The Best Crime Movies of 2025

The Best Crime Movies of 2025

Washed-up revolutionaries, bumbling art thieves, married spies, and more!

By Olivia Rutigliano | December 11, 2025

The 2025 CrimeReads Holiday Gift Guide

The 2025 CrimeReads Holiday Gift Guide

30+ mystery and crime-themed gift ideas, from the editors of CrimeReads

By Olivia Rutigliano | December 10, 2025

Attention, Nerds: There's a Pilot In the Works Called <em>Trivia Night Mysteries</em>

Attention, Nerds: There's a Pilot In the Works Called Trivia Night Mysteries

News of a portential whodunnit series from former Family Guy Showrunner Steve Callaghan

By Olivia Rutigliano | December 9, 2025

<em>Ready or Not</em> Has a Sequel!

Ready or Not Has a Sequel!

And it co-stars David Cronenberg!

By Olivia Rutigliano | December 8, 2025

There is now a <em>Sesame Street</em> <em>Knives Out</em> Pastiche, Called

There is now a Sesame Street Knives Out Pastiche, Called "Forks Out."

Meet the world's greatest Muppet detective, Beignet Blanc. (I'm screaming with joy.)

By Olivia Rutigliano | December 3, 2025

Masterpiece Mystery has a New Mystery!

Masterpiece Mystery has a New Mystery!

Introducing Winter, starring Richard Armitage as a Bristol-based pathologist-turned sleuth

By Olivia Rutigliano | December 3, 2025

Best Reviewed
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  • Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes
  • Emperor of Nothing: The Making of Larry David
  • I Can't Stop Thinking about Horses and Sex
  • Queen of Lombard Street
  • Paradise Burns
  • Doppelgänger
  • Hanging and Burning: A King Oliver Novel
  • Our Arab: On Longing, Belonging, and Hope
  • The Turning of Sally-Mae

Tom Stoppard's Secret Indiana Jones Rewrites

By Olivia Rutigliano | December 2, 2025

Sherlock Holmes, Scientist

By Olivia Rutigliano | November 27, 2025

The Five Funniest Far Side Cartoons About Detectives

By Olivia Rutigliano | November 26, 2025

A Guide to the <em>Rocky</em> Films, with some Minor Embellishments

A Guide to the Rocky Films, with some Minor Embellishments

Olivia Rutigliano considers one of the largest film franchises ever

By Olivia Rutigliano | November 24, 2025

“Whoever Wrote this Episode Should Die

“Whoever Wrote this Episode Should Die": "Galaxy Quest" Is Personal, and it's Personal to Me

Galaxy Quest does">No movie understands "loving a fictional world" the way Galaxy Quest does

By Olivia Rutigliano | November 21, 2025

Ira Levin's <em>The Boys from Brazil</em> Gets a Netflix Series Adaptation

Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil Gets a Netflix Series Adaptation

Levin's wild novel about an attempt to grow Hitler clones is headed to television.

By Olivia Rutigliano | November 20, 2025

How Many Actors Played Different <em>Columbo</em> Villains Multiple Times?

How Many Actors Played Different Columbo Villains Multiple Times?

Olivia Rutigliano counts the... serial killers of the Columbo cast

By Olivia Rutigliano | November 19, 2025

Stephen King's Top 10 Movies Are Mostly Crime Movies

Stephen King's Top 10 Movies Are Mostly Crime Movies

Nor horror... crime!

By Olivia Rutigliano | November 18, 2025

How Many Times in the Original Stories is Sherlock Holmes in Disguise?

How Many Times in the Original Stories is Sherlock Holmes in Disguise?

Olivia Rutigliano counts the alter-egos of the famous detective.

By Olivia Rutigliano | November 17, 2025

<em>Poker Face</em> is Cancelled... But It Might Have an Alternate Afterlife?

Poker Face is Cancelled... But It Might Have an Alternate Afterlife?

Say goodbye to Charlie Cale... and hello to Charlie Cale?

By Olivia Rutigliano | November 14, 2025

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