Top documentaries on Netflix UK

Netflix is great at a number of things, but it’s arguably best at documentaries. Non-fiction films and series alike have been snapped up in huge volumes by the streaming giant, with acquisitions finding wide audiences and its original productions finding … Read More

UK TV review: The X-Files Season 11, Episode 5

Emotion trumps exposition in this movingly personal mythology episode.Read More

Why Annihilation being released on Netflix isn’t the end of the world

Reports of the death of ambitious, original cinema have been greatly exaggerated. Alex Garland’s Annihilation is the latest to prove it, and it does so in breathtaking, brain-swirling style.

The sci-fi horror, which stars Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, Gina … Read More

Disney+ UK film review: Thank You for Smoking

This unfiltered satire is a wickedly fun showcase for a starmaking turn from Aaron Eckhart.Read More

VOD film review: Paddington 2

This flawless family comedy will make you laugh, cry and fall in love with Hugh Grant. What more could you want? Read More

Catch up TV review: Celebrity Bake Off, Action Team, Saturday Night Takeaway, Electric Dreams

What’s available on-demand on Freeview? Keep up-to-date with our weekly catch-up TV column, including reviews of shows on ITV Hub, new releases on All 4 and a guide to My5.

(For BBC TV reviews and round-ups, see our weekly Best … Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Collateral

Carey Mulligan is quietly brilliant in David Hare’s complex, compellingly dark portrait of modern Britain.Read More

VOD film review: The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Horrifying, entertaining, disturbing and funny, this dark satire is rivetingly awkward.Read More

VOD film review: Breathe

An uplifting celebration of devotion and possibility, Breathe is a swooningly sincere debut from director Andy Serkis.Read More

VOD film review: Brimstone

Dakota Fanning is fantastic in this gruelling Western that’s a little too nasty for its own good.Read More