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Paradise Reviews

Despite its intriguing premise about ageism and buying 'time,' Boris Kunz's dystopian thriller soon becomes formulaic and forgettable.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 24, 2023

This is an entertaining and thoughtful dystopian sci-fi about aging and the vast chasm between the very rich and the very poor.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2023

This is a well-made, thought-provoking movie set in the near future. It’s the sort of science fiction that feels closer to science than fiction.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 5, 2023

In its more serious moments warns us how revolting things can get when the people of science greedily sell their souls for capitalistic gain.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Aug 2, 2023

Paradise transcends the thriller and sci-fi genre to invite us to immerse ourselves in philosophical ethics and confront fundamental questions about human nature... [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 31, 2023

As far as Netflix originals go, Paradise is quite a gem. It’s got a great cast, a compelling story, and neat-looking CGI effects.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 31, 2023

As dystopias go, this one isn’t a complete bust. “Paradise” serves up food for thought in a just-provocative-enough satire of the growing gap between the coddled and well-cared-for rich and everybody they’re screwing over.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 31, 2023

Paradise starts with an intriguing concept that has the potential for unsettling darkness, but because some key areas are left unexplored, the story loses its impact, devolving into a predictable dystopian sci-fi.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 29, 2023

Although Kunz and a small pile of screenwriters work in a modicum of world-building, they mostly shun the implications of this society for action-thriller cliches.

Full Review | Jul 28, 2023

Paradise is an average film with nothing new to say about the topics that it has chosen to talk about. The performances and the world-building are good enough to keep you engaged.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 27, 2023

The film threatens to become merely a high-octane shoot-em-up, but the mercurial plot keeps things on track with a succession of blind-siding twists.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 21, 2023

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Paradise – Netflix Review (3/5)

Posted by Karina "ScreamQueen" Adelgaard | Jul 26, 2023 | 3 minutes

PARADISE (2023) on Netflix is a new German sci-fi thriller with a fascinating plot. The beginning and ending of this movie work really well. The middle is a bit weaker, unfortunately. Read our full Paradise movie review here!

PARADISE (2023) is a new Netflix sci-fi thriller from Germany. Fans of the Netflix series DARK will know that the German Netflix productions within this genre can be very strong. For this movie, the middle part is too weak and predictable, while both the entire opening and final moments of it work remarkably well.

Despite the generic title, this movie truly does offer up a fascinating plot that makes for a thrilling movie. One that makes you think and even forces the viewer to try and relate; What would you do if given the choice?

Continue reading our Paradise movie review below. Find it on Netflix from July 27, 2023.

Loved the beginning

From the beginning of Paradise , I absolutely loved the premise; Trade years of your life for money!

We’re in Berlin, in the not-too-distant future, where a method of transferring years of your life from one person to another has changed aging completely.

Well, for those who can afford the procedure and have a match willing to donate years. If they donate years of their life, they are compensated rather generously. However, these DNA matches also tend to be found within communities where people are already in dire need of money.

The biotech start-up AEON is a billion-dollar pharmaceutical company at the forefront of this technology, but the CEO has yet to find her own DNA match. As a rule, you can no longer look at someone and know how old they are.

Someone can be 18 years old (the age when one can start donating years), but look 20 years older because they’ve donated two decades to afford the life of their dreams. Another may look 25, but really be 60 years old and have simply received (or bought) extra years from their match.

Age is now “chronological age” or your practical age based on whether you’ve given or received years.

It truly is a brilliant setting and right off the bat, there’s a focus on both the good and the bad. Or rather, the possibilities for humans and the danger in how humans can misuse this new technology.

Paradise (2023) – Review | Netflix Sci-fi Thriller

A very character-driven story

For Paradise to really work, we need to see this new biotech “gift” in effect. Also, we need to be able to relate to the people involved with either donating or receiving years.

Fortunately, that’s exactly what we get when we meet Max (Kostja Ullmann) and Elena (Marlene Tanzcik). The couple lives a mostly perfect life. Unfortunately, they are also very much in debt from having bought their dream home.

After an accident not covered by their insurance happens, they are forced to use their “collateral”.

Much to Max’s surprise, the collateral turns out to be a whopping 40 years of Elena’s life. Obviously, this effectively ruins any chance they have of a future together. Including having a family, which was something they were actively dreaming of and working on (if you know what I mean?!).

As a respected employee of AEON, Max tries everything to get Elena’s lost years back. However, despite the technology being reversible, it quickly becomes apparent that this is very difficult.

Watch Paradise on Netflix!

Boris Kunz is the director of this Netflix sci-fi thriller and he also co-wrote the screenplay with Simon Amberger and Peter Kocyla ( 8 Days ).

While the middle part of this German sci-fi thriller gets a bit too slow (and far too predictable), that opening still had me hooked. Then comes the ending which gets the movie back on track in terms of showing the difficulty of having power and choice.

A very bold and strong ending that even teases the possibility of a sequel. If only the middle part of this movie has been stronger, we would’ve been at a solid 4 out of 5.

Paradise (2023) is on Netflix globally from July 27, 2023.

Director: Boris Kunz Screenwriters: Simon Amberger, Peter Kocyla, Boris Kunz Cast: Kostja Ullmann, Iris Berben, Marlene Tanczik, Corinna Kirchhoff, Lisa-Marie Koroll, Alina Levshin, Lorna Ishema, Numan Acar, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen

A man sees the dark side of the time-manipulating biotech company he works for when a crushing debt forces his wife to give up 40 years of her own life.

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Paradise raises important ethical and philosophical questions about sacrifice, ageism, and the moral implications of buying and selling years of life.
Max and Elena's tragic story takes unexpected turns as they navigate the dystopian world of youth transplants and a society obsessed with staying young.
The ending sees Max joining a rebel army to destroy technology that steals youth, while Elena chooses a life of normalcy and leaves behind the fight for change. The future remains uncertain for the powerful Aeon company and its CEO Sophie.

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for Netflix's Paradise.

Even though a movie with subtitles is not everyone’s cup of tea, German Netflix film Paradise is the kind that quickly gets you hooked from the moment you press play. The dystopia takes place on a highly technological yet grim reality: Filthy rich people are able to buy years off poor people's lives, which means they sell their actual lifetime in order to be able to live with some dignity. This is done through Aeon, a company that makes the "youth transplants" possible.

Paradise raises a lot of questions, and a lot of them are ethical and philosophical ones: Is it better to live a short yet comfortable life? Should money be the decisive factor to guarantee that someone can have the best life possible? Does society have an ageism problem? And most of all, just because you can reduce someone’s life expectancy in benefit of your own, is it right to do it?

These are just some questions that Paradise puts in the back of our minds and invites discussions that extend to way after the movie has ended. But there are some questions related to the story that are way easier to answer — the biggest one being, of course, the mystery that takes over half of the movie to be resolved.

The Biggest Mystery in 'Paradise': Who Is the Girl Max Kidnapped?

The story of Elena ( Marlene Tanczik and Corinna Kirchhoff ) and Max ( Kostja Ullmann ) gets tragic pretty fast. Max works as an agent from Aeon who goes around convincing poor people to sell some years of their lives. The tables turn when his wife Elena does a bad deal and is required to give up 40 years of her life (and youth) to pay up. Her years are taken by Aeon CEO Sophie Thiessen ( Iris Berben and Alina Levshin ), so Max kidnaps a girl that might very well be a Sophie that is 40 years younger after getting her “ youth transplant .”

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However, the girl says she is actually Marie Thiessen ( Lisa-Marie Koroll ), Sophie's daughter. And it turns out that she is telling the truth. She is indeed the daughter of Sophie, and the real Sophie has started a massive manhunt to retrieve her child and arrest (and maybe kill) Max and his wife.

Does Elena Ever Get Her 40 Years Back?

Yes, but not in the way that Max originally planned. The husband discovers Elena could get her youth back through a procedure in one of the clandestine clinics, but before all of that he has to make sure that the girl he kidnapped is indeed Sophie Thiessen. Once he finds out she isn’t, he still believes Marie might be a match and that Elena could still get her youth back. But then the tables get turned .

Once Elena realizes that Sophie will pull out all the stops to get her daughter back, she decides she’ll make the CEO pay in her own dime by stealing 40 years off the life of her daughter. Max starts having second thoughts, but Elena decides vengeance is the only way — especially after she realizes that Marie is also ready to kill her if it means escaping the couple’s clutches.

So, Elena ends up dumping Max in the middle of a road and drives to the Lithuania clandestine clinics, where she performs the transplant and gets her 40 years back. This means, of course, that Marie — the only true victim in the story — ages 40 years overnight, and after she’s returned to her mother, she has the brutal realization that Sophie has no intention of giving up her own youth to save her daughter.

How Do Max and Elena Escape?

After finding the clandestine clinics, it seems like Elena doesn’t want to look back and aims for a life that’s as normal as possible. She’s young again, she has a new husband and is expecting a child – like she was in the beginning of the movie. Her final scene suggests she chose to alienate herself to the issues of the society she’s lived in. It seems like she is content with living a life with no rebellions and no questioning authority.

After getting dumped in the middle of a road in Lithuania, Max discovers a refugee camp in which it’s pretty clear that a new society is forming — a society in which people age normally. Max realizes that both Aeon and clandestine clinics are doing criminal work, and he joins the rebel army in order to destroy all technology that allows people to steal youth from one another. He also sees this as a way to atone for his past, during which he spent his days convincing marginalized people to sell a portion of their lives so they could make a quick profit.

Why Don’t Max and Elena End Up Together?

The change in point of views from Max and Elena, and the way they break apart makes it clear they reached a point in their lives in which their ethics are fundamentally different. Both of them are pushed to their breaking points, and Elena realizes that her own interests and happiness must be a priority in her life. And that doesn’t come to her by chance: Once she realizes that she was set up to give up her 40 years, she decides she could trust no one and there was no use trying to join a fight that just might end up killing her and not changing the status quo.

Max, on the other hand, was trying to do the right thing from the start, even though he didn’t have the best methods. First, he thought he was helping poor people live with dignity, then he thought he was doing what his wife wanted. It takes him a long time to realize that the problem is with society as a whole, and a drastic change needs to happen so that the events of the movie don’t keep happening. He can’t stay with Elena because he can’t live a life of inertia after discovering a whole community that fights for the change he wants to see.

What Happens to the Actual Sophie Thiessen?

After almost getting shot to death, Sophie apparently gives up on chasing Max and Elena. But she suggests she'll keep looking for a match donor so that her daughter Marie can get her 40 years back. She says she wasn't a match, but chances are she's lying and just doesn't want to give up her newfound youth. Sophie also suggests she'll keep working on making Aeon even more powerful, which sets up an even darker future for whoever tries to take them down.

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Paradise Ending Explained – How does Elena get her lifetime back?

This article discusses the ending of the Netflix film Paradise and will contain spoilers.

The German high-concept dystopian film, Paradise , is set in a not-so-distant future where years of a person’s life can be used as currency. Rich people can buy youth, while poor people get enough cash to improve the quality of their shortened lifespans.

At least that’s what AEON, the company offering this service, wants the public to believe. Not everyone approves of this new technology. There’s a resistance group called Adam who routinely makes it their mission to kill anyone that artificially increased their lifespan.

When we first meet our protagonist, Max, he is a highly successful sales broker for AEON. Max himself has sold five years of his life to pay for University.

Max is happily married to Elena, the two have just bought a luxury condo and are planning to start a family. Tragedy hits when one day the couple gets home to find their apartment engulfed in flames.

Their insurance company decided the fire was their fault and the bank wants the loan back in full. As Elena has signed her lifetime as collateral, the bank forcefully takes 40 years of her life.

A desperate Max begs his boss and AEON’s CEO, Sophie Theisson, for help. Instead of help, he gets a promotion at the company after his wife’s “procedure.” Angry, he tries confronting Sophie only to realize she was the one who benefited from Elena’s youth.

The procedure is reversible, so Max arranges to take Elena to an illegal doctor in Lithuania that can restore her youth. He tries kidnapping Sophie to force her to give back the 40 years she stole but accidentally takes her daughter, Marie.

Paradise Ending Explained

After just about making it past the border guards and spending a passion-filled night in an abandoned hotel with poor Marie tied up in the bathtub, Max and Elena wake up to members of the Adam resistance, including their leader, Lilith, pointing a gun at them.

Lilith helps them connect the dots about their recent misfortune; AEON’s founder was behind it all.

Why did Sophie target Elena?

It seems Sophie’s DNA was extremely rare, making it almost impossible to find a match for herself. And poor Elena just so happened to be a match.

She pulled some strings to ensure Elena and Max only got approved for their mortgage. Sophie was also behind the fire that burned down the apartment and even killed the person Max had previously donated to, forcing Elena to donate her lifetime.

The resistance plans to kidnap Sophie. When she, with her small army led by Kaya and Viktor, arrives at the warehouse, Lilith sends Max outside and tasks him to convince Sophie to go inside with him.

The plan fails at the last minute, but it turns out that Viktor was a mole for Lilith, so he shoots Sophie before Kaya shoots him down.

As both sides are firing at each other, Max takes advantage of the chaos and escapes with Marie and Elena.

As Elena is driving towards the illegal clinic, Max seems to have had a change of heart. Because he now knows for sure he kidnapped the wrong woman, he’s not comfortable with stealing 40 years from an innocent.

But his wife disagrees. She’s come too far to give up now, so she stops the car and demands Max get out.

How does Elena get her lifetime back?

At the illegal clinic, the Lithuanian doctor and his team force poor Marie to donate her youth, mirroring the film’s beginning when AEON did the same to a pregnant Elena.

Other “patients” of the illegal operation include several kidnapped refugees.

It turns out that Sophie was wearing a bullet-proof vest and she survived Viktor’s attack. Marie is eventually returned to her mother safe, sound, and more mature.

Why doesn’t Sophie donate her years to Marie?

If poor Marie thought she could get her youth back from her mother, she was mistaken. Sophie Theisson only cares about Sophie Theisson, but she does promise Marie she’ll find her a new donor. However, that’s an empty promise considering how hard it was for Sophie to find a donor for herself.

Where is Max?

We then cut to several months later, on an unknown beach with a young-again and pregnant Elena. But the child isn’t Max’s. Instead, he’s quietly lurking in the background.

While Elena is enjoying her life, Max has joined the Adam resistance to fight the system he was previously a part of.

What did you think of the ending of Paradise? Comment below.

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Lori Meek has been a Ready Steady Cut contributing writer since September 2022 and has had over 400 published articles since. She studied Film and Television at Southampton Solent University, where she gained most of her knowledge and passion for the entertainment industry. Lori’s work is also featured on platforms such as TBreak Media and ShowFaves.

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Strong language throughout. "Aeon, f--k yourself!"

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Parents need to know that Paradise is a 2023 German dystopian sci-fi movie in which a husband tries to help his wife reclaim the 40 years of her life that were "donated" to pay off a debt. Rebel forces infiltrate a tech company and shoot assault weapons at staff members and patients who are about to get the surgery that adds years to their lives, "donated" by the less fortunate citizens. Massive firefight between the rebels and the tech company's mercenaries -- assault rifle shootings, grenades, explosions, deaths, some blood. Fighting with punches and kicks, a teen girl's head is smashed repeatedly in the back window of a car. The lead characters are shown having sex in bed -- brief nudity (breasts). Oral sex is implied. Strong language throughout, including "f--k." A young girl who is actually an older woman is shown smoking cigarettes and dealing drugs. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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On DVD or streaming : July 27, 2023
Cast : Numan Acar , Iris Berben , Aleyna Cara
Director : Boris Kunz
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Studio : Netflix
Genre : Science Fiction
Run time : 116 minutes
MPAA rating : NR
Last updated : July 28, 2023

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Review: Paradise (2023)

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New to Netflix today is the German sci-fi thriller, Paradise . The movie – directed by Boris Kunz, Tomas Jonsgården and Indre Juskute – stars Kostja Ullmann and Corinna Kirchhoff and tells the story of a world in which people trade years of their life for instant wealth.

In the movie, Aeon is a highly successful science program which is built around the concept of ‘time donation.’ People who sign up with Aeon are able to ‘donate’ years of their life in exchange for generous rewards, which includes vast sums of money that would take a lifetime to earn.

One of Aeon’s top employees is Donation Manager Max Toma. Max is a highly valued member of staff, who previously ‘donated’ a portion of his own life for money, and now lives with his wife Elena in their luxury apartment in Berlin.

But one night, upon returning home from a visit to Elena’s parents, Max and Elena are horrified to see their apartment has gone up in flames. The blaze was caused by an unattended candle, which has destroyed everything they own.

Due to the nature of the fire, which is classed as negligence on their part, they are unable to claim any money back from the insurance company. To make matters worse, the bank now want Max and Elena to pay their mortgage back in full to cover the devastation, which equates to 2.5 million euros.

The only way to raise the cash is for Elena to give up decades of her life in exchange for money – something which the bank is looking to enforce. They soon arrange for Aeon to take Elena to a donation clinic against her will, where she is prepped for the procedure despite Max’s objections.

After the procedure is complete, Elena loses 38 years of her life and ages accordingly. This causes her extreme distress and impacts her relationship with Max.

Keen to get those years back, and undo the damage caused to his wife and his marriage, Max sets out to find a way to reverse what has happened. But will he be able to fight against Aeon, who he once supported as a loyal employee?

With an intriguing premise, strong central performances, and a solid story, Paradise is a great little sci-fi movie. The film taps into the ongoing discourse surrounding a person’s value and wealth, with plenty of commentary about what it means to give up your time on Earth in exchange for money.

In the film, donated years are given to people who pay to become younger. The recipients are those who are considered viable DNA matches with the donor, but in all cases the extra years are only given to the super wealthy.

In the case of Elena, her lost years are given to a billionaire. The film makes it clear the billionaire is able to essentially steal Elena’s life simply because they can afford to do so, and this is of course morally questionable.

And this is the main crux at the heart of Paradise . The question becomes: As life is more important than money, should technology like this exist, where super rich people can extend their own life at the expense of the lives of others?

The answer? Clearly not.

Although this movie is a piece of fiction, it’s not too difficult to see the links between this story and what is currently going on in the real world. Everyday folk are getting poorer and facing worse living conditions that could shorten their life, while the super rich are essentially able to do whatever they please, with their wealth providing them access to a better and potentially longer existence.

The film also taps into the present day reality that big corporations are dabbling into tech that could alter the future in horrifying ways, and it looks at the not-too fictional idea that someone’s life could soon become a tradable commodity. Aging is also discussed in the film, as are refugee camps, and Paradise also includes a resistance group who are using extreme measures to fight against Aeon, because polite conversation and protest no longer works.

Sound familiar? It should.

To put things simply, you don’t have to go too far in this movie to see something which feels relevant to 2023. The world of Paradise is a touch more futuristic than where we are right now, but this whole thing plays out like a cautionary near-future tale, which is built around contemporary news headlines.

In terms of the film’s design aesthetic and overall look, Paradise is a good looking picture. It boasts strong cinematography, a few atmospheric shots, and some slick camera work.

The sets and props incorporate a few subtle hints of futurism, to suggest this story is just a little ahead of where we are now, but not so much out of time to place the story in a far-flung future. The trio of directors helming this movie try to ground this film in as much reality as possible and they achieve this objective very well.

Mix this together with a good cast, as well as good lighting and music, and Paradise is a well-constructed, compelling, and thought provoking picture. There’s something here which really captures the mood of 2023, and adds an even more dystopian slant to the uncertain times we are all living in.

If you’re after a movie with a little more punch than the current crop of popcorn fodder and brainless summer blockbusters on offer, then Paradise could be for you. The film offers up a window into a potential future, which I hope never comes to pass, but could one day be within touching distance.

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Paradise ending explained: Does Elena get her years back?

We delve into the finale of this Netflix's German sci-fi thriller.

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This German movie was a big hit on Netflix, ending its first week on the streaming service as the most-watched non-English language movie with 8.1 million views.

A gripping sci-fi thriller, the story is set in a society where you can exchange years of your life with somebody else, thanks to biotech company Aeon, which has developed a way to transfer time between DNA-compatible people.

Aeon CEO Sophie Theissen says it'll allow the brightest minds on Earth to live longer, but unsurprisingly, the medical procedure ends up being only available to the elite as it's so expensive.

And, also unsurprisingly, the elite have started to exploit migrants and refugees who become donors in order to escape their tragic situations. When you're in a financial struggle, the only thing you have left to give is your own lifespan.

Aeon donation manager Max Toma discovers how ruthless the company he works for can be when his wife Elena is forced to give up 38 years of her life in order to pay back their debts when their house burns down.

Unable to accept this new reality, the once fiercely pro-system Max now decides to take justice into his own hands in order to help Elena.

What happens at the end of Netflix 's Paradise ? We delve into everything that went down in the finale.

Remember. Major spoilers ahead.

Although Elena has accepted her fate as a nearly 70-year-old woman, moving in with her parents and resuming her work as a doctor in a public hospital, Max is determined to find a solution.

He thinks his boss could give them a hand, but soon he discovers Aeon's CEO is in fact the beneficiary of his wife's donation. It gets worse: it's quite possible their home's fire wasn't an accident at all, but a calculated way of forcing Elena into becoming a donor and allowing Sophie Theissen to increase her life span.

After discovering there are illegal clinics in Lithuania performing age transplant procedures outside of Aeon's reach, Max concocts a plan: to kidnap Sophie and travel to one of these clandestine places so Elena can get her years back. After that, they'll start anew somewhere else.

Elena is on board, her hopes renewed by her husband's commitment, but not everything goes according to plan.

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Not entirely sure what a 38-years-younger Sophie Theissen looks like, Max makes a mistake and kidnaps her daughter Marie.

Theoretically, since they share the same DNA, Marie would also work for an age transplant with Elena, but there's the ethical conundrum: can they steal four decades from an innocent woman who actually opposes her mother's ideas?

That question lingers as they overcome obstacles in getting to Lithuania, all while being followed by Theissen's private army.

When they're just about to make it, they're intercepted by a group known as Adam, which has been fighting against Aeon's work by killing people who benefited from age transplants.

Their leader, Lilith, reveals that Max actually met Elena because Sophie sent him — her best and most persuasive donation agent — to convince her to be a donor, knowing Elena was the only person compatible with her DNA.

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Lilith's plan is to use Max and Elena as bait to draw Sophie into an abandoned Lithuanian building, but tensions run high between both armies and soon a massive gunfight erupts. Lilith is killed, but Sophie survives.

Max manages to escape the building with Elena and Marie. While he secures a car, Marie tries to shoot Elena with an unloaded gun, dissipating any doubts Elena might have about using her to get her youth back.

Max, on the other hand, has a change of heart. Driving to the illegal clinic, he tries to talk his wife out of going ahead with the plan. She angrily asks him to get out of the car, so he does.

As the last scenes of Paradise show, Elena goes ahead with the surgery, her body slowly de-ageing 38 years, while Marie ages after reuniting with Sophie. Grey hair and wrinkles appearing on her face, Marie tells her mother they are compatible enough for her to pass some years on, but Sophie refuses. There's still much groundbreaking work to do, she says.

The movie then makes an undetermined jump in time to reveal Max and Elena's destinies. In the last scene, Max looks from afar at a pregnant Elena, who is on the beach with her new boyfriend.

He then turns back and goes to a car where surviving members of the group Adam are waiting for him. Apparently, Max has joined the fight against Aeon, and they are heading to a planned attack on one of the company's facilities. The war continues.

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Growing old sucks, right? Every year of our lives we can feel our bodies and minds constantly deteriorate. We grow increasingly tired and exhausted, it's easier for us to gain weight, and going to the toilet becomes a surprisingly frequent and sometimes difficult endeavor. Thankfully, however, aging happens incredibly slowly, and it takes decades to really feel it. We still have our lives, families, and careers to build, making countless memories and experiencing the joys and sometimes hardships of life, which is what living is all about.

Now imagine that you wake up one day, look into the mirror, and find that you have aged into your 70s. Sure, if you were in your 60s, it's not too big of a deal. But imagine this happens while you are in your 20s or 30s. Losing 40 to 50 years of your life, which some may say are the best years of our lives. Your ability to build a family, a home, or a career has been ripped right from your hands.

Now picture that those 40 to 50 years that have been taken from you, have been given to some rich individual well into their 70s, allowing them to reduce their age by 50 years, turning them back into a 20-year-old once more. This would essentially make them immortal if they repeat the process over and over again.

This is an absolutely terrifying concept we would never want to become reality, which Netflix's latest original film , Paradise , deeply explores. Although the movie in general is nothing spectacular, audiences would still likely appreciate the core premise, even if they may forget about Paradise as a whole within a few weeks.

The Future Isn't Exactly Paradise

Written by Simon Amberger, Peter Koclya, and Boris Kunz, Paradise follows Max (Kostja Ullman) and Elena (Marlene Tanzcik) who live an almost perfect life, at least until their apartment unexpectedly catches fire. Of course the two go to their insurance company for help, but due to the bank claiming that it was negligence on Max and Elena's part, the bank won't pay a dime. Due to this, the bank issue that Elena must "pay" 40 years of her life. With their future robbed, Max and Elena risk everything to get Elena's 40 years back.

The core concept of Paradise tackles the increasingly terrifying topic of ageism, and toys with the idea of trading your life for money. A billion-dollar pharmaceutical company named AEON developed a method of transferring years of your life from one person to another. For example, an individual in their 80s may want to live longer, and for an incredibly large amount of money, could ask an 18-year-old with a similar genetic pattern to have 50 to 60 years taken from their life, allowing the 80-year-old to de-age back into their 30s and the 18-year-old to dramatically age into their 70s within a few days.

This concept is horrifying for a multitude of obvious reasons. As recently seen in the film Old , the idea of aging rapidly in a matter of hours is so deeply haunting that we wouldn't wish it upon our worst enemy. Why do people, scientists, and companies continue to play "God"? Did we learn nothing from Jurassic Park?

Similarly, like many movies before it that delve into the near future, Paradise not only tackles agism, but also classism. The rich can essentially live forever if they continue with the process, but it's the working class that once again must pay the price, sacrificing decades of their life for a large sum of money.

The Moral Dilemma

Would you trade years of your life, for a mass sum of money? While some would immediately respond with a "hell no," it's a question which you will continue to think about as the movie goes on. More specifically, would you trade 30 years of your life right now for $2.4 million? It's a tad more difficult to choose at that point, right? Most of us will never come across that amount of money in our lives, at least all at once.

Paradise of course delves into the horrific effects of this medical procedure, as well as occasionally showcasing the positives that it has on the world. It's a film that raises great moral dilemmas, even if it ultimately feels like a wasted opportunity.

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The Strain Aging Has on Relationships

Max and Elena's relationship is one of the movie's more compelling aspects. We first meet the pair in the prime of their relationships. Ready to build a home, both are at the cusp of their careers, and itching to start a family. The two are an adorable and infectious couple who have their whole future ahead of them.

However, as the movie's plot suggests, their relationship is bookended when Elena gains 40 years of her life. Max is obviously and evidently distraught, yet he of course still loves and is attracted to Elena as much as he did before her change. It is, in fact, Elena that causes a strain on the relationship, claiming that Max pities her, doesn't love her, and doesn't find her attractive anymore, a complete misunderstanding.

Seeing their journey progress and relationship become stronger as the film progresses will keep audiences invested. The two are forced to investigate their relationship and even become closer than before after this ethical dilemma, which teaches us the true meaning of love. We still wouldn't call Paradise a timeless romance movie by any means, however the couple's relationship is what's at the center of the film. The performances by both Kostja Ullman and Marlene Tanzcik are fantastic, and the chemistry the two have is endearing and makes their romantic relationship incredibly believable.

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The Potential To Be One of the Best Sci-Fi/Thrillers of the Decade

Paradise has all the substance to be one of the best sci-fi thrillers of recent years — a terrifying concept, a compelling futuristic world, unexpected twists, and great moral dilemmas. All recipes for an unforgettable sci-fi movie.

However, the film never truly reaches these heights. It's not a bad movie per se, thanks to a wonderful premise and great performances. And yet, the movie's ending, pacing, writing, and music feel disappointingly generic, especially considering its intriguing premise and the endearing romantic relationship. At the end of the day, Paradise sadly feels like a run-of-the-mill sci-fi flick, that you wouldn't be blamed for, for skipping.

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Netflix's Paradise is a sci-fi thriller set in a near-future world where lives are determined by decisions, not ages.
Biotech startup AEON can add years to someone's life for money, but when Max and Elena are in debt, Elena loses 40 years.
Max, played by Kostja Ullmann, sets out to get Elena's years back, leading to betrayals and a dangerous moral quandary.

The Netflix Paradise cast features a mix of popular German actors, although only a select few are known to audiences in the United States. Paradise is a near-future sci-fi thriller that takes place in a world where lives are not determined by ages, but by decisions that people make. In this world, money can buy additional years to someone's life, but at the same time, years can be traded away when financial situations look bleak. A biotech startup called AEON can add years onto a person's life for money. However, when Max and Elena end up under a financial strain, the courts take away 40 years of Elena's life to get them out of debt.

Max, who works for AEON, sets out to find a way to get Elena her years back, but he soon realizes that nothing will ever be the same. The trailer shows this will be a tense thriller, with betrayals and backstabbing, and a possible dangerous moral quandary in the end. The cast looks uniformly great in the trailer, and after the movie premieres at the Munich International Film Festival, Netflix acquired the worldwide streaming rights to the German thriller. Here is a look at the Paradise 2023 cast and what they have been in before.

Kostja Ullmann As Max

Kostja Ullmann plays Max in the Netflix Paradise cast. In the movie, Max and Elena live a great life but when insurance claims arrive that they can't pay, they are faced with a tough decision. After Elena trades 40 years of her life to get out of debt, Max tries to figure out how to get the years back. Kostja Ullmann was born in West Germany and started acting in the theatre when he was only 11. This led to several German TV shows before he finally enjoyed his breakout role.

Ullmann's first breakout role was in Sommersturm ( Summer Storm ) in 2004 when he was only 20. He remained in German films for most of his career, although he did have roles in some international movies, with his biggest being A Most Wanted Man (2014), based on the John le Carre novel and also starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, and Willem Dafoe. In 2020, he also started in the Christmas comedy Christmas Crossfire .

Marlene Tanczik As Elena

Marlene Tanczik plays Elena in the Paradise 2023 cast. Elena is who traded 40 years of her life to get her and Max out of debt, but realizes that she has limited time left now before her life ends. However, Max is not willing to let her lose so much of her life. Tanczik is a German actor who has only been acting since 2017, following her training in drama in college. In 2017, she got her first role in the four-part TV series Dreams of a New World , where she played a young woman brought to the United States in a sex trafficking ring.

She soon moved on into lead roles, starting with The Water of Life , where she played Princess Friederike in the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale retelling. She also starred in the lead role in the VOX series Milk & Honey in 2018. Most of her work has been on TV, with recent roles in Forever Parents, The Protector, and A Taxi for the Present .

The Supporting Cast Of Paradise

Corinna Kirchhoff: Kirchhoff trained at the Max Reinhardt School for Acting in Berlin and got her start in theater. She has also appeared in several movies and TV shows, including the German crime series Sarah Kohr and several films in the crime series Tatort .

Lisa-Marie Koroll: Koroll is a German actor and author who got her start as a child actor in 2006 on the TV series Famile Dr. Kleist. She played Clara Hofer/Kleist for seven seasons on the show. Koroll remains best known for her role in the movie adaptation of Bibi und Tina , where she played Tina.

Numan Acar: Acar is a German actor who was born in Turkey and immigrated to Germany as a child. He started off as a soccer player but then move into theater acting and then on to film and movies. He might be the most familiar face to American audiences. He played the Pakistani terrorist Haqqani in the fourth season of Homeland . He also appeared in Operation: 12 Strong , The Great Wall , and was a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent in Spider-Man: Far From Home .

Alina Levshin: Levshin is a German actor who was born in the Odessa and began studying acting in college. She enjoyed her breakout in the TV series Rosa Roth and has since enjoyed roles in Alaska Johansson and the crime series The Specialists - In the Name of the Victims .

Lorna Ishema: Lorna Ishema studied acting in Munich and gained her first public attention thanks to her role in the TV series Police Call 110 in 2012. She also had roles in Last Spur Berlin and Rampensau . In 2021, she won the German Film Award Lola for Best Supporting Female Role for Ivie wie Ivie , where she played Naomi.

Lisa Loven Kongsli: Prior to joining the Netflix Paradise cast. Kongsil is a Norwegian actor who debuted in 2003 in theater productions. She also has had some major movie roles, appearing in both Wonder Woman and Justice League in the DCU as the Amazon warrior Menalippe .

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June is off to a hot start, with a sizzling mix of new shows and movies to watch this weekend on Netflix , Paramount Plus and other top streaming services .

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Fight for Paradise: Who Can You Trust? Season 1 is a reality series. Contestants of this gameshow battle for a luxurious life in a secluded paradise island, facing various challenges and betrayals as the named suggests, no one can be trusted here. Season 1 dropped in 2024 with eight episodes.

Here’s how you can watch and stream Fight for Paradise: Who Can You Trust? Season 1 via streaming services such as Netflix.

Is Fight for Paradise: Who Can You Trust? Season 1 available to watch via streaming?

Yes, Fight for Paradise: Who Can You Trust? Season 1 is available to watch via streaming on Netflix .

Set in the backdrop of lavish villas and jungle as the two battling camps, this reality show features contestants from different backgrounds, forming alliances to survive. Additionally, they fight tasks and betrayal from fellow contestants to get a final entry to paradise and win 100,000 euros as the ultimate cash prize.

The reality show stars contestants from different backgrounds, led by host Bonnie Strange .

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Fight for Paradise: Who Can You Trust is available to watch on Netflix.

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Fight for Paradise: Who Can You Trust? Season 1’s official synopsis is as follows:

“From the villa to the jungle, contestants must keep their friends close and their enemies closer. Who will win entry to paradise and 100,000 euros?”

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New on Netflix June 7: Hit Man

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New on Max June 6: AM I OK?

In AM I OK? Dakota Johnson stars as Lucy, a woman struggling to find a compatible boyfriend because it turns out, she’s a lesbian. The film, directed by Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne, is partially based on Allyne’s own experiences coming out of the closet, and it co-stars Sonoya Mizuno, Kiersey Clemons, and Jermaine Fowler, and Molly Gordon.

New on Starz June 7: Power Book II: Ghost (Season 4)

While Bravo has its non-stop cycle of Real Housewives shows, Starz has it’s own version of that with the Power franchise, which seems to never be off the air. The latest premiere of the popular franchise is season 4 of Power Book II: Ghost , which returns on Friday and marks its final season. The first half of season four reunites Tariq St. Patrick (Michael Rainey Jr. ) and Brayden Weston (Gianni Paolo) and fellow co-stars like Method Man and Mary J. Blige, and will consist of five episodes. Part II of the final season will premiere in September.

Full List of New Movies and Shows on Streaming This Weekend:

The options above only scratch the surface, so you know that this weekend’s full lineup will have amazing options for what to watch this weekend! For the full breakdown of the best movies and shows to stream now, or if you’re still undecided on what to stream this weekend, then check out the complete list below:

New on Netflix – Full List

Released thursday, june 6.

Baki Hanma VS Kengan Ashura (JP) *NETFLIX ANIME

Basma (SA) *NETFLIX FILM

Crazy Rich Asians

Kübra : Season 2 (TR) *NETFLIX SERIES

Nelma Kodama: The Queen of Dirty Money (BR) *NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY

Rafa Márquez: El Capitán (MX) *NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY

Sweet Tooth : Season 3 *NETFLIX SERIES

Released Friday, June 7

Hierarchy (KR) *NETFLIX SERIES

Hit Man *NETFLIX FILM

Perfect Match : Season 2 *NETFLIX SERIES

New on Prime Video – Full List

Counsel Culture (2024) *Prime Video Original Series

WNBA on Prime Video (2024) *Prime Video Original Sports

NWSL on Prime Video (2024) *Prime Video Original Sports

Released Sunday, June 9

Daddy’s Home (2015)

New on Hulu – Full List

Jungle Bunch: Operation Meltdown | 2023

Perfect Days | 2023

Becoming Karl Lagerfeld : Complete Limited Series (SUBBED & DUBBED) *Hulu Original

Beautiful Wedding | 2024

Queenie : Complete Season 1 *Hulu Original

Step Up | 2006

Step Up 2 The Streets | 2008

Step Up 3D | 2010

What Comes Around | 2023

Released Saturday, June 8

Candis Cayne’s Secret Garden : Complete Season 1 (equalPRIDEMEDIA)

Love Island U.K. : Season 11 Premiere (ITV)

Protecting Paradise: The Story of Niue (National Geographic)

2024 LA Pride Parade : Livestream (ABC)

OUT 100 : 2021, 2022, 2023 Specials (equalPRIDEMEDIA)

New on Max – Full List

Am I OK? (2022) (Max Premiere)

Fantasmas , Season 1 (HBO Original)

New on Disney+ – Full List

Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation

Doctor Who : Episode – “Rogue” *New to Disney+

Protecting Paradise: The Story of Niue

Celebrating Donald Duck’s 90th Anniversary:

Crazy Over Daisy
Out on a Limb

New on Starz – Full List

Power Book II: Ghost : Episode 401 – “I Don’t Die Easy”

Ticket To Paradise

New on Paramount+ with Showtime – Full List

Criminal Minds: Evolution new season premiere

The 51st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards®**

Transformers: EarthSpark season two premiere

New on Peacock – Full List

Kung Fu Panda *

Queer Planet – Premiere (Peacock Original)*

Of An Age *

Summer Qamp *

What Else Is Streaming New This June?

What you see above is just a portion of the new movies and shows you can watch this month if you’ve got more than one streaming service subscription. We update our guides to the new releases on the most popular streaming platforms every month, so you can stay on top of the freshest titles to watch. Here are full lists, schedules, and reviews for everything streaming:

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'Hitler and the Nazis' recounts Third Reich's horrors for the Netflix generation

Riveting six-part doc — rich with footage, commentary and newly released audio — aims to keep the atrocities and the lessons of a dark time from fading from memory..

Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring in one of the many historical photos presented in “Hitler and the Nazis.”

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Even with the vast and ever-growing library of books, feature films, documentaries and TV series about World War II, even with such powerful reminders as the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, there is a legitimate concern that as the decades pass, the heroics of the Allied powers and the atrocities of Hitler and the Third Reich will be lost to time. In 2018, a study conducted by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany found that 41% of all respondents and 66% of millennials didn’t know what Auschwitz is.

A moment here to let that sink in.

That study is one of the reasons the skilled documentarian Joe Berlinger (“Paradise Lost,” “The Ted Bundy Tapes” ) directed the riveting and essential six-part Netflix documentary series “Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial.” Expertly weaving in archival footage, dramatic re-creations, interviews with esteemed journalists and historians and audio recordings from the Nuremberg Trials (many of which have only recently been made public), Berlinger paints a stunningly effective portrait of Hitler’s rise to power, the mass murders and other horrors committed by the Third Reich — and the stunning testimony at the trials of some of Hitler’s most vile and unrepentant henchmen.

The series also benefits greatly from its reliance on the reportage of the late William L. Shirer, one of the few American correspondents who was reporting from Germany during Hitler’s rise to power and in the early stages of the war. (Shirer’s epic, 1,250-page book “The Rise and Fall of Third Reich,” was published in 1960 to great acclaim and best-selling success and is still hailed as an important work.)

Through the use of AI technology that enables Shirer to “speak” as narrator, as well as dramatic re-creations in which Balázs Kató portrays Shirer, we get the visceral feeling of being at Shirer’s side as he covers Hitler and the war from close proximity. (As is the case with most dramatic re-creations in documentaries, the actors portraying Shirer, Hitler, Göring, et al., don’t speak their lines. We see visuals of them re-creating scenes, while actual writings and recordings provide the dialogue. It’s an effective technique that sidesteps sensationalism.)

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“Hitler and the Nazis” toggles back and forth on the timeline, alternating between a chronological study of Hitler’s rise to power and a number of pivotal events in World War II to the 1945-1946 Nuremberg trials. Shirer was the classic intrepid reporter, going to great lengths to get scoops — but he also was an impressive wordsmith, e.g., his description of Göring in the courtroom: “At first glance, I scarcely recognize him. His faded Air Force uniform, shorn of the insignia and of the medals he loved so childishly, hangs loosely on him. And gone is his own burliness, his old arrogance, his flamboyant air. How a twist of fate, I marveled, could reduce a man to size.”

(Another poignant touch: Much of the score was created from the compositions of Holocaust victims, with Vincent Pedulla and Serj Tankian from System of a Down reorchestrating the material.)

In re-creations, Balázs Kató plays reporter William Shirer, whose writings are central to the documentary.

The series is filled with unforgettable passages, as when we see how hundreds of German-Jewish refugees aboard the German liner St. Louis were turned away in Cuba and then denied entrance to the USA and had to return to Europe, or when we hear about the mass executions of innocent men, women and children and see actual film footage and photos documenting these atrocities. When the French agreed to surrender in 1940, Hitler insisted the armistice be carried out on the Compiègne Wagon, the same train carriage in which the Germans surrendered in the 1918 armistice, and that the carriage be taken from a nearby museum and placed in the exact same location as in 1918. Bearing witness to this moment and broadcasting it back to the USA: William Shirer.

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At the Nuremberg Trials, after U.S. Chief of Counsel Robert H. Jackson delivers his powerful and famous opening statement, the despicable likes of Rudolph Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Albert Speer plead not guilty and either feign ignorance of the depths of the horrors committed by the Third Reich, or blame it all on Hitler, who of course by that time had committed suicide. They are cowardly to the end.

Shirer reflects on being in Germany in 1939, when the war started: “The Germans seemed so strong then, that a lonely American on the streets of Berlin wondered whether the forces of democracy, of decency, would ever rally in time. Now, one’s thoughts turn to the future, to put our minds and our hearts to work on a better world, one in which, above all, there should be no more wars.”

Humankind is still working on that. In the meantime, “Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial” is a timely reminder that anyone in present day who embraces even a trace of the Third Reich’s ways is either an ignorant fool or a racist and antisemitic hatemonger.

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Hitler’s project: “Making Germany great again.” The Nazis’ characterization of criticism from the media: “Fake news.” Hitler’s mountain retreat in Berchtesgaden: “It’s sort of like Hitler’s Mar-a-Lago, if you will.”

Donald Trump’s name is not mentioned in the six episodes of “Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial,” a new historical documentary series on Netflix. But it dances just beneath the surface, and occasionally, as in the examples above, the production’s cadre of scholars, popular historians and biographers can barely stop themselves from giving the game away.

The series was directed by the veteran documentarian Joe Berlinger (“Paradise Lost,” “Metallica: Some Kind of Monster”), who has a production deal with Netflix and has given it popular true-crime shows like “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich” and the “Conversations With a Killer” series.

In promotional material, Berlinger explains his decision to step up from true crime to total war and genocide: “This is the right time to retell this story for a younger generation as a cautionary tale,” he says, adding, “In America, we are in the midst of our own reckoning with democracy, with authoritarianism knocking at the door and a rise in antisemitism.” In other words, you can’t make a documentary about Germany in the 1930s and ’40s without holding the United States of the 2010s and ’20s in your mind.

To that end, Berlinger has made a deluxe version of the sort of history of Hitler, the Third Reich and the Holocaust that for years has been a staple of American cable television. The information is not new, but the resources available to Berlinger are reflected in the abundance of material he deploys across nearly six and a half hours: archival film, most of it meticulously colorized for the series, and audio; staged recreations with a sprawling cast of actors; and the copious roster of interviewees.

A new telling of an old story requires a twist, of course, and Berlinger has several. The American journalist William L. Shirer serves as the series’s unofficial narrator, despite having died in 1993 — an A.I. recreation of his voice recites passages from his many books about the period, and occasionally his actual voice is heard in excerpts from radio broadcasts. He is also represented onscreen by an actor in scenes recreating the series’s other primary framing device, the first Nuremberg trials in 1945.

Testimony from the trials is used to fill in the show’s accounts of political machinations, war making and mass killing. And the presentation of the trials is the most striking example of a visual style Berlinger employs throughout the series: sliding smoothly back and forth between elaborately staged recreations and real colorized footage, so that you need to pay attention to know whether you are looking at Hermann Goering or the actor playing Hermann Goering (Gabor Sotonyi). Berlinger is going for a seamless dramatic effect, and if it doesn’t always work as drama, it holds your attention.

Even the interviews are theatrical, shot on a darkened stage with blood-red curtains framing a ladder and what looks like a rough brick wall. It is unclear what the set dressing is meant to represent, but it might reflect Berlinger’s demonstrated tendency toward a kind of hushed sensationalism in the service of storytelling. That impulse comes through more clearly in some of the recreation, such as a scene of Jewish captives being shot at Babi Yar, or in the way the actor silently playing Hitler, Karoly Kozma, has been directed to play many of his scenes as if he were mid-seizure.

Much of the familiar material of a World War II documentary is missing or mentioned in passing, with events on the western front getting cursory attention. Berlinger is concerned with the development of Hitler’s psychology and worldview, and that takes the series on a track from the frustrations of his youth in Austria to his rise in 1930s Germany, and from there to the eastern front, the Soviet Union and the concentration camps in Germany and Poland.

The focus is on how the personal drives the political, and you can’t watch “Evil on Trial” without considering how Berlinger’s and his colleagues’ feelings about Trump and the hard right in the contemporary United States might have affected what they chose to emphasize in their portrait of Hitler and Nazi Germany.

But the unspoken case they build is comprehensive. We are shown Hitler tapping into the emotions stirred by a nation’s loss of power; playing to people who feel economically exploited and alienated from a liberal, urban culture; and uniting moderate and radical conservatives in fear of the far left. We see him demanding absolute loyalty and pitting subordinates against one another in battles for his favor. We see an absence of empathy and an inability to admit defeat. Shirer chimes in: “I began to comprehend it did not matter so much what he said, but how he said it. In such an atmosphere, every lie pronounced is accepted as high truth itself.”

Whether you find the case persuasive or not is probably beside the point, since the most salient feature of our current political landscape is that most Americans appear to have already made up their minds about he who — in the case of “Evil on Trial,” anyway — must not be named.

Mike Hale is a television critic for The Times. He also writes about online video, film and media. More about Mike Hale

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Happy Sunday, and welcome to your (belated) weekly roundup of everything new on Netflix for the final week of May 2024 and the first of June. It’s been a busy week with, likely due to a big dump of titles lined up for the first of the month. Here’s your rundown of everything new on Netflix worth watching this week and weekend. Plus, we’ll look at what’s been trending in the top 10 charts over the past seven days.

Did you miss any of the new arrivals from last week? You’d have missed over 20 new titles in total , including the excellent sitcom Act Your Age and the new Netflix Original series Tires .

As mentioned, we’re about to enter a new month, so if you’re looking for the complete rundown of what’s in store , go here.

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Scavengers reign (season 1).

Number of episodes : 12 Rating: TV-MA Language: English Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama Cast: Sunita Mani, Wunmi Mosaku, Bob Stephenson Writer: Joe Bennett, Charles Huettner Runtime: 24 mins

Netflix has added several HBO shows over the past year, but this is an entirely different unprecedented license. For the first time in the United States, Netflix is getting a Max Original series in the form of Scavengers Reign , the beloved animated series from Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner. What makes this addition so different is that it comes with a campaign to get Netflix to save the show from cancellation and renew it for a second season.

Feeling like an extended season of a Love, Death, and Robots episode, the Certified Fresh series has you following the crew of a deep space freighter who has crashed and landed on a dangerous planet.

We’ll be pitching some questions to the showrunner and executive producer of this show next week but if you want to see this show come back, you need to watch.

Your Honor (Seasons 1-2)

Number of episodes : 20 Rating: TV-MA Language: English Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller Cast: Bryan Cranston, Hope Davis, Michael Stuhlbarg Writer: Peter Moffat Runtime: 57 min

Another superb licensed show touching down on Netflix today is both seasons of the Showtime drama series, which is headlined by Heisenberg himself, Bryan Cranston.

In this series, which I believe is his best role post- Breaking Bad , Cranston plays a New Orleans judge who becomes entangled in the crime world while trying tor protect his son.

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Director: Takashi Yamazaki Cast: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Ando

Last year’s highly-rated Godzilla movie from Japan is getting a surprise Netflix release for the first of the month, not only in the United States but in most countries around the world.

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8 new movies added ahead of june 1st.

A Part of You (2024) Netflix Original – TV-MA – Swedish
Agak Laen (2024) – TV-14 – Indonesian
Bionic (2024) Netflix Original – TV-MA – Portuguese
Burnt (2015) – R – English
Chabuca (2024) – TV-MA – Spanish
Charging Card (2024) – TV-MA
Colors of Evil: Red (2024) Netflix Original – TV-MA – Polish
Masameer – The Movie (2020) – TV-14 – Arabic
The Vow (2023) – TV-MA – English

8 New TV Series Added Ahead of June 1st

Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult (Season 1) Netflix Original – TV-MA – English
Eric (Limited Series) Netflix Original – TV-MA – English
Geek Girl (Season 1) Netflix Original – TV-PG – English
How to Ruin Love (Season 1) Netflix Original – TV-14 – English
Korean Fried Chicken Rhapsody (Limited Series) – TV-PG – Korean
Patrick Melrose (Limited Series) – TV-MA – English
Raising Voices (Season 1) Netflix Original – TV-MA – Spanish
Scavengers Reign (Season 1) – TV-MA – English
The Life You Wanted (Limited Series) Netflix Original – TV-MA – Italian
Your Honor (Seasons 1-2) – TV-MA – English

Of course, another big batch of titles arrived on Netflix for the first of the month which we’ve embedded below:

Coming to Netflix on June 1st, 2024

1917 (2019)
30 for 30: Once Brothers
A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
Baby Boy (2001)
Big Fat Liar (2002)
Black Clover (Season 3)
Burn After Reading (2008)
Cold Copy (2024)
Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Detective Pikachu (2019)
Doing Hard Time (2004)
Dune (1984)
Fighting (2009)
Flushed Away (2006)
Heartland (Season 16)
Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting! (76 episodes)
Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku (1 Season)
Home (2015)
Janky Promoters (2009)
Kicking & Screaming (2005)
Land of the Lost (2006)
La La Land (2016)
Lumberjack The Monster (2023)
Miami Vice (2006)
National Security (2003)
On the Basis of Sex (2018)
Pilecki’s Report (2023)
Rango (2011)
S.W.A.T. (2003)
Simon (2023)
Slap Shot (1977)
Strawberry Shortcake’s Summer Vacation (2024)
Tangerine (2015)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
The Conjuring
The Conjuring 2
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
The Devil’s Own (1997)
The Guilt Trip (2012)
The Lego Movie (2014)
The Push (2018)
The Quick and the Dead (1995)
The Secret of My Success (1987)
Tooth Fairy (2010)
Two Can Play At That Game (2001)

Most Popular Series on Netflix US This Week

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No prizes for predicting the TV top 10s this week, with Bridgerton continuing its reign at the top of the charts.

Bridgerton (73 points)
Tires (64 points)
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (55 points)
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Raising Voices (5 points)
Buying London (4 points)
Evil (1 points)

Note: Most popular data is sourced from our friends at FlixPatrol .

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Paradise – Netflix Review (3/5)

PARADISE (2023) on Netflix is a new German sci-fi thriller with a fascinating plot. The beginning and ending of this movie work really well. The middle is a bit weaker, unfortunately. Read our full Paradise movie review here!

Loved the beginning

A very character-driven story

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