Genre: neo-noir

Films that take the fatalism, moral compromise, and visual language of classic film noir and rebuild it in color, in later decades, and often in genres noir never touched. What carries over is the structure: a protagonist who investigates and is damaged by what he finds, a world already corrupt before the story starts, and an ending that resolves the case without repairing anything. The reviews here trace that inheritance through crime films, science fiction, and small independent productions.