BrainCan - thriller

how sebastian schipper created a one take thriller...

Since launching at final year’s Berlin film festival,the audacious one-take heist movie, Victoria,...

the infiltrator review - stodgy, shapeless miami...

This tale of a federal agent who went undercover among Colombian drug lords,adapted from Robert...

triple 9 review - cop corruption drama clogged up...

What might have been a smart suspense thriller is overloaded with heavy-duty action,and has a...

secret in their eyes review - spiral of cliche

Chiwetel Ejiofor and Julia Roberts struggle to ignite this American remake of the Oscar-winning...

blood orange review - erotic thriller with iggy...

If you like the sight of Iggy’s naked torso,this is the film for you. Unfortunately it also shows...

victoria review - gripping one take thriller on...

Captured in a continuous 138-minute shot,Sebastian Schipper’s stylish heist film is carried along...

the last witch hunter review - can vin diesel...

Diesel plays a man of action,not ideas, as he leads a brotherhood of unfriendly-women slayers in...

green room review - anarchy in a woodland retreat

Patrick Stewart is impressive as a white supremacist in a genuinely shocking horror-thriller...

bastille day review - idris elba takes down the...

Richard Madden plays a hapless pickpocket and Elba a macho CIA agent in this competent...

most beautiful island review - new york thriller...

A woman working in low-wage jobs takes what looks like an easier gig involving wearing a black dress...

nerve review - web of intrigue

The directors of Catfish earn the best attempt yet to capture the internet on screenThe black side...

glass chip cookies and cat in a dryer: match the...

Ahead of the release of gender-swap psycho-thriller The Perfect Guy this weekend,we test how quickly...

disorder review - tosh ptsd thriller for stud...

Matthias Schoenaerts is a virile yet sensitive soldier who takes a security job in this patchily...

anguish review - a muddled tale of teenage...

Sonny Mallhi’s non-scary thriller offers neither supernatural chills nor genuine-world...

regression review - troubled cop, crunching...

Emma Watson,Ethan Hawke and Satan himself can’t enliven Alejandro Amenábars conspiracy...

the shallows review - deep breath: blake lively...

With its lean script,clever construction and arresting cinematography, this crass-on-paper bikini...

anthropoid review: a humdrum account of an...

The Czechoslovakian scheme to assassinate Heydrich during the moment world war should do for...

the absent one review - diverting potboiler for...

An unlikely detective duo delve into a double murder,and crime film cliche territory, in the moment...

traders review - violent thrills in a post crash...

In this ingenious satirical thriller,humiliated traders meet online to settle their uncertain...

the survivalist review - apocalyptic thriller told...

Stephen Fingleton’s tale of three survivors carrying on as society crumbles makes him a worthy...

solace review - silly serial killer shtick

Anthony Hopkins hams it up to the max in Afonso Poyart’s sub-Se7en thrillerIts ham and cheese to...

anthropoid review - true life assassination of a...

Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy star as Czech resistance fighters in this bracing dramatisation of a...

victoria review - an authentic piece of cinematic...

One seamless shot follows a young woman through the dark underbelly of Berlin,in a unique thriller...

bait review - smarter than usual brit squeaker

A woman in her bra covered in blood? Tick. But director Dominic Brunt’s vicious thriller is more...

the neighbour review - rough and raw thriller

Marcus Dunstan dribbles out the suspense and generates surprise in this pleasingly tawdry tale with...

the trust review - offbeat thriller is a criminal...

Nicolas Cage throws in the odd burst of goofiness but this heist film never settles into a groove...

the 9th life of louis drax review - a mystery...

Director Alexandre Aja successfully swaps horror for fantasy in a quirky thriller that owes much to...

the ones below review - elegantly nasty middle...

Two neighbouring couples,both expecting a baby, go to war in this stylish psychological...

the 9th life of louis drax review - weirdly...

Horror film-maker Alexandre Aja turns in a tonally odd supernatural thriller which hits its stride...

misconduct review - world class levels of...

Anthony Hopkins and Al Pacino blot their CVs with a legal thriller that confounds for all the...

misconduct review - al pacino stars in lazy...

Thanks to a well-stocked cast and slick direction,this crime drama survives its shameless cribbing...

despite the falling snow review - creaky cold war...

This laboriously acted and directed spy tale-cum-worship chronicle is like a Jeffrey Archer airport...

captive review - david oyelowo in threadbare based...

Oyelowo follows his Selma star turn with in Jerry Jameson’s sluggish drama about a man on the...

cell review - smartphone thriller with patchy...

Mobiles bring on the zombie apocalypse,but it’s not as much fun as it soundsBased on a book by...

10 cloverfield lane review - monster sequel is...

Unlike the found-footage twist of the horror film it takes its name from,this clever thriller packs...

the perfect guy review - run of the mill stalker...

Michael Ealy is a ‘good creep’ in this familiar tale of the sexy stranger who turns out to fill...

the unseen review - a deeper hell of bereavement

The chills aren’t quite refrigerated enough in this low-budget psychological thriller...

the colony (colonia) review - ripping yarn hits...

Emma Watson and Daniel Brühl compose a swashbuckling escape from a dismal corner of Chilean history...

dark places review - charlize theron in a middling...

The film version of Gillian Flynn’s cold-case chiller finds Theron’s unconvincingly downbeat...

the infiltrator review - bryan cranston superb as...

The Breaking Bad star is brilliant in this crime thriller but complicated plotting slows it...

equity review - off the money

Are financial dramas inherently thrilling? Dont bank on this oneThere’s an oily bank executive in...

disorder review - paranoid mind games make for an...

A former soldier turned security guard struggles with his PTSD when called upon to protect a shady...

you were never really here review - a hitman with...

Lynne Ramsay’s fourth film is a nightmarish vision of a killer’s quest for redemptionIn 2011,I...

the benefactor review - bland thriller begins...

Richard Gere does his best as a tortured philanthropist but this potboiler never fulfils its promise...

the transporter refuelled review - a reboot only...

Ed Skrein takes over from Jason Statham in this idle reboot of the franchise,with glibly efficient...

the clan review - family with a sinister sideline

A slick thriller from Argentina’s Pablo Trapero brilliantly juxtaposes domestic life and the...

solace review - anthony hopkins hams it up in...

Colin Farrell’s the murderous wacko in an almost exoctically ridiculous drama that echoes The...

blood orange review - iggy pop steals the show

The veteran punk plays to type as a reclusive wild man of rockThe screen presence of rock legend...

session 9 director brad anderson will helm...

Brad Anderson,the filmmaker responsible for Session 9, The Machinist, or Beirut and more,has a new...

k shop review - murder with chips and salad

Grisly vengeance and chilli sauce aplenty,but this bloody thriller can’t fairly stretch to a...

rustom review - stylish but excessive akshay kumar...

Kumar underplays it in an OTT Bombay-set murder story with some adventurous camerawork Shamelessly...

killer deal: buffalo bills home from silence of...

The fictional killer’s house from the 1991 hit is available in Pittsburgh for $300000. Dungeon not...

the childhood of a leader: watch the making of a...

The Childhood of a Leader,the directorial debut of laughable Games and Melancholia star Brady...

clint eastwood s ballad of richard jewell ...

The Ballad of Richard Jewell has been in the works for around five years now. The film is based on a...

80,000 suspects: a clip from the cult british...

A clip from 80000 Suspects,a tense 1963 thriller about an epidemic sweeping south-west England,...

no escape - video review

In this excerpt from the Guardian film display,critics Xan Brooks, Henry Barnes and Catherine Shoard...

noel clarke to complete kidulthood trilogy with...

Writer-director to return as west London gangster in Adulthood follow-up,which begins shooting this...

backtrack: watch the exclusive trailer for adrien...

The life of psychologist Peter Bower (Adrien Brody) is turned upside down in this chilling...

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