I have to have a tiny bit of love for any film that starts with someone booting up Windows XP. Clearly Windows Me or Vista were unviable, given how long it’d take the subsequent film to get started, ...
Netflix added “Searching,” a mystery thriller that sees a father investigate his daughter’s disappearance entirely through ...
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The surest sign of a good thriller is to see how well it works within the confines of the genre – whether or not it is able to offer a fresh take on familiar themes, and how well it is able to conceal ...
The conceit of Searching—a film told entirely from a computer screen—may seem high-concept, but the actual story within is a fairly old-fashioned whodunnit. It’s this intermingling of a traditional ...
Jeff Sneider is the Senior Film Reporter at Collider, where he breaks film and television news and curates the Up-and-Comer of the Month column in addition to hosting The Sneider Cut podcast and the ...
If it weren’t for the technical gimmickry of “Searching,” a new thriller directed by Aneesh Chaganty (who co-wrote it with Sev Ohanian), it might never have been made. The story follows the familiar ...
It is hard enough to come up with a plausible mystery story for a feature film that has enough legitimate twists and turns to make it interesting without having to cheat on the payoff. Too often, the ...