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.
Armie Hammer and Lily James are woefully miscast in this limp adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s classic novel.
By Anton Bitel
A pious young nurse experiences an extreme crisis of faith in writer/director Rose Glass’ arresting psychodrama.
Amy Seimetz’s neon-soaked danse macabre is one of the year’s most chilling and effective horrors.
Andrew Patterson’s incredible debut feels like a spiritual successor to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
By Max Copeman
Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg become trapped in a suburban nightmare in this metaphor-laden domestic horror.
Grieving sisters attempt to cover up a grisly crime in this Coens-esque noir set in a small fishing town.
Blake Lively is hellbent on revenge in director Reed Morano’s female-inflected riff on James Bond.
Rian Johnson does his best Agatha Christie impression in this riotous, star-packed homage to the classic whodunnit.
Alicia Vikander and Riley Keough flounder in tepid psychosexual thriller, based on the Susanna Jones novel.
By Elena Lazic
Mischievous and pleasurable genre antics with Dennis Quaid as a tooled-up, MAGA-hatted nutbag.
Florence Pugh runs afoul of a Swedish cult in director Ari Aster’s toothless follow-up to Hereditary.
Ryan Reynolds voices everyone’s favourite electric yellow rodent in this fun, fast-paced murder mystery.