Netflix casually dropped these films in the summer of 2022, over the course of 3 weeks. What an inauspicious way to drop one of the great trilogies of modern times. Exploring 3 genres of horror films over 3 time periods, Leigh Janiak makes the whole more than the sum of its parts by also almost Twin Peaksing Shaydside Ohio, the murder capital of the US, in all its supernatural dread. The trilogy builds wonderfully to its excellent climax, delivering a wonderful ending to a horror trilogy more people should seek out.
Rebecca Hall’s impressive first feature is a solemn study of identity and self. The beautiful story plays like a mornful art piece led by amazing performances by Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga.
Whizzing at a rapid pace, this movie is a delight, beginning to end: a joke machine with all sorts of inspired gags, and a lovely story about technology and a father and daughter trying to connect with one another before it’s too late.
Sometimes its best to just keep it simple and kick some ass, and no one does it better than the men and women in the Indonesian crime syndicates in this movie. I will cringe every time I look at a pool table for a long while….
What a complex film! After director Todd Haynes wonderfully, acidicly, takes down the true crime obsessed Hollywood machine, he slowly transforms the movie into a melancholic view of the after effects of these situations on the victims, through incredible best performances from Natalie Portman and Charles Melton.
Sprawling epic set in the deep South before, during, and after World War II, about how society changed because of all cultures experience life on another continent. This movie will stay with you long after you watch it.
The best of Netflix’s coming of age movies, and it’s not even close. Alice Wu’s story accomplishes that rare feat of creating a series of empathetic characters who each grow together and learn from each other, while being totally captivating and modern at the same time.
A fascinating study of the effects of the caste system in India on the populace. This movie takes you down an epic journey of one man trying to escape all the external and internal obstacles placed in his way, keeping him from becoming his own man.
In a glut of Christmas movies, this one stands tallest. An amazing fable that could read like an origin story for Christmas, this animated delight will open eyes and hearts in equal measure, reminding everyone of the joys of the holiday season, and being kind to one another.
A rigorous look at several compelling prescient things all at once: China vs. USA, the plight of the working class, cultural comprehension, corporate greed, etc. It’s ominous and important in equal measure.
