New offerings on Netflix this month offer something for every mood: a gripping tale of legal justice led by a scrappy underdog, a mind-bending journey into dreams within dreams, a superhero caught between his personal struggles and saving the city (again) and much more. Here’s what to stream this month.
Erin Brockovich (2000) – Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney
The single mother continues with the total water industry with a more sensible tank wardrobe and Sass. A hard functionality and a really captivating story.
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) – Director: Jim Gillespie | Main Actors: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar
A cautionary tale about why you should never run over a guy and then keep it a secret if you don’t want to be menaced by a hook-wielding psycho. “The story has more holes than the bodies do,” wrote Entertainment Weekly, “but the shocks are efficient”. Quintessential ’90s slasher nostalgia.
Inception (2010) – Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
A talented thief assembles a team to pull off the ultimate heist in the human mind. One of Nolan’s visual and intellectually stunning maximums, with the greatest (and conceptually impressive maximum) music through composer Hans Zimmer.
Interstellar (2014) – Director: Christopher Nolan | Main actors: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway
Tips for parents of the future: Go to space, get lost, and return just in time for your child to take you to your deathbed with guilt. Visually striking and emotionally rich, with epic music from Zimmer.
Meet the parents (2000) – Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro
A boy’s weekend with his friend’s overbearing parents turns into a comedy of errors. With There’s Something About Mary released in theaters in 1998 and Zoolander and The Royal Tenenbaums released in 2001, Ben Stiller may simply not be around at the time. But it’s the pairing with a rising Niro Robert that is absolutely irresistible.
Melancholia (2011) – Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Two sisters face personal turmoil and cosmic doom as a rogue planet threatens to collide with Earth. Depression has never been so cosmic—or so photogenic. As Dana Stevens at Slate, no fan of the filmmaker, put it: “This is a hard movie to forget.”
‘Melancholy’
Out of Africa (1985) – Director: Sydney Pollack | Main actors: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford
A woman’s love for the African wilderness and a rugged hunter blossoms in the shadow of colonial tension. Epic storytelling at its finest.
Notting Hill (1999) – Director: Roger Michell | Stars: Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant
The life of a humble bookseller turns a romance with a world superstar. For lovers of captivating libraries and the British hair hair.
‘Notting Hill’
Spider-Man 2 (2004) – Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Alfred Molina
Spidey tries to leave her homework that is in charge of saving the city. Because Alfred Molina. (With Molina that makes the bad one is so beautiful. )
Punta hour (1998) – Director: Brett Ratner | Stars: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker
Roger Ebert described Rush Hour as a “wunza movie. “As in “Wunza, mythical detective from Hong Kong and Wunza police from Los Angeles”. And Chinese wunza, and black wunza. And Wunza, an expert in martial arts, and Wunza, the exhibitionist. Neither of them had an original idea for the cast. “(He liked the movie. ) East meets West in a really excellent kicking cop movie between strident jokes.
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