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Crime films

September 2024

  • Courting attention … Arieh Worthalter as Pierre Goldman.

    The Goldman Case review – gripping French courtroom drama with a chaotic energy

  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Greedy People.

    Greedy People review – blood and chaos overlay bizarrely Coenesque crime caper

  • Not so much eating biscuits in the small hours with the laptop, then … Ian McKellen as Jimmy Erskine in The Critic.

    ‘I filed my copy from Waterloo station loos’: the Guardian’s theatre critics assess The Critic

  • Alfred Enoch and Ian McKellen in The Critic.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    The Critic review – Ian McKellen’s poison pen sharpens 30s society cosy-crime drama

  • Damaged review – Samuel L Jackson comes to Edinburgh in crime thriller

  • What we still do in the shadows: why film noir will never die

  • Maldoror review – true-crime serial killer procedural induces stomach-turning horror

  • Red Rooms review – fashion model fixates on a serial-killer in unsettling dark-web horror

  • The Whip review – carer turns to crime in a heist movie with a conscience

  • Wolfs review – Pitt and Clooney are job-sharing loners in Spidey-meme of a thriller

  • Mandoob (Night Courier) review – Saudi crime thriller delves into the secrets of Riyadh

August 2024

  • Film still: The Order (2024), directed by Justin Kurzel starring Jude Law

    The Order review – Jude Law leads neo-Nazi-hunting thriller with confident authority

  • Film still: El jockey (Kill the Jockey) directed by by Luis Ortega with Nahuel Pérez Biscayart and Úrsula Corberó

    Kill the Jockey review – a mercurial, skittish crime drama whose hero is a drug-fuelled rogue

  • MandMohamad Aldokhei as Fahad in Mandooboob

    Mandoob (Night Courier) review – darkly amusing gig-economy satire on the mean streets of Riyadh

  • Lang (Eddie Peng) on a motorbike with a dog in the side car in Black Dog.

    Black Dog review – state-of-the-Chinese-nation drama with feelgood furry antics

  • Autumn arts preview 2024
    The return of Beetlejuice, Gladiator, Paddington and the Joker – the best films of autumn 2024

  • ‘I felt like the gates of something huge had opened’: Ali Kalthami on his subversive new Saudi thriller

  • Cadejo Blanco review – compelling performances in slow-burn drug gang thriller

  • Only the River Flows review – stylishly enigmatic Chinese crime drama

  • ‘You have to eliminate a stereotype’: director Wei Shujun on Chinese noir Only the River Flows

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