If you have 2 hours
The Electric State — Netflix
The Russo brothers go quirky sci-fi action in this comic, dystopian adventure starring Millie Bobby Brown as an orphaned teen who, with her trusty robot, heads off to find her long lost brother in the company of Chris Pratt’s hustling smuggler and his own suitably sarcastic robot.
If you have 2 hours
The Outrun — Rent or buy from Apple TV +
Saoirse Ronan gives a Bafta-nominated performance as an addict looking for a new life and a second chance in the dramatic landscape of her native Orkney Islands in director Nora Fingscheidt’s hopeful drama.
If you have 2 hours
Dope Thief — Apple TV +
Brian Tyree Henry and Wagner Moura star as wayward Philadelphia besties in this gritty adaptation of the book by Dennis Tafoya about two childhood friends whose scam of taking down local drug dealers by posing as DEA agents soon lands them in a world of trouble.
If you have 4 hours
Adolescence — Netflix
Stephen Graham, Ashley Walters and Owen Cooper star in this hard-hitting, difficult slice of British social realism that centres on what happens when a 13-year-old is accused of murdering his classmate, leaving everyone around him desperately trying to figure out what really happened.
If you have 5 hours
The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies — Showmax
The always excellent Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Rebekah Staton star as two very different women who become embroiled in a web of deceit and duplicity when they are targeted by a slippery conman bent on destroying their lives.
