Genre Mystery
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
★½ — Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Genre Mystery
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.
Genre Drama
The Man with the Fir Tree (1995)
★★ — The Man with the Fir Tree (1995)
Genre Drama
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
★★★★ — Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Genre Mystery
Vertigo (1958)
★★★½ — Vertigo (1958)
Genre Mystery
Mangroves (2018)
★★★ — Mangroves (2018)
Genre Drama
Balibo (2009)
★★★ — Balibo (2009)
Genre Fantasy
Kaimera (2020)
★ — Kaimera (2020)
Genre Mystery
A Land Imagined (2018)
★½ — A Land Imagined (2018)
Genre Drama
The Prestige (2006)
★★★★ — The Prestige (2006)
Genre Science Fiction
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
★★★★ — Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Genre Mystery
Soucouyant (2015)
★½ — Soucouyant (2015)
Genre Mystery
Hangman (2017)
★★ — Hangman (2017)