A House of Dynamite on Netflix is the scariest movie I’ve watched in years, and it’s not even a horror film. This new political thriller from Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow is a bone-chilling look at what might happen if—or when, as the movie’s tagline suggests—one of the U.S.’s many enemies decides to launch a nuclear war head ...
You might be shocked to learn that Harlan Coben has pumped out yet another twisty thriller, but the writer extraordinaire has done it again. His latest series, Harlan Coben's Lazarus, follows Joel "Laz" Lazarus (masterfully portrayed by Sam Claflin), a psychiatrist seemingly following in the footsteps of his father John (played by a chilling Bill...
Spike Lee's latest joint, Highest 2 Lowest—based on Akira Kurosawa's 1963 crime thriller—is aptly titled. The first half of the movie, which is now streaming on Apple TV+, feels like a low for Lee—cheesy, over-the-top drama accompanied by a distracting, incongruous score. But then, about half-way through, the film takes a turn to the...
It's always worth revisiting the Money Heist universe. In 2023, the international phenomenon was revived with a spin-off series centered on Berlin, the unpredictable yet brilliant thief who was eventually killed off on the popular series. But Berlin shows him in his prime, years before he fell ill and took the Royal Mint of Spain with the...
Another Simple Favor, now streaming on Prime Video, is a perfect summer movie. This sequel to the 2018 dark comedy thriller, A Simple Favor, reunites Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick as fellow moms and former best friends—until the sweet-tempered mommy vlogger Stephanie Smothers (Kendrick) uncovered the dark, murderous truth about the glamorous...
While 1983's WarGames was not the first movie to outline the potential dangers of our military's use of artificial intelligence, it does serve as a helpful reminder that it wasn't so long ago that the only members of our society that had access to home computers were bleeding edge tech enthusiasts and teenage hacker prodigies like Matthew...
The psychological thriller genre doesn't generally produce many films I'd classify as "fun," but M. Night Shyamalan's unpredictable movie Trap is the exception to the rule. The best way to enjoy the film is to go into it knowing as little as possible, but the elevator pitch is the FBI hatches an elaborate plan to capture a serial killer who's...