Drama

This review of Chosen Season 1 is spoiler-free. Coming-of-age teen dramas have an alchemical relationship with Netflix, the transmutation of narrative lead into viewership gold....

This recap of Our Beloved Summer season 1, episode 16, “Our Beloved Summer”, contains spoilers, including a discussion of Our Beloved Summer’s ending. Call me...

This recap of 9-1-1: Lone Star season 3, episode 3, “Shock & Thaw”, contains spoilers. Is it just me, or was this show better when...

This recap of Our Beloved Summer season 1, episode 15, “Three Idiots”, contains spoilers. In some ways, Ji-ung’s life has been defined by an inability...

Rue is the villain of Euphoria, in many ways. Season 2, Episode 3, “Ruminations: Big and Little Bullys,” includes a fourth-wall-breaking explanation for how Rue...

The Turkish film, My Father’s Violin (Babamin Kemani), tells its story around a concert conductor, Mehmet, and the niece Özlem he hardly knows. Turkey’s new...

Just because a film has been done a million times over doesn’t mean it won’t be good; it just has to be made entirely, performed,...

This article contains major spoilers for the Summer Heat ending. You can read our spoiler-free season review by clicking these words. In many ways, Summer...

This review of Summer Heat Season 1 is spoiler-free.  At this point, I think it’s safe to say we’ve had plenty – perhaps too many?...

This review of the Netflix film Munich: The Edge of War does not contain spoilers. Director Christian Schwochow’s adaptation of the Robert Harris novel Munich is...

This recap of Our Beloved Summer season 1, episode 14, “Life Is Beautiful”, contains spoilers. All throughout Our Beloved Summer, the reason behind Yeon-su breaking...

This recap of Our Beloved Summer season 1, episode 13, “Love Actually”, contains spoilers. Life is a rollercoaster, or so that played-out expression goes, and...

What you dream about while you’re in a coma is, I suppose, a bit of a clue about what you’re really thinking and feeling, so...

There comes a time when you need to defend a film on its merits and break free from the corner the most stuck-up film critics...

This review of the Netflix film This Is Not a Comedy does not contain spoilers.  The existential crisis is one of the critical concepts of...

Photocopier, the Netflix Indonesian thriller, focuses on Suryani (Shenina Cinnamon), who everyone calls “Sur” for short. She is a student who is part of her...

Netflix’s Polish crime genre import, How I Fell in Love with a Gangster, is an utterly ridiculous Goodfellas wannabe. In fact, it comes closer to...

This review of Netflix’s The Journalist (2022) season 1 does not contain spoilers. Media narratives on political corruption and the assumable cover-up are not new....

This recap of Our Beloved Summer season 1, episode 12, “Begin Again”, contains spoilers. The past has always had a close relationship with the present...

This recap of 9-1-1: Lone Star season 3, episode 2, “Thin Ice”, contains spoilers. 9-1-1: Lone Star isn’t opposed to doing these high-stakes two-parter episodes,...