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Macondo was born as an act of imagination, but the second half of One Hundred Years of Solitude asks what happens when the outside world finally reaches it. The railway brings commerce and strangers. Fernanda del Carpio introduces a colder order into the Buendía home. The banana company promises prosperity, then reveals the violence beneath…
Prime Video’s Sterling Point begins with an inheritance suited to a teenage daydream. Seventeen-year-old Annie Jacobson learns that the estranged grandfather she was never allowed to meet has died and left a remote Canadian island to her and her twin brother, Connor. Her attempt to investigate takes her from a carefully managed New York life…
The Shards arrives dressed like a glossy 1980s teen drama, but the polished convertibles, expensive houses and private-school uniforms conceal a much nastier story. Adapted from Bret Easton Ellis’ semi-autobiographical 2023 novel, the FX series follows a fictionalized teenage Bret during his final year at an elite Los Angeles school. His controlled social circle begins…
Solo Mio makes a clever bargain with its audience. Matt Taylor’s romantic catastrophe is invented, but the Italy surrounding him is very real. The churches, cafe tables, public gardens and Tuscan countryside were not recreated on a Los Angeles soundstage. Kevin James and the Kinnane brothers took the production to Rome, then allowed the city…
One Night Only takes the familiar “two strangers, one impossible night” rom-com setup and gives it a mischievous dystopian rule. In Will Gluck’s movie, premarital sex is illegal except during a single annual window, from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. Monica Barbaro plays hopeful romantic Allie, while Callum Turner is Owen, a recently dumped man…
“Soulm8te” places an intimate crisis inside a world of immaculate technology. David’s home is calm enough to pass for a showroom, ULTIMA Robotix sells connection in the language of product design, and Sara moves through every room as though she was engineered to belong there. The surprise is that this sleek, American-looking nightmare was built…
Hanna Bergholm’s “Nightborn” takes a familiar dream and slowly turns it feral. Saga, a Finnish woman, returns with her British husband Jon to the isolated house where she grew up, hoping the move will give them enough space to start a family. After she gives birth, however, Saga becomes convinced that something is wrong with…
Some Hallmark romances use Europe as a postcard. Toast to Italy makes the journey part of the courtship. Jenny, an American doctor with Italian roots, travels overseas before her sister’s wedding to recover the final bottle of her family’s “Love Wine,” an heirloom associated with good fortune for newlyweds. The mission becomes a race when…
Final Project is the kind of teen thriller that understands a school corridor can feel more dangerous than a dark alley. The Mexican Netflix series, titled Proyecto Final in Spanish, follows Tamara, a guarded new student who chooses cyberbullying as the subject of her final documentary, only to become trapped inside the cruelty she hopes…
The Becky films have never been interested in giving their heroine a quiet recovery. In The Last Temptation of Becky, the franchise sends Lulu Wilson’s teenage avenger beyond the cabins and small-town extremists of the first two movies. Becky is now a CIA field agent living in New York, and her latest assignment takes her…
Todd Field’s Tár makes the world of classical music look less like a sanctuary than a sealed chamber where every polished surface reflects power back at its owner. Cate Blanchett plays Lydia Tár, a celebrated conductor preparing to record Mahler’s Fifth Symphony while professional allegations and private compromises begin closing in around her. Berlin’s stern…
Love in Slow Motion knows the oldest romantic-comedy trick in the book: the person you overlook becomes impossible to ignore the moment someone else claims them. Released in Arabic as Ahebak Min Zaman, the film follows Haya, a chronically single woman who has always regarded Jawad as her dependable best friend. When he announces his…
