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Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon as kids, Clint Eastwood as a drug mule on the other side of life, and Meryl Streep in “Out of Africa. “
By Jason Bailey
One of the most enduring manifestations of the modern television era will leave Netflix in the U. S. This month, the U. S. horror franchise features an equally iconic horror franchise, a handful of fun genre films, and several Oscar winners and nominees. (Dates imply the last day on which an available call is announced. )
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Clint Eastwood starred (for the first time in six years) and directed this mix of character drama and 2018 road movie, based on the true story of a 90-year-old veteran and great-grandfather turned drug mule. The fictional protagonist of Eastwood’s adaptations careers due to difficult times, financially and emotionally; He lost his business and his circle of relatives turned their backs on him, for a clever reason. He’s a complicated, sympathetic, and even empathetic but amoral character, and it turns out that Eastwood enjoys exploring those contradictions (and how they intersect with his own). The supporting cast includes Bradley Cooper, Laurence Fishburne, Andy Garcia, Michael Peña, and Dianne Wiest.
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Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, the British mathematician and cryptanalyst who was instrumental in the progress of early computers, in this sharp and well-acted biographical drama from director Morten Tyldum. Cumberbatch portrays Turing as a socially awkward and infinitely brilliant guy who has secrets (including his hidden homosexuality). It tells the story of his life in a police interrogation, with a particular focus on the time he spent with the team that cracked the Nazi Enigma code; Charles Dance, Matthew Goode, and Keira Knightley are part of this group and tell a desirable story of high stakes and prickly personalities. Cumberbatch was nominated for an Oscar, one of the film’s 8 nominations (screenwriter Graham Moore won the award for Best Adapted Screenplay).
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This military police procedural drama, which is still going strong after 21 jaw-dropping seasons, has never been a critics’ favorite. However, its enthusiasts can’t get enough of it, making it one of the longest-running series in television history, while also generating (It was off to a slow start in terms of viewership, reaching its immense popularity several years after its release). The predictability and formal nature of such proceedings, the same qualities that put off some viewers and critics, are what their enthusiasts appreciate. . You know exactly what you’re going to find in an episode of “NCIS,” and it’s all conveyed transparently and effectively, through actors performing the task without showing up.
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Years before she won an Academy Award for “The Blind Side,” Sandra Bullock revealed the first hints of her broad reach in this gripping comedy-drama series from director Betty Thomas (“Private Parts”) and screenwriter Susannah Grant (“Erin Brockovich”). “). ). Bullock plays a living New York editor whose functional alcoholism becomes less and less functional; you only enroll in a rehab facility if you are ordered to do so to avoid a criminal conviction for D. U. I. As Michael Keaton did in 1988’s “Clean and Sober,” Bullock allows the free-form rehab narrative to extend her acting skills without giving up. the charm and air of mystery that made her a movie star. It’s a disjointed, animated performance, and Steve Buscemi is a competent advisor who has figured it all out before.
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With this exploration of horror, dreams, and American suburbs in 1984, Wes Craven created one of the most beautiful horror films of the 1980s and one of its most popular bogeymen, Fred Krueger (Robert Englund). Krueger, a long-dead child killer. , begins to invade the dreams of teenagers, resulting in their gruesome deaths. Heather Langenkamp is a charismatic lead, while Johnny Depp makes a memorable film debut as her boyfriend. Several of the film’s many sequels (and its ill-advised 2010 remake) are also leaving Netflix this month; “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors” is probably the most productive of the bunch, the second and fourth installments have their fans.
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