#BEST MOVIES ON NETFLIX NOW MOVIE#

#BEST MOVIES ON NETFLIX NOW MOVIE#

In telling the story of a group of black Vietnam War veterans returning to the country, to search both for loot and the memory of their fallen leader (the late Chadwick Boseman, in flashback), Spike Lee serves up a maximal mix of political commentary, time-shifting storytelling, sharp performances and B movie action sequences.

Many of the wrongs it depicts still linger. Lewis) who is abused to breaking point by the racist colonial society he has been told he must join in a film of striking turning points and unfettered anger.

One of the most crucial and enduring works of the Australian New Wave movement, Fred Schepisi’s period drama tracks an Indigenous man (Tom E. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978) Watch on Netflix With a pulse that brings the grip of plunging desire, a married Connecticut housewife (Cate Blanchett) and a department store clerk (Rooney Mara) create a tender pocket universe that defies the wider world. Words unsaid are powerful and mere glances devastating in Todd Haynes’ heart-wrenching romance from the epicentre of 1950s America. On the run with his baby daughter, Andy (Martin Freeman) finds himself in a perilous world starting anew, with Indigenous history and the crimes against it pushed to the fore. It traces with throbbing unease the psychological fracture of an approval-fueled (and paid) cam girl (Madeline Brewer) when a doppelganger takes control of her video feed.įor once an Australian genre film-in this case about society’s collapse after a zombie apocalypse-that makes more use of this country than the landscape. What you wish for, the movie reveals, isn’t what you think it is.Īustralia’s belief in defining itself through the deeds of soldiers is torn apart in Bruce Beresford’s ground-breaking examination of war crimes, scapegoats and imperial hypocrisy as a trio of Australian combatants fighting in the Boer War-memorably played by Edward Woodward, Bryan Brown and Lewis Fitz-Gerald-face a court-martial.ĭaniel Goldhaber’s online reprise of body horror is a bracing example of the genre’s new and instructively weird indie wave. Set in 1984-cue Michael Jackson fantasies-it tracks an 11-year-old boy (an exuberant James Rolleston) whose life is turned upside down by the return of his absent father (Waititi). In his breakthrough second feature Taika Waititi does an outstanding job of striking a balance between the weight of nostalgia and the wisdom of hindsight that marks any film about childhood. The savage, scarring plight of African child soldiers-with Idris Elba as their abusive, messianic leader-is captured with vivid strokes and lasting pain in this drama from True Detective (and latest 007 film No Time to Die) director Cary Joji Fukunaga. Whether through fear of love or love of fear, this claustrophobic thriller lodges itself where it can’t be ignored.īeasts of No Nation (2015) Watch on Netflix One of the great Australian debuts of all time, and an equally great horror film from Jennifer Kent, in which the monster is not only under the bed but also inside Essie Davis’ besieged parent. A young Senegalese couple, Ada (Mama Bineta Sane) and Souleiman (Ibrahima Traore), are torn apart when Souleiman tries to leave for Europe-only to return in a different form. The story folds in on itself, so that triumph is tragedy and vice-versa in an elegiac requiem.īeginning with an audacious opening sequence overflowing with righteous fury, Romain Gavras’ saw-toothed drama about open warfare on a Parisian housing estate and the torn allegiance of the brothers at the centre of it is that rare film: one where technical bravado and emotional clarity go hand in hand.Īn otherworldly love story for our age of displacement, Mati Diop’s remarkable debut feature is a beguiling mix of social realism and supernatural longing. Masterful deep focus newsroom shots convey the struggle in striking terms.ĭirected with menacing wonder by Denis Villeneuve, this is compelling and original hard science-fiction, with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner as two experts trying to communicate with obliquely intentioned aliens landed on an increasingly panicky planet. President Richard Nixon, is a study of institutional strength and individual fortitude. * The 50 best movies on Stan All the President’s Men (1976) Watch on NetflixĪlan J Pakula’s riveting procedural about the pair of young Washington Post reporters-Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman)-whose dogged coverage of the 1972 Watergate break-in eventually brought down U.S.

Critic Craig Mathieson has combed the Netflix Australia archives, writing the definitive list of the best 50 movies currently available to stream.

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