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Suspense/Crime

Mysteries, thrillers and crime-based tales with generally more brains and less brawn than its Action relative...

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Cat Person (2023)

Dir. Susanna Fogel
Feat. Emilia Jones, Nicholas Braun, Geraldine Viswanathan…

An extended film adaptation of a 2017 'New Yorker' short story that went viral on account of its wildly relatable tale of a young millennial woman's fraught dating experience in the digital age. It initially plays like an indie rom-com as it deals with the familiar fumbles of people getting to know one…

How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)

Dir. Daniel Goldhaber
Feat. Sasha Lane, Forrest Goodluck, Kristine Froseth…

A nail-biter of the first order that vividly depicts the actions of a group of young climate activists who come together for a 'meaningful' act of destruction on a West Texas pipeline. It's propulsive in a way that the best thrillers are but also gives satisfying weight to the defining backstories of the…

Muru (2022)

Dir. Tearepa Kahi
Feat. Cliff Curtis, Jay Ryan, Manu Bennett…

A riveting local action-thriller that boldly fictionalizes events surrounding the Nga Tuhoe raids of 2007. Our finest actor Cliff Curtis leads a top ensemble cast, with the remarkable casting of Tame Iti as himself, the chief target of a misguided government conspiracy. It's an angry but clear-headed…

Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)

Dir. Olivia Newman
Feat. Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor Smith, Harris Dickinson…

From the best-selling novel comes a captivating mystery. Where the Crawdads Sing tells the story of Kya, an abandoned girl who raised herself to adulthood in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina. For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, isolating the sharp and resilient Kya from…

Ted K: The Unabomber (2021)

Dir. Tony Stone
Feat. Sharlto Copley

An ambient, minimalistic approach to portraying the life of notorious U.S. domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski, who lives a life of quiet seclusion in the mountains of Montana. His growing contempt for technology and modern society soon leads to local acts of sabotage and deadly bombing attacks in the late…

Coming Home in the Dark (2021)

Dir. James Ashcroft
Feat. Miriama McDowell, Erik Thomson, Daniel Gillies…

Not for the faint of heart, this Kiwi thriller is confrontingly grim yet takes the psycho-killer genre into thematic territory it rarely bothers to go. Expanded from an Owen Marshall short story, it excels in all departments (especially the four key performances) and director James Ashcroft (in an…

Nitram (2021)

Dir. Justin Kurzel
Feat. Caleb Landry Jones, Judy Davis, Essie Davis…

An intense yet clear-eyed psychological drama from accomplished director Justin Kurzel (TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG) depicting the events that lead up to the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania. An atrocity that darkened Australia's history and prompted an overhaul of the nation's gun control laws,…