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Metro
3 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
5 latest Netflix shows with a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score
Link is copied Comments No plans this weekend? Netflix has got your back. If your idea of a perfect Friday, Saturday and Sunday is catching up with some of the best TV on offer, you've come to the right place. Because we've scoured the internet for the finest releases of 2025, according to Rotten Tomatoes. Ready to cosy up with the best entertainment on the market? Check out the titles below, all of which have a coveted 100% Tomatometer score (plus a couple of bonus additions)... (Picture: Netflix) In a sleepy Tasmanian seaside town, Kieran Elliott's life is changed forever after a huge storm kills three of his closest friends. 15 years later, Kieran returns to Evelyn Bay with a family of his own, hoping to make new, positive memories in a town that holds so many sad ones. However, it's not long until his past comes back to haunt him when a young woman, and a close member of the community, is murdered. Desperate for answers, Kieran's tragedy rears its head once again (Picture: Netflix) No one does true crime better than Netflix. Period. This new documentary features rare footage and interviews with CIA insiders on how they - and the world - came together to hunt down Osama bin Laden. Following the devastating events of September 11, 2001, in New York City, the al-Qaeda leader went into hiding to avoid capture by the United States. The militant leader was eventually killed on May 2, 2011, just under 10 years after the attacks, when a team of Navy SEALs raided his Abbottabad compound (Picture: Netflix) This German thriller captured the world when it was released back in February. It centres around a family who move into the oldest smart home in Germany, which has been vacant since the original owner died decades before. Unbeknownst to the family, the home is under the control of a virtual assistant named Cassandra, who vows never to be left alone again. Which means whether they like it or not, the family have no choice but to live under the watchful eye of Cassandra, who will stop at nothing to keep them there. But who actually is Cassandra? And what is her story? (Picture: Sasha Ostrov/Netflix) Pantheon is an adult animated sci-fi drama series created by Craig Silverstein and based on a series of short stories by Ken Liu. While the show has been running since 2022, and the latest season was released in 2023, it has recently been added to Netflix for the first time. Since the addition of the anime show, series two has received full marks from Rotten Tomatoes, and follows bullied teen Maddie, who starts to receive messages from a mysterious stranger claiming to be her father. The only problem? Her dad, David, just died… Turns out, David's consciousness has been uploaded to the cloud after an experimental brain scan, meaning he can still connect with the living. And the next twist? He's not the only one (Picture: Netflix) OK, so this one technically isn't on Netflix in the UK (it's available in the US), but you can catch it on BBC iPlayer, so who are the real winners? The Danish drama follows high school student Laura, who must choose between her divorced parents and the boy she is in love with. This might sound pretty dull at first, but there's a reason: the whole of Denmark is facing total evacuation due to rising water levels. The choice she makes sees her running the risk of never seeing some of her loved ones again (Picture: BBC) OK, not all shows are going to be perfect, but they can be nearly perfect so we've thrown in a couple bonus entries deserving of an honourable mention. In Forever's case, 97% on the critics' Tomatometer still warrants a watch. Plus, 88% of viewers (aka the Popcornmeter) recommend the show, too. The rom-com drama is set in Los Angeles in 2018, when two childhood friends reunite. Both are budding athletes who are experiencing pressure from their parents to solely focus on their college athletic scholarships, with their social lives coming second. But when they unexpectedly fall in love, the pair must navigate the joy and heartache of a first romance, along with the other pressures of life (Picture: Elizabeth Morris/Netflix) The world stopped to binge Adolescence when it landed on the platform in March as the four-part series - with each episode filmed in one gripping take - hit a jaw-dropping 66,000,000 views in just two weeks. It stars Stephen Graham as Eddie Miller, a father whose family is shattered after his 13-year-old son Jamie (Owen Cooper) is accused of the murder of his classmate Katie through stabbing (Picture: Netflix)
Yahoo
8 hours ago
- General
- Yahoo
‘It's a concrete eyesore': Locals and survivors rage over New Jersey's ‘unfinished' 9/11 memorial
Survivors of the September 11 terror attacks and locals have blasted New Jersey's 'unfinished' 9/11 memorial as a 'concrete eyesore.' Officials say the Empty Sky memorial is complete, but one of its designers and the families of those who perished say otherwise. The monument in Jersey City's Liberty State Park consists of two brushed stainless steel twin walls, 210 feet long, the width of each side of the World Trade Center Towers. The names of more than 740 people who lived in or had ties to the state are etched inside the reflective steel but the exterior concrete walls are still bare and have become stained over the years. 'It's a concrete eyesore. It looks horrible,' Jessica Jamroz, one of the memorial's designers, told 'It gives a sense of abandonment and forgottenness.' Locals are not only upset over the aesthetics of the concrete walls, but the names of 18 New Jerseyans are still reportedly missing from the memorial, their families said. And out of the 65 cherry trees that were planted to frame the memorial and bloom each September to symbolize rebirth, only five remain – and are in poor shape, according to the news outlet. 'It feels like the memorial's spirituality is under attack and no one really cares,' Jamroz added. Michael Danatos, whose brother-in-law Brian Martineau died in the 9/11 attacks, called it 'a disgrace.' 'We're bumping up against 25 years and this is the best we can do?' Danatos, who approved the original design of the monument, asked. One of the electronic kiosks for looking up names on the interior panels was not working last week, according to the outlet. 'The risk of leaving the memorial unfinished, and the site neglected, is that it could become over time instead an emblem of forgetting; of the decay of memory,' John J. Farmer Jr., who served as senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission and is the director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, added. New Jersey officials acknowledged that the memorial is in need of some restoration work, in a statement to but disputed the claim that the memorial is unfinished. 'Unable to secure additional funding for the project, the architect, project manager and the state determined that the memorial must be redesigned to fit the project budget so that New Jersey victims of 9/11 could be honored by the state,' officials said in response to the outlet. 'The architectural design team developed a new design that only included stainless-steel cladding on the interior walls.' Th Department of Environmental Protection manages the memorial and the Treasury funds the upkeep. The departments said the memorial 'is considered complete' in a joint statement. Officials added that the DEP 'is consistently working on longer-term projects to improve the condition of the memorial's trees, lighting, and to modernize the kiosks that assist in locating names on the memorial.' Danatos disagrees. 'It is an irrefutable fact the memorial remains incomplete, even though it was opened to the public in 2011,' she said.
Yahoo
9 hours ago
- General
- Yahoo
‘It's a concrete eyesore': Locals and survivors rage over New Jersey's ‘unfinished' 9/11 memorial
Survivors of the September 11 terror attacks and locals have blasted New Jersey's 'unfinished' 9/11 memorial as a 'concrete eyesore.' Officials say the Empty Sky memorial is complete, but one of its designers and the families of those who perished say otherwise. The monument in Jersey City's Liberty State Park consists of two brushed stainless steel twin walls, 210 feet long, the width of each side of the World Trade Center Towers. The names of more than 740 people who lived in or had ties to the state are etched inside the reflective steel but the exterior concrete walls are still bare and have become stained over the years. 'It's a concrete eyesore. It looks horrible,' Jessica Jamroz, one of the memorial's designers, told 'It gives a sense of abandonment and forgottenness.' Locals are not only upset over the aesthetics of the concrete walls, but the names of 18 New Jerseyans are still reportedly missing from the memorial, their families said. And out of the 65 cherry trees that were planted to frame the memorial and bloom each September to symbolize rebirth, only five remain – and are in poor shape, according to the news outlet. 'It feels like the memorial's spirituality is under attack and no one really cares,' Jamroz added. Michael Danatos, whose brother-in-law Brian Martineau died in the 9/11 attacks, called it 'a disgrace.' 'We're bumping up against 25 years and this is the best we can do?' Danatos, who approved the original design of the monument, asked. One of the electronic kiosks for looking up names on the interior panels was not working last week, according to the outlet. 'The risk of leaving the memorial unfinished, and the site neglected, is that it could become over time instead an emblem of forgetting; of the decay of memory,' John J. Farmer Jr., who served as senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission and is the director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, added. New Jersey officials acknowledged that the memorial is in need of some restoration work, in a statement to but disputed the claim that the memorial is unfinished. 'Unable to secure additional funding for the project, the architect, project manager and the state determined that the memorial must be redesigned to fit the project budget so that New Jersey victims of 9/11 could be honored by the state,' officials said in response to the outlet. 'The architectural design team developed a new design that only included stainless-steel cladding on the interior walls.' Th Department of Environmental Protection manages the memorial and the Treasury funds the upkeep. The departments said the memorial 'is considered complete' in a joint statement. Officials added that the DEP 'is consistently working on longer-term projects to improve the condition of the memorial's trees, lighting, and to modernize the kiosks that assist in locating names on the memorial.' Danatos disagrees. 'It is an irrefutable fact the memorial remains incomplete, even though it was opened to the public in 2011,' she said.
The Independent
9 hours ago
- General
- The Independent
‘It's a concrete eyesore': Locals and survivors rage over New Jersey's ‘unfinished' 9/11 memorial
Survivors of the September 11 terror attacks and locals have blasted New Jersey's 'unfinished' 9/11 memorial as a 'concrete eyesore.' Officials say the Empty Sky memorial is complete, but one of its designers and the families of those who perished say otherwise. The monument in Jersey City's Liberty State Park consists of two brushed stainless steel twin walls, 210 feet long, the width of each side of the World Trade Center Towers. The names of more than 740 people who lived in or had ties to the state are etched inside the reflective steel but the exterior concrete walls are still bare and have become stained over the years. 'It's a concrete eyesore. It looks horrible,' Jessica Jamroz, one of the memorial's designers, told 'It gives a sense of abandonment and forgottenness.' Locals are not only upset over the aesthetics of the concrete walls, but the names of 18 New Jerseyans are still reportedly missing from the memorial, their families said. And out of the 65 cherry trees that were planted to frame the memorial and bloom each September to symbolize rebirth, only five remain – and are in poor shape, according to the news outlet. 'It feels like the memorial's spirituality is under attack and no one really cares,' Jamroz added. Michael Danatos, whose brother-in-law Brian Martineau died in the 9/11 attacks, called it 'a disgrace.' 'We're bumping up against 25 years and this is the best we can do?' Danatos, who approved the original design of the monument, asked. One of the electronic kiosks for looking up names on the interior panels was not working last week, according to the outlet. 'The risk of leaving the memorial unfinished, and the site neglected, is that it could become over time instead an emblem of forgetting; of the decay of memory,' John J. Farmer Jr., who served as senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission and is the director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, added. New Jersey officials acknowledged that the memorial is in need of some restoration work, in a statement to but disputed the claim that the memorial is unfinished. 'Unable to secure additional funding for the project, the architect, project manager and the state determined that the memorial must be redesigned to fit the project budget so that New Jersey victims of 9/11 could be honored by the state,' officials said in response to the outlet. 'The architectural design team developed a new design that only included stainless-steel cladding on the interior walls.' Th Department of Environmental Protection manages the memorial and the Treasury funds the upkeep. The departments said the memorial 'is considered complete' in a joint statement. Officials added that the DEP 'is consistently working on longer-term projects to improve the condition of the memorial's trees, lighting, and to modernize the kiosks that assist in locating names on the memorial.' Danatos disagrees. 'It is an irrefutable fact the memorial remains incomplete, even though it was opened to the public in 2011,' she said.
Otago Daily Times
2 days ago
- Health
- Otago Daily Times
Musician's death ruled suicide
A celebrated former Dunedin musician was experiencing "cultural dislocation" at the time of his death, a coroner says. Hamish Robert Kilgour, 65, died in Christchurch's red zone about November 27, 2022, after more than six months of mental-health struggles after returning to New Zealand from New York. Coroner Allie Cunninghame, in her recently released findings, ruled the death a suicide. Mr Kilgour was born in Dunedin in 1957 and 21 years later founded the band The Clean with his brother David. The influential group, under the Flying Nun label, became synonymous with the "Dunedin Sound" movement. The Clean were inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame in 2017. A psychiatrist who treated Mr Kilgour before his death said he "should be remembered as the gifted musician and artist that he was, and not who he may have become". In New York, the separation from his wife left him "alone and homeless", prompting his return to his homeland in 2022, the coronial findings said. Though he started a new relationship with a Christchurch woman, the coroner said the wrench of leaving family and friends in the United States and the "cultural dislocation" that came with that could have been a factor in his death. Mr Kilgour initially saw a doctor in March or April that year, complaining of low mood and poor sleep. He noted he had witnessed traumatic events in his lifetime, including the September 11 World Trade Centre attack and the Christchurch earthquakes, the findings said. Friends became concerned about Mr Kilgour's increased alcohol use and shortly afterwards he was admitted to Burwood Hospital as an informal patient. After being treated with medication and clinical psychology, he was discharged a month later, but it was only a few days before he was readmitted because of his spiralling mental state. "He continued to remain dependent and morose on the ward," the coroner said. Mr Kilgour was briefly made a compulsory patient after attempting to abscond the hospital. In the three months before his death, things appeared to improve. Mr Kilgour used Burwood Hospital as "a base" and increasingly spent overnight leave with his girlfriend. "He began painting again and as time progressed, the content of the paintings became less dark," the coroner said. His medication was reduced and his depression was considered to have been treated. Just days before his death, Mr Kilgour was described by his partner as "forward thinking" — they had dinner, watched a movie, and when they parted on the morning of November 27, his demeanour appeared "normal". He was found a week later by a member of the public walking through the red zone. Nearby was a notebook in which he wrote about feeling "stuck", and a laptop on which he had emailed his ex-wife, referring to his emotional struggles, distress about problems with his teeth and his belief that medication was not helping him. The coroner said she was satisfied there had been no departure from a reasonable standard of care by mental-health professionals, and there were no suspicious circumstances. Mr Kilgour's problems had piled up following his return from the US, but the coroner said it was unclear which was the primary factor precipitating his death. "The evidence before me does not allow me to pinpoint the reason why Mr Kilgour decided to take his life," she said. Need help? Life Matters Suicide Prevention Trust: 027 240-0114 Need to talk? 1737, free 24/7 phone and text number Healthline: 0800 611-116 Lifeline Aotearoa: 0800 543-354 Suicide Crisis Helpline: 0508 828-865 (0508 TAUTOKO) Samaritans: 0800 726-666 Alcohol Drug Helpline: 0800 787-797 General mental health inquiries: 0800 443-366 The Depression Helpline: 0800 111-757
