May 27, 2021
Souls train: ‘The Underground Railroad’
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June’s streaming highlights are led by an epic drama transcending its historical source with magic-realism
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April 7, 2021
Bitter pill: ‘Collective’
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This staggering documentary exposes institutionalised corruption in Romanian hospitals
April 30, 2021
Can’t get you out of my head: ‘Made for Love’
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Leading April’s streaming highlights is a subversive black comedy that takes coercive control to its digital extreme
March 26, 2021
Voices carry: ‘Calls’
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Among March’s streaming highlights is a sci-fi thriller making clever use of telephone and radio exchanges
February 25, 2021
Its own reward: ‘The Virtues’
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Topping February’s streaming highlights is a four-part series examining trauma and addiction, propelled by Stephen Graham’s affecting performance
December 17, 2020
Deep cuts: ‘Small Axe’
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Black solidarity is a palpable force throughout Steve McQueen’s five-film anthology
December 1, 2020
‘The Dry’ directed by Robert Connolly
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Eric Bana stars as a troubled investigator dragged back to his home town in a sombre Australian thriller
November 19, 2020
Purple reign: ‘The Crown’
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Among November’s streaming highlights, the fourth season of Netflix’s royal drama fails to excite
October 30, 2020
Chequered careers: ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ and ‘The Good Lord Bird’
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Among October’s streaming highlights are stories of a teenage chess prodigy and a zealous abolitionist
November 1, 2020
‘Kajillionaire’ directed by Miranda July
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A family of con artists are the American writer-director’s latest offbeat protagonists in a surreal but heartfelt film
September 25, 2020
Processing trauma: ‘I May Destroy You’
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Michaela Coel’s inventive series charting sexual assault and creativity is this month’s streaming standout
August 20, 2020
Look back in horror: ‘Lovecraft Country’
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The monsters are both supernatural and human in HBO’s recasting of the horror genre
July 27, 2020
Pole position
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Eschewing clichés and reflecting inclusiveness on both sides of the camera, ‘P-Valley’ tops this month’s streaming highlights