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critic Stranger Things (2016)

Stranger Things Review: The Nostalgia Machine That Earned Its Heart

Netflix's Stranger Things assembles its 1980s influences — Spielberg's wonder, King's dread, the Amblin bike ride — into a pop confection that works because its young ensemble gives the pastiche a genuine beating heart.

85%
Celluloid Recommended
critic Squid Game (2021)

Squid Game Review: Childhood Games as Capitalism's Death Drive

Hwang Dong-hyuk's Netflix phenomenon weaponizes playground nostalgia — 89% critics, 83% audiences, and red-light-green-light imagery that became the decade's most parodied visual.

82%
Celluloid Recommended
critic The Crown (2016)

The Crown Review: The Institution That Devours the Person

Netflix's The Crown turns the modern monarchy into prestige tragedy, tracing how the woman is slowly consumed by the Queen — an opulent, ambivalent study of duty's cost, recast every two seasons as its subjects age into history.

86%
Celluloid Recommended
critic Obsession (2026)

Obsession Review: A $750K Wish That Became a $400M Nightmare

Curry Barker's monkey's-paw horror romance turns a novelty charm into Gen Z's favorite date-night argument — grotesque, funny, and commercially unstoppable on a shoestring.

82%
Celluloid Recommended