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Explore Cinephile Corner’s full selection of crime movie reviews, which includes pieces of criticism on the latest crime movie releases, as well as the classics.
It's taken a little while for Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2024 remake of his own 1998 film Serpent's Path to finally reach American audiences, but it's…
During Lance Oppenheim’s press tour for his fictional directorial debut, he made an interesting distinction between nonfiction and fiction filmmaking: the biggest intrigue in…
Kinda exactly what you'd expect from a straight-to-streaming hybrid of The Silence of the Lambs and Prisoners, The Whisper Man is a movie that…
The Rivals of Amziah King is a movie I feel like I'm going to have to sit with for a while, and probably see…
Steven Soderbergh has reached a fascinating point in his career where the question is no longer whether his next movie will be good, but…
Wasteman is the kind of movie I wish we got more often. There's been no shortage of discourse over the last few years about…
Shoutout to Adam Rehmeier. At a time when many discussions about movies seems to eventually circle back to someone declaring that "they don't make…
Once a Thief is such an odd movie to drop right in the middle of John Woo’s run because it almost feels like the…
Bullet in the Head is the kind of John Woo movie that almost feels angry at the idea of being a John Woo movie…
Some movies just have it. Some movies just have the juice. It is hard to quantify, but you know it when you see it.…
It is immediately obvious that A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon is a different beast than the first two films. That…
There is no getting around the fact that A Better Tomorrow II undeniably operates within the classic sequel tropes, in both the best and…
John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow is essential for one simple reason: it is the first time Woo pairs up with Chow Yun-fat, and you…
I walked into The Secret Agent expecting another brooding, self-serious international prestige thriller, the kind of movie that arrives with capital-I Importance and dares…
Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire has the bones of a taut pressure cooker, a true-story hostage standoff that should play like a noose…
It would be easy to dismiss The Rip as a January straight-to-streaming action thriller if it did not come with this kind of star…
Bugonia sits in the corner of alien cinema that I almost always find irresistible, then keeps asking whether it even wants to be an…
Roofman is the kind of “they don’t make them like this anymore” adult caper that suits Channing Tatum better than almost anything. He dials…
Zodiac Killer Project is what happens when a director refuses to bin a movie after the rug gets pulled. Charlie Shackleton lost the rights…
No Other Choice finds Park Chan-wook in a sharper comedic register than usual, a black comedy that keeps tipping toward farce while tracking a…
Leave it to David Cronenberg to deconstruct the mythical American hero with odd wit and clinical detail. A History of Violence (2005) looks like…