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As Netflix pours more of its resources into original content, Amazon Prime Video is picking upwards the slack, adding new movies for its subscribers each month. Its itemize has grown so impressive, in fact, that it's a bit overwhelming — and at the aforementioned time, movies that are included with a Prime number subscription regularly change status, becoming available but for rental or purchase. It'due south a lot to sift through, so we've plucked out 100 of the absolute all-time movies included with a Prime number subscription right now, to be updated every bit new information is fabricated available.
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'The Queen of Versailles' (2012)
Perhaps the most trenchant (and entertaining) commentary on the 2008 fiscal crunch, this biting documentary concerns David and Jackie Siegel, an obscenely rich Florida couple who are in the procedure of building a comically outsize mansion when the existent estate bubble bursts. The managing director, Lauren Greenfield, squeezes the expected gasp-laughter regarding the couple's insane consumption and their subsequent attempts to adjourn it. But she isn't content to accept inexpensive shots. She sees her subjects as both perpetrators and victims of a system of conspicuous capitalism, in which too much is somehow never enough.
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'Fences' (2016)
Baronial Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about an African American family's struggles in 1950s Pittsburgh was first performed on Broadway in 1987; after Denzel Washington starred in its 2010 revival, he retained much of the original bandage for this film adaptation. Equally a manager, Washington does lilliputian to expand upon the play; he seems well aware that the film is carried by the lyricism of the words and the power of the performances, particularly his nuanced portrayal of the bitter Troy Maxson and Viola Davis's heart-rending turn every bit his married woman, Rose. ("Revolutionary Road" is a similarly wrenching menstruum drama.)
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'Ali' (2001)
Will Smith nabbed his first Academy Award nomination for his masterly plow every bit the boxer Muhammad Ali in this robust biopic. Thankfully eschewing the cradle-to-grave approach of too many such projects, "Ali" adroitly dramatizes the champ'due south transformation from gifted young fighter to political figure as he loses his hard-earned title for refusing to fight in Vietnam and becomes the focus of controversy for his conversion to Islam. The director, Michael Mann, exchanges his customarily sleek and contemplative style for something earthier and more than emotional; our critic wrote that "his overwhelming love of its subject will plough audiences into exuberant, thrilled fight crowds."
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'Clueless' (1995)
This sly update of Jane Austen's "Emma" past Amy Heckerling remains one of the most influential films of the 1990s; information technology kicked off a wave of teen-friendly re-imaginings of classic literature, equally well every bit the careers of several of its stars (including Alicia Silverstone, Brittany Murphy, Donald Faison and Paul Rudd). Its genius remains its duality — Heckerling's whip-smart screenplay maintains the themes and structure of Austen's classic while inserting enough of her own vocalisation and style to make it a memorable, quotable comedy in its ain right. Our critic called it a "candy-colored, brightly satirical showcase" for Silverstone's charms. (For more one-act, stream "Office Space" and "The Nutty Professor" on Prime.)
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'Cotton Comes to Harlem' (1970)
The legendary histrion Ossie Davis fabricated his feature directorial debut in this energetic accommodation of the comic criminal offense novel by Chester Himes. Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques star equally "Grave Digger" Jones and "Coffin Ed" Johnson, a pair of detectives investigating a con man (Calvin Lockhart), an armored motorcar robbery and warring gangsters. Cambridge and St. Jacques have the ease and rhythm of a neat comedy squad, the comedian Redd Foxx steals every scene he's in, and Davis makes ingenious employ of his Harlem locations, including an unforgettable climax at the Apollo Theater. (For more '70s action, stream "Coffy" and "Marathon Man.")
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'The Taking of Pelham One Ii 3' (1974)
One of the greatest of all "gritty Gotham" movies — our critic called it "a movie that really catches the mood of New York and New Yorkers" — this darkly funny, white-knuckle thriller from the director Joseph Sargent concerns 4 armed men who take a subway auto hostage, demanding a million dollar ransom for the lives of the passengers aboard. Robert Shaw is coolly ruthless every bit the leader of the gang while Walter Matthau is at his hangdog best as the cynical transit cop hot on their trail. (To run into 1 of the many action movies it inspired, watch "Speed.")
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'Rosemary's Baby' (1968)
It looks, at first glance, like the perfect New York City romance: a roomy apartment on the Upper West Side, a gorgeous married woman and her handsome actor hubby, a bouncing baby on the way. Look closer. Roman Polanski's "mainstream masterpiece" is a spooky examination of the terror that lurks just beneath those shiny surfaces, beneath the broad-eyed proficient intentions of new friends and the cheerful opportunism of the young couple at it heart. Mia Farrow does some of her finest interim as the increasingly sickly motherhoped-for, John Cassavetes is accordingly devil-may-care as her career-minded husband, and Ruth Gordon won an Oscar for her work as the couple's nosy next-door neighbor. (For more vintage horror, queue up "Carrie" or "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage.")
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'Glengarry Glen Ross' (1992)
David Mamet'south Pulitzer Prize-winning play was adapted into one of the nigh potent pictures of the '90s, thanks to the animate being force of Mamet'southward dialogue and one of the most remarkable ensemble casts of the era: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Jonathan Pryce and Alan Arkin. It's something of a profanity-laden analogue to "Death of a Salesman," its scorched-earth monologues and inventive insults providing the flashy surface to a melancholy indictment of empty commercialism and toxic masculinity. Lemmon is the touching standout as the oldest of its protagonists, though Pacino is smashing every bit the company'southward fast-talking hot shot, and Baldwin's brief but memorable monologue is an accented showstopper. (For more '90s drama, stream "Internal Affairs"; for Lemmon in comic mode, try "The Out of Towners.")
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'The Black Stallion' (1979)
Walter Farley'southward 1941 children's novel gets a long-overdue film accommodation in this family adventure moving picture from the producer Francis Ford Coppola and the director Carroll Ballard ("Fly Abroad Home"), which expertly fuses the simplicity of the original book with the craftsmanship and sensitivity of its cinematic era. (One of the film's screenwriters, Melissa Mathison, went on to write "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.") Younger viewers will thrill to the story of a immature, shipwrecked boy and the Arabian horse who becomes his all-time friend; older viewers will find themselves awestruck by the gorgeous cinematography and the heart-tugging (and Oscar-nominated) supporting plow by Mickey Rooney.
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'Wargames' (1983)
Matthew Broderick (at his charismatically smarmy best) plays a high schoolhouse computer whiz who uses his chunky PC and primitive modem to dial in to what he thinks is a video game visitor — unaware that he has instead dialed into the U.S. military's supercomputer and started a nuclear war simulation. The screenplay (past the hereafter "Sneakers" writers Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes) is smart and snappy while the director John Badham ("Saturday Nighttime Fever") orchestrates an effective mix of high-stakes drama and low-key comedy that, according to our critic, "grabs the states where nosotros're well-nigh vulnerable." (For more '80s action, try "52 Option-Upward.")
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'Best of Enemies' (2015)
During the contentious 1968 presidential nomination conventions, ABC News got a bright thought: It would team Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley, two commentators from opposite ends of the political spectrum, for on-photographic camera debates of the issues of the day. The resulting conversations were, by turns, lively, ugly, sharp-edged and contentious, culminating in years of insults, litigation and rewriting. The filmmakers Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon succinctly capture the appeal of this prickly pairing, via well-called video clips, new and archival interviews and writings past the participants (as read by John Lithgow and Kelsey Grammer) — while thoughtfully exploring the aftermath of that discourse, and tracing it to the poisonous style of our current political punditry.
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'Searching for Bobby Fischer' (1993)
Years before Netflix's series accommodation of "The Queen's Gambit" prompted a nationwide chess craze, the writer and director Steven Zaillian (an Oscar winner for his "Schindler'due south List" screenplay) proved that the game could indeed be a thrilling, emotional spectator sport. He likewise tells the "absorbing story" of a prodigy: Joshua Waitzkin, who moves with ease from "speed chess" matches in Washington Square Park to national tournaments equally his parents (Joe Mantegna and Joan Allen) try to keep his little feet on the basis. Based on the memoir by Waitzkin'southward father, this powerful drama provides the rooting interests and last-infinitesimal surprises of an underdog sports movie, but information technology also tackles universal questions well-nigh parenting a talented kid. (For more than coming-of-age dramas, stream "Little Man Tate" or "The Man in the Moon" on Prime.)
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'Whale Rider' (2003)
In this inspiring story of empowerment and promise, Keisha Castle-Hughes stars equally Pai, a young Maori woman who bucks the rules and traditions of her tribe. She was nominated for an Oscar, and deserved it — this is a complicated portrayal of a driven young adult female, one who simply cannot understand the limits her family has placed on her, and sees no need to abide by them. The director, Niki Caro, situates herself and her picture inside the culture, filling her scenes and frames with keenly observed details and richly drawn characters. Our critic wrote, "it has the inspiring resonance of constitute art." ("Yentl" is a similarly inspiring tale of self-discovery and breaking traditions.)
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'The Italian Job' (2003)
F. Gary Gray's fleet-footed remake of the classic 1960 heist motion picture isn't terribly faithful to the source: He keeps the title, the broadest of story strokes and the Mini Coopers, but jettisons the rest in favor of a mustachioed Edward Norton, who double-crosses his boyfriend thieves, prompting them to reunite to take revenge. Mark Wahlberg and Charlize Theron generate some sparks, Mos Def and Seth Green become some laughs, and Jason Statham does his best wearisome burns, but the Coopers steal the show with a thrillingly staged climax that manages to one-upwardly the original's. (For more than sexy capers, try the Wachowskis' "Bound.")
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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' (1961)
Audrey Hepburn's mesmerizing performance as Holly Golightly, the Manhattan party girl who finds beloved in the to the lowest degree likely of places, is deservedly iconic — and the movie surrounding it isn't half-bad either. The racist antics of Mickey Rooney aside (have your fast-forward push at the ready), the "Pink Panther" director Blake Edwards mines both the sense of humor and desperation of the novella past Truman Capote, while Hepburn and George Peppard (as her would-be beau) generate enough sparks to power their shared apartment building.
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'Black Swan' (2010)
Natalie Portman won the Academy Award for best actress for her stellar turn as a tortured ballerina in this fusion of "The Red Shoes," "Rosemary'south Baby" and an erotic fever dream from the fashionable manager Darren Aronofsky. Portman is equal parts fragile and conniving equally a difficult-working immature dancer still under the pollex of her domineering phase mother (Barbara Hershey). Mila Kunis is terrific as Portman's cardinal rival (and, perhaps, object of want), while Vincent Cassel projects a perfect combination of charisma and sleaze as her director. Our critic chosen information technology a "witchy brew of madness and cunning."
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'Groundhog Day' (1993)
It is piece of cake to imagine Bill Murray and the director Harold Ramis taking the premise of a smarmy jerk who relives the same twenty-four hours over and over once more and turning it into an '80s-style "high concept" comedy, full of wisecracks and silly situations. Instead, they turned information technology into their generation'due south "Information technology's a Wonderful Life," crafting a film that is filled with comic invention while vibrating with warmth and humanity (without succumbing to the saccharine). Our critic called it "a specially witty and resonant comedy." (Murray is also uproariously funny in "Meatballs.")
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'Jean of the Joneses' (2016)
The actress Taylour Paige — so electrifying as the title character of "Zola" — shines brightly in this wonderful comedy-drama from the author and director Stella Meghie. Paige stars as Jean, a boho Brooklyn novelist whose career, beloved life and family unit seem to implode simultaneously. Sherri Shepherd, Gloria Reuben, Michelle Hurst and Erica Ash as well star as the women of the Jones family, and their dialogue crackles with running jokes, passive insults and subconscious resentments. It'southward funny and breezily executed, and Paige is a tremendous presence, charismatic and likable even when she's making a mess of things. (For more indie comedy, try "Ghost Globe" and "World's Greatest Dad.")
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'Fantastic Mr. Fob' (2009)
The director Wes Anderson tried his hand at family amusement with this adaptation of the novel by Roald Dahl, in which the midlife crisis of a literal sly play tricks (voiced with panache by George Clooney) ends upward endangering his family and neighbors. Though engaging for kids and true to the source material, it'south also indisputably a Wes Anderson movie; he fills the voice cast with his usual ensemble players, and uses its carefully synthetic sets and characters to build, from scratch, the kind of universe he ordinarily has to bend the existent world into. A.O. Scott called it "in some ways his most fully realized and satisfying moving picture." (To see some other indie fave's take on family entertainment, stream John Sayles'southward "The Secret of Roan Inish.")
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'Philadelphia' (1993)
Tom Hanks won his showtime University Award — and boot-started a second career as a dramatic actor — with this "forceful, impassioned and moving" drama from the acclaimed managing director Jonathan Demme. It was amidst the first major motion pictures to address the AIDS crisis, and information technology does so cautiously, wrapping its story in the familiar and comfortable conventions of the courtroom drama. Only Hanks is amazing in the leading part, deploying his Lowest warmth and adept sense of humor to humanize a struggle much of America had ignored, and Denzel Washington is brilliant as the bigoted peer whose journey to tolerance and agreement mirrored much of the audience'due south. (For more Oscar-winning acting, stream "Dead Man Walking.")
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'Sweet Smell of Success' (1957)
The publicist-turned-screenwriter Ernest Lehman said he wrote this acidic, darkly comic drama to cleanse himself of the sins of the concern, and that much is clear; it's very much a story told from the within out, in which there are no good or bad guys, just varying degrees of scoundrels. Tony Curtis is at his career best as the hungry young press agent desperately trying to piece of work his mode into the good graces of Burt Lancaster'southward powerful paper columnist, who tin can make or break a star with a throwaway item. The dialogue (by Lehman and the playwright Clifford Odets) crackles, Alexander Mackendrick'due south brisk direction moves like a locomotive and James Wong Howe's black-and-white cinematography captures the sparkle of Broadway at night — and the darkness just nether its surface. (Lancaster is as well in fine grade in "Atlantic City.")
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'Invasion of the Torso Snatchers' (1978)
The original 1956 "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," in which conflicting invaders take human forms, was widely seen as an allegory for the Cherry Scare. This "dazzling remake," every bit our critic described it, is updated to wellness-obsessed San Francisco. The stakes are lower, only the remake has a self-enlightened sense of humor and a decent number of gross-out scenes and jump-scares, as well every bit an ending that's just equally creepy equally the original. (Fans of this paranoid thriller will as well bask "The Parallax View.")
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'Bull Durham' (1988)
This sleeper hit from the writer-managing director Ron Shelton propelled Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins to the adjacent level of stardom. It's not difficult to see why. This is a laid-back charmer, endlessly funny and casually sexy, and it gives all of them the opportunity to do what they practice all-time: Costner shoots direct, Sarandon smolders, and Robbins lands laughs as an amiable goofball. Our critic praised its "spirit and sex activity appeal." (For more sports comedy, stream "A League of Their Ain" and Shelton's "White Men Can't Spring.")
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'Raging Bull' (1980)
Robert De Niro won his second Academy Award for his fiercely physical and psychologically punishing functioning in this searing adaptation of the autobiography of the middleweight champion Jake LaMotta. It'south a relentlessly downbeat piece of piece of work, just the force of De Niro's performance and the free energy of Martin Scorsese's direction are hard to enlarge, or to forget. Our critic called it Scorsese's "well-nigh ambitious film too equally his finest." (Scorsese's "Wolf of Wall Street" is also on Prime number.)
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'California Separate' (1978)
The manager Robert Altman teamed up with his frequent collaborator Elliott Gould, and paired him up with George Segal, for this "fascinating, bright" snapshot of two lovable losers. Gould and Segal play a pair of Los Angeles gamblers, floating from card tabular array to racetrack to casino, in constant search of that one large score. Such a payday presents itself at the end of their journey, but Altman is as well anarchistic a filmmaker to put much stock in that destination. He'south more interested in the journeying, and is film is propelled by the rowdy hum of those rooms and the colorful personalities of the people who inhabit them. (Altman's "Popeye" is besides on Prime number, though "The King of Marvin Gardens" and "Fat City" more closely estimate this moving-picture show's vibe.)
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'Gimme Danger' (2016)
Jim Jarmusch directs this documentary portrait of Iggy Pop and his seminal punk band the Stooges with a fan's enthusiasm and a filmmaker's craft. His best asset is Iggy himself, aged and hardened just still an entertaining storyteller with a novelist's knack for details — no mean feat considering the volume of substances he recalls having ingested in the Stooges' curt but eventful being. Jarmusch supplements Popular's remembrances with interviews from surviving ring mates and collaborators, along with plenty archival fabric to delight his fellow superfans. Our critic praised its "many moments of foaming-at-the-rima oris musical fury."
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'His Girl Friday' (1940)
Howard Hawks'due south newsroom farce wasn't the first cinematic accommodation of the popular play "The Forepart Page," only it cooked up a twist the 1931 version hadn't: What if Hildy Johnson, the superstar reporter whom the ruthless editor Walter Burns will keep on his staff at any cost, wasn't his drinking buddy but his ex-married woman? It'southward a movie that talks fast and moves faster, and the passage of about 80 years hasn't slowed information technology down a bit. Our critic called it "a boldfaced reprint of what was once — and still remains — the maddest paper comedy of our times." (Archetype movie lovers can besides stream "The Naked Kiss" and "The Best Years of Our Lives.")
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'Jiro Dreams of Sushi' (2012)
The chef Jiro Ono's 10-seat sushi-merely Tokyo restaurant is recognized worldwide and is less a eatery than a temple. According to those who know and work with him, it's an extension of his personality; he'south doggedly dedicated to his arts and crafts. Only has that perfectionism made him (or the people around him) happy? David Gelb's mouthwatering documentary poses that question and further explores the chef'due south philosophies of life and piece of work, while besides painstakingly capturing the careful preparation of Ono's culinary gifts and lovingly lingering on the results.
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'Ida' (2014)
Pawel Pawlikowski's Oscar winner looks and sounds like an unapproachable strange prestige moving picture, a grim postal service-Holocaust story in an austere way with moody (and gorgeous) black-and-white photography. And information technology is indeed a vivid historical drama and an evocative road movie. Just its real subject is the bond between ii very different women, young Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska) and her aunt Wanda (Agata Kulesza) — a cold relationship that slowly thaws during this forceful and resonant trip through their shared history. It'due south an emotional story well-nigh coming to terms with family secrets, containing, our critic wrote, "a cosmos of guilt, violence and hurting." (Pawlikowski'south "Cold War" is as well on Prime.)
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'Blackfish' (2013)
In investigating the death of a trainer at SeaWorld in Orlando, Fla., the director Gabriela Cowperthwaite traces the sordid exercise of capturing killer whales and training them to perform for audiences, creating a masterly juxtaposition of SeaWorld's own commercials and promotional videos with grisly tales of accidents and attacks, accompanied past public relations spin. Paced like a thriller, the film is intelligent, methodical and harrowing; our critic chosen information technology a "delicately lacerating documentary." (If you like investigative documentaries, try "Casino Jack and the United States of Money.")
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'Paterson' (2016)
He gets upwardly every forenoon, writes a line or 2 of poesy in his periodical, goes to work, drives his charabanc, has dinner with his wife, Laura (Golshifteh Farahani), writes a few more than lines, walks the dog to his favorite bar, has a beer, goes home, goes to bed and and so starts it all over once again the next day. Over the class of this wistful, lovely, "delectably funny" and deceptively low-key dramedy from the author and managing director Jim Jarmusch, Paterson (Adam Commuter) does not seek success, discovery or even publication. That'south non why he writes — it'due south about routine and release. To a higher place all, "Paterson" is a valentine to all of those who create art not to make a living, merely to sustain their souls. (Fans of character-driven indie fare should too check out "Person to Person.")
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'Guys and Dolls' (1955)
The '50s gangster pic gets a snazzy musical makeover in this 1955 film adaptation of the Broadway hit, itself based on the colorful New York characters of Damon Runyon's fiction. Joseph 50. Mankiewicz ("All Almost Eve") directs with energy and pizazz, coaxing cheerful, engaged performances out of Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons, Vivian Blaine and that most unlikely of crooners, Marlon Brando. Our critic called it "every bit tinny and tawny and terrific as any hot-cha musical film you'll ever run across." (If you love classic musicals, add "Funny Girl" to your watch list; for more Sinatra, try "The Man With the Aureate Arm.")
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'Lincoln' (2012)
When Steven Spielberg set out to make a film most Abraham Lincoln, the early on scripts encompassed the entirety of his presidency. But the manager and his screenwriter, Tony Kushner, wisely chose to focus on a single moment in Lincoln'south life — the passage of the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery — and ingeniously apply that struggle as an keepsake not simply of Lincoln the politician, but also of Lincoln the man. In doing then, this biographical snapshot tells u.s. far more about its field of study than the typical, shallow, cradle-to-grave biopic. Nominated for a dozen Oscars (Daniel Day-Lewis won for his towering work equally the 16th president), "Lincoln" is, according to our critic, "a rough and noble autonomous masterpiece."
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'The Terminator' (1984)
Considering information technology begat then many sequels, reboots, adaptations and other ephemera, it'due south easy to forget that James Cameron's original "Terminator" film was, as our critic put it, "a B-movie with flair" — a stripped-down, depression-upkeep exploitation flick with an ingenious central idea, a well-selected bandage and a director who knew how to stretch a dollar. Linda Hamilton is charismatic and sympathetic equally Sarah Conner, a woman who discovers a cyborg from the future (a terrifying Arnold Schwarzenegger) has been sent to hunt her down.
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'Fargo' (1996)
The Coen Brothers ("at their clever all-time," per our critic) found their first big Oscar success — 7 nominations and two wins — with this wildly funny and disturbing crime story. A wonderfully wormy William H. Macy stars as a machine salesman who plots the kidnapping of his own wife in club to excerpt a handsome ransom from his wealthy father-in-constabulary. The plan goes to pieces, thanks in no pocket-size part to a abrupt-as-a-tack small-boondocks police chief, played to plucky perfection by Frances McDormand; she won the get-go of her three Oscars for best actress for her carefully modulated performance, which deftly combines first-rate comic touches with genuine warmth and depth.
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'Railroad train to Busan' (2016)
This zombie-apocalypse thriller from the South Korean manager Yeon Sang-ho, set onboard a train hurtling toward possible rubber, is a fantastic entry in the "relentless activeness in a confined space" subgenre (recalling "Snowpiercer," "The Raid," "Dredd" and the gramps of them all, "Die Hard"). The pacing is energetic, the makeup effects are convincing and the storytelling is ruthless. (Don't go too fastened to anyone.) But information technology's not all blood and bluster; there'southward a patient, deliberate setup before the orgy of gore and mayhem, leading to a surprising outpouring of emotion at the story's decision. Our critic deemed it "oft chaotic but never disorienting," and praised its "spirited set pieces." (For more than white-knuckle gamble, lookout "Rescue Dawn.")
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'The Report' (2019)
Across six years in the mid-2000s, an analyst named Daniel Jones (portrayed by an fantabulous Adam Driver) pored through millions of pages of documents to write the Senate Intelligence Committee's Report on the Key Intelligence Bureau'due south detention and interrogation program. This taut, angry film from Scott Z. Burns dramatizes that investigative process and what Jones discovered — and the steady growth of his righteous indignation. Burns, in what our critic deemed a "smart, layered screenplay," deftly translates the story's intellectual urgency into emotional bureau, making the political into something decidedly personal. (Driver is also first-rate in Leos Carax's "Annette.")
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'Manchester past the Sea' (2016)
Kenneth Lonergan makes films about people in turmoil, roiled by bottomless sadness, dysfunction and guilt. Casey Affleck won an Oscar for his nuanced portrayal of Lee Chandler, a Boston janitor who, for all practical purposes, is broken; Lucas Hedges is prickly and funny as the nephew who needs him to put himself together again. It's a tear-jerker in the best sense, never stooping to cheap manipulation. Our critic called it "a finely shaded portrait." (For more than Oscar-winning acting, stream "Paper Moon.")
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'Love and Friendship' (2016)
It was just a affair of fourth dimension before Whit Stillman, the writer and director of such literate comedies as "Metropolitan" and "Barcelona," adjusted Jane Austen, whose dissections of upper-class relationships had ever been an influence. This "howlingly funny" expansion on Austen's novella "Lady Susan" merges their voices seamlessly, with Kate Beckinsale's sly, scheming heroine, the Lady Susan Vernon, enforcing a tone of cheerful irreverence. Subsequently decades of relatively beneficial adaptations of Austen'south novels, "Dearest and Friendship" is a reminder that her work is part of the tradition of lacerating British comedy, and this whip-smart adaptation favors slashing wit and ruthless gamesmanship over swooning romance.
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'Heathers' (1989)
This unapologetically dark one-act inverse the high-schoolhouse film forever, from the heartfelt and ultimately sunny chronicles of John Hughes to something with a bit more bite. Winona Ryder is tart and mannerly as Veronica, a pop teen who has come to hate the clique she runs with. So she meets J.D. (Christian Slater), a Jack Nicholson clone who suggests bumping off their less tolerable classmates. Nearly 30 years on, the sheer riskiness and accept-no-prisoners mental attitude of this delightfully demented picture still shocks; our critic chosen it "as snappy and assured equally it is hateful-spirited. (If you like this picture'southward alive wire vibe, try "Superhighway.")
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'One Dark in Miami' (2020)
The "one night" of the championship of Regina King's characteristic directorial debut is February. 25, 1964 — the night Muhammad Ali (then known every bit Cassius Clay) took downward Sonny Liston for the world heavyweight championship. But the fight footage is brief, because Rex isn't making a boxing film; she's making a film about Black identity, filled with conversations that are still being had, and questions that are withal existence asked. The four participants — Ali (Eli Goree), Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.), and Jim Chocolate-brown (Aldis Hodge) — are giants in their fields and are friends celebrating a victory. It'due south a moving, powerful film, confrontational and thought-provoking. Our critic called it "one of the near heady movies I've seen in quite some time."
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'Audio of Metal' (2020)
Riz Ahmed is devastatingly good as Ruben, a hard rock drummer whose unabridged life — his music, his relationship, his self-image — is upended past a sudden example of extreme hearing loss, in this wrenching drama from the writer and director Darius Marder. A former addict in danger of relapse, Ruben enters a school for the deaf, where he must face not but his new condition, but the jitteriness that predates it. His sense of confinement, even with others, chop-chop transforms to self-consciousness, then self-uncertainty, and then self-devastation, and "Sound of Metal" is ultimately less about finding a silver bullet cure than finding the stillness within oneself. Marder works in a quiet, observational style, skillfully avoiding every platitude he approaches, taking turns both satisfying and moving. Our critic praised the film's "distinctive manner." (For more indie drama, try "Phone call Me By Your Proper name" and "Raising Victor Vargas.")
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'Little Large Homo' (1970)
Three years after reinventing the crime movie with "Bonnie and Clyde," the managing director Arthur Penn worked similar magic on the Western, adapting Thomas Berger'south novel about a very old human being (Dustin Hoffman) who tells the tale of his exploits in the Former Due west, where he was raised past Native Americans. The film's attitudes toward Ethnic people were boldly progressive at the time of its release, in 1970, coming as it did during a period when most westerns still teemed with racist images of "merciless Indian savages," in the words of the Declaration of Independence. Our critic called it a "tough testament to the contrariness of the American experience." (Western fans should also seek out "True Grit," "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" and "Tombstone.")
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'Chi-Raq' (2015)
Spike Lee adapts and updates Aristophanes' "Lysistrata" to the streets of gimmicky Chicago in this wildly funny, vividly theatrical mash-up of gangland drama, musical comedy and surrealist fantasy. Teyonah Parris shines as the determined young woman who leads a sex activity strike to end the city's violence, while Samuel L. Jackson struts and rhymes as "Dolmedes," the picture's one-man Greek chorus. His Dolemite-fashion interludes push the premise to its bawdy extremes, but Lee isn't merely playing for laughs. He's swinging for the fences, and the result, according to our critic, "entertains, engages and, at times, enrages." (Jackson is also on fire in "Black Snake Moan "; for more than large-city musical comedy, try "The Wiz.")
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'Afternoon Delight' (2013)
This "meticulously acted" serio-comic drama was the feature filmmaking debut of Joey Soloway, the creator of "Transparent" and "I Dearest Dick." Kathryn Hahn is astonishing in the leading role, conspicuously carrying her dissatisfied housewife's longings and fretfulness merely keeping her intentions enigmatic, and Juno Temple is electrifying as a young woman who's learned how to use her sexuality as a weapon without fully considering the carnage left in its wake. Their byplay is vibrant, and information technology gets messy in fascinating ways; this is a sly, smart sex activity comedy that plumbs unexpected depths of sadness and despair. (For more comedy-drama, try "Whip Information technology" or "Juno.")
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'Information technology'due south a Wonderful Life' (1946)
The director Frank Capra and the histrion Jimmy Stewart took a marvelously uncomplicated premise — a suicidal man is given the opportunity to see what his world would have been like without him — and turned information technology into a holiday perennial. But "Information technology's a Wonderful Life" is too rich and complex to make with a label as simple every bit "Christmas flick"; it is ultimately a story about overcoming darkness and finding low-cal around you, a tricky transition achieved primarily through the peerless work of Stewart as a good man with large dreams who tin can't walk away from the place where he'due south needed well-nigh. Our critic said it was a "quaint and engaging mod parable."
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'Fourth dimension' (2020)
Early in Garrett Bradley's extraordinary documentary (a coproduction of The New York Times), someone asks Play a joke on Rich almost her husband, and she replies, "He'south, uh, out of town now." Technically, it's true; he'south in Republic of angola prison, for a 1997 bank robbery, serving a 60-twelvemonth sentence without the possibility of parole, probation or interruption of sentence. Fox Rich has spent years fighting for her married man'southward release — and against mass incarceration — and Bradley interweaves her crusade with years of grainy home video footage, moving back and forth from by to present, contrasting the possibilities of those early on videos and the acceptance, fifty-fifty resignation, of today. But Fox Rich never gives upwards hope, and this "substantive and stunning" pic suggests that even in the grimmest of circumstances, that never-say-die spirit can pay dividends.
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'The Handmaiden' (2016)
The South Korean master Park Chan-wook ("Oldboy") takes the stylistic trappings of a menstruum romance and gooses them with scorching eroticism and one of the most ingenious con-artist plots this side of "The Sting." Working from the Sarah Waters novel "Fingersmith," Park begins with the story of a young woman who, as part of a seemingly straightforward swindle, goes to work as a Japanese heiress's handmaiden, occasionally pausing the plot to slyly reveal new information, reframing what we've seen and where nosotros think he might go next. Our critic saw information technology as an "amusingly slippery amusement."
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'The Salesman' (2017)
Asghar Farhadi writes and directs this lucid and contemplative morality play, in which a married couple must grapple with the fallout of an assault on the married woman in their home, especially when the husband's desire for vengeance surpasses her own. Farhadi's luminescence at capturing the complexities of his native Iran's civilisation is as amazing as ever — particularly when coupled with insights into victimhood, justice, poverty and intimacy that know no borders. Our critic praised the picture'south "rich and resonant ideas." (Fans of international cinema may also bask "Transit" and Farhadi's "A Hero.")
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'You Were Never Really Here' (2018)
The broad plot outlines — a traumatized vet, working as a killer-for-hire, gets in over his caput in the criminal underworld — make this accommodation of Jonathan Ames's novella sound like a million throwaway B-movies. But the director and screenwriter is Lynne Ramsay, and she's not interested in making a conventional thriller; hers is more like a commentary on them, less interested in visceral activity beats than their grooming and backwash. She abstracts the violence, skipping the visual clichés and focusing on the details another filmmaker wouldn't even run into. Joaquin Phoenix is mesmerizing in the leading part ("in that location is something powerful in his agony," our critic noted), internalizing his rage and hurting until command is no longer an option. (Ramsay's "We Need to Talk About Kevin" is also on Prime.)
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