On Netflix, Amazon and Disney+
The weekend is here. It's here! Regardless of what streaming service you subscribe to, we want to help you find something great to watch. We've gone through Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video and Disney+ to find the best titles on each service. |
Here's one of the 50 best movies on Netflix |
 | | Adepero Oduye in "Pariah," a 2011 film directed by Dee Rees.Focus Features |
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Dee Rees, the director of "Mudbound" (also streaming on Netflix) made her feature directorial debut with this heartfelt and thoughtful story about a Brooklyn teenager (the "incandescent" Adepero Oduye) named Alike (pronounced ah-LEE-kay), and her delicate attempt to come out as a lesbian — fully aware of the resistance she will face from her controlling mother (Kim Wayans). Rees, who also penned the screenplay, tells this semi-autobiographical tale like a richly detailed short story, well-versed in the lives these characters live, the neighborhoods they inhabit and the lies they tell one another in order to coexist. But she also captures the seductiveness of the subcultures Alike begins to explore, and the alternative they present: the choice to live one's truth, with no apologies. |
Here is one of the best TV shows on Netflix |
 | | A re-enactment from "Murder Among the Mormons."Netflix |
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'Murder Among the Mormons' |
This fascinating three-part docu-series starts as a tale of murder, covering a series of Salt Lake City bombings that shook up the Mormon community there back in 1985. The co-directors Jared Hess and Tyler Measom quickly shift the focus to the accused bomber, Mark Hofmann, a mercurial local businessman who had an unusual moneymaking scheme, serving as a broker for rare documents related to the church's early history. What emerges is a fascinating story about the foundations of religious faith, examining the lengths to which some leaders will go to avoid a potentially devastating scandal. |
Have a Hulu subscription? It's a lot to wade through. We can help! |
 | | From left, Billy Bob Thornton, Bill Paxton and Brent Briscoe in "A Simple Plan."BBC |
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A few years before realigning his career with the aughts "Spiderman" trilogy, and thus moving from cult genre filmmaker to blockbuster maker, Sam Raimi crafted this "quietly devastating thriller" that falls well outside of either designation. Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton, who earned an Oscar nomination for the role, star as two brothers who think they've come across a gold mine when they discover a suitcase full of cash in a downed aircraft, only to find out that there's no such thing as an easy score. Scott B. Smith adapts his best-selling novel with verve and efficiency, while Raimi builds a palpable atmosphere of slowly advancing but inevitable doom. |
Amazon Prime Video doesn't make it easy to find stuff. Luckily, we have done the work for you. |
 | | Jacob Wysocki as the title character in"Terri."Alexandra Weiss/ATO Pictures |
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Azazel Jacobs isn't a household name, but he should be. Though his filmography is somewhat slender, his characters are dizzyingly complicated, his dialogue is deftly telling and his direction brings out the best of his stellar casts. This marvelous serio-comic drama features Jacob Wysocki as a teen outcast and John C. Reilly as the high school principal who tries, perhaps a bit too hard, to bring him out of his shell. A.O. Scott praised "the care and craft that the director, Azazel Jacobs, has brought to fairly conventional material." |
Disney+ is full of older classics. But there are a lot of newer things to watch as well. |
 | | Brandy as Cinderella, left, and Whitney Houston as the fairy godmother in "'Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella."Disney+ |
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'Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella' |
30 years after Rodgers & Hammerstein wrote their only made-for-television musical — a live event with Julie Andrews in the lead — Disney revived it for a relaunch of "The Wonderful World of Disney" anthology, with Brandy, the first Black Cinderella, leading a diverse cast of Broadway ringers and recognizable stars. The TV production values are more modest than the talent deserves, but Brandy makes a headstrong and luminous heroine, the prince (Paolo Montalbán) is more than a generic royal prize and Whitney Houston, who co-produced the film, summons a magic as the Fairy Godmother that has little to do with ho-hum special effects. |
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