This Mexican film from the Colombian-born director Rodrigo García tells six interconnected stories led by intense female protagonists. Starring Ilse Salas, Cassandra Ciangherotti, and Natalia Solián. Now streaming on Netflix.
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‘The Follies’ Review: Powerful Performances Drive a Multilayered Tale of Women on the Edge (Netflix)
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‘After the Hunt’ Review: Academia Becomes a Battlefield Where Ethics, Fear and Reputation Collide
At Yale, a philosophy professor is caught in the middle when a promising student accuses a fellow professor of sexual misconduct, triggering institutional reactions that move faster than the truth can settle.
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‘One Shot with Ed Sheeran’ Review: A Live Musical Experiment in Real Time (Netflix)
A continuous-take experiment that tracks Sheeran across New York as he sings, improvises and interacts with the city in real time.
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‘Thoughts and Prayers’ Review: The Business of School-Shooting Survival
A darkly ironic documentary that exposes the bizarre and growing industry built to “prepare” American schools for mass shootings in a country unwilling to restrict access to guns.
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‘Daughter of Fire’ Review: A Glossy Throwback to Old-School Telenovelas
A glossy Patagonian revenge melodrama, the series follows a young woman who returns from the dead to dismantle the lives of those who murdered her mother two decades earlier.
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‘The Lowdown’ Review: Ethan Hawke Anchors a Southern Noir With Heart and Humor
This series follows a broke, truth-obsessed local reporter in Tulsa whose curiosity about a suspicious suicide drags him into a messy web of political corruption, family secrets, and small-town noir eccentricities. Starring Ethan Hawke and Kyle MacLachlan.
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‘East of Wall’ Review: A Gentle, Deeply Human Tale of Horses and Healing
A hybrid of fiction and documentary, Kate Beecroft’s first film follows a South Dakota horse-training family playing versions of themselves as they face grief, financial strain, and the emotional pull of the land they call home.
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‘The Hand That Rocks the Cradle’ Review: Secrets Bloom in a Slow-Burn Suburban Thriller
A low-key reimagining of the 1992 film, the remake follows a troubled mother who begins to suspect that the seemingly perfect nanny may be hiding darker motives. Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Maika Monroe.
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‘Last Samurai Standing’ Review: A Battle Royale in the Dawn of Modern Japan
A sprawling, action-driven historical drama set during Japan’s transition from Edo to Meiji, the series follows nearly 300 out-of-work warriors forced into a deadly competition where only one can survive.
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‘Two Prosecutors’ Review: A Kafkaesque Journey Into Stalinist Terror
In 1937, at the height of Stalinist terror, a young Soviet prosecutor receives a desperate prison petition written in blood. His attempt to investigate the abuse behind it draws him into a maze of fear, obstruction and political double-speak. Based on Georgy Demidov’s long-suppressed text, this is a rigorous, Kafkaesque tale of idealism colliding with the brutal machinery of the state.



