On Netflix, Amazon and Disney+
The weekend is here. And it's a long one! 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 |
 | | Adam Sandler in "Uncut Gems."A24 |
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Josh and Benny Safdie have all but singlehandedly kept the tradition of the grimy New York street movie alive in the 21st century, with films like "Heaven Knows What" and "Good Time" (also streaming on Netflix) explicitly recalling the sweaty desperation of '70s Gotham cinema. Their latest is also their best, featuring a career-high performance from Adam Sandler as a diamond dealer and inveterate gambler whose eternal quest for one big score puts his livelihood — and his very life — on the line. Manohla Dargis called it a "rough and glittering thing of beauty." |
Here is one of the best TV shows on Netflix |
 | | Caro Cult, left, and Liv Lisa Fries on "Babylon Berlin."X Filme |
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In this flashy German crime drama, Volker Bruch plays Inspector Gereon Rath, a cop who gets transferred to Berlin at the end of the 1920s, right when the city is at its most decadent and untamed. Ostensibly a police procedural — one of the creators and occasional directors is the skilled genre stylist Tom Tykwer ("Run Lola Run") — "Babylon Berlin" is also a study of the social and political conditions in Europe between the world wars, when libertinism and reactionary conservatism set the stage for the troubles to come. Our critic said the show "cruises along like a particularly eventful amusement park ride — Weimar Fever Dream — that practically negates the concept of suspension of disbelief." |
Have a Hulu subscription? It's a lot to wade through. We can help! |
 | | Fred Savage and Danica McKellar in "The Wonder Years."ABC |
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Nostalgia tends to run in 20-year cycles, so filmmakers and television writers spent a good deal of the 1980s meditating on the 1960s — particularly the idealism of the Woodstock era, and how it faded away in the years that followed. This six-season family dramedy certainly trafficked in such wistfulness, but filtered it through a contemporary lens, as the adult iteration of its protagonist (voiced by Daniel Stern, played as a teen by Fred Savage) narrated his journey through middle and high school during this turbulent era. And the show is now seen through a prism of dual nostalgia, recalled with fondness by those who were themselves teenagers when it first aired, confirming that its stories of first love, teen awkwardness and familial rebellion aren't confined to any specific era. |
Amazon Prime Video doesn't make it easy to find stuff. Luckily, we have done the work for you. |
 | | Kim Min-hee in "The Handmaiden."Amazon Studios — Magnolia Pictures |
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The South Korean master Park Chan-wook ("Oldboy") takes the stylistic trappings of a period 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 we think he might go next. Manohla Dargis saw it as an "amusingly slippery entertainment." |
Disney+ is full of older classics. But there are newer things to watch, too. |
 | | From left, Janelle Monáe, Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer in "Hidden Figures."Hopper Stone/Twentieth Century Fox |
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Tucked away in a segregated building at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., in the early 1960s, Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson) joins her Black colleagues as a "human computer" until her computational brilliance becomes too valuable for NASA to deny. The irresistible history lesson "Hidden Figures" follows Johnson and two other Black mathematicians as they break down barriers at a crucial time for the space program. A.O. Scott called it "a well-told tale with a clear moral and a satisfying emotional payoff." |
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