Laura Dern plays a newly single novelist struck with writer’s block who heads to a retreat in Morocco hoping for a cure, and as you can guess, she finds one in the handsome young stranger (Liam Hemsworth) who throws her for a few loops in this Netflix romance that has all the ingredients of a
A post-election escape watch from Jon Stewart, the 2020 political satire works as an entertaining crash course on local campaign organizing while doubling as an expose on the dysfunctions of the “election economy.”
If you like your horror more on the clever high-concept side with some social media satire thrown in, add this Netflix bundle of surprises to your watchlist. It’s about a group of old college friends who reunite at a party at an estate before one of them gets married, and end up playing a body-swapping
Thought it revolves around a serial killer and a one-night-stand and pays tribute to grisly 35mm horror-thrillers, Strange Darling has received high praise from a few top critics for its ingenious storytelling. If you’re up for this kind of thing, all advice is to go in blind. And avoid this one for date night! But
Set in the 1930s Oklahoma dust bowl, a housewife grieving the loss of a child becomes convinced of a sinister presence in this psychological thriller starring Sarah Paulson, who departs from her American Horror Story character in a more grounded historical drama. From Nick Schrager at the Daily Beast: “In a genre overly taken as
Based on the New York Times bestseller, The Wild Robot is a transfixing new DreamWorks film about a shipwrecked robot who has to make friends with the locals (animals) and adopt an orphan (gosling). An all-star voice ensemble (Mark Hamill, Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal ++), a dazzling world, a stirring score and a story about
Set in Navajo country, Rez Ball tells the rousing true story of a high school basketball team living on the margins that must rise up after a tragedy, and while the story of an underdog sports team sounds familiar, this one delivers a fresh world, a deeper layer, and an ending that earns its place
On the brink of our next presidential election, this timely documentary captures national security experts as they engage in a “war game” exercise — a simulated cataclysmic event, in this case between a newly elected president and an extremist group. The results of the exercise, we learn are sent confidentially to the Pentagon, Congress, and
After a D.A. (Amy Ryan) up for reelection ends up with a dead young paramour in her hotel room, she calls a fixer (George Clooney), usually a lone wolf who makes bad things go away. They’re interrupted by another fix (Brad Pitt) who was hired by the hotel, and the two rivals are forced to
Set against the stunning backdrop of Crete and adapted from a JoJo Moyes story, Killer Heat follows an American private eye (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who’s hired to investigate the accidental death of young shipping magnate (Richard Madden), and comes up against his suspicious sister-in-law in a blend of escapism and noir. Keep in mind that critics