Don’t Kill Me (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Don’t Kill Me is sparse on details to the point of wondering if something was lost in translation.
Young Adult
In the Young Adult tag, you’ll find coming-of-age stories and productions featuring those in their late teens through twenties getting their lives together.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
If you love bloody, disgusting, gory, just straight-up violent horror movies? Netflix’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre has you covered.
Heart Shot (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Heart Shot feels like a cruel tease of a show or film Netflix should have financed already.
Help (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
While Help does make you raise an eyebrow about what’s going on, I wouldn’t say the ending gives you the payoff you desire.
Devotion a Story of Love and Desire: Season 1/ Episode 1 “fedelta” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Devotion: A Story of Love and Desire is sensual, romantic, and taps into both the forbidden and hopeful, all within a 34-minute premiere
Bel-Air: Season 1/ Episode 1 “Dreams and Nightmares” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
We get cursing, drug use, teen drama, and violence in what is deservingly called the dark Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reboot.
Student Body (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Student Body is bloody, vulgar, and ridiculous. But whether or not it is in the best way? That’s hard to say.
Until We Meet Again (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Until We Meet Again is a little bit all over the place. Mainly due to how it plays with the different genres it pursues.
Single Black Female (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Single Black Female delivers on the story, performances and madness you expect.
Through My Window (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
While Through My Window has your usual toxic, brooding, and handsome male lead, there is just enough given to the viewer to get past the trope.
Wake (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
At a wake for a mutual friend, the most estranged of the four seeks out the dead friend’s now ex.
A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
An older lesbian, who was at the forefront of the activism for LGBT+ equality, finds herself getting to see the fruits of her labor through the youth.
Sandstorm/Mulaqat (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
An older man, who has somehow seduced a high schooler, takes advantage of cultural and religious customs and values to coerce a meeting.
Daddy’s Girl (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
A father and daughter bond while moving her out of a rather swanky apartment.
Champ (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
After practice, the girls’ basketball team gets together to play video games and talk, leading to a reveal that calls for revenge.
The Right Words (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
The Right Words will have you twisting in your seat and glad you don’t speak French so you can block out everything but the subtitles to see how everything goes down.
Hallelujah (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In this emotional short, two men, unprepared to raise kids, contemplate if they will take on their niece and nephew’s rearing.
Breathe (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Is it a con, or are they legit? That is what is explored in Breathe as a father/daughter duo attempt to do an exorcism.
The Fallout (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In the aftermath of a school shooting, we see varying ways those affected deal with it as they try to create a new normal.
Appendage (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In this gross-out horror, our lead’s insecurities grow into an appendage hell-bent on destroying its host.
Girl Picture (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In this coming-of-age tale, which takes place over three weeks, we watch 3 girls explore what it means to be loved or in love, to varying degrees of success.
Emily The Criminal (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Aubrey Plaza reminds of her versatility as she takes on a woman desperate to make money and avoid being exploited.
Am I OK? (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In depicting the awkwardness of coming out and exploring in your 30s, in this generation, Am I Ok? brings you a coming-out story far different than what we’re usually given.
Palm Trees and Power Lines (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In this cautionary tale, we watch as a grown-ass man seduces a young girl who still has -teen in her age.
Happening (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Happening, in its almost raw portrayal of what it was like to get an abortion outside of a medical office, is a clinch-worthy reminder of what life for women used to be in some places, and still is in others.
Fresh (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Fresh is the kind of film which will make you double back on its description for you clearly weren’t paying attention when reading its synopsis.
Master (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Master for PWI may have the same effect that Get Out had on Black man/White woman relationships.
The Tiger Rising (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
With a strong focus on children needing the ability to meaningfully express themselves and find comfort, The Tiger Rising allows its young leads to exhibit notable performances.
Single Drunk Female: Season 1/ Episode 1 “Pilot” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Gaining legal access to alcohol is seen as a right of passage. But, as shown in Single Drunk Female, alcohol also can become a crutch that is so hard to let go of.
Emergency (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Emergency taps into that innate feeling many Black Americans have about getting involved with certain people who automatically lead to suspicion and the police.
The Royal Treatment (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
New York Italians, mean French women, references to Aldovia and romance – The Royal Treatment is a fun new entry in Netflix’s Aldovia franchise.
Stop-Zemlia (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In Stop-Zemlia, it feels like you learn so much yet so little, but considering the constant shifts in friendships and self-image as a teenager, it is almost fitting.
The Free Fall (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
At times confusing, but often disturbing, The Free Fall is a horror movie best watched at night and alone.
Scream (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Despite a level of self-awareness that all may not enjoy, Scream does act as an excellent reminder on why only the horror genre can get away with “requels.”
Belle (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Belle touches your heart in every which way possible. Be it through song, exploring a person’s trauma, or by instilling hope that one day you may not move on but at least heal.
The Kings of Napa: Season 1/ Episode 1 “Pilot” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
What usually takes most shows a season or two to set up and shock fans with, Kings of Napa Valley decides to do all in its pilot.
See For Me (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
See For Me gives you a quality, one-location thriller that forces you to have complicated feelings about the lead, despite them being legally blind.
Tokyo Twenty Fourth Ward: Season 1/ Episode 1 “RGB” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
With the rare 40+ minute pilot, Tokyo 24th Ward seems to want to set a difficult precedent for other anime to follow in 2022.
Car Therapy: Season 1 – Summary/ Review (with Spoilers)
While it may not consistently live up to its name, there still is no denying everyone’s potential.
