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Unlock All The Sympathizer
After the only war the Americans have lost, American post-Vietnam war portrayals tend to lean as patriotic revenge fantasies or…
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…
Interior Chinatown
When adapting a novel, television showrunners have to transform the text into video, so sometimes, things get cut, lines get…
My Undead Yokai Girlfriend
Some people can get totally desperate when it comes to their love life, but rarely does this desperation end up…
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…
Killer Soup
Dir. Abhishek Chaubey
How far would you go to please the one you love? You might indulge your spouse with a white lie…
House of Ninjas
From the fantasy-powered folktales to superhero-like depictions, ninjas have captivated the world, but seem to be a relic of the…
Spermworld (2024)
Dir. Lance Oppenheim
For people having difficulty bearing a child, artificial insemination is one way to go for parenthood, but going to sperm…
A Round of Applause
Dir. Berkun Oya
A Round of Applause is just so darn weird. We’ve seen stories about people remembering their past lives, but we’ve…
The Last Round
Dir. Mariam Ahmady
At a certain age, it can feel like starting over again isn’t possible, especially when all signs discourage you from…
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Rated 8.5 or above Venice Winner · Venice
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That The Curse is squirm-inducingly awkward won’t be news to anyone who’s watched a Nathan Fielder show before, but TV’s…
This World Can’t Tear Me Down
This World Can’t Tear Me Down is a timely release on friendship, punk, and anti-fascism. From the Italian cartoonist Zerocalcare,…
Frybread Face and Me (2023)
Dir. Billy Luther
Frybread Face and Me is a little indie gem: though rough around the edges, it’s full of charm and heart.…
Scavengers Reign
“World-building” doesn’t quite capture what Scavengers Reign does — the sheer imagination on display in just the first three episodes…
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Chicken for Linda! (2023)
Dir. Chiara Malta & Sébastien Laudenbach
While the market for animation is mostly dominated by American 3D and Japanese anime, once in a while, a film…
The Boy and the Heron (2023)
Dir. Hayao Miyazaki
The Boy and the Heron isn’t Hayao Miyazaki’s best film, nor is it his most accessible, seeing as the director…
Great Photo, Lovely Life (2023)
Dir. Amanda Mustard & Rachel Beth Anderson
Biographical documentaries tend to depict exceptional people– people who are so great that everyone wants to know about them, and…
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (2023)
Dir. Anna Hints
Nakedness has been demonized or at least, has been considered inappropriate outside of certain situations. One such situation is the…
The Romantics
Dir. Smriti Mundhra
Bollywood is the biggest film industry in the world, in terms of output. After all, the Indian film industry churns…
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…
Nothing to See Here
When a comedy is centered around people with disabilities, there’s a worry that the humor would be unfunny or demeaning…
Mrs. Davis
It’s difficult to describe Mrs. Davis without sounding a little bit insane. It is, after all, a sci-fi series that…
Turn of the Tide
Also known as Rabo de Peixe, after the real town where the series is based, Turn of the Tide follows…
The Lying Life of Adults
Based on a novel, The Lying Life of Adults might feel, at first, like a standard Netflix coming-of-age series, complete…
The Good Bad Mother
Life never goes the way we expect, especially for those who don’t have plenty of options. Because of this, parents…
Count Abdulla
Dir. Asim Abbasi
This new six-part comedy series is as razor-sharp as a vampire’s fangs, skewering everything from the horror genre’s historically iffy…
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