Sunny
Rashida Jones as an American woman in Japan whose life explodes when her husband and son die in a mysterious plane crash, leaving her a domestic robot with hidden capabilities. The neo noir meets odd couple robot pairing is genuinely…
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Death and Other Details
A locked room murder mystery on a luxury liner, with Mandy Patinkin as the world’s greatest detective and Violett Beane as the woman who distrusts him. It wants to be Knives Out the series, and it gets halfway there. The…
History of the World, Part II
Mel Brooks’ sketch show sequel arrives 42 years later with a whole writers room of comedy ringers doing bits across history. When it hits, it is very funny, and when it misses it is still trying something, which is more…
Hysteria
The 80s satanic panic as a horror drama: a Michigan town’s teenager dies, a metal band leeches the occult rumors for fame, and the whole town spirals. The period detail is thick, the cast is game, and it is smarter…
Lucky Hank
Bob Odenkirk as a middling English department chair at a rust belt college having a very public midlife crisis. It is wry, literary, and angrier than it looks, with Odenkirk doing the opposite of Saul Goodman: a man who had…
Population 11
An American accountant vanishes in a tiny Australian outback town and his son goes to find him, uncovering a town full of weirdos who all seem to know more than they say. A mystery comedy with real noir bones and…
Get a Life
Chris Elliott as a 30 year old paperboy living above his parents’ garage in one of TV’s first truly weird anti sitcoms. It deliberately looks like a 50s sitcom and behaves like a fever dream, killing off its lead repeatedly…
Dune: Prophecy
Ten thousand years before Paul Atreides, the sisterhood that becomes the Bene Gesserit is fighting for survival inside the empire’s power games. Emily Watson and Olivia Williams as sisters on opposite sides of that fight are worth the price alone.…
Earth Abides
A plague wipes out most of humanity and a geologist survivor tries to build meaning from what remains, in this quiet take on the classic novel. Alexander Ludwig holds the center well, and the small scale is a nice change…
The Day of the Jackal
Eddie Redmayne as a precision assassin and Lashana Lynch as the officer hunting him, in a globetrotting cat and mouse that updates the classic novel with real style. The tradecraft is detailed, the identities are layered, and both leads are…