If you’re less about adventurous plots, and more about the emotional journey and relationship arcs, we’ve got you covered. Here are the best character-driven movies and shows to stream right now.
What’s great about this highly inventive film is that it doesn’t look like it was shot through three iPhone 5s.…
The agonizing tug of war between dogma and desire is sharply illustrated in writer-director Laurel Parmet’s feature debut, set inside…
While the mixed reception of its near-faithful American remake Vanilla Sky might make some viewers pause, there’s an intuitive brilliance…
A wacky viral story — the kind that gets played for laughs at the end of news broadcasts — gets…
Based on the DC Vertigo comic, Bodies is an intriguing crime thriller with a unique twist – one body, in…
From the creators of HBO’s Mare of Easttown comes Task, a gritty crime drama that follows two men —one cop…
Director Thomas Vinterberg (The Hunt) reunites with Mads Mikkelsen to tell the story of four teachers going through a mid-life…
With the gorgeous period costumes, the romance, and the familial dynamics, you would think that Like Water for Chocolate’s latest…
There is nothing quite like The Substance right now. It’s unsubtle, it’s provocative, and its satirical humor can be a…
The first things that grab your attention in Nickel Boys are its beauty and technicality. Director RaMell Ross, a large-format…
The dystopian survival thriller isn’t concerned about the reasons behind its death marathon, only giving a short speech about a…
Masculinity can look like different things, and Big Boys reminds us of that in hilarious and poignant ways. The British…
Be prepared to have the expectations you form after reading Scrapper’s synopsis shattered: though it is about a 12-year-old dealing…
In his last few months as president, Mariano de Santis has a few loose ends to tie up. This includes…
After the only war the Americans have lost, American post-Vietnam war portrayals tend to lean as patriotic revenge fantasies or…
A Real Pain is a deceptively simple film. There’s not a lot going on on the surface, but Eisenberg’s smart…
If you’re expecting the sleek, playful, and totally over-the-top spy shenanigans of 2005’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith, you’re not going…
You don’t have to be a theater kid to enjoy this feel-good mockumentary set in a summer camp for junior…
Taking the violence and offbeat comedy of the original movie and adding constantly expanding narratives on top of it, Noah…
Aptly for a film partly set in a fortune cookie factory, Fremont deals with luck — specifically, the other side…
This bittersweet comedy centers on Sam Fox (Pamela Adlon), a single mother and working actress doing her best to get…
All We Imagine as Light is a political film that has many smart and moving things to say about the…
In Sorry, Baby, an unspeakable act of cruelty disrupts Agnes’ ambitious rise to the top. Despite being a literature professor,…
After more than 400 separate film adaptations, is there anything new to say about the monster that birthed the sci-fi…
Just a few minutes in, you can already feel the immensity of The Brutalist. The rousing score stirs you. The…
With the internet able to connect people from miles away, the concept of the one that got away has become…
With the anonymity of the internet, it’s hard to trust that the stranger on the other side would be a…
At once intimate and sweeping, A Thousand and One seamlessly weaves Inez’s personal turmoil and familial troubles with the systemic…
Produced by National Geographic, A Small Light is a ten-part miniseries that tells the incredible true story of Miep Gies…
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