In the Shadow of the Moon

In the Shadow of the Moon (2019) is a science-fiction thriller from Jim Mickle that you can watch online on iFILM. Philadelphia, 1988: beat cop Thomas "Locke" Lockhart starts chasing a killer whose victims die in ways no coroner can explain.

Then the suspect vanishes — and exactly nine years later, the same string of deaths begins again. And nine years after that. Boyd Holbrook plays Lockhart as a man who cannot let go, even as the case eats away at his job, his marriage and eventually his grip on reality. The closer he gets, the less this looks like a normal manhunt. Something is bending the rules of cause and effect. Cleopatra Coleman, Michael C. Hall and Rachel Keller round out the cast.

Mickle (We Are What We Are, Cold in July) takes a hard-boiled detective setup and slowly winds it into a time loop. Released by Netflix, the film hangs on one nagging question: what if the only way to stop a murder is to act before it ever happens. Stream In the Shadow of the Moon (2019) online on iFILM.