A former judge finds himself confined to a nursing home where a sinister puppet rules the roost in James Ashcroft's effective horror.
It’s three for three in the beloved bear franchise, as our marmalade-scoffing scamp heads off for an adventure in his South American homeland.
Parker Finn follows up his 2022 smash with a suitably silly sequel, in which a pop star becomes the latest victim of the grinning demon who drives victims to suicide.
Pascal Plante's haunting drama examines the dark reality of the true crime industrial complex in elegant and austere fashion.
A detective is haunted by a murder case he can't crack in Wei Shujun's unsettling crime drama.
A newlywed couple are haunted by sleepless nights in Jason Yu’s confident, darkly humorous debut feature.
One of 2023’s most astonishing films comes in the form of a two-part opus about a woman drawn to mystery that takes a few cues from Twin Peaks.
A shy young prison guard develops an infatuation with her workplace's new psychiatrist in William Oldroyd's twisty new thriller.
Tilda Swinton plays both mother and daughter in Joanna Hogg's eerie and effective exploration of parent-child relationships.
Music video mainstay Grant Singer makes the leap to features with this real estate-based detective thriller, but the results are disappointingly underwhelming.
Tobin Bell returns as the twisted killer Jigsaw in this back-to-basics sequel, which sees him exact revenge on a group of medical scammers preying on the terminally ill.
The impish Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Silva returns with a sharp thriller about an influencer who turns detective after a filmmaker he's involved with goes missing.
The cutthroat world of hairdressing is the setting for this sparky murder mystery – a debut from Thomas Hardiman.
Storm Reid anchors an enjoyable, twisty thriller that leaves an unfortunate sour taste in the mouth.
Dominik Moll grapples with an unsolved murder case taking place in a small Alpine town in this dark, true crime drama.
By Anton Bitel
Neighbourly hostility abounds in Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen's latest psychological thriller, set in the Galician countryside.
Benoit Blanc enters the canon of iconic movie characters with Rian Johnson’s second foray into whodunit (nu-dunit?) territory.
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