Netflix comes with an library that is extensive of*). And as each brings more to the service, it becomes an effort to sift through the best of the bunch.
To week Save you time, you’ll find the highlights of the new movies below, as well as CNET’s full list of movie originals that are best on Netflix.
What’s new this(Aug week. 29 to Sept. 4)
Here are this week’s highlights.
MondayUnder Her Control (2022): Drama. An ambitious woman that is young into an unusual arrangement with her charismatic boss.TuesdayUntold: Operation Flagrant Foul (2022): Documentary. Years after serving time for betting on games he officiated, former NBA referee Tim Donaghy revisits the scandal that shook up the league.WednesdayI Came By (2022): British crime thriller. A graffiti artist who targets homes of the elite uncovers a secret that is twisted a hidden basement — triggering events that put his nearest and dearest in danger.ThursdayA Cinderella Story (2004)A Clockwork Orange (1971)A Knight’s Tale (2001)
American Beauty (1999)
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)Collateral (2004)
Despicable Me (2010)Despicable Me 2 (2013)Fast & Feel Love (2022): Thai rom-com. A cup-stacking champion fights to keep onto his neglected love life while defending his title because the speed stacker that is fastest in the world.
Fenced In (2022)He’s Just Not That Into You (2009)If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
Love in the Villa (2022)
Resident Evil (2002)
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)Rock of Ages (2012)
Sam Morril: Same Time Tomorrow (2022): Standup. Sam Morril delivers his trademark dry and dark punchlines in a standup set ranging from problematic fairy tales to biting social commentary.Save the Last Dance (2001)
Scarface (1983)Snow White & The Huntsman (2012)The Notebook (2004)
This Is 40 (2012)
SaturdayThe Festival of Troubadours/Asiklar Bayrami (2022): Turkish drama. An reunion that is unexpected a traveling musician along with his son opens old wounds while the two lay out for a long journey up to a troubadour festival.
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At period of writing, these films all score at the very least 70 on Metacritic.
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The Sea Beast joins Netflix’s collection of stellar family-friendly adventures that are animated. A girl that is young Maisie (Zaris-Angel Hator) stows away from the ship of sea monster hunter Captain Crow (Jared Harris), becoming wrapped up within a thrilling journey through uncharted waters. Bringing originality into the seas that are high swashbuckling characters, the ocean Beast is just a must-watch chapter of enchanting fantasy.
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The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)
The Mitchells vs. the MachinesOne of the greatest family movies on Netflix. The kids and their slobbery, bug-eyed dog from some of the same people who made Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse comes this adventure to save the world involving Mom, Dad. But amid the robot apocalypse, led by Olivia Colman’s sinister Siri, really
is about a strained relationship between movie-loving daughter Katie and her technophobe father. The parent that is technology-inept are rife, the colors frenetic as well as the character growth moving. A package that is near-perfect the timeless message that embracing your weirdness is just a superpower.
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This award-winning film that is french with a severed hand escaping a refrigerator in a laboratory and embarking on a Paris-wide search for the rest of its body. What an opening! With a few flashbacks and elegant animation, this strange, satisfying story delves into loss, both physical and emotional, in the poetic that is most of ways.
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2017’s Okja originates from Parasite director Bong Joon-ho — that should be incentive adequate to watch it. Part cheeky comedy that is dark part surreal environmental thriller, Okja follows a young South Korean farmer girl whose pet pal is a genetically enhanced super-pig. But Okja is the target of a corporation that is big wants her delicious flesh. By having an English supporting cast such as the likes of Tilda Swinton and Jake Gyllenhaal, Okja sucks you in featuring its sweetness before showing you a close-up that is distressing of meat industry.
Crime/War
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Spike Lee’s fierce war drama follows a small grouping of aging Vietnam War veterans who come back to the nation searching for the remains of these squad leader — as well as buried treasure. By having a frenzied energy coursing you a look at the Vietnam War through Black experiences, delivering an all-too-timely critique of racism and warfare.(* through it, Da 5 Bloods gives)
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Spanning the lives of the mobsters over multiple decades, The Irishman pulls off a crime saga that is 3-and-a-half-hour. But don’t worry — you can break this tour up de force if you want to. Always clever and entertaining, with Martin Scorsese favorites Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci commanding the screen, The Irishman creeps up they wreak.(* on you, offering a haunting look at aging mobsters and the havoc)
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Beasts of No Nation (2015)
Director Cary Joji Fukunaga offers you a look that is sobering the life of a boy who becomes a child soldier in a West African country embroiled in civil war. Idris Elba stars as the commandant that is ruthless with all the astonishing Abraham Attah because the young Agu. A confronting yet quietly hopeful snapshot of war from the perspective that is human Beasts of No Nation needs to be on the radar in case it isn’t already.
Comedy
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The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020)
The title for this comedy-drama may appear familiar, but its focus can be an tale that is unconventional. The Forty-Year-Old Version follows Radha, a playwright and teacher who finds herself drawn to the passion that is forgotten of youth: rapping. Inspired by writer, director and star Radha Blank’s actual life, this beautiful diary of the artist that is struggling inspire and hit home, with relatable themes of failure and unfulfilled potential.
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Tennis-playing buddies Michael (Mark Duplass) and Andy (Ray Romano) receive devastating news: Michael has stomach cancer that is terminal. Struggling to let go of his friend that is dying joins Michael’s road trip searching for medication to get rid of things before they get too painful. Folding comedy into melancholy, Paddleton eases the friendship that is touching its core into deftly-affecting places.
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Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
Eddie Murphy returned from his acting break by having a performance that is glorious Rudy Ray Moore, a comedian who played a character called Dolemite in stand-up routines and blaxploitation films from the ’70s. Dolemite Is My Name follows Moore from his job at a record store to the screen that is big. Tracking Moore’s rise to fame as well as its bizarre and turns that are enthralling Dolemite Is My Name does justice to both Moore’s and Murphy’s talents.
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Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn starring within a comedy-drama with something to express about modern marriage? Private Life is just a unique and relatable slice of the New York couple that is middle-age struggles with different avenues to have a child. But because Hahn and Giamatti are it sparkles with wit and charm in it. Add Kayli Carter into the mix as Sadie, a college dropout, along with another layer for this movie that is compelling the unpredictability of heading as a new stage of life.
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Jake Johnson co-writes this comedy from prolific indie director Joe Swanberg (he had been behind the Netflix anthology TV series Easy as well). Win all of it follows Eddie, a gambling addict who agrees to stash a duffel bag of money for the thug that is local to prison. Making one of many decisions that are questionable Eddie dips in to the funds. If you are an admirer of simple, grounded storytelling with a give attention to character, Win all of it is just a delight that brings forth Johnson’s humor and charisma.
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The Meyerowitz Stories (2017)
The Meyerowitz Stories is just a comedy-drama that is bittersweet through Noah Baumbach’s grounded lens. The titular stories concern adult that is dysfunctional, played by Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller, attempting to reside in the shadow of these father. An cast that is effervescent including Dustin Hoffman, play these intelligent, albeit miserable, characters because they weave their poignant tales.
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This indie gem could have flown underneath the radar, when youare looking for the romcom that is modern with charm, definitely give Tramps a watch. Callum Turner and Grace Van Patten star as Danny and Ellie, a sincere good kid and a streetwise girl who attempt to carry out a shady deal for a cash that is little. Tightly scripted and deftly avoiding territory that is hackneyed Tramps will effortlessly win your heart.
Horror
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Vampires vs. the Bronx (2020)
Vampires vs. the Bronx is just a comedy-horror that is unique more ways than one. Set in the New York borough of the Bronx, it follows young Miguel Martinez, a big-hearted kid helping to raise money for his struggling bodega that is local. But it is not designer that is just new stores threatening to maneuver in: Creepy pale residents by having a taste for blood are eating up people and their properties. A commentary on gentrification with goofy charm, twists and thrills, Vampires vs. the Bronx is just a fresh, entertaining spin from the genre.
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His House is just a horror flick that, yep, hits near to home. Revealing its supernatural evils through the harrowing human story, it follows Bol and Rial, a refugee couple from Sudan, who battle to conform to their brand new life in a town that is english. Don’t expect jump that is straightforward — His House plays to the psychological specters of history, adding a lot more corridors of torment. A heartrending, powerful piece.
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This smart horror that is psychological partially drawn from co-writer Isa Mazzei’s experiences as a camgirl (or webcam model). Yet Cam is no documentary, following Alice Ackerman, a camgirl that is young one day discovers a precise replica of herself has had over her show. This thriller that is unique red with all the risk of technology is a wonderful feature to hit play on.
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One of this more productive Stephen King adaptations, this horror drama in line with the novella 1922 is just a burn that is slow a mesmerizing performance at its core. Thomas Jane, who you’ll also know from Boogie Nights and 2004’s The Punisher, gives one of his career best performances as the ever proud Wilfred James, a farmer who makes the totally wise decision to murder the help to his wife of these teenage son. The results are harrowing on multiple levels (you really won’t like rats after this).(* if you don’t like rats,)
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If you had been mesmerized because of the Haunting of Hill House, then Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of Stephen King novel Gerald’s Game is just a must-watch. A couple continues on holiday at an isolated lake house, where a very important factor results in another… and Carla Gugino’s Jessie eventually ends up handcuffed into the bed without any escape that is visible. Gugino puts in an performance that is immense packing out of the enclosed bedroom setting. Expect narratively and conclusions that are emotionally satisfying with melancholy-suffused horror that surges into quiet triumph because of its haunted characters.
Western
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The effectiveness of your dog (2021)
More when compared to a decade after her previous film, Bright Star, extraordinary filmmaker Jane Campion has unfolded the director’s chair again to oversee the effectiveness of your dog. She wound up winning an Oscar, therefore it had been a move that is good. The Western centers on Phil Burbank, a rancher that is domineering uses the effectiveness of toxic masculinity to own his way, mocking his brother for falling in love. The effectiveness of your dog is just a exercise that is mesmeric the subtle shifts of emotion and power in relationships. Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst are immense, helping to carry Campion’s masterful vision to life.
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Paul Greengrass (Jason Bourne) directs Tom Hanks in this moving Western. Civil War veteran Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd discovers a girl that is young after she was captured by Native Americans as a baby. While helping return her to her family, he does his usual job of traveling to towns and reading newspapers for a fee that is small. Do not expect action that is high-octane This road movie is fueled by character development and the beautiful views. Still, you’ll want to settle in for a ride that is comforting pure sympathetic Hanks during the steering wheel.
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
The Coen Brothers kick up the western dust having an anthology film that gives you six vignettes all set regarding the frontier that is american. One of them is about the titular Buster Scruggs, a chipper cowboy that is singing casually brings out a shoot-up inside a cantina. But there is a twist that is dark keeps you on your toes. Sewing the rest of its stories together with a constant humor that is black The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is just a Coen Brothers winner.
Drama
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Rebecca Hall makes her debut that is directorial in fashion with her adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel Passing. It tells the whole story of two light-skinned Black women, certainly one of whom chooses to “pass” as white. Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga embody the duality in the centre for this story that is delicate shot in black and white. Gracefully handled, Passing is a tender portrait revealing powerful depths that are psychological
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Tick, Tick… Boom! (2021)
Andrew Garfield takes the spotlight because of this biographical drama that is musical Jonathan Larson, the late composer behind Rent and Tick, Tick… Boom! The movie, helmed by Lin-Manuel Miranda in his directorial debut, follows Larson’s career and the time pressure he feels to leave a impression that is lasting. A meaningful narrative about the creative process and a passionate performance from Garfield as Larson, Tick, Tick… Boom! is a graceful and feel-good tribute.(* with joy-inducing music)
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This fine drama that is british a whole lot of buried treasure with a distinguished cast in Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James and Johnny Flynn. It’s based on the true events around the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo, yielding a trove that is priceless of artifacts hidden inside a burial ship. Romantic, intellectual and moving, The Dig is just a sweep that is full of.
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The Boys when you look at the Band (2020)
The Boys when you look at the Band sets a stage that is new an ensemble cast who all performed the classic play-by-the-same-name’s 2018 Broadway revival. Among them, Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto and Matt Bomer. The movie brings perspectives that are new a birthday celebration celebrated by way of a number of gay men in 1968 new york. The party takes an turn that is unexpected a visitor from the host’s past calls in. The boys in the Band is a thought-provoking, engaging drama.(* with a cast that knows how to play off each other and compelling themes such as self-loathing and internalized homophobia)
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A black-and-white David Fincher tale in regards to the screenwriter that is unsung Mankiewicz who helped Orson Welles write Citizen Kane. Step back into Old Hollywood, with beautiful cinematography and take in the behind-the-scenes of how studio systems functioned in a time that is different. Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried are on the list of exceptional cast for this drama that is biographical with all the lightness and darkness of the hero’s life.
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The Trial of this Chicago 7 (2020)
An Aaron Sorkin drama according to a story that is true? The Trial of the Chicago 7 lives up to its pedigree, following the trial that is real-life of number of anti-Vietnam War protestors faced with conspiracy to incite riots. The trial of the Chicago 7 is both topical and full of compelling theatrical energy.(* with a stellar ensemble cast, including Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II)
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This sports drama from 2019 marked the occasion that is second Steven Soderbergh used an iPhone to shoot a feature film (the first was 2018’s Unsane). High Flying Bird tells the story of a sports agent facing the ax unless he pulls off a plan that is company-saving 72 hours. Capturing the high tensions of professional sports through the shooting that is unique, High Flying Bird is just a fascinating piece come up with with expert direction, editing and performances.
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A movie about divorce may well not seem like the most effective viewing experience, but Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story is just a journey it’s also important to take. Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver give two of the greatest performances of these careers as Nicole and Charlie, a couple of who set about the emotionally and logistically complicated processes that are legal in prying a partnership apart. Painted with an complexity that is emotional includes poignantly funny moments together with the painful ones, this will be happy-sad at its best.
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Set primarily in Vatican City, this drama that is biographical Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio in the aftermath of the Vatican leaks scandal. It’s as fascinating as it sounds. The Two Popes carves up a slice of real-life drama with a two-hander that is first-class Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins.
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Alfonso Cuaron’s semi-autobiographical snapshot of this Colonia Roma neighborhood of Mexico City tells a story that is small staggering prowess. Let Cuaron steer you through the ups and downs of a housekeeper that is live-in of middle-class family. His lens captures scenes that are intricately beautiful an album that quietly envelopes you with wonder and grace.
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This Italian film gets the
from Bong Joon-ho, so why don’t we pay attention to the Oscar-winning director of Parasite and add it for this list. Written and directed by Alice Rohrwacher, Happy as Lazzaro is defined into the ’70s for a tobacco farm, where good-hearted peasant that is young dutifully works. When a nobleman convinces him to help him fake his own kidnapping, a story of friendship, innocence and commentary that is social. A gorgeously shot, cinematic fairytale.
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This elegant film that is spanish steep you in its rich imagery and phenomenally good performances from its two leads. Susi Sánchez and Bárbara Lennie star as Anabel and Chiara respectively, an mother that is estranged daughter who reunite for reasons that are not as clear because they first seem. The precision of this filmmaking listed here is worthy of taking in if you are partial to deliberately paced meditations on pain, loss and love. Masterful.
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The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)
seal of approvalMaggie Gyllenhaal gives a profession best performance when you look at the Kindergarten Teacher, a drama about, yep, a kindergarten teacher. Lisa is dissatisfied together with her life that is own leads her to make some questionable decisions regarding one of her young students. When Jimmy exhibits child prodigy levels of poetry talent that is writing Lisa may or may well not take credit for this. The Kindergarten Teacher’s slightly character that is disturbing might leave you feeling conflicted, but there is no question about Gyllenhaal’s mesmerizing performance.
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Mudbound offers you a look that is historical class struggle through the lens of a Black veteran and a white veteran who both still have one foot stuck in World War II. Dealing with PTSD and racism in the Mississippi Delta, with a cast that includes Garrett Hedlund and Jason Mitchell, Mudbound’s tempest shall rivet you to definitely the spot.
Thriller
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I am Thinking About Ending Things (2020)
A psychological thriller that dives deep into the surreal. I am thinking about Ending Things definitely defintely won’t be for everybody, however it connects you to definitely the frustrations of this young woman (Jessie Buckley) at its heart, who grapples with breaking off her boyfriend Jake to her seven-week-relationship (Jesse Plemons). On your toes, with atmospheric cinematography and strong performances from Toni Collette and David Thewlis as Jake’s fairly odd parents while it overstays its welcome a little, I’m Thinking of Ending Things always keeps you. Fans of director-writer Charlie Kaufman are going to be pleased.
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Two movies named the phone call arrived on the scene in 2020. Watch the south one that is korean a time travel thriller revolving around, yep, a phone call. Twenty-eight-year-old Seo-yeon finds a phone buried in a closet in her childhood home. It rings — and the caller, it turns out, is living in the house that is same years earlier. Twists right as much as the moment that is final along with a wild cat-and-mouse chase that alters the past and present make this a must-watch.
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This taut thriller set in the remote Scottish Highlands is definately not an idyllic getaway. Get ready for a full-on nightmare that is nerve-wringing its protagonists are desperate to wake up from. Vaughn and Marcus set out on a lads’ weekend trip that is hunting but following a night of drinking, they end up facing events they never may have planned for. Calibre lives as much as its name, delivering a slick package of grim, gripping drama. Allow the force that is full of one wallop you.
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First They Killed My Dad (2017)
The fifth film on Angelina Jolie’s directing CV ended up being her best. Centered on Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung’s memoir, the thriller that is biographical the horrors Ung suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge. With an lens that is empathetic a shocking story through the perspective of the child, First They Killed my dad is just a unique war movie made out of control and finesse.
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I do not Feel in the home in this global world Anymore (2017)
If you’ve had been day that is bad this might be the movie for you. When the police refuse to help with a robbery, nursing assistant Ruth and her neighbor that is weird Tony matters to their own hands. I do not Feel in the home in this global world Anymore spots the idiosyncrasies of everyday life, before escalating its story into dark places with even darker humor. With a touch of Coen Brothers’ flair, its perfectly packed 96 minutes will surprisingly leave you emotional.
Sci-fi
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From Netflix’s impressive stash of international films comes Spanish horror that is sci-fi Platform. Its high-concept story centers on a tower that delivers food to people on each of its levels that are many a platform. Those during the snag that is top best and most abundant spread, which is devoured as the platform lowers down the levels. Social commentary rings throughout this thriller that is dystopian which takes shocking, occasionally gruesome turns most of the way into the bottom.
Romance
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This YA movie tells the storyline of Ellie Chu, a shy American that is asian discovering sexuality in the remote town of Squahamish. A yet that is straight-A student who has got a side-hustle writing papers on her behalf classmates, Ellie helps footballer Paul Munsky write a love letter to Aster Flores. However it ends up Aster is ideal for Ellie instead. A tale of self-acceptance told having a touch that is delicate The 1 / 2 of it’s a joy.
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The Incredible Jessica James (2017)
The Incredible Jessica James introduces a delightfully self-possessed character that is main by an equally delightful Jessica Williams. The confident and independent Jessica James goes on a date that is blind she eventually ends up speaking about nothing but her ex. A take that is fresh the breakup movie with an empowering lead, it is an easy hit for any entertaining night in.
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