The Netflix catalog is certainly well stocked. What to choose? Our TV and film journalists are there for you.
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Don’t Look Up
After The Big Short and Vice, Adam McKay offers a satire filled with effective gags, which nevertheless leaves a bitter taste so much it is based on a background of truth. The filmmaker illustrates how the politicization of all issues, especially those based on science, and the misinformation relayed by supporters of alternative facts are leading humanity downright to ruin.
Marc-Andre Lussier
Cobra-Kai
First launched on YouTube in 2018, the series Cobra-Kai, spin off of the trilogy Karate Kid, was acquired by Netflix. Since then, we reconnect with a certain pleasure with Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence (Ralph Macchio and William Zabka) who have taken very different paths. Let’s bet you won’t be able to just watch one episode at a time…
Maryse Tessier
Emily in Paris
Emily in Paris, it’s candy escapism, instant gratification and a digital anxiolytic that, by the time Emily Cooper posts three photos with embedded puns on Instagram, pulls us completely out of our pandemic troubles. The reproaches made to Emily in Paris about its lightness and frivolity have become its greatest assets in this period when our collective presto threatens to explode at any moment.
Hugo Dumas
The Power of the Dog
Jane Campion’s return to directing a feature film after a 12-year absence couldn’t be grander. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons, Kirsten Dunst and Kodi Smith-McPhee, all excellent, this adaptation of Thomas Savage’s novel borrows the setting of the western to deliver a story of great psychological depth. With finesse, sensitivity and sensuality, the director of The Piano offers a work of beautiful evocative power.
Marc-Andre Lussier
Bridgerton
Cross between gossip girl and Downton Abbey, Bridgerton takes us to two aristocratic families in early 19th century Londonand century. There’s the Bridgertons, there’s the Featheringtons, and there’s the ballroom season that’s starting and putting a lot of pressure on the young, romantic Daphne Bridgerton. Will she find her prince charming in this rigid universe regulated by a series of hierarchical conventions? To listen to before the arrival of the second season, on March 25th.
Hugo Dumas
God’s hand
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, also an Italian candidate for the Oscars in the category of best international film, God’s hand is unquestionably Paolo Sorrentino’s most personal opus (The big beauty). The Italian filmmaker evokes his teenage years in Naples, when Diego Maradona, god of soccer and absolute idol, prepares, against all odds, to leave Barcelona to join the local team.
Marc-Andre Lussier