On Netflix, Amazon and Disney +
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The weekend is here. And regardless of what streaming service you subscribe to, we want to help. 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. |
 | | Jason Mitchell, left, and Garrett Hedlund in "Mudbound."Netflix |
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In this powerful adaptation by the director Dee Rees of the novel by Hillary Jordan, two families — one white and one Black — are connected by a plot of land in the Jim Crow South. Rees gracefully tells both stories (and the larger tale of postwar America) without veering into didacticism, and her ensemble cast brings every moment of text and subtext into sharp focus. Our critic called it a work of "disquieting, illuminating force." |
Here is one of the best TV shows on Netflix. |
 | | Chris Wood voices He-Man in "Masters of the Universe: Revelation."Netflix |
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'Masters of the Universe: Revelation' |
The proudly geeky writer and director Kevin Smith is the primary creative force behind this revamp of the 1980s "He-Man" toy line and TV cartoon. Aimed at grown-up fans of the original series — but accessible to almost anyone who enjoys sword-and-sorcery stories and animated adventures — "Masters of the Universe: Revelation" continues some of the story lines from the original show, set in a world where warriors and mystics protect the Castle Grayskull from Skeletor's forces of evil. Though still kid-friendly (so long as those kids are old enough to handle scary-looking monsters and violence), this new version of "Masters of the Universe" has a more mature plot, including surprise twists and even death. |
Have a Hulu subscription? It's a lot to wade through. We can help! |
 | | Geena Davis, left, and Susan Sarandon in "Thelma & Louise."Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Getty Images |
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Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis are dangerously good in this Ridley Scott road movie, which became the center of a national conversation for its unapologetic portrait of two modern women who reject toxic masculinity. Sarandon and Davis play friends whose weekend getaway is derailed by an attempted assault; when they strike back, they find themselves on the run. Callie Khouri won an Oscar for her screenplay. "It reimagines the buddy film with such freshness and vigor that the genre seems positively new," our critic wrote. |
Amazon Prime Video doesn't make it easy to find stuff. Luckily, we have done the work for you. |
 | | Tom Hanks in "Philadelphia."Tri-Star Pictures |
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Tom Hanks won his first Academy Award — and kick-started a second career as a dramatic actor — with this "forceful, impassioned and moving" film from the acclaimed director Jonathan Demme. It was among the first major motion pictures to address the AIDS crisis, and it does so cautiously, wrapping its story in the familiar and comfortable conventions of a courtroom drama. Hanks is astonishing in the leading role, deploying warmth and good humor to humanize a struggle much of America had ignored, and Denzel Washington is brilliant as the bigoted peer whose journey to tolerance and understanding mirrored much of the audience's. |
Disney+ is full of older classics. But there are a lot of newer things to watch as well. |
 | | From left, Seth Carr, Tony Hale and Mystic Inscho in a scene from "The Mysterious Benedict Society."Disney/Shane Harvey |
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'The Mysterious Benedict Society' |
Based on the illustrated children's books by Trenton Lee Stewart, this stylized fantasy series gathers four gifted young outcasts on the mission to save the world from a brainwashing scheme. Tony Hale plays the eccentric who does the gathering, with the intent to harness the children's unique powers (memory, athleticism, mind-reading, etc.) to infiltrate a school called the Institute. There's a familiar Harry Potter/Percy Jackson quality to this team of "Chosen One" types finding their purpose together, but "The Mysterious Benedict Society" values their intelligence above all, and it has the impeccably fussed-over look of a Wes Anderson movie. |
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