The year's best mystery thriller, Missing, now on Netflix.

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Rarely does a mystery movie seem novel. The mystery genre has mostly been completely utilised in films over the years,

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ranging from thrillers based on beach reading to the greatest investigators in history.

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This is why it's amazing when something like Missing shows up and alters the formula in some way.

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Missing is the 2023 continuation of the 2018 film Searching.

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and it centres on June Allen (Storm Reid), a young woman who adores her father but never really knew him.

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She is trying her best to get along with her single mother, but there are moments when she struggles.

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She doesn't get along well with her mother's most recent partner either.

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Although it's difficult, June moves swiftly after her mother mysteriously disappears while on a trip to Mexico.

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