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Tuner (2026)
A young piano tuner with freakish hearing gets pulled into cracking safes. A well-made adult crime picture that trusts its…
Big Mistakes
When a petty theft leads to a never-ending list of favors the leads have to fulfill for a gangster, this…
Ponies
Ponies is a fun ride. Centered on two widows who lost their CIA husbands, the unexpected spy series puts their…
Steal
Dir. Hettie Macdonald
As financial systems update for the digital age, so do the related crimes. This crime thriller series starts out with…
Death by Lightning
Out of all the presidents in American history, you’ll be hard pressed to remember James A. Garfield. That’s because the…
Task
From the creators of HBO’s Mare of Easttown comes Task, a gritty crime drama that follows two men —one cop…
Ballard
Based on the books by Michael Connelly (Bosch and Lincoln Lawyer), Ballard is about the titular LAPD detective (Maggie Q)…
MobLand
It’s easy to feel like you’ll know exactly what you’ll get once you see stills from Guy Ritchie’s MobLand, which…
The Secret Agent (2025)
Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
From 1964-1985, Brazil was under a military dictatorship. If you’re looking for films about this period of time, you can…
Paradise
You’ll have to trust us on this: it’s best to know absolutely nothing about this show before you start watching.…
Your Friends & Neighbors
It’s always fascinating to see how the ultra-rich live, but it’s even more fun to see them ruin themselves with…
Dope Thief
Led by Brian Tyree Henry (Atlanta, The Fire Inside, Bullet Train), Dope Thief is a thrilling if uneven crime comedy…
Black Warrant
With the fresh-faced cast and the sleek camerawork, Black Warrant, at first, didn’t seem to be the gritty adaptation of…
Bugonia (2025)
Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
If it weren’t for the people involved, the English-language remake of the Korean sci-fi comedy Save the Green Planet might…
The Residence
The Residence is a treat for fans of whodunnit mysteries, primarily because it plays homage to the genre more than…
Apple Cider Vinegar
Apple Cider Vinegar follows Belle Gibson, the real-life convicted scammer who founded a wellness empire based on alternative medicine. The…
Duster
Duster isn’t doing anything new by taking on organized crime and cloaking it in vibrant retro garb. But it does…
Roofman (2025)
Dir. Derek Cianfrance
Hollywood loves its fair share of bad guys, but it’s not easy to call the titular robber one. For starters,…
All Her Fault
When a mix-up in the school pick-up line turns out to be a kidnapping, it’s the beginning of the nightmare…
The Lowdown
Set in Tulsa, The Lowdown follows Lee Raybon (Ethan Hawke), a bookstore owner by day and investigative journalist by night.…
Long Bright River
Set in a high-crime neighborhood in Philadelphia, the series follows Mickey (Seyfried), a cop in search of her missing sister…
Black Doves
I would be okay if Black Doves was just a straightforward spy thriller; Knightley and Whishaw have enough charm, enigma,…
The Gentlemen
After the successful release of The Gentlemen (2019), it would have been easy to just continue the story with the…
Boy Swallows Universe
Coming-of-age shows are practically Netflix’s bread-and-butter, but the working class side of Brisbane in the 80’s is a suburb we…
The Believers
Dir. Wattanapong Wongwan
When people donate to temples, they rarely contemplate the way these donations are used for its upkeep and renovation, and…
Griselda
With the success of Narcos, Netflix has created multiple shows about drugs in Latin America to the point that the…
Interior Chinatown
When adapting a novel, television showrunners have to transform the text into video, so sometimes, things get cut, lines get…
Strange Darling (2024)
Dir. JT Mollner
A big part of Strange Darling’s charm is its ability to surprise you with one twist after another, so it’s…
Criminal Record
With the various police procedurals available online, it can feel like an oversaturated genre, at best. At worst, with the…
The Bequeathed
Dir. Min Hong-nam
Succession, whether that be of family assets or of job titles, is always a tricky situation to navigate– often, those…
Dexter: Original Sin
Given the seven year success of the original serial killer show, it’s no wonder that Showtime wanted to continue the…
Presumed Innocent
You can tell showrunner David E. Kelley, who played a part in legal dramas and mysteries like Boston Legal, Ally…
Killer Soup
Dir. Abhishek Chaubey
How far would you go to please the one you love? You might indulge your spouse with a white lie…
High Potential
Dir. Alethea Jones
High Potential isn’t the smartest thing out there, despite Morgan’s impressive 160 IQ. It’s also not the quirkiest of its…
Ludwig
Ludwig is a classic whodunnit with an interesting twist—the detective solving murder mysteries isn’t a cool genius like Sherlock or…
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