Best Mystery Plot in Film — Rated 4/4 on Quartile

Quartile rates every film 1–4 across Plot, Acting, Cinematography, Novelty and Ending. These mystery films earned a 4 — Well Above Average — for Plot, ranked by their overall Q score.

1. Arrival (2016) · Q 9.5
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) · Q 9
3. The Batman (2022) · Q 9
4. Oldboy (2003) · Q 8.5
5. Rear Window (1954) · Q 8.5
6. Memento (2000) · Q 8.5
7. Psycho (1960) · Q 8.5
8. Incendies (2010) · Q 8.5
9. The Da Vinci Code (2006) · Q 8.5
10. The Prestige (2006) · Q 8.5
11. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013) · Q 8.5
12. Se7en (1995) · Q 8.5
13. Murder on the Orient Express (2017) · Q 8.5
14. Shutter Island (2010) · Q 8.5
15. Witness for the Prosecution (1957) · Q 8.5
16. Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) · Q 8
17. Nope (2022) · Q 8
18. Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) · Q 8
19. Gone Girl (2014) · Q 8
20. Mystic River (2003) · Q 8
21. Blue Velvet (1986) · Q 8
22. Get Out (2017) · Q 8
23. Donnie Darko (2001) · Q 8
24. The Sixth Sense (1999) · Q 8
25. Twelve Monkeys (1995) · Q 8
26. Hereditary (2018) · Q 8
27. The Others (2001) · Q 8
28. Mulholland Drive (2001) · Q 8
29. Vertigo (1958) · Q 8
30. Citizen Kane (1941) · Q 8

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