Hard “vinegar” reminds of a wellness-guru case

What happens when a social influencer builds its entire rope on a disgusting lie? Netflix’s new series “Apple Cider Vinegar” takes a fictional look at an Australian case where it happened and it serves as a warning for today’s viral way.

At the same time, the combination of Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott started actors, while Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell, UM, not.

Here is our Roundup.

“Apple Cider Vinegar”: During the early days of the social influential movement, Australian Belle Gibson came as a breakout star. The attractive wellness “expert” assigned supporters an overly good-to-be instagram backstory to find radical hope and an extended lease by calibrating her diet and lifestyle, changes she adopted after a devastating brain cancer diagnosis.

It was a hell of a heartbreaking story, and many warmed her for hope and inspiration and to support her.

But it was a scam, constructed around a bedrock of lies, including that she even had cancer. The well -documented case captured the author Samantha Straus’s message while she was in Melbourne in 2015, a time when Belle’s claims were condemned and she was accused of sipping funds that were earmarked for charity.

Strauss extracted key situations and themes from the case and then in this exciting Netflix series. “Apple Cider Vinegar” acts as both a searing and entertaining-about than shocking-character study of an out-of-control-Narcissist (portrait with sociopathic shine of a stellar Kaitlyn Dever) and as an example of the abundance of so-called health experts flood social Media channels. While they look good in photos, they sometimes flow uncertain, outrageous and dangerous claims.

Strauss intertwines Belle’s ascent from scratching single motherhood to famous cookbook writers and personality with other people’s stories: Milla Blake (a heartbreaking Alycia Debnam-Carey), who is also an influencer and Belle’s early idol and someone who really believes that her alternate wellness-learn And juice can keep her cancer in the fourth; Chanelle (Aisha Dee), a friend of both Milla and Belle’s who is growing to suspect that Belle is a false one; and Lucy (Tilda Cobham-Hervey), a cancer-affected woman who follows both women online and then goes on her own journey. She is married to an investigative journalist (Mark Coles-Smith) who is intended to reveal Belle’s fraud.

Series creator Strauss’s eyebrow-raising treatment finds characters that crush the fourth wall and it is a way to remind us that not every ounce of “apple cider vinegar” contains drops of truth. So it was. It is a condemning portrait of our “I am an expert on everything” culture, and it is well told. “Apple Cider Vinegar” throws into their creative mixes all the right ingredients to warn us that not everything we see and hears on social media is good can make our bodies, our senses and even our souls good. It is an important message that comes with the place, width and conviction. Details: 3½ stars of 4; Drops February 6th.

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“Put them down”: An unpleasant grimness clings to every frame of Christopher Andrew’s shit movie movie debut, an Ireland-set story that will take you from the beginning. Long -long annoyance between two families in western Ireland, boils over after a wild storm leaves in its wake a destruction that further rubs raw spotted relationships. It causes Michaels (Christopher Abbott) who is already a short fuse-worn to Nubbies because he is an ex-boyfriend to neighboring Rancher’s wife Caroline (Nora-Jane Noone) who left him after a terrible car accident that scarred her face-to explode when two Appreciated Rams who belong to him and his father (Colm Meaney) seems to disappear. From there, the violence piles up and pulls us into a timeless story about Caroline’s confrontation but weak and conflicted son Jack (Barry Keoghan). Andrews tells the first half of the film from Michael’s perspective and later switches to Jack’s, a smart decision that helps develop both characters and gives two of our best actors a mature chance to add more structure to heir. Each actor conveys dialogue streams through a clean look or even a character’s raised shoulders. “Bring them” tells a familiar tragic story, but it is performed so well and is performed with such awareness and power that you will not care. Details: 3 stars; In theaters February 7.

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“You are heartfelt invited”: Reese Witherspoon’s perfect Rome-comen performance is the best reason for watching Nicholas Stoller’s decent genre entry that works part of the time and flounder on others when it falls to a number of terrible ideas (an alligator-bumping in bed with CO – Star will be one). The setting is as transparent as a wedding veil. Farrell is Jim, a single father who is too involved in his daughter’s life. Margot (Witherspoon) is a single and overly stressed reality TV producer. They book the same little romantic Georgia Island arena for two upcoming nypties, one for Jim’s daughter Jenni (Geraldine Viswanathan) and the other for Margot’s sister Neve (Meredith Hagner). The mixture leads to a face-off and then a pact to share the place with the assurance that “I do” occurs at the sunset for both. What can go wrong with it? Stoller, who also wrote the script and has given us some strong Rom-Coms (“Bros”, “forgets Sarah Marshall”), illuminates the crushing and engaging characters, including the two grooms (Neve’s Stripper Fiance Dixon, played by Jimmy Tatro and Jennis Rapping guy Oliver, played by the equivalent Stony Blenden) and Jenni’s partying but protective bridal party. Everything collides and screams at each other, but it is really in family dynamics that “you are heartily invited” is happy. Margot’s tribe in particular – including her critical and pessimistic mother (Celia Weston) and horny aunt (Leanne Morgan) – gets her time to shine. The problem is, “invited” lacks chemistry between its leads and waste a strange como with Nick Jonas (it falls flat) and the comic talents for Fortune Feimster, who deserve more screen time. It’s not a match in heaven. Details: 2 stars; Available now on Amazon Prime.

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“Recruitment Season 2”: An improved second season praises some coarse edges in Netflix’s fun spy romp and does so by moving its jokular, off-the-capter in mostly a new environment, South Korea. The site change makes the show almost as appealing and charming as its lead – Noah Centineo. Factor in Teo Yoo, “Former Life” actor who broke hearts in Celine Song’s bitter -sweet romance, as a new character – desperate South Korean intelligence office Jang Kyun, who attracts the United States to help retrieve his kidnapped wife from Russia – and the six – – Episode Sophomore season by creator Alexi Hawley’s series turns out to be more muscular and narrower than season 1. There are the good news. The bad thing is that in its last section it goes by the rails and forgets credibility, a disappointment that pulls in contact at every excitement when Outlandic events are stacked up on each other.

Until then, the always-in-eating water data for CIA-Advocat/Reluctant Spy Owen Hendricks (Centineo) holds us committed and curious about how the problem will get another mess he has done. Noah collaborates with Officemate Janus Ferber (Kristian Bruun) for a Biz trip to South Korea where Owen meets a childhood friend (Shin Do-Hyun) while his ex Hannah (Fivel Stewart) gets involved with a rich technical guy (Omar Maskati). The supportive role of characters becomes even more developed during this fast season that you want to end during a weekend. Details: 2½ stars; Now available on Netflix.

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Originally published: February 6 2025 at 06:00 PST