Mystery

The Rule Of Jenny Pen review – a stand-out ageing horror

By Billie Walker

A former judge finds himself confined to a nursing home where a sinister puppet rules the roost in James Ashcroft's effective horror.

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Paddington in Peru review – a very well-executed threequel

By David Jenkins

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.

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Smile 2 review – this is going to ruin the tour

By Hannah Strong

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.

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Red Rooms review – a claustrophobic tech-tinged nightmare

By Hannah Strong

Pascal Plante's haunting drama examines the dark reality of the true crime industrial complex in elegant and austere fashion.

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Only the River Flows review – a spellbinding nightmare

By Josh Slater-Williams

A detective is haunted by a murder case he can't crack in Wei Shujun's unsettling crime drama.

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Sleep review – Jason Yu has the juice

By Josh Slater-Williams

A newlywed couple are haunted by sleepless nights in Jason Yu’s confident, darkly humorous debut feature.

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Trenque Lauquen review – compulsive and completely absorbing

By David Jenkins

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.

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Eileen review – an impressively crafted noir

By Katherine McLaughlin

A shy young prison guard develops an infatuation with her workplace's new psychiatrist in William Oldroyd's twisty new thriller.

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The Eternal Daughter review – double your Tilda, double your pleasure

By Catherine Bray

Tilda Swinton plays both mother and daughter in Joanna Hogg's eerie and effective exploration of parent-child relationships.

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Reptile review – less “whodunit”, more “who cares?”

By Charles Bramesco

Music video mainstay Grant Singer makes the leap to features with this real estate-based detective thriller, but the results are disappointingly underwhelming.

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Saw X review – America’s most blood-thirsty civil engineer is back

By Hannah Strong

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.

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Rotting in the Sun review – bold and brilliant influencer satire

By David Jenkins

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.

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Medusa Deluxe

By Cheyenne Bart-Stewart

The cutthroat world of hairdressing is the setting for this sparky murder mystery – a debut from Thomas Hardiman.

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Missing

By Alison Rumfitt

Storm Reid anchors an enjoyable, twisty thriller that leaves an unfortunate sour taste in the mouth.

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The Night Of The 12th

By Saskia Lloyd Gaiger

Dominik Moll grapples with an unsolved murder case taking place in a small Alpine town in this dark, true crime drama.

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The Beasts

By Anton Bitel

Neighbourly hostility abounds in Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen's latest psychological thriller, set in the Galician countryside.

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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

By David Jenkins

Benoit Blanc enters the canon of iconic movie characters with Rian Johnson’s second foray into whodunit (nu-dunit?) territory.

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