15 of the Finest Netflix Exhibits That Critics Liked in 2023

“The Mendacity Lifetime of Adults”

Netflix synopsis: “‘The Mendacity Lifetime of Adults’ is a robust and singular portrait of Giovanna’s transition from childhood to adolescence within the Nineteen Nineties. The seek for a brand new face, after the pleased considered one of childhood, oscillates between two consanguineous Naples which, nonetheless, worry and hate one another: the Naples above, which has given itself a wonderful masks, and the one beneath, which pretends to be extreme, trivial. Giovanna oscillates between excessive and low, now tumbling, now climbing, bewildered by the truth that, up or down, town appears with out reply and with out escape.”

Rotten Tomatoes score: 100% 

This Italian- and Neapolitan-language coming-of-age collection relies on Elena Ferrante’s 2019 novel of the identical identify. 

“At occasions, it is maddening,” Sophie Gilbert wrote for The Atlantic. “However it’s additionally gorgeous in a manner that nothing has actually been since ‘Mad Males,’ with every body its personal tightly composed showpiece.”