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The 30 Best Mystery Movies on Netflix, According to Critics
On 3/5/21 at 7:00 AM EST
Netflix may be facing ever-growing competition from new streaming services, but it is still many people s go-to if they just want to relax with a movie. These 30 mystery, however, will not let you relax for a second, with twists and turns in every scene and some shocking revelations.
From Victorian super-sleuths to terrible true crimes, here are the critics favourite mystery films on Netflix U.S., according to critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
The 30 best mystery movies on Netflix
(according to critics)
The Invisible Guest, 2016 (RT score 67%)
A Spanish-language thriller, since remade three times, sees a wealthy businessman trying to come up with a defence after being accused for murder. The film has also just snuck into movie database IMDB s top 250.
Flyaway cover art by Kathleen Jennings
Here at Tor.com we love a good Gothic. The spooky houses that seem to have personalities of their own, the sinister men with murky pasts, the plucky heroines fighting against all the creepiness to learn the truth or find love or just get the hell off this storm-toss’t windswept
cliff already. While traditional Gothic tales are often based in white, Euro-centric Romanticism, some 20th and 21st Century authors have remixed classic Gothic elements to lovingly tell stories about people of color, queer people, and women who want to write their own narratives rather than just being the madwoman in some dude’s attic.
Ian Mond
Several things kept me sane over the last 12 months. My family, the privilege of having a job while in lockdown, the
Backlisted and
Coode Street podcasts (particularly
Coode Street‘s “10 minutes with” series), and the books I read. Yes, there were times in 2020 where I struggled to read more than a handful of pages, but the novels, novellas, and collections I did complete (47 of which I reviewed for
Locus) were some of the best books I’ve read in the last decade.
My favourite work of 2020, the book I know I will return to again and again until the pages are dog-eared and the spine has cracked, is Robert Shearman’s three-volume, 1,700-page, magnum opus