But the team of best-selling author Michael Pollan and acclaimed filmmaker Alex Gibney instead take a rather different tack, exploring the potential of LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, and mescaline to help with mental health. In the wrong hands, a documentary about psychedelic drugs could be an excuse for a controversy-baiting rehash of '60s excess and drug culture. Rotten Tomatoes score: 90% How to change your mind Still, critics seem to love it, with Michael Hogan at The Daily Telegraph (opens in new tab) declaring it " a cracking yarn, full of derring-do and colourful characters," and Joel Keller at Decider (opens in new tab) calling it a "stylish docuseries that fills in a lot of blanks about a legend that has made a permanent home in our pop culture firmament." It has a 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes (opens in new tab), but strangely only a 26 audience score on the same site. The case continues to attract attention more than 50 years on, and this four-episode documentary does a superb job of both telling the original story and following the speculation around one particular suspect. He didn't hurt a single person during the hijack, then leapt out of the plane over Washington with $200,000 in ransom and was never seen again. Cooper was the name erroneously given to the unidentified hijacker of a Boeing 727 airline in 1971. Who needs fiction when real-life is as interesting as this! D.B. And if you have, well, then why not watch it again… If you've not yet seen it, settle down and prepare for a treat. The show's overall Rotten Tomatoes score (opens in new tab) of 91% is particularly impressive, considering it's been reviewed by virtually everyone on the planet, and though S4 just slips below that (with 89%), that's still admirable for as high-profile a production as this. It can also be praised for introducing a whole new generation to Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” and Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” in the process. The fourth season saw the core characters stray beyond their small hometown of Hawkins, Indiana, with new locations including Siberia, California and the Nevada desert. There was a lot resting on Stranger Things season 4, not least the fact that it reportedly cost a staggering $30 million per episode, but the penultimate season of the Duffer brothers' dark fantasy show delivered when it mattered. Rotten Tomatoes score: 92% Stranger Things While it's aimed at kids, it boasts a great voice cast (including the likes of Jenna Ortega, Jameela Jamil and Haley Joel Osment) and might just find an audience among people of any age who have a soft spot for the blockbuster movies.Īs Daniel Hart of Ready Steady Cut writes (opens in new tab), "While it’s sad that this series is put to bed, the people behind it can be proud of what they’ve achieved." However, the dinosaurs soon start causing chaos (don't they always), so the teens must work together to deal with it all. It follows a group of six teenagers who are the first to find themselves at an amazing adventure camp on Isla Nublar. But it's certainly not ending due to poor reviews - it has a 92% Rotten Tomatoes rating (opens in new tab) across its 49 episodes. Sadly, season 5 of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous will be its last, with the animated Jurassic Park spin-off having now run its course at Netflix.
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