An all-star cast can't save this predictable, often irritating attempt at putting a twist on Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap.
A cautionary tale about environmental exploitation veers into predictability in Lee Haven Jones' slow-burn directorial debut.
By Anton Bitel
A couple pay a visit to an ex-partner and her family in Sebastian Godwin’s effective domestic horror.
Robert Pattinson’s grunge prince vows to wash the scum off Gotham’s streets in Matt Reeves’ noirish detective thriller.
Kenneth Branagh directs and stars in a second Agatha Christie adaptation, but we’d rather he hadn’t.
Romola Garai’s feature directorial debut is a haunting feminist revenge horror that upturns genre tropes and flouts convention.
By Anton Bitel
This stylishly directed “requel” trickily rakes over the grave of the original Scream films, but please, no more!
Noomi Rapace adopts a strange newborn in this elevated Icelandic folk horror from director Valdimar Jóhannsson.
By Anton Bitel
A horned entity stalks Keri Russell’s school teacher in director Scott Cooper’s allegorical American horror story.
A film censor goes in search of her missing sister in Prano Bailey-Bond’s razor-sharp, retro-styled horror satire.
By Matt Turner
Brazilian filmmaker Maya Da-Rin’s allegorical mystery-thriller expertly melds tradition with modernity.
The third instalment in the horror franchise gives us a lot of Ed and Lorraine Warren, but not nearly enough Satan.
This procedural thriller reboot of the Saw franchise is painful to sit through for all the wrong reasons.
Joe Wright serves up a tepid slice of Hitchcockian suspense, with Amy Adams as a paranoid agoraphobe.
By Anton Bitel
One man’s quest to find his missing hammer becomes a profound existential journey in this stripped-down comedy.
By Aimee Knight
The spectre of dementia haunts Emily Mortimer and Bella Heathcote in this taut Australian Gothic.
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