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round up // MAY 20

When the going gets rough, I find I keep coming back to two kinds of movies: Romantic comedies and action adventures. For whatever reason, those are my comfort food, even if I’m watching someone get their heart broken or fight for their lives.

Hopefully you’re finding small ways to make your days brighter with books, movies, music, and shows that either help you fight or forget some of the darkness around us for a time. These were a few that made my month brighter, including a number of rom coms and action flicks.

May Crowd-Pleasers

SNL at Home

I almost cried for joy when I learned SNL would finish out its season even though it wouldn’t be in Studio 8H—it felt like a glimmer of a lot of joys we’ve lost in the last few months. While the At Home episodes have an odd rhythm compared to the usual broadcast (that live audience makes a difference, especially during “Weekend Update”), I still laughed every week. A few highlights:

“Bailey at the Movies”

“Dreams”

“Grocery Store”

“MasterClass Quarantine Edition” + “Another MasterClass Qurantine Edition”

“RBG Workout”

Watch those skits, then enjoy an infographic-heavy review of the season from Vulture.

Extraction (2020)

Is this a groundbreaking action movie? Heck no, but watching Chris Hemsworth fight to save a kid with a supporting appearance from David Harbour made for a great Sunday evening. Crowd: 8/10 // Critic: 6/10

The Wedding Singer (1998)

Somehow I’ve never gotten around to this rom com, perhaps because Adam Sandler’s sense of humor usually isn’t my cup of tea. But here he replaces the gross out jokes with a sweet chemistry with Drew Barrymore. I liked it so much I gave 50 First Dates a shot, but, uh, I only recommend movies I finish. Crowd: 9/10 // Critic: 6.5/10

Baby Boom (1987)

Another not-innovative genre entry, but a satisfying one. Crowd: 8/10 // Critic: 7/10

Action Movies set in 1700s America: The Last of the Mohicans (1992) + The Patriot (2000)

Sometimes I don’t want a complicated villain—sometimes I just want Jason Isaacs (aka Lucius Malfoy) to be so evil I want Mel Gibson to take him down with a tomahawk. The Last of the Mohicans: Crowd - 8/10 // Critic: 8.5/10 // The Patriot - Crowd: 9/10 // Critic: 8.5/10

Taylor Swift City of Lover concert (2020)

I’ve seen Ms. Swift live twice and have loved the stadium tour spectacle. But an intimate show heavy on acoustic performance reminds me how well her songwriting holds up no matter the production

Prop Culture (2020)

I know, I know: Disney+ original series are well executed, long-form advertising. But can you find better-executed advertising than Jason Schwartzman chatting about the Mary Poppins snow globe at a piano with Richard Sherman, the character he played in Saving Mr. Banks? These staged treasure hunts for Disney movie props may be a bit self-important, but they’re also a dose of nostalgia and lessons about the technical side of filmmaking.

This Drake Bell TikTok

If you get this, you get this.

Silverado (1985)

My weird New Year’s resolution? To watch Westerns, a genre I’ve basically skipped until now. Silverado feels like a throwback to classic Westerns with a modern sensibility and more laughs. Plus, baby Kevin Costner and Jeff Goldblum in a fur coat! Crowd: 8/10 // Critic: 7.5/10

Chromatica by Lada Gaga (2020)

Turns out I’m not just a fan of the A Star Is Born/duets with Tony Bennet/Joanne Lady Gaga. I’ve always been cooler on her electronic-dance-club Top 40 hits than her recent guitar-and-vocal stylings, but I can’t stop listening to album-long jam sesh. It’s old Gaga meets 2020 beats meets Depeche Mode/Flock of Seagulls/Madonna/New Order of the ‘80s.

The Heat (2013)

Two of my favorite funny ladies teaming up was—not surprisingly—a win. No one delivers a kooky insult like Melissa McCarthy. Crowd: 8.5/10 // Critic: 7/10

May Critic Picks

Hail, Caesar! (2016)

Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Channing Tatum, and more try to keep Hollywood and their careers afloat despite a bizarre series of kidnappings, line flubs, and tap dances. Of course the Coen Brothers have a dry, wacky take on the Hollywood studio era. Crowd: 8.5/10 // Critic: 9/10

Jane Eyre (2006)

Confession: I have not read Jane Eyre. But my mom did, and since she enjoyed the book so much, I figured a happy medium would be to watch this BBC miniseries with her commentary about what they changed from the Brontë classic.

Daisy Jones & the Six (2019)

The highest compliment I can give a book is staying up way too late to finish it, which is what I did with this buzzy Taylor Jenkins Reid book. It’s a barely-fictional oral history of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll in the ‘70s, and somehow it’s not crass or gratuitous about any of them. Most impressive is that Jenkins Reid keeps her characters well-defined even though it’s not written in a traditional novel format. My favorite parts of this story are the deep dive into the creative process and the exploration of how we remember the past. Here’s hoping the Sam Claflin/Riley Keough-led, Reese Witherspoon-produced, (500) Days of Summer team-written Amazon series can do this book justice—I need this soundtrack!

The Plot Thickens podcast (2020)

A Turner Classic Movies podcast hosted by Ben Mankiewicz about film history is a specific—and predictable—Venn diagram of my interests.

Alfred Hitchcock Double Feature: Psycho (1960) + The Birds (1963)

The story about Psycho goes that my grandmother ran out of the movie theatre screaming during the shower scene. Now that I’ve finally watched it, I know why. This horror drama is still terrifying today even if you know what’s going to happen. Crowd: 9/10 // Critic: 10/10

The story about The Birds goes that my mother was terrified as a little girl after walking into a room where it was on TV, and now she still won’t watch it. The Oscar-winning visual effects have aged so much I didn’t find it scary, but I was still sucked in by the eerie plot. That said, I did have a frightening dream last night involving Tippi Hedren, so it may be more effective than I realized. Give me just a sec while I schedule some Hitchcock-focused family therapy. Crowd: 8.5/10 // Critic: 9/10

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Spend two hours with the two nicest bank robbers you’ll ever meet! A winsome Paul Newman and a laconic Robert Redford make their escape on the scenic trails of the Southwest, and gosh darn it, if they aren’t just a barrel of fun. I enjoyed this Western so much I recommended it in a piece I wrote for Round Trip, too. Crowd: 8.5/10 // Critic: 9/10

Katharine Hepburn Double Feature: Alice Adams (1935) + Woman of the Year (1942)

Saying you love Katharine Hepburn is like saying you love sunshine and flowers—of course you do! In Alice Adams, she’s an optimistic Cinderella with a down-on-their-luck family who falls for a high class fella (Fred MacMurray). In Woman of the Year, she’s a high-brow journalist who falls for sports columnist Spencer Tracy in their first of nine films together. She earned Oscar nominations for both, but I dare you not to fall in love with her after watching just one. Alice Adams - Crowd: 7.5/10 // Critic: 8/10 // Woman of the Year - Crowd: 8/10 // Critic: 8.5/10

Also in May…

When you’re not allowed to travel, you get creative! For Round Trip this month, I recommended 13 movies about travel that will make you feel like you took the vacation COVID-19 made you cancel (including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). And if that’s not enough, why don’t you recreate your trip? I turned my apartment into Paris, and here’s why you might want to do the same.

Kyla and I didn’t go far back in time for most of our Gilmore Girls pop culture references on SO IT’S A SHOW? We covered three movies (or two, depending on how you see it) from the 2000s with connections to this year’s Oscars, 8 Mile and then Kill Bill. We also looked into the famous architect Stanford White and a movie he was featured in, 1981’s Ragtime, which had more connections to today’s culture than we expected.

I made another attempt at Jim Jarmusch for ZekeFilm with Broken Flowers. I still don’t get Jim Jarmusch.

My movie count in quarantine is up to 156. You can see them all on Letterboxd.

Photo credits: SNL, Taylor Swift, TikTok, Lady Gaga, Daisy Jones & the Six, The Plot Thickens. All others IMDb.com.

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solo-bolo-trollo · 7 years ago

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A COMPLETE LIST OF FILMS I WATCHED IN 2017

1. A Cure for Wellness (2016, dir. Gore Verbinski)

2. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, dir. Werner Herzog)

3. All About Eve (1950, dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

4. Arrival (2016, dir. Denis Villeneuve)

5. Baby Driver (2017, dir. Edgar Wright)

6. Beauty and the Beast (2017, dir. Bill Condon)

7. Belladonna of Sadness (1973, dir. Eiichi Yamamoto)

8. Big Little Lies (2017, dir. Jean-Marc Vallée)

9. Black Mirror: Hated in the Nation (2016, dir. James Hawes)

10. Black Mirror: Men Against Fire (2016, dir. Jakob Verbruggen)

11. Black Mirror: San Junipero (2016, dir. Owen Harris)

12. Blood Simple. (1984, dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)

13. Born in China (2017, dir. Chuan Lu)

14. Boxing Helena (1993, dir. Jennifer Lynch)

15. Candyman (1992, dir. Bernard Rose)

16. Carnival of Souls (1962, dir. Herk Harvey)

17. Chicago (2002, dir. Rob Marshall)

18. Chico and Rita (2010, dir. Tono Errando, Javier Mariscal and Fernando Trueba)

19. Chris Gethard: Career Suicide (2017, dir. Kimberly Senior)

20. Dogtooth (2009, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)

21. Dolores Claiborne (1995, dir. Taylor Hackford)

22. Dunkirk (2017, dir. Christopher Nolan)

23. Elle (2016, dir. Paul Verhoeven)

24. Emma (1996, dir. Douglas McGrath)

25. Far from the Madding Crowd (1967, dir. John Schlesinger)

26. Far from the Madding Crowd (2015, dir. Thomas Vinterberg)

27. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965, dir. Russ Meyer)

28. Father John Misty: Pure Comedy (The Film) (2017, dir. Grant James and Josh Tillman)

29. Frailty (2001, dir. Bill Paxton)

30. Friday (1995, dir. F. Gary Gray)

31. Friday the 13th (1980, dir. Sean S. Cunningham)

32. George Michael: Freedom (2017, dir. David Austin and George Michael)

33. Get Out (2017, dir. Jordan Peele)

34. Ghost (1990, dir. Jerry Zucker)

35. Gray’s Anatomy (1996, dir. Steven Soderbergh)

36. Hamilton’s America (2016, dir. Alex Horwitz)

37. Heaven’s Gate (1980, dir. Michael Cimino)

38. Hidden Figures (2016, dir. Ted Melfi)

39. Holiday (1938, dir. George Cukor)

40. I Am Not Your Negro (2016, dir. Raoul Peck)

41. I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore. (2017, dir. Macon Blair)

42. I Love You Phillip Morris (2009, dir. Glenn Ficarra and John Requa)

43. In a Heartbeat (2017, dir. Esteban Bravo and Beth David)

44. It’s Alive (1974, dir. Larry Cohen)

45. Jackie (2016, dir. Pablo Larraín)

46. Jen Kirkman: Just Keep Livin’? (2017, dir. Lance Bangs)

47. Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond – Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton (2017, dir. Chris Smith)

48. Jim Carrey: I Needed Color (2017, dir. David L. Bushell)

49. La La Land (2016, dir. Damien Chazelle)

50. Lawrence of Arabia (1962, dir. David Lean)

51. Lion (2016, dir. Garth Davis)

52. Logan (2017, dir. James Mangold)

53. Logan Lucky (2017, dir. Steven Soderbergh)

54. Lost Highway (1997, dir. David Lynch)

55. Louis C.K. 2017 (2017, dir. Louis C.K.) (yes, I know; this was before I knew about what he did, I’m sorry)

56. Loving (2016, dir. Jeff Nichols)

57. MTV Unplugged: 10,000 Maniacs (1993, dir. Milton Lage)

58. Man on the Moon (1999, dir. Milos Forman)

59. Manchester by the Sea (2016, dir. Kenneth Lonergan)

60. Marc Maron: Too Real (2017, dir. Lynn Shelton)

61. Maria Bamford: Old Baby (2017, dir. Jessica Yu)

62. Mary Poppins (1964, dir. Robert Stevenson)

63. Meet the Feebles (1989, dir. Peter Jackson)

64. Michelle Wolf: Nice Lady (2017, dir. Neal Brennan)

65. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016, dir. Tim Burton)

66. Moana (2016, dir. Ron Clements, Don Hall, John Musker and Chris Williams)

67. Moonlight (2016, dir. Barry Jenkins)

68. mother! (2017, dir. Darren Aronofsky)

69. My Cousin Rachel (2017, dir. Roger Michell)

70. Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs (2017, dir. Michael Dempsey)

71. New Rose Hotel (1998, dir. Abel Ferrara)

72. Orphan (2009, dir. Jaume Collet-Serra)

73. Over the Garden Wall (2014, dir. Nate Cash)

74. Pete Holmes: Faces and Sounds (2016, dir. Marcus Raboy)

75. Pride and Prejudice (2005, dir. Joe Wright)

76. Psycho (1960, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

77. Rango (2011, dir. Gore Verbinski)

78. Rear Window (1954, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

79. Silence (2016, dir. Martin Scorsese)

80. Space Mutiny (1988, dir. Neal Sundstrom and David Winters)

81. Spawn (1997, dir. Mark A.Z. Dippé)

82. Step Brothers (2008, dir. Adam McKay)

83. Strait-Jacket (1964, dir. William Castle)

84. Tale of Tales (2015, dir. Matteo Garrone)

85. Tallulah (2016, dir. Sian Heder)

86. Teeth (2007, dir. Mitchell Lichtenstein)

87. Tetsuo, the Iron Man (1989, dir. Shin’ya Tsukamoto)

88. The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016, dir. André Øvredal)

89. The Babadook (2014, dir. Jennifer Kent)

90. The Beguiled (2017, dir. Sofia Coppola)

91. The Big Sick (2017, dir. Michael Showalter)

92. The Birth of a Nation (2016, dir. Nate Parker)

93. The Black Cauldron (1985, dir. Ted Berman and Richard Rich)

94. The Bye Bye Man (2017, dir. Stacy Title)

95. The Cable Guy (1996, dir. Ben Stiller)

96. The Conjuring (2013, dir. James Wan)

97. The Crying Game (1992, dir. Neil Jordan)

98. The Founder (2016, dir. John Lee Hancock)

99. The French Connection (1971, dir. William Friedkin)

100. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)

101. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988, dir. Martin Scorsese)

102. The Lego Batman Movie (2017, dir. Chris McKay)

103. The Lost City of Z (2016, dir. James Gray)

104. The Problem with Apu (2017, dir. Michael Melamedoff)

105. The Red Turtle (2016, dir. Michael Dudok de Wit)

106. The Sound of Music (1965, dir. Robert Wise)

107. The Vietnam War (2017, dir. Ken Burns and Lynn Novick)

108. The Visit (2015, dir. M. Night Shyamalan)

109. The Wizard of Lies (2017, dir. Barry Levinson)

110. The World’s Greatest Sinner (1962, dir. Timothy Carey)

111. The Yearling (1946, dir. Clarence Brown)

112. The Young Pope (2016, dir. Paolo Sorrentino)

113. Toni Erdmann (2016, dir. Maren Ade)

114. Total Recall (1990, dir. Paul Verhoeven)

115. Trainspotting (1996, dir. Danny Boyle)

116. Twin Peaks: The Return (2017, dir. David Lynch)

117. Vertigo (1957, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

118. Watership Down (1978, dir. Martin Rosen)

119. Wayne’s World (1992, dir. Penelope Spheeris)

120. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962, dir. Robert Aldrich)

121. Winter’s Bone (2010, dir. Debra Granik)

122. Wishful Drinking (2010, dir. Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato)

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newyorktheater · 6 years ago

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Miranda in Mary Poppins Returns

Below is a list of movies opening from September to December, organized chronologically by release date.

Among the movies featuring theater veterans: Oscar Isaac in “Operation Finale” (Sept 14) and “Life,Itself” (Sept. 21); Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek in “The Old Man and the Gun” (Sept. 28); Viola Davis in “Widows” (Nov. 16); Lucas Hedges in “Boy Erased” (Nov 2) and “Ben is Back” (Dec 2) with Julia Roberts; Hugh Jackman as Gary Hart in “The Front Runner” (Nov. 7); Lin-Manuel Miranda in “Mary Poppins Returns” (Dec. 19)

SEPTEMBER

“The Nun” (Sept. 7) — A gothic supernatural horror film and spinoff in “The Conjuring” franchise.

“Peppermint” (Sept. 7) – Jennifer Garner is going back to her action-packed roots as a widow-turned-assassin after the deaths of her husband and daughter

“The Predator (Sept. 14) — Shane Black’s fourth installment in “The Predator” films, with Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes and Jacob Tremblay.

“The Children Act” (Sept. 14) — Based on the 2014 book by Ian McEwan, the court drama deals with the ethical dilemma of keeping someone alive versus respecting one’s religion,stars Emma Thompson, Fionn Whitehead and Stanley Tucci.

“The Land of Steady Habits” (Sept. 14) — Ben Mendelsohn stars as a Connecticut divorcee in midlife crisis in Nicole Holofcener’s adaptation of Ted Thompson’s 2014 novel.

Operation Finale (Sept 14) – Oscar Isaac stars as Mossad agent Peter Malkin, who led a team of Israeli spies who tracked down and captured the notorious Adolf Eichmann (played here by Ben Kingsley) 15 years after World War II.

“White Boy Rick” (Sept. 14) — Yann Demange’s 1980s true-life tale about the youngest alleged FBI informant ever, with Matthew McConaughey.

“The House With a Clock in its Walls” (Sept. 21) — A fantasy of witches and warlocks, starring Jack Black and Cate Blanchett.

“Love, Gilda” (Sept. 21) – In her own words, comedienne Gilda Radner reflects on her life and career, weaving together her recently discovered audiotapes, and interviews with friends inspired by her.

“Life, Itself” (Sept. 21) — This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman’s love story starring Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde, a couple whose life decisions are chronicled by the way the world changes around them every time they reach a new milestone in their relationship. Also starring Annette Bening, Samuel L. Jackson, Mandy Patinkin and Olivia Cooke.

“The Sisters Brothers” (Sept. 21) — Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly play brother assassins in Jacques Audiard’s Western.

“Fahrenheit 11/9” (Sept. 21) – Michael Moore is now taking on President Donald Trump in this not-quite-a sequel to the 2004 documentary on the George W. Bush administration.

“Night School” (Sept. 28) — Kevin Hart plays the student and Tiffany Haddish the teacher in this GED comedy.

“Smallfoot” (Sept. 28) — An inverted animated fable where a Yeti is convinced that humans exist. Among the stars Channing Tatum James Corden, and Lebron James

“The Old Man and the Gun” (Sept. 28) — Robert Redford stars as an aged bank robber in David Lowery’s based-on-a-true-story heist movie. With Sissy Spacek.

ALSO PLAYING:

“A Simple Favor” (Sept. 14), “Lizzie” (Sept. 14), “Colette” (Sept. 21), “Quincy” (Sept. 21), “Hold the Dark”( Sept. 28)

OCTOBER

“Venom” (Oct. 5) — Tom Hardy stars in Marvel’s Spider-Man spinoff.

“Private Life” (Oct. 5) — Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn play a New York couple navigating assisted reproduction in Tamara Jenkins’ semi-autobiographical tale.

“A Star Is Born” (Oct. 5) — Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut is a remake of the 1937 film, starring himself and Lady Gaga.

“Bad Times at the El Royale” (Oct. 12) — Seven strangers meet at Lake Tahoe motel in Drew Goddard’s thriller.

“First Man” (Oct. 12) — Damien Chazelle (La-La Land) dramatizes Neil Armstrong’s mission to the moon, starring Ryan Gosling.

“Beautiful Boy” (Oct. 12) — Steve Carell and Timothee Chalamet play father and son in this adaption of David and Nic Sheff’s memoirs about addiction.

“Halloween” (Oct. 19) — Michael Meyers the character and Jamie Curtis the actress return in David Gordon Green’s installment in the long-running horror franchise.

“The Hate U Give” (Oct. 19) — A young woman struggles for justice after her childhood friend is shot by police.

“Can You Forgive Me” (Oct. 19) — Marielle Heller directs Melissa McCarthy in this story about a struggling writer who resorts to forging famous letters.

ALSO PLAYING

“The Happy Prince” (Oct. 5), “22 July” (Oct. 10), “Goosebumps 2” (Oct. 12), “The Oath” (Oct. 12), “The Kindergarten Teacher” (Oct. 12), “Serenity” (Oct. 19), “What They Had” (Oct. 19), “Johnny English Strikes Again” (Oct. 26), “Hunter Killer” (Oct. 26), “Overlord” (Oct. 26), “Suspiria” (Oct. 26)

NOVEMBER

“Boy Erased” (Nov. 2) – Joel Edgerton’s adaptation of Garrard Conley’s acclaimed memoir stars Lucas Hedges as the son of a Baptist preacher who, after being outed to his parents, is pressured into gay conversion therapy.

“Nobody’s Fool” (Nov. 2) — Tiffany Haddish and Tika Sumpter play sisters in Tyler Perry’s comedy.

“Bohemian Rhapsody” (Nov. 2) — A biopic of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, from director Bryan Singer, starring Rami Malek (Mr. Robot)

“The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” (Nov. 2) — Disney’s lavish live-action fantasy is inspired by E.T.A. Hoffmann’s original story.

“The Front Runner” (Nov. 7) — Jason Reitman’s film is about Gary Hart’s scandal-plagued 1988 presidential campaign, with Hugh Jackman.

“Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” (Nov. 9) — An animated remake of the holiday classic, with Benedict Cumberbatch voicing the Whoville killjoy.

“The Girl in the Spider’s Web” (Nov. 9) — A reboot of the Lisbeth Salander thriller, from the fourth book in the series, with Claire Foy taking over for Rooney Mara.

“Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” (Nov. 16) — The second installment in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter prequels, with Johnny Depp as Gellert Grindelwald.

“Widows” (Nov. 16) — Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave” follow-up is heist movie, where the job in question is carried out by the widows of four slain thieves, led by Viola Davis.

“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” (Nov. 16) — Joel and Ethan Coen’s six-part Western anthology film for Netflix.

“Creed II” (Nov. 21) — Michael B. Jordan returns as the young Adonis Creed to fight the son of Ivan Drago.

“Green Book” (Nov. 21) — Peter Farrelly’s road movie is about a Jamaican-American classical pianist (Mahershala Ali) touring the Deep South with his white driver (Viggo Mortensen).

“Ralph Breaks the Internet” (Nov. 21) — More destruction, this time by way of a wi-fi router, in this “Wreck-It Ralph” sequel.

“Robin Hood” (Nov. 21) — Taron Egerton plays Robin Hood and Jamie Foxx is Little John in the latest version of the Nottingham legend.

“The Favourite” (Nov. 23) — Yorgos Lanthimos’ drama is about two cousins (Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz) courting the favor of Queen Anne in 18th century England.

“If Beale Street Could Talk” (Nov. 30) — Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) adapts James Baldwin’s classic novel about love and injustice in early 1970s Harlem. Z 19-year-old pregnant woman (Kiki Layne) who is fighting for the freedom of her imprisoned fiancé (Stephen James). The cast also includes Regina King, Dave Franco and Diego Luna.

ALSO PLAYING:

“The Other Side of the Wind” (Nov. 2), “Outlaw King” (Nov. 9), “At Eternity’s Gate” (Nov. 16), “Instant Family (Nov. 16), “Second Act” (Nov. 21), “Shoplifters” (Nov. 23)

DECEMBER

“Mary Queen of Scots” (Dec. 7) — Saoirse Ronan stars as the Scottish monarch Mary Stuart and Margot Robbie as her half-sister Queen Elizabeth I, whom Mary was accused to attempting to assassinate.

“Ben Is Back” (Dec. 7) — A long lost son (Lucas Hedges) returns home to his mother (Julia Roberts).

“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” (Dec. 14) — Parallel dimension Spider-Men collide in an animated alternate reality.

“Mary Poppins Returns” (Dec. 19) — Rob Marshall’s sequel to the 1964 original stars Emily Blunt as the magical nanny, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

“Aquaman” (Dec. 21) — Jason Momoa’s undersea ruler gets his first solo movie.

“Bumblebee” (Dec. 21) — The “Transformers” spinoff is a prequel to 2007′s “Transformers” centered on the small, yellow Autobot.

“Welcome to Marwen” (Dec. 21) — Robert Zemeckis’ fantasy stars Steve Carell as an assault victim who builds a miniature World War II village in his yard.

“Holmes & Watson” (Dec. 21) — A comic twist on Arthur Conan Doyle’s detectives, starring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly.

“On the Basis of Sex” (Dec. 28) — Felicity Jones stars as a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

“Roma” (Dec., undated) — Alfonso Cuaron’s semi-autobiographical black-and-white tale of a young domestic worker in the middle-class neighborhood of Mexico City’s Roma, set in the 1970s.

ALSO PLAYING

“Under the Silver Lake” (Dec. 7), “Mortal Engines” (Dec. 14), “Cold War” (Dec. 21), “Alita: Battle Angel” (Dec. 21)

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Dates are subject to change.

Fall 2018 Movie Preview Below is a list of movies opening from September to December, organized chronologically by release date.

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newssplashy · 6 years ago

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Tech: 7 great movies you can watch on Netflix this weekend

From "Thor: Ragnarok" to "Mulan" to "The Departed," these are some awesome movies on Netflix that you can watch over the weekend.

Disney's big Netflix deal is still in effect, which means all the wonders of the Marvel Cinematic Universe come to the streaming service after their theatrical runs.

This week, "Thor: Ragnarok" has become available for you to watch at your heart's content — but it's not the only great movie in Netflix's catalog.

Every week, we comb through Netflix's selection to find you a handful of movies to watch over the weekend.

We select a few that have come onto the service within the past week and mix in a couple of old favorites you might have missed.

From "Thor: Ragnarok" to Alfonso Cuarón's coming-of-age story "Y Tu Mamá También," these are some awesome movies on Netflix that you can watch over the weekend.

Here are seven movies on Netflix you should definitely check out or revisit (along with their Rotten Tomatoes scores and why you should watch):

"Thor: Ragnarok" (2017)

Netflix description: To save Asgard from a bloodthirsty goddess of death, the mighty Thor will have to battle his way to freedom and find a way back home.

Critic score: 92%

Audience score: 87%

If I could, I would just list "Thor: Ragnarok" seven times this week.

"Thor: Ragnarok" is a masterpiece of action and comedy filmmaking, and essentially created its own genre. It offers a fresh and absurd take on an overdone, often-dull genre. It was one of the highlights of 2017, and one of the best, most original films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

"Se7en" (1995)

Netflix description: A seasoned homicide detective and his new partner are on a desperate hunt for a killer whose gruesome crimes are based on the Seven Deadly Sins.

Critic score: 80%

Audience score: 95%

"Se7en" was the movie that proved David Fincher was on his way to becoming one of the greatest modern directors. It's a bit slow at times, and in hindsight might strange to watch given the accusations of sexual misconduct against the film's stars (Morgan Freeman and Kevin Spacey), but it's still one of the best dramas from the 90s.

"Heat" (1995)

Netflix description: As a detective and a thief face off, they learn how much they need each other — and that the line between cop and criminal isn't always well-defined.

Critic score: 86%

Audience score: 94%

This crime thriller is a bit lengthy, but it stands the test of time for its tight writing, unforgettable direction from Michael Mann, and its stunning performances from Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.

"Y Tu Mamá También" (2001)

Netflix description: When rich teens Tenoch and Julio meet the alluring, older Luisa, they try to impress her with stories of a road trip, then convince her to join them.

Critic score: 92%

Audience score: 88%

"Y Tu Mamá También" got director Alfonso Cuarón where he is today, directing some great movies from "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" to "Gravity." It's a sweet, funny, but very sensual road trip movie, and you'll recognize a very young Diego Luna from "Rogue One."

"Mulan" (1998)

Netflix description: Disney brings an ancient legend to life in this animated tale of a tomboy who disguises herself as a man so she can fight with the Chinese Army.

Critic score: 86%

Audience score: 85%

Szechuan sauce aside, "Mulan" is a great movie. It's funny, explores themes of family and honor with stunning animation, and has catchy songs that will make you nostalgic for this era of Disney animation.

"Burn After Reading" (2008)

Netflix description: In this tale of poorly executed espionage, an ousted CIA official loses his memoir to moronic gym employees, who use it to try to turn a profit.

Critic score: 79%

Audience score: 64%

While this isn't the Coen Brothers at their best, "Burn After Reading" is still a hilarious thriller with memorable performances from Brad Pitt, Richard Jenkins, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, and Frances McDormand that makes it worth revisiting. There's a lot that you've probably forgotten if it's been awhile, like Brad Pitt dancing in his red trainer uniform.

"The Departed" (2006)

Netflix description: To take down Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own men to infiltrate it, not realizing the syndicate has done the same thing.

Critic score: 90%

Audience score: 94%

"The Departed" is a career best for most involved, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Wahlberg, Matt Damon, and Martin Scorsese. It's long, but it's a well-crafted gangster movie that gives an insightful look into life as an undercover cop.

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A Year in Filmmaker Interviews: From Patty Jenkins to Paul Thomas Anderson

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A Year in Filmmaker Interviews: From Patty Jenkins to Paul Thomas Anderson

At the beginning of 2017, I set out on a mission to interview the directors behind some of the year’s biggest movies. In total, I was fortunate enough to speak with 22 of them. They are the filmmakers behind blockbusters and conversation starters, and they represent one particular slice of what the movie landscape in 2017 looked like from behind the camera.

Here they are (you can read or watch each interview by clicking on the film title):

M. Night Shyamalan, Split

Digging into the 2017 archives: Here’s part of my chat w/ M. Night Shyamalan for #Split where I asked whether being known as the guy w/ the “twist endings” has helped or hindered his career. pic.twitter.com/ssG0S125cs

— ErikDavis (@ErikDavis) December 19, 2017

James Mangold, Logan

Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Kong: Skull Island

Gareth Edwards, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story*

James Gunn, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Ridley Scott, Alien: Covenant

Jon Watts, Spider-Man: Homecoming

Alex Kurtzman, The Mummy

Patty Jenkins, Wonder Woman

Colin Trevorrow, The Book of Henry

Michael Bay, Transformers: The Last Knight

Matt Reeves, War for the Planet of the Apes

Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk

Darren Aronofsky, mother!

Doug Liman, American Made

George Clooney, Suburbicon

WATCH: Earlier this year I spoke to George Clooney & Julianne Moore about #Suburbicon and what it’s like directing a Coen brothers script pic.twitter.com/HzBrjr8vFW

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Jason Hall, Thank You for Your Service

Taika Waititi, Thor: Ragnarok

Kenneth Branagh, Murder on the Orient Express

Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread

Rian Johnson, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

At #D23Expo, I asked @rianjohnson how he’d compare #TheLastJedi to the other #StarWars movies. Here’s what he said… pic.twitter.com/2cVDfBbVD2

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*Technically, this film hit theaters in 2016, but the conversation around the movie continued well into the New Year, so it makes the list!

All of these conversations were engaging and insightful, and you can read what came out of them at the links above. Do I wish I spoke to more women filmmakers? Of course I do. And do I wish more women filmmakers were afforded the chance to direct some of the year’s most important movies? You’re damn right I do. Hopefully 2018 will produce more opportunity for female filmmakers, and I will make it a personal goal of mine to tell more of their stories in the new year.

That being said, of the 22 filmmaker interviews I conducted in 2017, there were ten conversations that stood out most. Check out a little more on those below.

10. Matt Reeves for War for the Planet of the Apes

One of the questions I asked most often when speaking with filmmakers this year was for them to discuss some of the other movies that influenced them during the process of making their movie. When it came time to discuss the excellent War for the Planet of the Apes with Matt Reeves, he and I pretty much spent the entirety of our conversation talking about that film’s many influences, so much so that I created a separate piece listing the titles, as well as how they inspired the third Apes movie.

From Apocalypse Now to the Empire Strikes Back, this was an enjoyably nerdy convo about some great movies. Here is Reeves on how Empire influenced Apes:

“For me, I was very excited about this idea about the mythology of the Force and what it meant, and I thought, “Wow, there’s something really powerful about what that represents in these stories, how it’s this representation of dark and light,” and for me, it was like a light bulb,” he said. “[Cowriter] Mark [Bomback] and I started talking about it, that actually we’d had that all along, because our Force was this question of human nature, this idea of looking at us grappling with the different aspects of our nature… you know the animal and the rational.”

9. Ridley Scott for Alien: Covenant

Ridley Scott doesn’t care about spoilers.

When I sat down with him, Katherine Waterston and Danny McBride to chat about Alien: Covenant, Scott was so open about the film that Waterston had to keep interjecting in order to stop the director from not only spoiling its biggest secrets, but also his plan for future Alien movies.

It was probably the most amusing of all the filmmaker conversations I had this year, with Scott not afraid to say whatever was on his mind, both to me and about me. When I mentioned how much I liked the different ways he used blood on a floor to escalate tension in a scene, he called me a “sick f**k” and we all had a good laugh.

Needless to say, I’d happily have another chat with the sassy Mr. Scott (curse words and all!), who began our convo with these words about Alien: Covenant:

“It’s beginning to answer the who and why,” he said. “It’s definitely gorier, and smarter. In it, we raise some very interesting questions about the position and possibility of AI against human condition, and it crosses into the zone of apartheid — kind of like how Roy Batty was treated like a second-class citizen [in Blade Runner]. And so is David (Michael Fassbender). The knee-jerk was to create a second-class citizen, even if he is superior to everyone. So the natural thing to do at the end of Prometheus was to send them off together because when you think you’ve got it, you’ve got to keep the characters alive, as opposed to killing them. And [Coventant] starts to answer the who and why.”

8. James Mangold for Logan

James Mangold was proud when we spoke. Proud of the movie he had delivered, and proud of the risks he and the cast took to produce a dark, gritty and violent superhero movie unlike any that had come before it.

What I enjoyed most about this interview was Mangold’s honesty. We spoke openly about the state of superhero movies and what they need in order to continue evolving. For Mangold, the success of future comic-based films isn’t necessarily about ratings or risks or audience fatigue.

“I believe there was a time in the middle ‘50s where people were like enough with the Westerns, I’ve seen enough Westerns,” he said. “There was Gunsmoke and Bonanza on television, and nothing but John Wayne, Clint Eastwood in theaters. I’m sure people saw way more bad Westerns than they did good ones. But now, 30 years later, we look back and the good Westerns live and the bad Westerns are out of distribution. I imagine the same thing will happen with comic book movies, where in 30 years when we look back it’ll be the movies that touched us that live. It’ll be the movies with heart that live.”

7. Taika Waititi for Thor: Ragnarok

There’s a reason why Thor: Ragnarok topped my list of favorite movies of the year (see below), and much of that has to do with its director, Taika Waititi.

This is Waititi’s biggest film to date, and it’s one that accomplishes so much. Not only does it tonally reboot Marvel’s Thor character utilizing the series’ existing cast, but it also leans into humor so much that the film acts as a borderline genre parody at times. Like Rian Johnson’s Star Wars movie, both films use comedy to lighten up a broader message to fans, which is: stop taking this stuff so seriously!

With Thor: Ragnarok, Waititi proved that you could be super silly and kick lots of ass, and the two aren’t mutually exclusive. It may be Marvel’s most watchable movie to date (I’ve watched it six times!), and it’ll no doubt push Waititi’s career behind the camera forward in a major way.

But when he first began discussing the film with Marvel, even Waititi was a little confused about why they were talking to him, exactly.

“I was only apprehensive because I thought, I wonder if there is some other filmmaker with a name that sounds like mine who they think I am,” he joked. “Because, you know, coming from what I’ve done, I was like man, this is odd. I definitely agree with a lot of the fans who’ve given me sh*t on Twitter and in that I’m not the most obvious choice. I feel like I’m a very unexpected choice, here. But, then obviously, you look at James Gunn and the Russos. You look at what they’ve done, coming into the MCU. It’s not very surprising, that they would ask me to do this.

6. Jordan Vogt-Roberts for Kong: Skull Island

I love speaking to filmmakers on the verge of releasing their biggest film to date, and such was the case with Jordan Vogt-Roberts, who I met back when he was debuting a film called The Kings of Summer at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Vogt-Roberts is an outspoken dude who says what’s on his mind, and he brought that creative confidence to his first major studio movie, Kong: Skull Island. He pitched them an idea that was unlike the one they were already working on, and he set out to make sure his vision — and not someone else’s — was the one audiences finally saw on screen. And when I finally caught up with him a couple of days before advance tickets went on sale here at Fandango, Vogt-Roberts was thrilled that all the nerdy things he had wanted for this film had materialized in a big way.

“I wanted this crazy genre mash-up, and I pitched them this idea of Apocalypse Now meets King Kong,” he said. The original script had nothing to do with that, and the original script almost in no way reflects the movie that’s on-screen. The fact that the studio let me run with these really crazy ideas and let me build out this sort of wish fulfillment, most insane version of this movie is cool. This is the movie I’d want to see and the movie I think my friends would want to see, and hopefully audiences feel like it’s something they haven’t seen.”

5. James Gunn for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

A few of the interviews that I conducted this year were timed to when advance tickets were going on sale. What’s unique about that time period is it’s often weeks before release and the films typically aren’t finished yet. Such was the case when I spoke to James Gunn, who took my call from inside the editing booth while he worked feverishly to put the finishing touches on his Guardians of the Galaxy sequel.

Gunn was playful, loose and confident – and of all the directors I spoke to, he came off as the biggest, dorkiest fan of the characters and world he had helped create. When I asked about major Easter eggs, he giggled, turned to his editor and confirmed there was a big one only a few frames into the film. Not all filmmakers are as excited to work on a big, important sequel like Guardians Vol. 2, especially when the first Guardians was unexpected and came with way less pressure on its shoulders. But Gunn is a rarity; he is someone with immense love and adoration for the property and it spills out of him organically and with passion. When we spoke, all I heard on the other end of the phone was this guy who simply couldn’t wait to share his baby with the world.

“I think the whole movie is going to surprise you,” he said. “It’s something you don’t normally get in big spectacle films. There’s a ton of heart to it, and then the visuals just go above and beyond anything we’ve ever done with the Guardians or at Marvel Studios. People thought we took a lot of risks and did a lot of new things with Guardians Vol.1, and we sort of exponentially upped that in Guardians Vol. 2. It is nothing like anything that’s come before it.”

4. Michael Bay for Transformers: The Last Knight

Personally, I’m not the biggest fan of Michael Bay’s Transformers movies — I will fully admit that. They’re big, loud, complicated and I never know which robot is which. But I have always admired Bay’s work ethic and just how far he goes to deliver a big-screen experience like none other. Bay quite literally gives it his all, and is the farthest from someone who’s just phoning it in for that blockbuster paycheck. This is a dude who hustles for every shot and for every explosion. He is part of a select few working hard to push the theatrical experience forward.

Bay’s first three movies – Bad Boys, The Rock and Armegeddon – are three of my favorite action movies ever, and so when I had the opportunity to speak to the director for almost 30 minutes, I leapt at the chance to not only talk about his tenure as director of the Transformers series, but also his work ethic, his stunts and, yes, those first three movies.

Because the interview was a long one, I decided to break it out into three parts (Michael Bay: Past, Present, Future), and my favorite of the three parts was looking back at Bay’s first three movies and how they forever changed him as a filmmaker.

On Bad Boys: “It literally was such a hard experience,” Bay said. “The crew kept telling me, ‘Well that’s not gonna cut, and that’s not gonna cut,’ and ‘You can’t do it like this.’ And I’m like, ‘Well, I’m doing it like this.’ So it was one of the first movies where it was cut very fast, the action. They all said, ‘You can’t cut that fast.’ I’m like, ‘Well, I am.’ And now you see it imitated, but way back when I was cutting fast for a reason … to hide the cheap art direction and to give it some energy.”

Read the entire interview here: Past, Present, Future

3. Christopher Nolan for Dunkirk

Christopher Nolan is an intimidating interview. Not because he’s mean or dismissive – quite the contrary. Nolan is a very nice guy and happy to dissect his process, but he’s also precise and no-nonsense, and knows exactly what he does and doesn’t want to talk about. (When I tried to slip in a Batman question, he quickly shot back: “I’m here to talk about Dunkirk.”)

I spoke to him twice this year – once at CinemaCon in Las Vegas roughly four months prior to the release of Dunkirk, and then again right before release and after I had seen the movie. The more memorable conversation was the one in-person at CinemaCon. I had ten minutes with him right before he was to introduce a big presentation to exhibitors. If he was nervous, you couldn’t tell. I was definitely more nervous – this was my first time interviewing the filmmaker, and I wanted to get the most out of those ten minutes.

So we spoke about Nolan’s love of IMAX and just how different Dunkirk was to anything he had done before. Like Michael Bay, Nolan is a filmmaker who cares deeply about the cinematic experience, and with each movie he sets out to push boundaries and put cameras in places they logically should not be in (like an IMAX camera on the wing of a plane). And as we spoke, I could tell this was a very personal film for Nolan. The story of Dunkirk was one he learned of when he was a little boy. He grew up around it; the events at Dunkirk were a part of him and when he set out to put the story on screen, he did so in the most authentic way possible, going so far as to shoot on the beach at Dunkirk. I noticed him light up when I mentioned the aerial sequences, though. This, I think, is what Nolan was most proud of when it comes to filming Dunkirk.

“I don’t think anyone’s ever tried to do aerial combat the way we’ve done it and photographed it in this film,” he said. “My DP, Hoyte Van Hoytema, just never gave up. When we would look at how you can’t fit a camera in the cockpit and fly the plane, we would build a special kind of snorkel lens and put the camera there. We’d work with the pilot and plane owners to really just go for it, and do as much of it for real as possible.”

Read the entire interview here: Part 1 and Part 2

2. Patty Jenkins for Wonder Woman

When I spoke to Patty Jenkins for Wonder Woman, she was fired up. The first couple of screenings for the film had produced excellent reactions, and I could sense a tide turning from within the studio, from hesitant and skeptical to confident and joyful. Wonder Woman was still weeks away from becoming the biggest hit of the summer and one of the year’s most talked-about movies, but with a dynamic, energized Jenkins in command of its story, there was a feeling the film was going to be a much bigger deal than initially anticipated.

Jenkins and I spoke at length about the year’s only female-driven superhero movie, but it was the director’s story behind the “No Man’s Land” sequence that stood out most. It was clear after one viewing that this scene would define the movie, but no one knew at the time just how big of an impact this moment would have on the entire year in pop culture. It is arguably the best scene in a movie this year, and it is a scene that almost didn’t happen.

“It’s my favorite scene in the movie and it’s the most important scene in the movie,” Jenkins said. “It’s also the scene that made the least sense to other people going in, which is why it’s a wonderful victory for me. I think that in superhero movies, they fight other people, they fight villains. So when I started to really hunker in on the significance of No Man’s Land, there were a couple people who were deeply confused, wondering, like, ‘Well, what is she going to do? How many bullets can she fight?’ And I kept saying, ‘It’s not about that. This is a different scene than that. This is a scene about her becoming Wonder Woman.’”

Read the entire interview here, here and here.

1. Paul Thomas Anderson for Phantom Thread

Of course I have a bucket list full of filmmakers I’d love to interview at some point during my lifetime, and Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood) has long been situated towards the top of said list. I had tried to interview the elusive writer-director for three films now, and with his newest, Phantom Thread, arriving this Christmas, I finally slipped past the PTA gatekeepers and found myself tossed into a vibrant, personable 20-minute conversation with a filmmaker I have long adored.

We sat in a hotel room inside the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, and for twenty minutes we spoke about Phantom Thread, about working with Daniel Day-Lewis, about the movies that changed him and influenced him, and, somewhat randomly, about Star Wars. The chat concluded with us musing about the various Nutcracker performances both sets of our kids happened to be participating in over that weekend, and I left wanting the conversation to continue, naturally (there were a million questions I still wanted to ask), but also with this immense feeling of satisfaction, as if I had finally conquered a mountain that had eluded me all my life.

My favorite part of the interview came when I asked PTA which of his films he learned the most from in terms of the filmmaker he wanted to become. Here’s what he said:

“I felt like on Punch-Drunk Love it was a really nice moment. We had all worked together — almost all of us – on three films before that [and] that really turned out good. We learned loads on that. But by the time we got to that film, there was something that kind of clicked; of experimentation and independence and confidence. Guts, care, and hubris all just kind of came together in a nice way, allowing ourselves to discover things, or be insecure. It was a really nice moment, but it was also f**king challenging. The first couple weeks of that film was just trying to find a new way to work that was a little bit looser. Yeah, I look back really fondly on that time with a great feeling. A lot of lessons were learned on Punch-Drunk Love.

Read the entire interview here, here and here.

Finally, to finish out the year, here are my 15 favorite movies of 2017. Wanna know more about these picks? Hit me up on Twitter right here.

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1. Thor: Ragnarok

2. The Big Sick

3. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

4. Get Out

5. Star Wars: The Last Jedi

6. Foxtrot

7. Logan

8. I, Tonya

9. Good Time

10. War for the Planet of the Apes

11. The Florida Project

12. Baby Driver

13. Dunkirk

14. Call Me By Your Name

15. The Shape of Water

Thanks for reading, and here’s to 2018!

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From "Thor: Ragnarok" to "Mulan" to "The Departed," these are some awesome movies on Netflix that you can watch over the weekend.

Disney's big Netflix deal is still in effect, which means all the wonders of the Marvel Cinematic Universe come to the streaming service after their theatrical runs.

This week, "Thor: Ragnarok" has become available for you to watch at your heart's content — but it's not the only great movie in Netflix's catalog.

Every week, we comb through Netflix's selection to find you a handful of movies to watch over the weekend.

We select a few that have come onto the service within the past week and mix in a couple of old favorites you might have missed.

From "Thor: Ragnarok" to Alfonso Cuarón's coming-of-age story "Y Tu Mamá También," these are some awesome movies on Netflix that you can watch over the weekend.

Here are seven movies on Netflix you should definitely check out or revisit (along with their Rotten Tomatoes scores and why you should watch):

"Thor: Ragnarok" (2017)

Netflix description: To save Asgard from a bloodthirsty goddess of death, the mighty Thor will have to battle his way to freedom and find a way back home.

Critic score: 92%

Audience score: 87%

If I could, I would just list "Thor: Ragnarok" seven times this week.

"Se7en" (1995)

Netflix description: A seasoned homicide detective and his new partner are on a desperate hunt for a killer whose gruesome crimes are based on the Seven Deadly Sins.

Critic score: 80%

Audience score: 95%

"Heat" (1995)

Netflix description: As a detective and a thief face off, they learn how much they need each other — and that the line between cop and criminal isn't always well-defined.

Critic score: 86%

Audience score: 94%

This crime thriller is a bit lengthy, but it stands the test of time for its tight writing, unforgettable direction from Michael Mann, and its stunning performances from Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.

"Y Tu Mamá También" (2001)

Netflix description: When rich teens Tenoch and Julio meet the alluring, older Luisa, they try to impress her with stories of a road trip, then convince her to join them.

Critic score: 92%

Audience score: 88%

"Mulan" (1998)

Netflix description: Disney brings an ancient legend to life in this animated tale of a tomboy who disguises herself as a man so she can fight with the Chinese Army.

Critic score: 86%

Audience score: 85%

"Burn After Reading" (2008)

Netflix description: In this tale of poorly executed espionage, an ousted CIA official loses his memoir to moronic gym employees, who use it to try to turn a profit.

Critic score: 79%

Audience score: 64%

"The Departed" (2006)

Netflix description: To take down Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own men to infiltrate it, not realizing the syndicate has done the same thing.

Critic score: 90%

Audience score: 94%

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