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Robert De Niro and Michael Keaton head the cast of The Whisper Man, a Netflix crime thriller about a missing boy, a dead wife and a father nobody wants to ring.

Sam Worthington plays a father jailed for murdering his own son, who then learns the boy may still be alive. Netflix’s eight-part thriller has a killer premise.

Louis Theroux takes his awkward silences to the manosphere for Netflix. It’s funny, grim and sometimes too generous to its subjects, but it’s still worth 92 minutes of your evening.

Neil Forsyth’s true-story drama sends HM Customs officers undercover with 1990s heroin gangs. Tom Burke is terrific and Coogan growls nicely, but some hour-long episodes drag.

Netflix’s Untold UK: Vinnie Jones covers the Crazy Gang enforcer’s rise, fall and FA Cup glory in 77 brisk minutes. It’s a nostalgic watch for anyone who remembers him in his pomp.

Tina Fey and Steve Carell’s Netflix comedy about three couples who go away together four times a year is warm, good-looking and funny enough. It’s very easy to binge, too.

Thirty-odd years on, Tom Hanks’s running man is on Netflix and Paramount+. Is Forrest Gump still a heart-warmer, or does it look like a slab of 90s schmaltz now?

Florence Pugh leads Netflix’s seven-part East of Eden, a two-generation family saga from Zoe Kazan. Is it a prestige binge worth your weekend? Here’s our spoiler-free verdict.

Breaking Bad turned a mild-mannered chemistry teacher into one of TV’s great monsters. Nearly two decades on, does Vince Gilligan’s crime drama still hold up? Here’s why it does.

Matthew Goode plays a prickly, damaged detective running a basement cold-case unit in Edinburgh. This adaptation of Jussi Adler-Olsen’s novels is moody, funny and worth staying up for.

Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie solve murders in a Kent retirement village. Chris Columbus’s Netflix take on Richard Osman is warm, starry and harmless. Nothing more, nothing less.