The Woman in the Window [2021]: Netflix Review – Predictable Hitchcockian thriller dwindles while trying to outsmart the viewer
They say “An empty mind is a devil’s workshop.” But what about a mind that’s brimming with thoughts? A mind…
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![Oxygen [2021] Netflix Review – Taut single-location thriller serves as an allegory for socially-distanced isolation](https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/O2_20200728_Unit_01993_R2-768x513.jpg)
Oxygen [2021] Netflix Review – Taut single-location thriller serves as an allegory for socially-distanced isolation
French director Alexandre Aja returns to native-language filmmaking after more than two decades. His breakout genre hit ‘High Tension‘ landed…
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Nayattu [2021] Netflix Review: A Taut Thriller of Contradictory Politics
Nayattu (2021) is by far the trickiest Political film I’ve come across as I’m trying to measure my response to…
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Milestone [2021] Netflix Review – Harsh and humane, Ivan Ayr’s film richly mines inner desolation
The vagaries of the unorganized transport sector bristle through Ivan Ayr’s second directorial feature, Milestone (Meel Patthar). Make no mistake,…
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Mandela [2021] Netflix Review – A Social Commentary on Power
Niccolo Machiavelli, the great political philosopher said, “It is better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both.”…
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Coded Bias [2020] Netflix Review: Fighting Racism splattered over Technology
Two documentaries about technology premiered at Sundance 2020: Shalini Kantayya’s ‘Coded Bias,’ and Jeff Orlowski’s ‘The Social Dilemma’. Devika Girish…
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Errementari [2017] Netflix Review – A Simplistic yet Wildly Entertaining Folk Horror
I like horror cinema that has some fun with its premise. Paul Arkijo Alijo’s Basque language horror, Errementari: The Blacksmith…
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Murder Among the Mormons [2021] Netflix Review– New True-Crime Docuseries, Same Algorithm
The assembly line manufacture of true-crime series in the Netflix factory is in full swing. With the three-part docu-series Murder…
The 3 Best Netflix Original Series For Students 2021
The 3 Best Netflix Original Series For Students 2021 It is difficult to imagine our lives without Netflix. When you…