What movies or series should you watch on Netflix? Our journalists specializing in TV and cinema share their suggestions with you.
Posted at 5:00 p.m.
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? The second season hits the platform on March 25.
Hugo Dumas
BigBug
Like any film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, BigBug full of bountiful ideas. We also had a field day in the artistic direction department. Visually, BigBug impressed. Sometimes told in a tone that does not call for any subtlety, the story is perhaps a little less convincing, but it has the merit of echoing the small and large failings that make human beings what they are. Tomorrow like today.
Marc-Andre Lussier
Inventing Anna
Who says Shonda Rhimes, says invigorating pop music, seductive bling-bling and strong female characters. thereupon, Inventing Anna does not disappoint. It’s colorful, frivolous, fun and rhythmic. It’s like leafing through a beautiful glossy magazine. But it’s less punchy than Scandal and less catchy than How to Get Away With Murder. It is still quality entertainment, which pits two women as fascinating as they are intelligent.
Hugo Dumas
The Adam Project
In a good-natured tone, and always keeping in mind a desire for adventure, The Adam Project manages to strike a more sensitive chord. Obviously, no one will shout at the masterpiece, but for entertainment, The Adam Project fulfills the objective he has set himself, which is to please the whole family.
Marc-Andre Lussier
The Andy Warhol Diaries
In six episodes produced by Ryan Murphy, director Andrew Rossi (Cover of the New York Times) paints an intimate portrait of Andy Warhol, based on a book published by Pat Hackett in 1989, two years after the artist’s death. With his words and his voice, reproduced using artificial intelligence techniques, this series lifts the veil on a legendary artist. And a mysterious man.
Luc Boulanger
The Tinder Swindler
ATfter a few weeks of dreamy romance, the true stories of the women featured in the documentary The Tinder Swindler goes from Fifty Shades of grey at Nights with my enemy. Simon Leviev, aka Shimon Hayut, aka David Sharon, manipulated and plucked them out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. It’s the best of a compelling two-hour condensed “true crime” series.
Hugo Dumas
jeen-yuhs: the Kanye West trilogy
Even though Kanye demanded to approve the final version of the project, we are delighted that the work focuses only on his career and not on his love and family life, already highly publicized. This documentary, with superb editing, allows us to better understand the origins of an artist with undeniable genius, incapable of not remembering that he was the first to consider himself brilliant.
Pascal LeBlanc
Archives 81
The eight one-hour episodes of the miniseries Archives 81, offered in English and French, trigger a sneaky paranoia that slowly but surely seeps into our cocoons. The more the episodes progress, the more the division between the past and the present blurs. The nightmare encroaches on reality. And fear screws into our minds against a musical backdrop Amityville.
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. The Power of the Dog is in the running in 12 categories at the next Academy Awards.
Marc-Andre Lussier
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
The Lost Daughter
For a first feature film as screenwriter and director, Maggie Gyllenhaal hit the nail on the head. His adaptation of the novel Stolen doll by Elena Ferrante (also the title of the French version of the film) is all in finesse, in subtleties, interspersed with dialogues as well as percussive silences. This also earned him the prize for best screenplay at the Venice Film Festival where the film had its world premiere. The Lost Daughter is cited in three categories at the Oscars.
Andre Duchesne