"Zara (Sophie Turner) is half-heartedly slogging away in a mid-ranking job at a pensions company. But her life is dramatically upended when a brutal and terrifyingly efficient gang of robbers appear in her workplace to carry out a 4bn heist. This thriller gives up its secrets gradually: what originally seems to be a taut crime caper soon twists and turns in unsettling and credulity-stretching ways. It's a smart attempt to reimagine the perfect financial crime for the digital age and Turner's lead performance is deceptively subtle, with her apparent office-drone apathy eventually barely concealing a surprising level of slick calculation."
"The Beauty is an injection, offering physical perfection to users (One shot makes you hot). But there are side-effects connected to this real-life fountain of youth. First, it is frequently lethal. Second, it mutates, becoming a sexually transmitted virus which, given that it makes its carriers irresistible, is a problem. A strong cast, which includes Rebecca Hall and Isabella Rossellini, do their best to make sense of this nonsense."
"Turkish actor Can Yaman is already a big star in continental Europe but UK audiences can get to know him in this glossy, melodramatic piracy epic. Yaman is Sandokan, an adventurer who sails the South China Sea with his comrade Yanez, and a cosmopolitan crew. One day, while robbing the Sultan of Brunei, Sandokan frees a mysterious prisoner who turns out to be a prophecy of freedom come to life."
A financial thriller follows Zara, an underwhelmed pensions-company worker whose life is upended by a brutally efficient gang executing a 4bn workplace heist. The plot unfolds slowly, shifting from a taut crime caper into twists that strain credulity, while the lead performance reveals calculated cunning beneath office apathy. A separate series, The Beauty, centers on an injection granting physical perfection but causing lethal side-effects and mutating into a sexually transmitted virus that makes carriers irresistible. A glossy Sandokan epic stars Can Yaman as an adventurer who frees a mysterious prisoner during a raid on the Sultan of Brunei.
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