Blitz

Set in England during WWII, a London mother (Saoirse Ronan) sends her 9-year-old son away to save him from the German blitzkrieg  in the English countryside, but the boy becomes determined to find his way back home in what becomes a treacherous journey that sheds light on rarely seen perspectives from the war. Director Steve

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The Piano Lesson

Falling somewhere between a filmed play and a movie, Denzel Washington is the producer behind this adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play directed by Malcolm Washington and starring John David Washington, Danielle Deadwyler, and Samuel Jackson. Set in 1936 Pittsburgh, it’s the story of how a family ends up torn over the fate of

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A comedy about diplomats at a climate summit starring Cate Blanchett

Rumours

If you’ve finished The Diplomat and need a comedic antidote, this horror satire about a group of G-7 leaders arrives to streaming just in time. Cate Blanchett leads as the German Prime Minister hosting her fellow world leads at a summit to address a climate-related crisis, which devolves into gossip and bog people being excavated

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Goodrich

When his wife heads to rehab, Andy Goodrich (Michael Keaton) has to take on his nine-year-old twins alone, and ends up leaning on his grow-up daughter from his first marriage (Mila Kunis) in this smart and ultimately feel-good comedy-drama about a man’s parental reckoning. “Watching Goodrich isn’t like playing tourist in an upscale world —

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The Stanford Prison Experiment documentary on National Geographic and Hulu

The Stanford Prison Experiment

It was one of the most notorious and eye-opening social psychology studies — 24 top male college students randomly assigned to become prisoners or guards — and for the first time, the former participants are speaking out and asking bigger questions about the nature of the experiments, the man who led them, and what they

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Emilia Perez

France’s official submission to next year’s Academy Awards is this bold, chaotic musical drama about a lawyer (Zoe Saldana) who helps a cartel leader (Karla Sofía Gascón) leave the business and his wife (Selena Gomez) and kids to become the woman he has always imagined himself to be. One of the buzziest films to come

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My Old Ass

The Watercooler’s pick from Sundance is finally available to stream, a clever comedy about a free-spirited 18-year-old Elliott (Maisy Stella) who drinks a hallucinogenic mushroom tea and comes face-to-face with her older, wiser 38-year-old self (Aubrey Plaza). Elliott’s “old ass” serves up just the kind of advice and warnings she (and we) need — especially

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In the Summers

Spanning two decades and told in four chapters, the intimate indie drama follows two sisters from adolescence to adulthood as they visit their volatile yet vulnerable father in New Mexico, and learn to process all of the complexities of the man and the places they call home. From the Los Angeles Times‘ Tim Grierson:  “It

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Joy Ride

A truly joyous escape watch with uproarious scenes and must-find soundtrack, Joy Ride resonates on surprisingly deeper levels, reminding us of the transformative power of friendship, laughter, and adventure.

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Endurance

Billed as “the greatest survival story ever told,” National Geographic and the award-winning filmmakers behind Free Solo intertwine two stories over 100 years apart: The story of how explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton kept his crew of 27 men alive for over a year after losing this ship, Endurance, in a pack of Antarctic ice stuck

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