Isabella Endrinal: My Curated Picks on Streaming Services

Love Story

Let’s get this out of the way: Love Story isn’t an accurate retelling of the marriage between John F. Kennedy…

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast

After losing a former friend, you would think that the three women in How to Get to Heaven from Belfast…

Big Mistakes

When a petty theft leads to a never-ending list of favors the leads have to fulfill for a gangster, this…

Ponies

Ponies is a fun ride. Centered on two widows who lost their CIA husbands, the unexpected spy series puts their…

Rooster

Rooster is drier than we expected from a show starring and co-produced by Steve Carrell, but the humor reflects the…

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Because of the format, Margo’s Got Money Troubles doesn’t quite have the same laugh-out-loud humor as the original novel– televised…

Superboys of Malegaon

Dir. Reema Kagti

Based on the life of a real small town filmmaker, this coming-of-age film is a familiar underdog story. After their…

Death by Lightning

Out of all the presidents in American history, you’ll be hard pressed to remember James A. Garfield. That’s because the…

Boots

Inspired by The Pink Marine memoir, Boots expands on Greg Cope White’s story to widen its perspective from one recruit…

Young Sherlock

Young Sherlock isn’t quite accurate to the Andrew Lane book series or the original works from Arthur Conan Doyle. Here,…

DTF St. Louis

At first glance, DTF St. Louis seemed to be a nonchalant comedy that would poke fun at domestic dissatisfaction. David…

John Candy: I Like Me

Dir. Colin Hanks

John Candy: I Like Me takes a somewhat standard approach in remembering the titular comedian. The film pulls out old…

Boyfriend on Demand

Dir. Kim Jung-sik

Honestly, it’s a bit insulting to diminish a romance fan’s love for the genre simply due to good looks of…

My Mom Jayne

Dir. Mariska Hargitay

Unlike the other documentaries depicting “Hollywood’s smartest dumb blonde”, My Mom Jayne takes on a different approach to Jayne Mansfield.…

Steal

Dir. Hettie Macdonald

As financial systems update for the digital age, so do the related crimes. This crime thriller series starts out with…

Sound of Falling

Dir. Mascha Schilinski

Previous depictions of provincial living tend to paint the pastoral experience as idyllic, simple, and much more innocent compared to…

The Alabama Solution

Dir. Andrew Jarecki & Charlotte Kaufman

Depicting the horrifying cycle of abuse in the state’s prison system, The Alabama Solution is tough to watch. It was…

From Ground Zero

Dir. Ahmad Hassunah & Ahmed Al Danaf

From Ground Zero doesn’t have the most number of shorts within an anthology film, though it comes pretty close with…

The Chair Company

Dir. Aaron Schimberg & Andrew DeYoung

After being promoted as a project lead, Ron falls down due to his office chair breaking. At first he tries…

Bob Trevino Likes It

Dir. Tracie Laymon

With the anonymity of the internet, it’s hard to trust that the stranger on the other side would be a…

A Nice Indian Boy

Dir. Roshan Sethi

Sure, many of the tropes in this feel-good romcom would be familiar. Naveen, a shy Indian doctor, loves Jay, a…

Come See Me in the Good Light

Dir. Ryan White

Come See Me in the Good Light takes a somewhat conventional approach in documenting poet Andrea Gibson’s battle against cancer,…

La Grazia

Dir. Paolo Sorrentino

In his last few months as president, Mariano de Santis has a few loose ends to tie up. This includes…

Left-Handed Girl

Dir. Shih-Ching Tsou & Tsou Shih-ching

Left-Handed Girl is titled after I-Jing, the youngest daughter of the Ching family, whose left-handedness puts her at odds with…

The Beast in Me

What makes crime thrillers exciting isn’t necessarily the crime itself– it’s when the leads meet their match. The Beast in…

Twinless

Dir. James Sweeney

Twinless starts off something like one of those quirky indies in the 2010s about awkwardly navigating grief and sharing that…

The Copenhagen Test

With the titular screening, the brain hacking, and the number of people Alexander Hale has to lie to, there’s a…

Belén

Dir. Dolores Fonzi & Female director

Given that this is based on a recent, real life case, and the defendant has chosen to remain behind the…

Hal & Harper

Following his sophomore feature Cha Cha Real Smooth, writer-director Cooper Raiff made his way to television with family dramedy Hal…

The Eternaut

Dir. Bruno Stagnaro

After decades of copyright disputes, The Eternaut finally makes its way on screen, right in time to echo certain worldwide…

Code 3

Dir. Christopher Leone

Code 3 is a comedy about a crazy night out, though the craziness doesn’t stem from drunkenness, drugs, or bad…

New Wave

Dir. Richard Linklater

Admittedly, half the fun of Nouvelle Vague would only be understood by cinephiles, film history students, or anyone with a…

Train Dreams

Dir. Clint Bentley

Based on the 2011 novella of the same name, Train Dreams depicts the life of Robert Grainier in the first…