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Streaming highlights: February 2019
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Adolescent antiheroes in ‘Sex Education’ and ‘Pen15’, Eric Bana shines darkly in ‘Dirty John’, new ‘Counterpart’, and the irreverent charm of ‘Russian Doll’
ABC TV’s ‘The Cry’
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This Scottish–Australian drama successfully subverts the missing-child genre
A bug in the code: ‘Russian Doll’
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This existential comedy is 2019’s first must-see Netflix series
Alfonso Cuarón’s masterful ‘Roma’
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This Academy Award favourite elevates the domestic to the monumental
‘The Little Drummer Girl’: a masterclass in subterfuge
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‘Oldboy’ director Park Chan-wook takes on a le Carré spy drama, with genre-rattling results
‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
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For their Netflix debut, the Coen brothers return to the Western
Orson Welles’s ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ and Morgan Neville’s ‘They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead’
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The auteur’s messy mockumentary and the documentary that seeks to explain it are imperfect but better together
Paul Feig’s sophisticated ‘A Simple Favour’
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This camp study of sociopathy is far from simple
Benedict Cumberbatch is perfect as the imperfect Patrick Melrose
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The actor brings together his trademark raffishness and sardonic superiority in this searing miniseries
‘Sharp Objects’ blurs the edges
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The cruel complexities of women’s lives propel this Amy Adams-led thriller
Duals duel in ‘Counterpart’
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J.K. Simmons goes through the looking glass in this science-fiction espionage series
‘Queer Eye’ has its finger firmly on America’s jagged pulse
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The uncommonly caring makeover show returns to Netflix for a second season
The beguiling ‘Killing Eve’
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge short-circuits the espionage thriller
