Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke are convincing in the suspenseful Netflix film, an adaptation of Rumaan Alam's apocalyptic novel.

As Netflix's epic Royal Family drama reaches its dramatic final series, the show has failed to right the terrible flaws of the last season.

With spectacular battle scenes and plenty of pithy vignettes, Ridley Scott's latest is 'a proper, old-fashioned historical epic'.

Cage's career has had many twists and turns. But his latest role, playing a professor who starts popping up in people's dreams, is one of his best yet, writes Caryn James.

This stylised period series about five young American women making their way in England has distinct shades of Netflix's hit – and deserves to be as successful, writes Neil Armstrong.

From troubled Irish families and shocking French showmen to a court case in Victorian Britain, these are BBC Culture's picks of the best fiction of the year so far.