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Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell — Netflix

Emmett Malloy’s documentary manages to just about stand above the many already out-there examinations of the short, magnetic life of Christopher Wallace, the man history knows best as rapper the Notorious B.I.G. Made with the blessing of his mother, Violetta, it features previously unreleased personal home-video footage of his life during his short reign at the top of the hip-hop food chain, before his fatal shooting at the age of 24 in 1997. The film benefits from focusing not so much on the mystery of his killing as the personal motivations, ambitions and desires of a subject whose legend lives on through the music he made in his too-short creative life.

We Are Who We Are — Showmax

Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino makes a poetic and emotionally engaging excursion into the world of modern adolescence in what’s best seen as an eight-hour-long film about the uncertainties and struggles with identity of a group of American teenagers thrown together on an army base in Italy. It’s not so much about what happens to the existentially angst-ridden group of friends at its centre as it is about how it feels to be strangers in a strange land looking to figure out who they are, where they’re going and how they might be in a place that’s in many ways so much like home, but in others so very different.

Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist — Showmax

A show filled with the exuberance and joy of pop music that works best when it’s singing its sometimes overly sentimental heart out. When a young computer coder undergoes an MRI that leaves her with the ability to hear the inner thoughts of those around her delivered through the rendition of pop songs that only she can see and hear, her world is turned upside down and music may be the only thing that can save her from insanity.

Murder Among the Mormons — Netflix

This is a three-part true-crime docuseries that tells the fascinating, forgotten story of a series of bombs that rocked the Mormon community in 1980s Salt Lake City, Utah. It’s an engaging, character-filled and tightly executed examination of a series of mysterious and shocking attacks that rocked the tight-knit and self-contained world of a still somewhat perplexing religious group to its core.

Hightown — Showmax

A US fisheries government employee who enjoys a life filled with drugs and booze in the popular Cape Cod holiday town where she lives hits rock bottom just as the body of a young girl is discovered, after being brutally murdered on the beach. As she struggles with the challenge of sobriety, she becomes convinced that solving the murder is integral to her recovery and her determination to succeed puts her on a collision course with the local police detective charged with the investigation.