thriller Time to Hunt 30 Dec 2020 "If we continue on this path, nothing will change" ★★★ The recent sweeping rise of South Korean films in the West could not leave this year’s Berlin International Film Festival…
thriller Mother 2 Dec 2020Dec 21, 2020 "You and me are one. We've only got each other." ★★★★★ The late 2000s saw a rise in mother-centred thrillers in South Korea. Released after the box office success The…
thriller The Usual Suspects 23 Nov 2020Dec 21, 2020 "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist" ★★★★ Bryan Singer's (X-Men, Bohemian Rhapsody) neo-noir thriller The Usual Suspects (1995) got its title from…
thriller The Girl in the Fog 16 Nov 2020Dec 21, 2020 "The devil's greatest flaw is his vanity" ★★★★★ Donato Carrisi not only penned the 2015 novel that inspired the Italian psychological thriller The Girl in the Fog (Italian: La ragazza…
thriller Eastern Promises 19 Oct 2020Dec 21, 2020 "Anger is dangerous. It makes people do stupid things." ★★★★ Congruent with David Cronenberg's other projects, such as The Fly (1986) or Dead Ringers (1988), the 2007 British-Canadian co-production Eastern…
thriller The 9th Precinct 31 Aug 2020Dec 21, 2020 "One gets confused when one has just died" ★★★★ Wandering ghosts, though also present in the Western culture in the form of The Sixth Sense (1999) and Ghost (1990), to…
thriller Children of Men 18 Aug 2020Dec 21, 2020 "Everything is a cosmic battle between faith and chance" ★★★ Alfonso Cuarón's dystopian thriller Children of Men (2006), based on P. D. James' The Children of Men (1992), presents a…
thriller The Model 28 Jul 2020Dec 21, 2020 "I need you to be real bitches on this one" ★★★★ In the Danish thriller drama The Model (2016), director Mads Matthiesen takes a nosedive into the generally glamourised world…
thriller Open Your Eyes 29 Jun 2020Dec 21, 2020 “It’s not important what you see, but what I see. It’s my dream.” ★★★★★ Everyone seems to know Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky (2001), starring Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz, but what about the…
thriller The Invisible Guest 15 Jun 2020Dec 21, 2020 "There will be no salvation without suffering" ★★★★ Picking up from where he left off in The Body, Oriol Paolo directed the Spanish mystery thriller The Invisible Guest (original title:…
thriller The Man from Nowhere 7 May 2020Dec 21, 2020 "The ones that live for tomorrow get f***** by the ones living for today" ★★★★★ Long before John Wick restored action films to their former glory in the West, The…
thriller The Platform 5 May 2020Dec 21, 2020 "Hunger unleashes the madman in us" ★★★ Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s debut sci-fi horror The Platform was released on Netflix a few days before the quarantine started. Now, if this has been…
thriller The Son 2 May 2020Dec 21, 2020 "I'm a stranger in my own house" ★★★★ Thrillers are spectacular at honing in on our fears, dissecting them before our eyes and serving up a steaming plate of digestible…
thriller The Plagues of Breslau 26 Apr 2020Dec 21, 2020 "According to one definition, a terrorist is someone, who wasn't able to negotiate to get what they wanted" ★ Is there anything more thrilling than plopping down in front of…
