Reviews

The last narrative film distributed by Netflix that was based on real events, The Red Sea Diving Resort, was a mess of clichés with a bad case of white-savior complex....

Cooking Mama: Cookstar was never meant to have been released to the public, if you believe the company that owns the rights to the Cooking Mama franchise. Cookstar has been...

Regret about the paths not taken in life is a fairly fundamental part of the human condition, which explains why there’s so much art exploring what the world might look...

Tiger King, Netflix’s stranger-than-fiction documentary, is a bona fide phenomenon. The seven-episode series, currently topping Netflix’s top 10 most watched content list, returned on Sunday with an eighth episode: an...

The pleasure of watching Netflix’s Master of None comes from seeing immigrant stories getting the space to play out at a meaningful length, while being portrayed as everyday experiences rather...

On paper, a Netflix wrestling movie from WWE Studios doesn’t seem like it’d be anything more than a showcase for wrestling moves and WWE superstars. But through clever subversions of...

2014’s The Lego Movie seemed to be pulling off a magic trick that was impossible to replicate. It was a movie based on a popular toy that seemed to have...

The opening scene of the new horror movie Sea Fever doesn’t leave much to the imagination; the first words heroine Siobhán (Hermione Corfield) says is “I don’t do joining in,”...

The story at the center of Never Rarely Sometimes Always is deceptively simple, but the film Eliza Hittman builds around it is extraordinary. Autumn (Sidney Flanigan), a Pennsylvania teenager with...

A movie featuring a dismembered hand being stuffed into a character’s mouth might signal a tone of ridiculous violence early on, rather than start with relatively sitcom-y domestic troubles. Coffee...