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On a competition show made by the YouTube sensation MrBeast, the people are faceless and the challenges are vicious.

The Amazon Prime series started as a fantastical, darkly funny sendup of the superhero genre. Now it’s set in a political landscape that looks distressingly like our own.

The industry faces an uncertain future, but this year’s finest rival those of the Peak TV era.

The series’ protagonist is depressingly one-dimensional, despite being modelled on Stevie Nicks. But Amazon is still betting that women will want to look like Daisy—because they want to feel like her.

The horror-thriller series, which Glover created with Janine Nabers, about a mega-fan’s violent devotion to a Beyoncé-like pop star, succeeds neither as satire nor as psychological study.

The British actress turned director channels her father’s memories of the Mitford sisters—two affiliated with the Communist Party, one a friend of Hitler, one a duchess—to the small screen, in a BBC adaptation of “The Pursuit of Love.”

We have known Jenkins as a portraitist. In his reimagining of Colson Whitehead’s novel, he is a virtuosic landscape artist.

This list is offered as an enthusiastic alternative to the good-enough—a batch of movies that merit a place among the best of any year.

In his new film series, the director wants to vanquish any idea that British racism is somehow more repressed and less violent than the American kind.

In trawling for international and Hollywood classics as well as American independent films old and new, I was surprised to discover that Amazon, too, is a cornucopia.

Three films for when you don’t know what to watch on Amazon Prime.

Five films about religion.