Genre: Comedy
Actor: Steve Trevino
Director: Renae Trevino
Genre: Comedy
Actor: Steve Trevino
Director: Renae Trevino
Genre: Action, Crime
Actor: Andrea Jeremiah, Arya, Baby Sara, Getup Srinu, Jayaprakash, Jisshu Sengupta, Mukesh Rishi, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Ramajogayya Sastry, Ravi Varma, Ruhani Sharma, Sailesh Kolanu, Shraddha Srinath, Venkatesh
Director: Sailesh Kolanu
Genre: Action, Thriller
Actor: Arturo Castro, B.K. Cannon, Beau Knapp, Billy Magnussen, Bruce Buffer, Candy Santana, Catfish Jean, Chad Guerrero, Conor McGregor, Craig Ng, Daniel Cormier, Daniela Melchior, Darren Barnet, Dominique Columbus, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Hannah Love Lanier, J. D. Pardo, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jay Hieron, Jessica Williams, Joaquim de Almeida, Joe Ciotti, Jonathan Kowalsky, Kevin Carroll, Lukas Gage, Megan Olivi, Omar Patin, Post Malone, Ruairi Rhodes, Tommy Lentsch, Travis Van Winkle
Director: Doug Liman
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Actor: Birkan Sokullu, Esra Bilgiç, Fırat Tanış, Hakan Ummak, Nil Keser, Osman Alkaş, Ushan Cakir
Director: Recai Karagöz
The new stand-up special from Pete Davidson won't win over any skeptics, but there's something to admire in how the comedian heads straight towards edgy material, tells us he's going to go there, and still manages to surprise when he follows through. Which is to say Davidson's audacity might be more impressive than any of his actual writing in this special, with a good number of his jokes highlighting the bizarre situations his fame leads him into, but little more than that. It's stoner comedy for better or worse—observations about a strange world from a hazy point of view that may not always be coherent.
Genre: Comedy
Actor: Pete Davidson
Director: Jason Orley
Genre: Drama
Actor: Bimbo Ademoye, Gabriel Afolayan, Kunle Remi, Sola Sobowale, Taiwo Hassan
Nutrition is a complex topic that’s affected by so many factors, so it can be hard to navigate this on a personal level. You Are What You Eat depicts one Stanford study examining only one of these factors– whether a vegan versus an omnivore diet would be considered healthier. The mini-series does have an interesting approach, as the show introduces four sets of twins out of the 22 sets in the experiment. These four pairs are funny and full of personality, especially when they react to their new diets and the results they receive, so it’s annoying when the show suddenly drops various scientific findings in between, and takes most of the runtime away from these relatable individuals. And when these findings are presented by scientists and politicians known to promote vegan diets, You Are What You Eat feels more like vegan propaganda masking itself as scientific, rather than the interesting journey real people took in the experiment.
Genre: Documentary
Genre: Crime, Documentary
Actor: Alan Cooke, Bill Courtice, Deborah Gladding, Fernando Baldassini, Samantha Chang
Director: Jenny Popplewell
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Actor: Alex Montaldo, Charlie Avink, Kate Lyn Sheil, Scott Haze, SoKo, Thatcher Jacobs
Director: Barnaby Clay
The beginning text is enough to make you wonder what kind of demonic BS you’re about to get yourself into. Thank God for the juicy family drama then for grounding the story well, and distracting our emotions in between the paranormal craziness. At the same time that we’re connecting with the family on a real life level, the film does a good job making the house feel alive and malicious, like an animal slowly losing its patience before it all escalates into an agonizing epidemic. Still, one could come out of this horror movie and feel that some loose religious aspects, as well as its climax-resolution altogether, really drag down the initial mystique it did so well creating. Either way, it's not the worst thing in the world.
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Actor: Andra Day, Anthony B. Jenkins, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Caleb McLaughlin, Colleen Camp, Cynthia Dallas, Demi Singleton, Glenn Close, Jeff Hochendoner, Juanita Jennings, Kimberly Russell, Malieek Straughter, Miss Lawrence, Mo'Nique, Omar Epps, Tasha Smith, Todd Anthony
Director: Lee Daniels
At times, Terror Tuesday: Extreme feels straightforward in a flat way: making the connections for you, holding your hand like a child, and almost guiding you to a moral lesson. Other times, the presentation feels like old folktales, or ghost stories around a campfire: simple and engaging. Even then, the highs don’t make up for the drawn-out lows, which consist of simplistic stories and handing out training wheels for the viewer’s imagination in a TV-MA series. The twists and the drama portions are fun at times, but with a title like that, the viewer deserves to enjoy more than just a few moments here and there.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Actor: Charada Imraporn, Cherprang Areekul, Nat Kitcharit, Parada Thitawachira, Sutthirak Subvijitra
Sometimes, after a demanding work week, you want to watch a low-stakes, enjoyable movie with just enough plot to enjoy. Heist comedy Lift tries to be that film, with Kevin Hart as a smooth criminal who steals art in order to keep art from undeserving owners and improve the artist’s revenue from their work. It’s an interesting twist to the Robin Hood stereotype, one that could have hinted at concerns of screen artists last year when its release date was originally scheduled for. That being said, the film throws this idea away when Kevin Hart and his team are now forced to participate in a risky heist due to the Interpol. The events that play out amount to a fairly generic caper, but there are far better heist films to spend your weekend watching, with far better plots and stunts.
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Actor: Amit Dhut, Andrew Wilson, Billy Magnussen, Burn Gorman, Caroline Loncq, David Proud, Eman Kazemi, Erol Ismail, Gary Fannin, Gerard Monaco, Gordon Alexander, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jacob Batalon, Jean Reno, Jess Liaudin, Kevin Hart, Kim Yun-jee, Michael Absalom, Oli Green, Paul Anderson, Ross Anderson, Roy McCrerey, Russ Bain, Sam Worthington, Stefano Skalkotos, Úrsula Corberó, Vincent D'Onofrio, Viveik Kalra
Director: F. Gary Gray
The tags raunchy and irreverent get thrown around on Netflix like I throw around the word fascinating. But make no mistake about it, this was disgusting right off the bat. There’s not a lot to the jokes, though, other than terrible accents and caricatures and small dick references. It feels like a reenactment of a mid standup comedy bit that went on too long. It's a fun bro movie that tells conservative Pinoy culture to suck it, but it’s a visual and narrative mess, and it has the balls to try and end on a meaningful note when it never attempted any semblance of it throughout.
Genre: Comedy
Actor: Ashley Rivera, Caira Lee, Donna Cariaga, Enrique Gil, Kenneth Won, Kumron Jivachat, Miguel Almendras, Mihk Vergara, Nikko Natividad, Pepe Herrera, Red Ollero, Sahatchai Chumrum, Sunshine Teodoro, Vern Kaye, Wipawee Charoenpura
Director: Victor Villanueva
We start off at peak drama straight away, with incredibly stressful plot points at 2 different periods in time—an eerie flash forward cold open, and the more traditional drama bulk of the story. On first glance, it could read like an issue of ill pacing, like these intensely scandalous things could’ve been built up more, to maximize the emotion behind them. But it becomes pretty clear that using every soap opera trope in the book is just the foundation of the whole show. Things happen, things that happen to be traumatic, but there is no discernible story outside of the affair tropes and the reveal at the end of the first episode.
Genre: Drama
Actor: Felipe Abib, João Vitti, Juliana Paes, Martha Nowill, Paloma Duarte, Vladimir Brichta
It starts out easy and compelling enough, in the middle of a crime scene with a naked dead girl on the shore. But easy and compelling this refuses to be. The film seems to be a slow, painful look at the process of capturing a perpetrator, a detective’s effort to profile a killer. But it threw a lot more at the wall hoping a lot more would stick. The nonlinear storytelling spices up the action, but it just feels like the base story needed all the help it could get. If you do stick with the movie, you’ll see some gory details, some twists, and an unnecessarily complex story.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Actor: Andrzej Konopka, Andrzej Zieliński, Jakub Gierszał, Jan Wieteska, Justyna Schneider, Maja Ostaszewska, Paweł Jusiński, Przemysław Bluszcz, Wojciech Zieliński, Zbigniew Stryj, Zofia Jastrzębska
Director: Adrian Panek