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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…
Young Sherlock
Young Sherlock isn’t quite accurate to the Andrew Lane book series or the original works from Arthur Conan Doyle. Here,…
Steal
Dir. Hettie Macdonald
As financial systems update for the digital age, so do the related crimes. This crime thriller series starts out with…
Reunion
Dir. Luke Snellin
Reunion plays out like a typical thriller—it follows a recently released ex-con on the hunt for revenge. In most episodes,…
Boots
Inspired by The Pink Marine memoir, Boots expands on Greg Cope White’s story to widen its perspective from one recruit…
Task
From the creators of HBO’s Mare of Easttown comes Task, a gritty crime drama that follows two men —one cop…
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…
The Girlfriend
The Girlfriend, which is Meet the Parents by way of Death Becomes Her and Parasite, is a silly thriller about…
Chief of War
Co-created and starring Jason Momoa, Chief of War is a historical drama depicting the events that led to the unification…
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…
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…
A Thousand Blows
Created by Peaky Blinders showrunner Steven Knight, A Thousand Blows zooms in on the London Victorian underworld and follows three…
MobLand
It’s easy to feel like you’ll know exactly what you’ll get once you see stills from Guy Ritchie’s MobLand, which…
Paradise
You’ll have to trust us on this: it’s best to know absolutely nothing about this show before you start watching.…
The Copenhagen Test
With the titular screening, the brain hacking, and the number of people Alexander Hale has to lie to, there’s a…
The Secret Agent (2025)
Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
From 1964-1985, Brazil was under a military dictatorship. If you’re looking for films about this period of time, you can…
Alien: Earth
Alien has done it again. Another prequel installment, Alien: Earth gives another glimpse into the sci-fi vision that fans of…
Common Side Effects
From the creators of Scavengers Reign and Veep comes Common Side Effects, a show that’s at once quirkily funny and…
Black Warrant
With the fresh-faced cast and the sleek camerawork, Black Warrant, at first, didn’t seem to be the gritty adaptation of…
Bugonia (2025)
Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
If it weren’t for the people involved, the English-language remake of the Korean sci-fi comedy Save the Green Planet might…
Court of Gold
In many ways, the NBA is the face of basketball. They don’t just develop athletes, they create superstars—idols that people…
The Lowdown
Set in Tulsa, The Lowdown follows Lee Raybon (Ethan Hawke), a bookstore owner by day and investigative journalist by night.…
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
Lockerbie is a devastating time-hopping journey that tells the story of how the UK’s deadliest terror attacks came to be…
Celtics City
You’d be forgiven for assuming Celtics City would be like most sports documentaries on TV—unremarkable and over-the-top. But in this…
The Bondsman
The premise of The Bondsman is fun enough. In a small Southern town, Bacon plays a bad-ass bounty hunter who…
DAN DA DAN
During adolescence, teenagers get to learn and discover themselves and the world, but for most people, this means going through…
Black Doves
I would be okay if Black Doves was just a straightforward spy thriller; Knightley and Whishaw have enough charm, enigma,…
Masters of the Air
It’s hard not to be swept away by the epicness of Masters of the Air. Produced by Steven Spielberg and…
Number 24 (2024)
Dir. John Andreas Andersen
A good biography remains fully faithful to the actual history, but a great one understands what their life story means…
The Sympathizer
After the only war the Americans have lost, American post-Vietnam war portrayals tend to lean as patriotic revenge fantasies or…
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…
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