A young girl's earnest fight to save her whimsical, massive best friend becomes a suspenseful, dark satire.
A family watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Netflix.
Heads up on graphic gore. That is past what the PG-13 on the box suggests. Beyond that, no sex or nudity and some strong language.
Our estimate: fine from about 16, higher than the PG-13 suggests, because of the gore.
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A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.
Bittersweet. It earns its ending, but not everyone gets what they want.
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Finch (2021)Dry wit · melancholy · full attention · emotionally heavyA robot learns about life and friendship while protecting a dog on a melancholy, post-apocalyptic adventure.
Fight Club (1999)Gritty · graphic gore · brutal violence · emotionally devastatingAn insomniac and a soap salesman unleash primal aggression, igniting a darkly comic, surreal spiral toward oblivion.
Game of Thrones (2011)Epic · full attention · brutal violence · graphic goreNoble families clash in an epic, gritty war for control, while an ancient evil awakens in the frozen north.
Parasite (2019)Darkly comic · graphic gore · brutal violence · emotionally devastatingA poor family's grift of the wealthy Parks escalates into a darkly comic and bleakly suspenseful class struggle.
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)Wholesome humor · epic · family watch · strong violenceA brisk, suspenseful adventure unfolds as Luke trains while his friends face betrayal and despair.Okja is on our Set in New York and Sci-fi on Netflix lists.
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