At its best, the thriller keeps you one step behind, engineering dread from information withheld rather than action shown. Hitchcock proved that with Psycho, and the tradition runs through Se7en's rain-soaked moral horror right up to the present day. See what put Macca on edge in the reviews below.
Rating: 2.0★
By 2017, the Fast and Furious franchise had travelled a considerable distance from its origins as a moderately budgeted thriller about street racing and DVD piracy. Starting life with The Fast and the Furious back in 2001, the series had reinvented itself several times over, swelling from heist caper to
Rating: 2.5★
By the time Furious 7 arrived in cinemas in April 2015, the franchise that began with a modest street-racing film set in Los Angeles had become one of the biggest commercial properties on the planet. What The Fast and the Furious (2001) started as a fairly contained, if enjoyably
Rating: 2.0★
By 2013, the Fast and Furious franchise had become one of Hollywood's more unlikely success stories. What started as a fairly modest, street-racing thriller set in the sun-bleached suburbs of Los Angeles had, over the course of a decade and five films, mutated into a full-
Rating: 3.5★
By 2011, the Fast & Furious franchise was at something of a crossroads. What had begun a decade earlier as a fairly modest, street-racing thriller, loosely inspired by a Vibe magazine article about illegal drag racing in New York, had lurched through several tonal identities across four films, shedding
Rating: 2.0★
The zombie film has always been something of a canvas for social commentary, from George Romero's consumerist malls to the viral-panic anxieties that coursed through the early 2000s wave of fast-infected pictures. By 2025, the genre has been thoroughly charted: audiences know the beats, the archetypes,
Rating: 3.0★
On the 5th of November 1975, a group of forestry workers drove back into Snowflake, Arizona, with a story that the local sheriff and a fair portion of the American public found very hard to swallow. They claimed that their colleague, Travis Walton, had been struck by a beam of
Rating: 2.0★
There is a particular kind of sequel that arrives not out of creative necessity but out of commercial instinct, a follow-up built on the ruins of someone else's success and dressed up to look like continuation. Futureworld (1976) is that kind of film. Michael Crichton's
1950s
Don Siegel’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) arrived at a strange crossroads in American cinema: too modest to be a prestige picture, too unsettling to be a forgettable B-movie. Adapted from Jack Finney’s serialised novel The Body Snatchers and shot at Allied Artists on a budget
Genre Science Fiction
★★½ — The Long Walk (2025)
Genre Drama
★★★½ — Punishment Park (1971)
Genre Thriller
★★½ — Angst (1983)
Genre Drama
★★★ — Stolen Face (1952)
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