Spy movies operate on a simple, unsettling premise: the person sitting across from you might not be who

Detective movies run on a promise the audience already half-believes about themselves: given enough clues, anyone could solve

Heist movies run on a promise no other genre delivers with quite this much pleasure: watching a plan

Medical drama movies operate in the one setting where the stakes never need inflating: a hospital, where every

Legal drama movies live in the spaces a trial rarely shows: the all-nighters before the filing deadline, the

Courtroom movies run on a promise no other genre delivers quite as cleanly: a definitive verdict, arrived at

Political movies exist to answer the question every citizen eventually asks and rarely gets a straight answer to:

Superhero movies combine extraordinary powers with recognisable questions about identity, responsibility, fear, sacrifice, and the use of authority.

Slasher movies run on a formula so precise it borders on ritual: a masked or disfigured killer, a

Martial arts movies run on a promise no other action subgenre can match: what happens on screen is,