Richard Milford had four wives, plenty of enemies, and a remarkable talent for making people want him dead. Nafissa Thompson-Spires turns his murder into a wickedly funny mystery where everyone has a story.
Elsie Fitzpatrick has spent decades hiding her past, and the seven-year-old across the road is not helping. Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth is a mystery with a grump worth rooting for.
A doting grandmother runs the drug trade in a small Maine town, and when her daughter turns up dead, she doesn’t grieve quietly. Rating: 3.25 out of 5 stars Babs Dionne is a grandmother, a proud Franco-American, and the...
Cork O’Connor heads into the Boundary Waters for what should be a family trip, but instead finds missing friends, dangerous men, and questions about the difference between justice and revenge. Relaxing vacations are not...
The Good Daughter had me turning pages and second-guessing every single character. Now Peacock’s adaptation is bringing all that buried trauma, family tension, and danger to the screen. Watch the new trailer.
Michael B. Jordan is directing, producing, and starring in a new Thomas Crown Affair, and I’m equal parts thrilled and protective of the movie I already love.
Joy Bridport has spent 89 years following the rules. Then her best friend gets a terminal diagnosis, and Joy discovers petty crime. Good Joy, Bad Joy is funny, warm, and sadder than it looks.
Models Inc. was messy, glamorous, wildly overdramatic 1990s soap perfection. Aaron Spelling turned a modeling agency into a runway-adjacent crime scene, and honestly, television was better for it.
I have never found a dead body, and I’d love to keep that streak alive. But as someone who watches too much true crime, I have wondered: if a normal walk suddenly turns crime-scene-adjacent, what are you actually...
Three people were in that car. Only Mackenzie Shirilla got a documentary — Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagane deserved more. What else was left out of The Crash?
A bank heist. A murder. Zero exits. Ernest Cunningham is having the worst errand day ever. Find out why I gave Benjamin Stevenson's Everyone In This Bank Is a Thief 3.25/5 stars.
Dozens of police cars, a blurry shadow, and rumors of 10-foot-tall aliens. What actually happened at Miami’s Bayside Marketplace on New Year’s Day 2024?
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