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Explore Cinephile Corner’s full selection of mystery movie reviews, which includes pieces of criticism on the latest mystery movie releases, as well as the classics.
Kane Parsons' deliriously scary YouTube creepypasta series The Backrooms has been adapted to the big screen, and he is not the first to graduate…
A lot of praise has been thrown Mark Jenkin's way for Rose of Nevada, the third film from the singular director whose style continues…
The horror genre in 2026 has been defined by the underdog. Curry Barker's Obsession claiming one of the top spots at the year's domestic…
Kiyoshi Kurosawa has reached the point in his career where I'm willing to follow him just about anywhere. Whether he's working in horror, crime,…
A24 knew exactly what they were doing when they marketed undertone. Although it may not end up being the scariest movie you'll see this…
Burning is a “what you give to it, it gives to you” kind of film. It dares you to reject the comfort of clear…
Bacurau is one of my favorite films of the 2020s so far, and it now feels like the perfect table-setter for Kleber Mendonça Filho…
American Sweatshop has a sharp premise and only intermittently sharp execution. Uta Briesewitz takes aim at the privatized, corporate side of online moderation and…
Wake Up Dead Man is the darkest and most layered entry in Rian Johnson’s series, a knotty whodunit that swaps glass palaces for a…
Keeper finds Oz Perkins splitting the difference between the chilly occult dread of Longlegs and the goofy pulp of his Stephen King riff The…
HIM (2025) has a killer logline and nothing to back it up. The Jordan Peele-backed football horror imagines a dynastic franchise as a literal…
Hereditary is the rare debut that instantly reshapes a genre. Ari Aster’s 2018 feature moves with an icy confidence, turning domestic grief into occult…
On the surface, Hell of a Summer (2025) doesn’t have many glaring flaws. It’s an obvious love letter to classic slasher films like Friday…
It’s difficult to figure out what The Thursday Murder Club (2025) is actually trying to be. On paper, the setup suggests a witty, modern…
Weapons (2025) opens with one of the most chilling hooks you’ll hear in any movie this year: at exactly 2:17 a.m., every child from…
Drop (2025), directed by Christopher Landon, is a high-concept thriller that leans hard on a smart, tension-filled premise and the simmering chemistry between its…
Final Destination Bloodlines (2025) is the rare horror legacy sequel that understands exactly what it is—and more importantly, what its fans want. Directed by…
Fountain of Youth (2025) doesn’t reinvent the wheel. It doesn’t even inflate the tires. But it doesn’t burst them either, and in a genre…
In a time when many horror films try to be either thinkpieces or thrill rides and fail to be either, The Woman in the…
The Actor (2025), the solo directorial debut of Anomalisa co-director Duke Johnson, is a moody, visually intriguing but ultimately unsatisfying dive into identity and…
Opus (2025) is the kind of movie that feels instantly familiar. A group of outsiders ventures into a strange, isolated setting where something sinister…