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Based on real cases by Innocence Project Brazil, this drama brings together a former prosecutor-turned-professor trying to submit a revision of a contentious murder case which wrongly imprisoned a man for 47 years. But should you examine this new Netflix take on All Things Legal 101?

The central image of Koreeda Hirokazu’s Look Back references its title in an unexpectedly literal sense. A young girl sits in her room at her desk, working by hand on manga illustrations. Later in the film, this same image repeats: the young woman seated at a kitchen counter; in a school classroom; then as an…

ByClyde E. DawkinsPublished about an hour ago•Updated about an hour ago•3 min read

“Original” is a hot buzzword in the movie business these days, but Hollywood animated films have a long list of misses in that regard. Especially this past decade. Leave it to DreamWorks Animation, a studio with a long history of adapting all sorts of books and IP, to unleash “Forgotten Island,” one of the best…

Netflix’s Italian teen dramaMinerva Academytakes viewers inside a military high school in Naples, where discipline, hierarchy and tradition collide with everything that normally comes with being a teenager. What begins as a fairly familiar school drama becomes considerably more interesting, and darker, across its eight episodes.

The Twilight’s End DLC wraps up the story of Demeo X Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked with a grand finale of a third campaign that any battle-hardened Demeo player will enjoy.

Rebel Wilson fails to revive her sputtering career with Girl Group,a female-fronted comedy that aims to tap into Pitch Perfect’s fandom — even namedropping that movie directly. But Wilson’s latest will only have fans of Pitch Perfect singing the blues. 

Alden Ehrenreich and Helen Mirren star in “A Talent for Murder.”Credit: Bleecker Street and LD Entertainment

The trailer for Sony Pictures’ “Resident Evil” starring Austin Abrams, Paul Walter Hauser, Kali Reis and Zach Cherry. Directed by Zach Cregger. 

‘Borders on the interminable’ … Jay-Z and Rick Rubin in Jay-Z in 8. Photograph: Mubi‘Borders on the interminable’ … Jay-Z and Rick Rubin in Jay-Z in 8. Photograph: Mubi Review