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Love Sarah is a feel good comedy/drama starring Olivier Award winning Celia Imrie. 10. Summerland (Amazon Prime) When Frank, an evacuee from the London Blitz, upends writer Alice’s sequestered life she resolves to get rid of him. However, as they are forced to spend more time together, their bond and friendship grows.
- Never Have I Ever
- The Old Guard
- The Queen's Gambit
- Tigertail
- Miss Americana
- Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
- His House
- The 40-Year-Old Version
- MA Rainey's Black Bottom
- I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Created by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher, this smart-yet-sweet coming-of-age story is easily the most fulfilling watch of our Netflix year so far. Lead Maitreyi Ramakrishnan will steal your heart as Devi, a high school sophomore reeling from the loss of her father the year before but with big plans for a future as vibrant and fearless as she. Cultur...
Folks looking for that summer blockbuster thrill, search no further than The Old Guard. Based on the superhero comic books of the same name, director Gina Prince-Bythewood's movie sucks viewers into a slick, well-crafted world of action and narrative that isn't particularly unique but delivers its formulaic pieces with enough precision to keep you ...
The Queen’s Gambit makes chess glamorous— and in a year like 2020, stylish, escapist miniseries like this one are a welcome treat. Based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Walter Tevis, this Netflix period drama follows chess prodigy Beth Harmon as she gradually rises to the top of her game while fighting off loneliness and addiction. Anya Taylo...
Alan Yang’s feature film directorial debut tells the heartwarming story of Pin-Jui and Yuan, who met in Taiwan as children and young adults but eventually lose touch. In his later years, Pin-Jui finds himself distant from his daughter, their relationship strained by his reluctance to open up over the years. Flashbacks continue to reveal the tender ...
Taylor Swift is one of the most famous people in the world, but longtime fans will still find something new in Lana Wilson's thoughtful, inspiring documentary Miss Americana, which follows the singer through the last few years as she rethinks how she wants to live her life under a massive spotlight. The bits filming her in the recording studio feat...
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolutionis a vital documentary that tells the story of the generation of disability activists who first learned to organize while attending the now defunct Camp Jened. Camp Jened was a summer program for children and teens with a wide range of disabilities, and the documentary uses archival footage from the camp’s’ heyday ...
Director Remi Weeke's feature-length debut may very well be the best horror film of 2020. A chilling reflection on survivor's guilt and xenophobia, His House stars Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku as Bol and Rial, a refugee couple seeking asylum in Britain. Having recently fled South Sudan with their daughter (who did not survive the perilous journey),...
The Forty-Year-Old Version is in large part about the pitfalls of being labeled a talent to watch — its heroine is a struggling playwright who turns to rap as she approaches 40 with little to show for the early promise that once landed her on “30 under 30” lists. But it’s impossible to watch this singular work and not want to describe Radha Blank, ...
If Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom can’t quite escape the rhythms of the stage (it’s based on a play by August Wilson), it’s more than dynamic enough to hold its own as a movie. Set during an eventful recording session in 1927 Chicago, the film is at once a full-throated tribute to the “Mother of the Blues,” a lively celebration of Black culture and its p...
Emotional demolitions expert/filmmaker Charlie Kaufman destroys audiences once more in the mind-boggling I’m Thinking of Ending Things. Adapted from Iain Reid’s novel of the same name, this cryptically titled psychological thriller follows a woman, played by Jessie Buckley, and her boyfriend, played by Jesse Plemons, on a disturbing visit to his pa...
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- The Half Of It. Written and directed by Alice Wu, this Netflix original was released in 2020 to positive reviews and audience reception. The story is based loosely on Wu's real-life experiences.
- Annihilation. Based on Jeff Vandermeer's sci-fi novel of the same name, this 2018 film is directed by Alex Garland and centers around a group of five female characters.
- Unorthodox. This four-part miniseries premiered on Netflix in March 2020. It's the streamer's first series to be primarily in Yiddish, the traditional language of central and eastern European Jews before the Holocaust.
- The Edge Of Seventeen. Hailee Steinfeld stars as an awkward junior high student named Nadine. The low-budget film is Kelly Freman Craig's directorial debut.
5 days ago · Currently, Woman of the Hour has an excellent 90% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes with a full 123 reviews in, about 20 times how many this new season of The Lincoln Lawyer has, for whatever reason ...
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- Grace & Frankie. What it is: A sitcom starring comedy legends and pop culture icons Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. Why it's important: One of the most beloved series on the service, Netflix’s Grace & Frankie is unmatched in its contribution to onscreen representation of women over the age of 70.
- Unbelievable. What it is: A dramatic limited series about a 2009 rape investigation, based on a true story. Why it's important: Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, and Kaitlyn Dever bring factual reporting (published jointly under ProPublica and The Marshall Project in 2015) to Netflix in an impactful dramatization that highlights the all-too-fortified barriers keeping women from the justice — and the justice system — they deserve.
- Period. End of Sentence. What it is: An Academy Award-winning short documentary film about a feminist revolution in India. Why it's important: With a runtime of just 25 minutes, director Rayka Zehtabchi makes a hugely compelling case against the global stigma around menstruation.
- Homecoming: A Film By Beyoncé. What it is: A concert documentary capturing Beyoncé's performance at Coachella in 2018. Why it's important: There's being amazed by what it takes to be a pop star, and there's being amazed by what it takes to be Beyoncé.
Stateless: Created by Tony Ayres, Cate Blanchett, Elise McCredie. With Yvonne Strahovski, Jai Courtney, Asher Keddie, Fayssal Bazzi. Inspired by true events; a woman escaping a cult, a refugee fleeing with his family, a father trapped in a dead-end job and a bureaucrat on the verge of a national scandal find their lives intertwined in an immigration detention center.
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Woman of the Hour: Directed by Anna Kendrick. With Anna Kendrick, Daniel Zovatto, Tony Hale, Nicolette Robinson. Sheryl Bradshaw, a single woman looking for a suitor on a hit 1970s TV show, chooses charming bachelor Rodney Alcala, unaware that, behind the man's gentle facade, he hides a deadly secret.
