Film · Prime Video · 2026

By Any Means

The dead are not a costume for a hitman's second act. The title is the confession.

Gregory Scarpa, in the account this film is sold on, is a violent man pointed at a righteous question: who killed the workers in Mississippi. A true question does not baptize the instrument. The bureau that will use a murderer, and the murderer who will be used, are both refusing the slow work of law. Yahya Abdul-Mateen's agent is the conscience in the room only if he will not let the means become the story.

The desk has the premise from the public account, not a license to invent the last reel. It is enough. If the film asks you to root for the hitman because the victims were holy, decline the rooting. Grieve the dead. Do not rent their killer as your hero.

The eight

Industry
4/10
Investigation is work. Assassination is the shortcut.
Household
2/10
Households are what the murders destroyed.
Piety
3/10
The cause is just. The piety is borrowed.
Courage
4/10
Nerve in the service of a dirty bargain.
Republic
3/10
A republic that outsources its justice to a criminal.
Temperance
2/10
The title blesses the excess.
Truth
6/10
The historical stain is real and should be told straight.
Stewardship
3/10
What it risks handing on is the phrase itself.

Live historicallyDo not praise a result that required you to hire the evil.

Film · Netflix · 2026

Animals

He wins the city on a rescue that was not his.

Mark Kimball has already spent what the house had, in secret, on a race he is losing. His wife is already gone in all but the papers. A call says their son is taken. The son is at home. The boy who was taken is Hector, the son of the man who waits on their housekeeper. A fixer is hired. At the end the public is told that Mark is the man who saved the boy, and the votes follow.

The measure is that last thank-you. A child was the price of a story, and the story is what the city believed. Do not admire the nerve.

The eight

Industry
4/10
The campaign eats the savings. That is not work. It is a bet with someone else's money.
Household
3/10
The marriage is already leaving. The boy in danger is the housekeeper's, not theirs.
Piety
2/10
No duty older than the race is consulted.
Courage
4/10
The taken boy's father moves. The candidate hires the problem out.
Republic
3/10
A city is handed to a man on the strength of a story.
Temperance
4/10
The tension is the product. The lie at the end is not treated as a defeat.
Truth
4/10
He is thanked in public for a rescue he did not do, and the thanks elects him.
Stewardship
3/10
The other family leaves. He keeps the office.

Live historicallyIf this house is telling a story that makes one of you look brave, ask who actually did the thing.