Only Murders in the Building, season 4, has some wonderful moments. This clever series is consistently good. It’s time to mention some of the best things in season 4.
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In Her Place (El lugar de la otra) is a drama from Chile. Set in 1955, it’s a fictionalized version of something that really happened. It’s Chile’s Best International Feature Film of 2025 Oscar submission.
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Lee conveys a powerful visual message about Nazis and a courageous photographer named Lee Miller who was determined to photograph what she was seeing in the midst of World War II.
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Territory is a sprawling modern day Western soap opera of an adventure set in far northern Australia on the Marianne Station, “the largest cattle station in the world.” The cowboys in this remote dryland are as likely to ride a
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Tuesday stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Lola Petticrew as mother and daughter in a fantasy story about grief and dying. The film takes a unique approach to this type of story. Tuesday is from writer and director Daina Oniunas-Pusic.
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The Lincoln Lawyer, season 3, brings a new case to Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) and his group of associates. As usual, in this series based on mystery novels by Michael Connelly, things get very complicated and dangerous before it’s all
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Woman of the Hour tells a story about a real serial killer, but uses some fictional characters to carry the emotional impact – which is huge – to modern audiences. Anna Kendrick stars in and directs the film.
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Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara tells a horrible and unresolved story about 15 years of catfishing carried out by a fan or fans of Tegan and Sara. It is fandom gone toxic and hurt many people, including Tegan
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The Secret of the River (El Secreto del Río) comes from Mexico. It’s an 8 part series. I thought it was a queer masterpiece full of tender and touching portraits of what it is to be transgender, or muxes, in
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Lonely Planet stars Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth in a romcom about a successful writer who goes to a writers’ retreat in Morocco to finish a book. She meets a younger man and everything changes.
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