Best mystery movies right now

A good mystery is a contract with the audience — every clue needed is somewhere on screen, and the fun lies in noticing it before the reveal does the work for you. Rankings here move overnight, so a sharply plotted new whodunit can land next to the classic detective stories that taught the genre its rules in the first place. Expect withheld information, unreliable narrators, and endings built to send you back to rewatch the first act with new eyes. It overlaps with thriller and crime but keeps its own identity centered on the puzzle itself rather than the chase or the crime. Every pick's page has an IMDb score, a Rotten Tomatoes score, and a trailer to preview before committing, plus the streaming services available near you, ready whenever the mood is to work for the answer.