Netflix UK
Reviews and recommendations of what’s good and new on Netflix UK – and what to avoid.
Netflix UK film review: All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
November 13, 2022 | David FarnorThis jaw-dropping German anti-war film is a haunting elegy to the futility of war.Read More
Netflix UK TV review: The Crown Season 5
November 11, 2022 | David FarnorThe Crown enters the modern era with a new focus but the same quality.Read More
Netflix UK TV review: Blockbuster: Season 1
November 6, 2022 | David Farnor“I don’t love the pattern that’s starting to emerge.” That’s Timmy (Randall Park) at the beginning of Blockbuster, Netflix’s new TV series set within one of the titular video rental stores. The irony of that sentence won’t be lost on … Read More
Netflix UK film review: Enola Holmes 2
November 5, 2022 | Charlotte HarrisonThis satisfactory sequel has enough breezy adventure to entertain most of the family.Read More
The 90s on Netflix: The Craft (1996)
October 28, 2022 | Mark HarrisonThis fun, female wish-fulfilment fantasy slides too obviously into chiding its characters.Read More
Netflix UK film review: The Good Nurse
October 26, 2022 | Matthew TurnerJessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne headline Tobias Lindholm’s chilling true crime thriller about a mass murderer and a shocking cover-up.Read More
The Stranger review: A glacial, gripping crime thriller
October 19, 2022 | David FarnorJoel Edgerton and Sean Harris are exceptional in this glacial, gripping crime thriller.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
October 11, 2022 | Helen ArcherThis uneven but disturbing drama about Jeffrey Dahmer is shot through with a sense of the horror he inflicted.Read More
My Father’s Dragon review: Ambitious and uplifting
October 10, 2022 | David FarnorCartoon Saloon’s gorgeously complex tale of childhood and adulthood is an ambitious and uplifting celebration of friendship and trust.Read More
Why Inside Man should be your next box set
October 1, 2022 | David FarnorThis twisting, star-studded thriller is an enjoyably dark maze of moral dilemmas.Read More