Action & Thriller

Set in modern day Paris, The Woman in the Fifth is a murky and unsettling story about a mentally ill man who finds sanctuary when he meets a mysterious woman. The Franco-British drama leaves many ends untied, forcing the audience to reach their own conclusions. The undeveloped plots make it quite...

What happens when two top CIA spies fall for the same girl? The answer can be found in This Means War, a film that has everything, especially if you are looking for three good-looking people in an action-packed and humorous spy caper. Directed by McG, of Charlie's Angels and Terminator Salvation fame, we...

Man. Man, man, man. Red State is not your average Kevin Smith flick. Part slasher horror, part political thriller, and part Westboro-levels of crazy, it's one dark mother of a film. I'm well-versed in Smith cinema, and I'd say all of his work up to Red State has been easily identifiable. This time around,...

Troll Hunter. Those two words effectively tell you everything you need to know about the plot and the protagonist of this particular monster flick. But it's more than that. Every once in a while, a film will arrive on the scene that strikes you as something a little different from the endless supply of comic...

Coriolanus is one of Shakespeare's less-popular plays, making it a brave choice for Ralph Fiennes' directorial début. However, the risk certainly pays off, as Fiennes transforms the play by moving the action from Ancient Rome to a recognisably brutal present. As well as directing, Fiennes takes on the...

Released in 1977, Rolling Thunder is a curious combination of two popular trends in 1970s cinema: the vigilante, revenge movie and the existentialist flick. You may not have heard of it, but the film also happens to be Quentin Tarantino's favourite film. In fact Tarantino liked Rolling Thunder so much...

"I don't know anything about human nature. I don't know anything about curiosity." says Harry Caul, the man at the heart of The Conversation, to his colleague Stan. This is a bit odd because they are security experts who make their living from bugging people. Only someone utterly lacking in self-knowledge, or...

If you liked the art direction of Sin City and enjoy kung-fu films whose primary aim is to have as many moves per second as there are frames, then you'll love this. Here at TFR, we get a lot of films to review, and while I'm content to sit down and immerse myself while maintaining a reviewer's mindset, it's a...

If you've seen countless films featuring the struggle of the Jewish people throughout the Holocaust and beyond, you might assume you'd be familiar with the topic. War of Resistance proves this is not the case. Most films based around the Second World War, and more specifically the Nazi regime, tend to go down...

"War. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing." Edwin Starr was right, but war is even worse when it is forgotten. In The Miracle at Santa Anna Spike Lee has focussed on a less-known but vitally important corner of US military history: the involvement of black troops in the liberation of Europe. But the film...