TV-14 Movies to Watch

Étoile

Étoile is a charming transatlantic series set in fictional ballet companies based in New York and Paris. The series alternates…

Common Side Effects

From the creators of Scavengers Reign and Veep comes Common Side Effects, a show that’s at once quirkily funny and…

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…

When Life Gives You Tangerines

A more cynical viewer might be put off by the pity party that happens in the first hour of When…

St. Denis Medical

Is it possible to make a workplace comedy set in a hospital emergency room, of all places? St. Denis Medical…

A Man on the Inside

Man on the Inside may be a detective show, but at its core, it’s a series about the beauty and…

The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House

Dir. Female director & Hirokazu Kore-eda

On the surface, The Makanai is a simple, slice-of-life show about food and friendship. While it is that, to be…

High Potential

Dir. Alethea Jones

High Potential isn’t the smartest thing out there, despite Morgan’s impressive 160 IQ. It’s also not the quirkiest of its…

Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War

If you are a historian, a communist, a capitalist, a Russian or American citizen, you would likely already have opinions…

PLUTO

Reimagining a children’s classic as a mature serial killer mystery, PLUTO already had high expectations for its anime adaptation. The…

The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin

In a TV age where dark comedies and slick satires are all the rage, The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick…

Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War

Dir. Patrick Reams

Wyatt Earp’s adventures in the Wild West are the stuff of legend. Indeed, plenty of Hollywood greats have tried to…

Zorro

Remakes are a dime a dozen, but Prime Video’s Spanish reinterpretation of Zorro gives justice to the masked vigilante. With…

Batman: Caped Crusader

It’s easy to mistake stills of Batman: The Caped Crusader with Batman: The Animated Series, that iconic ‘90s series that…

Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV

Dir. Emma Schwartz & Mary Robertson

It’s not news that child actors don’t have it easy in an industry that’s more interested in exploiting than protecting…

A Small Light

Produced by National Geographic, A Small Light is a ten-part miniseries that tells the incredible true story of Miep Gies…

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…

Mother Undercover

There’s no room for glamour in this heartwrenching yet inspiring documentary of first-hand accounts from mothers who went above and…

Elsbeth

In a sea of self-serious legal dramas and police procedurals, The Good Wife spin-off Elsbeth stands out for its quirky…

Revenant

Dir. Lee Jeong-lim

Mysterious and hair-raising, Revenant is a supernatural drama whose demonic possession deals with modern-day detectives and Korean folklore. This strange…

The Gene of AI

In a world acclimated to the technological advancements and integration of AI, Sudo Hikaru offers illegal medical procedures in the…

My Lady Jane

Dir. Jamie Babbit

My Lady Jane reimagines the titular nine-day queen, played by Bader, as a staunch feminist who has a lust for…

Friday Night Plan

Dir. Vatsal Neelakantan

Friday Night Plan resembles many a classic teen film (most notably, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Booksmart), but it also…

Like Flowers in Sand

Dir. Kim Jin-woo

Do we need to convince you about the spectacle of half naked, handsome, buff men wrestling? Like Flowers in Sand…

Cigarette Girl

Dir. Ifa Isfansyah & Kamila Andini

Netflix is no stranger to adapting novels, nor to period dramas – Cigarette Girl is one of many, but it’s…

The Unwanted Undead Adventurer

Usually, being swallowed up by a dragon means death. However, for Rentt Faina, The Unwanted Undead Adventurer, becoming a skeleton…

Crashing Eid

Dir. Ali Alattas & Said Zagha

As the world becomes more globalized, it’s possible for people to form relationships with people across the world, from different…

Jury Duty

Dir. Jake Szymanski

Between HBO’s The Rehearsal and Peacock’s Paul T. Goldman, it would seem that genre-bending reality-based shows are having a moment.…

Goosebumps

Based on the classic teen series by R. L. Stine, the latest adaptation of Goosebumps is now a modern-day TV…

See You In My 19th Life

Dir. Lee Na-jeong

See You In My 19th Life is a stunning adaptation based on the latest webcomic from Lee Hye. Unlike other…

Trillion Game

Dir. Kenta Tanaka & Kentarō Takemura

While live-action manga adaptations are known to have a bad rap, Netflix’s Trillion Game is quite entertaining. Striving to earn…

Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp

For the unfamiliar, isekai is the fantasy subgenre where a character is transported into a different world. Usually, this is…

The Buccaneers

Starting the series off with an electric guitar scored wedding, The Buccaneers seems, at first, a vapid cousin to the…