Mystery cinema earns its keep by making the audience complicit: you piece together clues alongside the detective, or realise too late you were misreading everything. Hitchcock understood this better than anyone, and films like Rear Window and Vertigo remain the genre's gold standard for psychological unease done with precision. Browse Macca's reviews below and see how well the best mysteries hold up.
Rating: 4.0★
There's a moment, fairly early in Monster, where you're absolutely certain you know what kind of film you're watching. You know who the villain is. You know the shape of the injustice. You are, in short, wrong. And the pleasure of Hirokazu Kore-eda&
Rating: 3.5★
There's a moment in The 39 Steps where Robert Donat finds himself handcuffed to Madeleine Carroll and the pair have to navigate a Scottish hillside together, bickering and stumbling, and it's genuinely charming. It's also the moment that best captures what this film is:
Rating: 3.0★
There's one sequence in Fire in the Sky that I genuinely cannot shake, and I've been turning it over in my head ever since the credits rolled. You'll know it when you see it. Extended, clinical, suffocating. It treats the alien abduction not as
Genre Animation
★★★ — Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage (2025)
Genre Animation
★★★ — Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain (2024)
Genre Horror
★★★½ — Carnival of Souls (1962)
Genre Drama
★★½ — One Way or Another (1975)
Genre Mystery
★★★ — Gone Girl (2014)
Genre Mystery
★★★½ — The Fourth Kind (2009)
Genre Animation
★★½ — Angel's Egg (1985)
Genre Horror
★★½ — The Seventh Victim (1943)
Genre Animation
★★★ — The Girl from the Other Side (2022)
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