One of the best thriller movies of the decade is on TV tonight

Playing out like a heist movie, the film has a 95% Rotten Tomatoes score.

Inspired by the non-fiction book of the same name by Andreas Malm, the film follows a group of young people from different walks of life who gather together at a remote cabin in West Texas for a secret mission.

United by their desire to protect the environment, their goal is to detonate homemade explosives along a section of a recently constructed oil pipeline nearby as a form of climate activism.

Playing out like a heist movie, the story follows the young environmentalists as they carry out their plot, while flashing back in time to show how each of them became involved in the dangerous plan.

How to Blow Up a Pipeline features a cast of young stars. This includes co-writer Ariela Barer (The Last of Us), along with Forrest Goodluck (The Revenant), Jake Weary (The Waterfront), Jayme Lawson (The Batman), Kristine Froseth (The Buccaneers), Lukas Gage (Smile 2), Marcus Scribner (Black-ish) and Sasha Lane (American Honey).

Ingeniously structured and often almost unbearably tense - particularly the Sorcerer-esque scenes of the lead character constructing their own explosives - the film works extraordinarily well as a thriller.

That said, it's also a movie about important societal issues. It questions whether such extreme actions to combat climate change are justified, and whether the activists who commit them should be labelled terrorists.

Holding a 95% Rotten Tomatoes score, How to Blow Up a Pipeline is airing on TV tonight on Film4 at 11.40pm.

Here are the other movies airing on TV tonight:

For a Few Dollars More - Sky Arts - 9pm

the second entry in actor Clint Eastwood and director Sergio Leone's iconic Dollars trilogy of Westerns, another JOE recommendation for this evening.

See How They Run - RTÉ Two - 9.35pm

Everyone is a suspect including the cast, crew and ushers. Mystery comedy set during the original 1950s production of The Mousetrap, starring Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan

Salt - E4 - 11.30pm

A CIA agent is accused of being a sleeper assassin with a deadly purpose - to kill the Russian president during a diplomatic visit and start a third world war. 

Rambo III - ITV4 - 9.00pm

Vietnam veteran John Rambo turns down a request from his old colonel to join a mission in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan.

Runner Runner - Legend Xtra - 11pm

Crime thriller, starring Justin Timberlake, Ben Affleck and Gemma Arterton.