, he wordlessly follows her home and spends the night standing outside her building. In turn, she visits him at the house he shares with his brother (Josh Charles) and niece (Elsie Fisher). Then she takes him for a walk and accuses him of participating in a rape that she endured at the age of 12, a crime that he has no memory of committing. Continue Reading →
The Vanishing Triangle
NetworkAMC+,
SimilarA Dance to the Music of Time, A Fortunate Life, A Little Princess, A Respectable Trade, Alias Grace, Anna Karenina, Återkomsten, Atomic Train, Blackeyes, Brides of Christ, Chicken Nugget, Christopher Columbus, Cleopatra, Dancing on the Edge, Dead by Sunset, DEAR GAGA, Elizabeth R, Fallen, Florida Man, Further Tales of the City, G.B.H., Golden Years, Heidi,
Hilda Furacão HIStory Intruders, Jack the Ripper, Jewels,
Little Women Miss Marple: Nemesis, Moeder, waarom leven wij?, More Tales of the City, Murder in the Heartland, Narco-Saints, Peter and Paul, Pope John Paul II,
Pride and Prejudice Queen Cleopatra, Scully, Son of the Morning Star, The Buccaneers, The Far Pavilions, The Fire Next Time, The Gangster Chronicles, The Gold Robbers, The Murder of Mary Phagan, The Phantom of the Opera, The Serial Killer's Wife, The Shining, The Singing Detective, The Sun Also Rises, The Wimbledon Poisoner, Tiger Lily, 4 femmes dans la vie, Troubles, Ultraviolet, Unorthodox, Viso d'angelo, Witchcraft, World War II: When Lions Roared,
The Vanishing Triangle takes its name from media shorthand for an approximately 80-mile area in Eastern Ireland. For almost 20 years, from the late 70s to the late 90s, the Triangle suffered through several unsolved crimes. The victims, women ranging from teens to in their thirties, disappeared at an alarming rate. Additionaly, several murders of women in the area during the period were frequently linked in the press. Some speculated a serial killer's (or serial killers's) involvement, but the Gardaí—Ireland’s national police—never made such a declaration. As The Irish Times noted, “the ‘vanishing triangle’ phenomenon [is] a media creation rather than a Garda theory.” Continue Reading →
Killers of the Flower Moon
SimilarA Christmas Carol (1938), Almost Famous (2000), Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Apocalypse Now (1979), Apollo 13 (1995), Belle de Jour (1967), Ben-Hur (1959),
Blade Runner (1982) Blood and Chocolate (2007), Blue Velvet (1986), Brubaker (1980), Caché (2005), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Chicago (2002), Con Air (1997), Contact (1997), Contempt (1963), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000), Cruel Intentions (1999), Dances with Wolves (1990), Don't Bother to Knock (1952), Donnie Brasco (1997), Enough (2002), Fargo (1996), Forrest Gump (1994), Full Metal Jacket (1987), Gandhi (1982), Gone Baby Gone (2007), I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016), I've Always Liked You (2016), Just Cause (1995), La Haine (1995), Léon: The Professional (1994), Manhattan (1979), Metropolis (1927), Mississippi Burning (1988), Oldboy (2003),
Primal Fear (1996) Random Harvest (1942), Rope (1948), Saw IV (2007), Schindler's List (1993), Shall We Dance? (2004), Sissi (1955), Solaris (1972), Strange Days (1995), The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), The Cider House Rules (1999), The Devil's Rejects (2005), The Elementary Particles (2006), The Elephant Man (1980), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), The Irishman (2019), The Road (2009), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), The Straight Story (1999), The Tin Drum (1979), Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995), Titanic (1997), To Die For (1995), What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993),
Watch afterAmerican Fiction (2023), Anatomy of a Fall (2023),
Barbie (2023) Five Nights at Freddy's (2023), Leave the World Behind (2023), Napoleon (2023),
Oppenheimer (2023) Saw X (2023), The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023), The Killer (2023), Wonka (2023),
StudioApple Studios,
Having earned just about every accolade there is and long cemented his position as one of the all-time great filmmakers, Martin Scorsese has nothing left to prove. Yet, on the cusp of 81–an age when most directors are either retiring to the Lifetime Achievement Award circuit or making films that are largely variations of their past glories–he is still out there challenging himself and audiences with bold and audacious projects. Continue Reading →
Killer Joe
Upon the news of the passing of William Friedkin, every headline reporting on the news focused on two films. It’s not surprising that the media spent so much time talking about The French Connection and The Exorcist, two bona fide masterpieces that paved the way for a new era of American filmmaking. What was disappointing was this seeming willingness to reduce a cinematic legend’s legacy to a burst of time in the early 1970s, thus dismissing the five decades that followed as either negligible or outright unworthy of interest. Continue Reading →
The Hunted
At the risk of making a "getting a lot of Sorcerer vibes from this" guy out of myself, The Hunted—William Friedkin's 2003 old-master-hunts-rogue-student thriller really does make for a fascinating counterpart to his earlier men-on-a-desperate-mission masterwork. Both delve into the lives of damaged, forlorn, isolated men on perilous quests for deliverance. And both of those quests lead deep into madness. Both pointedly contrast man-made, flame-choked hellscapes (Sorcerer's exploding oil well, The Hunted's secret mission amidst the Kosovo War) with the vast, amoral green of the deep forest (Columbia and Oregon, respectively). Both turn on setpieces that thrill while maintaining a grounded (if not necessarily "realistic") feel and weave surreality in with care. Continue Reading →
American Horror Story
An often-overlooked decade for horror gets the spotlight, & we’ll tell you what to watch & what to skip.
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the work being covered here wouldn't exist.
Hurry up and finish watching everything in the Criterion Channel’s High School Horror collection, because they’re doing it again with a brand new one devoted to 90s horror, starting today. Unlike last year’s expansive 80s Horror offering, there’s just eleven films in this collection, with three more coming in November and December. That’s cleverly reflective of the state of horror in the 90s, as are some of the selected films stretching the definition of “horror.” Continue Reading →
Saw
Thinking about getting into the Saw franchise 10 movies in? Here’s what you need to know.
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the work being covered here wouldn't exist.
With an inevitability that is oddly comforting in such a scary and uncertain time, a new Saw movie is coming out at the end of this week. As you could assume by the “X,” Saw X is the tenth film in a franchise that, just based on its lack of continuity alone, could conceivably continue for the next three decades or so. If you’re thinking about now, after all this time, finally getting into the Saw franchise, here are a few tips to aid you in your journey towards redemption by way of giant bear traps clamping down on one’s skull. Continue Reading →
To Live and Die in L.A.
It must have been easy to be cynical about William Friedkin’s To Live and Die in L.A. in 1985. After a blazing hot early 1970s, his critical and popular reputation bottomed out with four straight disappointments. So, it makes sense that someone might think Friedkin’s return to the cop-on-the-edge genre was a purely commercial decision, a hope to rekindle the fire he lit in 1971 with The French Connection. After all, that movie was both a commercial and critical smash. Continue Reading →
The Fall of the House of Usher
SimilarA Little Princess, Alias Grace, American Horror Story, Angel, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Birds of Prey, Brides of Christ, Brimstone, Christopher Columbus, Dancing on the Edge, Elizabeth R, From, Further Tales of the City, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Golden Years, Heidi, House of Cards, Kamen Rider, Millennium, Miss Marple: Nemesis, More Tales of the City, Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King, Peter and Paul, Pope John Paul II, Power Rangers Dino Force Brave,
Pride and Prejudice Queen Cleopatra, Rescue Me, Scully, Spies of Warsaw, Tales from the Crypt, The Buccaneers, The Dead Zone, The Far Pavilions, The Gangster Chronicles, The Gold Robbers, The Shining, The Singing Detective, The Strain, The Sun Also Rises, The Wallflower, Three Days of Christmas, Tiger Lily, 4 femmes dans la vie, Ultraviolet, Unorthodox, White House Plumbers, World War II: When Lions Roared,
The most gripping moment in 2022’s Academy Award-winning documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is when members of the now disgraced Sackler Family, whose pharmaceutical company manufactured and marketed the highly addictive painkiller Oxy-Contin, are ordered to attend a virtual hearing in which they're confronted by families who had been impacted by the drug. Listening to tragic stories of accidental overdoses, birth defects, and young men cut down in their prime due to a prescription medication that had been promoted as safe and non-addicting, the Sacklers could not look more bored, even slightly annoyed. It’s a chilling reminder that extreme wealth often results in a loss of empathy, if not one’s entire soul. Continue Reading →
The Brink's Job
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A Haunting in Venice
Similar2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), 28 Weeks Later (2007), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Armageddon (1998), Basic Instinct (1992), Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987),
Blade Runner (1982) Blue Velvet (1986), Caché (2005), Carrie (1976), Contact (1997), Die Hard 2 (1990), Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995), Don't Bother to Knock (1952), Dr. No (1962), Freedom Writers (2007), From Russia with Love (1963), Ghost (1990), Goldfinger (1964),
Jackie Brown (1997) Just Cause (1995), Klute (1971), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), Memento (2000), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969),
Primal Fear (1996) Rebecca (1940) Rosemary's Baby (1968), Sahara (2005), Saw (2004), Secret Window (2004),
Shaft (2000) Shooter (2007), Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014), Solaris (1972), Stand by Me (1986), Star Trek: Generations (1994), The Godfather (1972), The Green Mile (1999), The Man with the Golden Gun (1974),
The Name of the Rose (1986) The Outsiders (1983), The Shining (1980), The Usual Suspects (1995), Vertigo (1958), War of the Worlds (2005), Wild at Heart (1990), You Only Live Twice (1967),
Watch afterFive Nights at Freddy's (2023), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023),
Oppenheimer (2023) Saw X (2023), Thanksgiving (2023), The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023), The Killer (2023), The Marvels (2023),
Studio20th Century Studios,
The first two entries in director/actor Kenneth Branagh’s foray into Agatha Christie adaptation lost the magic of the English writer’s mysteries. With his third attempt, A Haunting in Venice, Branagh decides to make considerable changes to the story. Using the bones of Christie’s Hallowe’en Party, writer Michael Green changes the setting from a small town in the English countryside to a palazzo in Venice. Branagh emphasizes the gothic elements of Christie’s story, leaning on the horror of the location, the manic nature of the children’s Halloween party, and the gruesome moments before and after an unexpected death. Continue Reading →
Who Is Erin Carter?
SimilarA Little Princess, Alias Grace, Cleopatra, Elizabeth R, Fallen, G.B.H., More than Blue: The Series, Narco-Saints, Peter and Paul, Pope John Paul II,
Pride and Prejudice Queen Cleopatra, Scully, Son of the Morning Star, Star and Sky: Star in My Mind, The Buccaneers, The Fire Next Time, The Gangster Chronicles, The Gold Robbers, The Shining, Tiger Lily, 4 femmes dans la vie, Ultraviolet, Unorthodox, World War II: When Lions Roared,
In Who is Erin Carter? ’s precipitating event, the titular character (Evin Ahmad)—a British ex-pat living in Spain and trying to make a living as a substitute teacher—must fight a masked gunman during a grocery store robbery. At stake is the life of nearly blind daughter Harper (Indica Watson), who cowers unseen under a display of oranges. Continue Reading →
Free Fire
The plot of Free Fire, in many ways, could not be more straightforward. A mix of thugs, gun runners, and revolutionaries meet up to exchange weapons in a Boston warehouse in the 1970s. Things go wrong in a hurry. Continue Reading →
Only Murders in the Building
Similar3rd Rock from the Sun,
Agatha Christie's Poirot American Horror Story,
Black Books Bodies, Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
Hospital Playlist I Love Lucy, Komi Can't Communicate, Love, Victor, Loveless, Murder in the Heartland, Murder Most Horrid, Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Noah's Arc, Stand Up!!, Star and Sky: Star in My Mind, That '70s Show, The Nanny,
Studio20th Television,
The surprise, sustained hit Only Murders in the Building brands itself as a comedy-mystery on Hulu. But, as season three hits the streaming service, with another murder for the Arconian trio of Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short), and Mabel (Selena Gomez) to solve, something becomes apparent. The series isn’t going for big laughs. Instead, it provides warmth, small chuckles, and genial goodness between the triumvirate. The show remains about found family, intergenerational friendships, and murder mysteries. It’s perhaps best described as a cozy mystery, a murder show with a heart of gold, an oxymoron of concepts. Continue Reading →
Sightseers
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movies being covered here wouldn't exist. Continue Reading →
Kill List
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movies being covered here wouldn't exist. Continue Reading →
Down Terrace
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movies being covered here wouldn't exist. Continue Reading →
So I Married an Axe Murderer
If anyone should be ripe for a huge comeback any minute now, it’s Mike Myers. Myers is largely responsible for two of the most iconic comedies of the 90s, Wayne’s World and Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. If you weren’t there and cognizant of it then, it’s impossible to explain the grip both movies had on 90s pop culture, particularly Austin Powers. Even now, 25 years later, it’s very likely that you’ll occasionally hear someone say “One hundred…billion…DOLLARS” in the voice of Dr. Evil, or refer to a person’s lookalike child as their “Mini-Me.” Its closest competitor in the zeitgeist is probably Clueless, and Clueless didn’t get two sequels. Continue Reading →
Justified: City Primeval
NetworkFX,
Similar2Moons: The Series,
Agatha Christie's Poirot Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor, Alias Grace, Animated Classics of Japanese Literature, Around the World in 80 Days, Dexter, Fearless, Game of Thrones, Gossip Girl, Helltown, Jewels, M*A*S*H, Mr. Mercedes, No Escape,
Planet of the Apes Pride and Prejudice Sám vojak v poli, Santa Evita,
Sherlock Holmes Star and Sky: Star in My Mind, Tales from the Neverending Story, The Alienist, The Buccaneers, The Family Game, The Lost World, The Moon Embracing the Sun, The Summer I Turned Pretty, Word of Honor, Wycliffe,
How does anyone justify a revival? The original Justified gave viewers a conclusion in the first 30 minutes and an epilogue with the last 16. It gave Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) a fitting third act, living in Miami as a part-time dad to his daughter and finally enjoying freedom from the town he worked so hard to escape. So how does a creative team go from “we dug coal together?” to that nearly happy ending to a brand-new Givens tale? The simple answer is to head north. Continue Reading →
Mission: Impossible
From De Palma's series launcher on, Cruise has used the tales of Ethan Hunt to ponder the nature of cinema as performance, perception, and manipulation.
The Mission: Impossible movies begin in perhaps the most inauspicious fashion possible: a computer tech, played by Emilio Estevez, watching security camera footage of clandestine crime scene clean-up. One of the men he's watching happens to be Tom Cruise in heavy prosthetics and a wig. It's an odd opening for an eight-film mega-franchise, a globe-trotting stunt spectacular that has attracted some of the world's biggest stars and most interesting actors—America's answer to Bond movies. But as the opening to a Brian De Palma movie, it's a no-brainer. Of course it starts with a dorky guy in a cramped little room watching unappealing CCTV footage of a crime of passion. That's De Palma.
Though Robert Towne wrote the script (he and Cruise were friends and artistic confidants; Cruise produced his 1998 movie Without Limits), the film is thoroughly De Palma's, never more so than when indulging in its covert operations. He films the opening sting from Cruise's POV, and its dizzying effect is rather like the opening to Dario Argento's Opera or its fellow perverse Italian horror thrillers. It is always disconcerting when movie characters address us but speak to someone else when we see what the hero sees see but cannot control what they do. We are seeing a performance from the inside, knowing that if the scene doesn't go off without a hitch, it could mean death for the man whose eyes we've been given for the duration. The Mission: Impossible movies have since changed directors four times, but their central tenet remains: they are about performance. They are about making movies to make sense of a senseless world. Continue Reading →
Full Circle
NetworkMax,
SimilarA Dance to the Music of Time, Alias Grace, Elizabeth R, House of Cards, Itaewon Class, Miss Marple: Nemesis, Narco-Saints, Spies of Warsaw, The Strain, The Sun Also Rises, Three Days of Christmas, Ultraviolet, White House Plumbers,
Watch afterHawkeye Hijack, Love & Death,
Silo Succession,
Seeing creators pull together disparate threads into a cohesive whole can often feel like a magic trick. “Oh, that woman on the train platform was the same one waiting outside the bodega. I get it!” and all that. For the attentive viewer, it can feel like an affirmation of one’s thoughtful focus. For the more casual audience members, it can impress and beguile. Push it too far, though, and one might feel less rewarded and more led by the nose. Full Circle dances on that line before stumbling, too far, into EVERYTHING is connected territory. Thankfully, several strong performances and director Steven Soderbergh’s gift for conveying immediacy through his imagery prove enough to redeem the series’ far too nicely wrapped up with a bow conclusion. Continue Reading →