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Twinless (2025)
Dir. James Sweeney
Twinless starts off something like one of those quirky indies in the 2010s about awkwardly navigating grief and sharing that…
Nosferatu (2024)
Dir. Robert Eggers
Nosferatu is impressive on all counts. On the acting front, you have Skarsgård performing a career-best—he’s been many monsters, but…
Exhuma (2024)
Dir. Jang Jae-hyun
For the longest time, land was where people formed strength in community, where people were born, lived, died, and was…
Sweetpea
Dir. Ella Jones
In Sweetpea, every element comes together to make an addictive watch. The premise is amusing on its own—a shy girl…
Pyramid Game
Dir. Park So-yeon
High school can be an incredibly cruel place, but it’s not as systematically cruel as the Baekyeon Girls’ High School…
The Believers
Dir. Wattanapong Wongwan
When people donate to temples, they rarely contemplate the way these donations are used for its upkeep and renovation, and…
Griselda
With the success of Narcos, Netflix has created multiple shows about drugs in Latin America to the point that the…
Monkey Man (2024)
Dir. Dev Patel
Often deemed as South Asian John Wick, Monkey Man, of course, has plenty of the stylish action that’s been captivating…
Late Night with the Devil (2024)
Dir. Cameron Cairnes & Colin Cairnes
After you get back home, and you tuck your kids to bed, we search for some easy entertainment in the…
Twilight of the Gods
Partially due to the surviving Norse myths, as well as certain modernized cinematic depictions, most people think of the Norse…
The Bequeathed
Dir. Min Hong-nam
Succession, whether that be of family assets or of job titles, is always a tricky situation to navigate– often, those…
Under the Bridge
Dir. Geeta Patel
When it comes to true crime series, it’s rare to hear of teenage girls participating in murder. But it does…
No Good Deed
It takes a while to adjust to the unevenness of No Good Deed, especially if you’re not familiar with director…
Eric
Dir. Lucy Forbes
Backed by Netflix’s deep pockets, Eric looks as good as any prestige miniseries out there. As a portrait of pre-gentrified…
PLUTO
Reimagining a children’s classic as a mature serial killer mystery, PLUTO already had high expectations for its anime adaptation. The…
Perpetrator (2023)
Dir. Jennifer Reeder
There’s a degree of removal in Perpetrator which some viewers may find jarring: most visibly, in the performances, whose heightened…
The Shadow Strays (2024)
Dir. Timo Tjahjanto
Real life violence is usually not a good idea, but when those in power would do anything to gain more…
Master Gardener (2023)
Dir. Paul Schrader
As the third instalment in Paul Schrader’s “man in a room” trilogy after First Reformed (2017) and The Card Counter…
Scavengers Reign
“World-building” doesn’t quite capture what Scavengers Reign does — the sheer imagination on display in just the first three episodes…
Manodrome (2023)
Dir. John Trengove
South African director John Trengove follows-up his debut The Wound with another take on masculinity, this time set in the…
Feedback
Dir. Leszek Dawid
After years of trying to regain sobriety, it’s totally chilling to wake up the next day, with no memory of…
Copycat Killer
Dir. Chang Jung-Chi & Henri Chang
Copycat Killer is a gripping and unsettling crime thriller that takes its time to develop its characters and delve into…
Dear Child
Dear Child may be tackling difficult themes, including sexual violence and domestic abuse, but it’s not hard to watch at…
The Peasants (2023)
Dir. DK Welchman & Hugh Welchman
After Loving Vincent, DK and Hugh Welchman’s iconic oil paint animation initially seems like old hat, but this time the…
Bheed (2023)
Dir. Anubhav Sinha
COVID-19 raised concerns about sanitation and cleanliness, but in a society that just banned discrimination against “impure” castes seventy years…
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Fall of the House of Usher isn’t an exact one-to-one television adaptation of the titular short story. Instead, the…
Kaala Paani
Dir. Amit Golani & Sameer Saxena
There’s a lot happening in Netflix’s first Hindi survival thriller series Kaala Paani. The main plot follows the discovery of…
Huesera: The Bone Woman (2023)
Dir. Michelle Garza Cervera
Huesera: The Bone Woman might not be the scariest film horror fans would see, but it does strike at the…
The Settlers (2023)
Dir. Felipe Gálvez
Horse riding. Gunslinging. Revenge and protection. These are notable elements in a Western, Spaghetti or otherwise. But rarely do these…
Rough Diamonds
At first glance, Rough Diamonds seems to be a standard Netflix thriller with debts, deaths, and dirty deals. However, this…
Sister Death (2023)
Dir. Paco Plaza
Remember the creepy blind nun from the Spanish horror film Veronica? While many nun-related horror films have nuns as its…
LaRoy, Texas (2024)
Dir. Shane Atkinson
Sometimes, especially when you’ve gone without it for so long, you would do anything for a shred of respect. LaRoy,…
Parasyte: The Grey
Dir. Yeon Sang-ho
With Sweet Home and Stranger Things, we weren’t surprised that Netflix opted to create a live-action Parasyte, but we were…
The Lesson (2023)
Dir. Alice Troughton & Female director
Appropriately for its literary focus, The Lesson feels, in places, like the gripping adaptation of a bestselling psychological thriller. Unfortunately,…
The Woman in the Wall
On the surface, The Woman in the Wall is immediately scary. It’s riddled with jumpscares, shrieks, haunting Latin songs, blood-hued…
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