This slow burn crime thriller favors mood and atmosphere over plot and momentum, creating a sense of desperation over a humid, overheated summer night.
Louis Feuillade’s mad serialized tale of a master criminal organization that robs, kidnaps, and murders their way through Parisian society is a strange and wonderful masterpiece of early cinema.
Tommy Lee Jones takes the lead in the Coen Bros.’s vivid film of the Corman McCarthy novel, a model of simple, strong, evocative storytelling pared down to the bone.
Diao Yinan’s dark crime drama, set in China’s northern coal country in the depths of winter, takes an atmospheric approach to the shadowy murder mystery.
Gilles Lellouche and Roschdy Zem are wary allies forced to team up in this high energy crime thriller that opens in full sprint and stays in that adrenaline-pumping state to the end.
Plus ‘Welcome to Earth’ on Disney+, ‘The Unforgiveable’ and animated ‘Back to the Outback’ on Netflix, ‘Bloods’ on Hulu, ‘The Forever Prisoner’ on HBO Max, ‘Dear Heaven Hansen’ on VOD, and more Christmas programs.
