Top 10 Movies: Mystery
The highest-graded mystery movies we have reviewed, best first.
Se7enRain, rot and a box: Fincher's procedural commits to its nihilism and never blinks at the end.Read the review
The PrestigeNolan structures the film as the trick it describes, and the prestige lands every time.
The Usual SuspectsA magic trick with a bulletin board, and knowing the ending only makes the construction more impressive.
The Hateful EightTarantino locks eight liars in one room and shoots it like a landscape.
OldboyA revenge tragedy that turns the knife on the avenger, and on the audience.
HarakiriA revenge film built as a legal argument, and the verdict destroys an entire code.
The Third ManCarol Reed's tilted, rubble-strewn Vienna is the most atmospheric city in film noir, set to a zither tune that went to number one.
The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)Campanella braids a cold murder case, an unspoken love and Argentina's debt to its dead into a crowd-pleaser with real teeth.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanCuaron throws out the tour guide and shoots the series like an actual film.
PsychoHitchcock murders his own star at the halfway mark and dares you to keep watching.
