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Spinning through the bright red carousel like the world's longest magazine rack, how are you to separate the good from the naff? We just have so little free time, and we give too much of our lives to movie-picking.
But freeze no more in the shadow of the Big Red N. Here are GQ's top 40 movies now streaming on Netflix, updated every Monday morning for the week ahead, and if you're looking for a list of the best new arrivals to Netflix UK in May 2024? Look no further.
New this week: Sam Mendes flexes his war movie muscles in 1917, plus Chlo Grace Moretz and Isabelle Huppert queen off in stalker thriller Greta. Plus, if you fancy taking a gamble on Amazon Prime and Disney+, try these guides.
Richard Linklater doesn't miss. (See Boyhood below, see also Apollo 10 , see also Before Midnight). So he was never going to drop the ball on a sort-of-mostly-true story about a mild-mannered professor who pretends to be a hitman in order to catch criminals and criminals-to-be, played by doer of no wrong Glen Powell. Chuck in a love interest who hires him to take out her abusive husband and this film was always going to be up against it if it wanted to be a stinker. Obviously it's anything but. You can watch Hit Man on Netflix.
This very Gen Z slasher brings together the A-list of internet It Girls and Online Boyfriends for a fairly tame horror-murder-mystery-class-satire combo. Think Knives Out crossed with Scream. The new faces of Hollywood assemble in a remote American manor house at peak hurricane season, and shit gets real when the lights go out. Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova and Myha'la Herrold lead the pack, with supporting appearances from Chase Sui Wonders, Rachel Sennott, Lee Pace and Pete Davidson. And don't forget the Charli XCX banger on the score. You can watch Bodies Bodies Bodies on Netflix.
Olivia Colman is the queen of playing frazzled women, and The Lost Daughter, in which she plays a stuffy academic who takes a Greek sojourn out of term time, is no different. Then a family of brash Brooklynites (led by Dakota Johnson) arrive to ruin her chill; on watching Johnson struggle with being a young mum, she recalls the difficulties she faced raising her twins, with the character portrayed in flashback by I'm Thinking of Ending Things' Jessie Buckley. Once nowt more than a fly in her Aperol spritz, her guilt overwhelms her. Hardly a holiday for the scrapbook. You can watch The Lost Daughter on Netflix.
If you so desire, thanks to Netflix right now, you can give yourself a Tom Ripley overdose. Not only is there the lush new black-and-white series starring Andrew Scott as the notorious scammer, but you can also indulge in the 1999 Anthony Minghella classic starring young Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Props to Minghella for not only evoking the sundrenched sensuality of 1950s Italy, but securing these later-iconic stars in their absolute prime. It's truly hard to imagine any group of people ever looking better on screen. You can watch The Talented Mr. Ripley on Netflix.
Sofia Coppola's vignette of two lonely people in Tokyo soothing their isolation in the strange comfort of each other is iconic. Chances are, if you know anyone who's been to Japan, they made some punny Instagram caption referring back to the movie or grabbed a drink at the Park Hyatt bar shown in the movie. The movie is both heavy and light, showing the crushing weight of being stuck in the mud of your own life while at the same time letting us find joy and levity in the way Scarlet Johansson's lonely wife and Bill Murray's existential actor fill their time. You can watch Lost in Translation on Netflix.
When was the last time you saw this stone cold classic? Quentin Tarantino's sophomore feature, which he wrote and directed in his early 30s (cue us feeling very, very insignificant) stands up as a feast of witty dialogue, timeless performances and cinematic maximalism. You know the drill. There are the suited assassins who like quoting scripture and debating French fast food (Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta); there's the boxer (Bruce Willis) who refuses to throw a fight, and subsequently comes to blows with the match fixer he double crossed (Ving Rhames); there's Uma Thurman doing the twist. There's the soundtrack. There's Marvin (Phil LaMarr) getting his brains blown out. Let's face it: you will watch this at least 100 times before you die. You can watch Pulp Fiction on Netflix.
The biggest movie of 2022 comes to streaming from Friday, so you can watch Tom Cruise and Miles Teller fly around to Kenny Loggins, and those deeply homoerotic scenes of half-naked beach volleyball, to your heart's content. One of the greatest sequels ever made; one of the greatest action movies; an unimpeachable argument for the superiority of practical stunts and effects; conclusive proof that Cruise is one of the greatest film stars ever to grace our planet. You can watch Top Gun: Maverick on Netflix.
With Christopher Nolan's latest big screen epic, Oppenheimer, finally securing the director his Oscar bag, why not catch up with the movie that made him? Memento has many of the tropes that have come to be associated with Nolan's filmography. For one, it's a real head fuck. It tells the story of a man (Guy Pearce) suffering from short-term memory loss who uses an array of photographs and notes that he has left for himself, like breadcrumbs, to find out who has killed his wife. To do this, Nolan eschews conventional linearity: instead, the film intercuts between black-and-white and colour sequences, the latter in reverse order, putting us in the mind of Pearce's character. Still, not as confusing as Tenet. You can watch Memento on Netflix.
After his big Old Hollywood passion project Mank, The Killer marks a return to familiar territory for David Fincher, with his noted career-running interest in weirdos and outcasts. Michael Fassbender certainly plays one here: the eponymous Killer is the most anal assassin of all time, meticulous and exacting. He's also pretty inept, as becomes clear twenty minutes in and a crucial hit goes to shit, setting in motion a globetrotting revenge story with the Killer exacting bloody retribution for an attack on his girlfriend. A pulpy, noirish delight from a technical master, simple and effective. You can watch The Killer on Netflix.
Have you been putting off watching Martin Scorsese's The Irishman because it's too long to fit into your very busy schedule? Well, we don't blame you. At well over three hours long, it is quite the commitment, but if you suddenly find yourself at home with some time on your hands, then now is the time to grab that prestigious bit of filmmaking by the horns and hunker down with Scorsese and his pals for 209 minutes of good ol' fashioned gangster movie action. Telling the real-life story of renowned hitman Frank Sheeran, as he becomes involved with the mafia, it's perhaps the last time we'll see De Niro, Pacino and Pesci join forces, so soak up every last, immaculately shot second of it. You can watch The Irishman on Netflix.
Before Netflix was the home of some of the biggest and best shows on TV, Netflix was more associated with movies. It all started with its red envelopes, sending DVDs directly to people's homes. It soon became one of the most popular platforms to stream movies in the world (now streaming is the only option as the Netflix DVD service has ended). And it doesn't disappoint, as the amount of Netflix movies to stream is vast.
Of course, such a big library is a positive and a negative. It's a positive because there are seemingly endless options to choose from, but that amount of choice can lead to a lot of scrolling an in decision on what to settle on watching. Allow us to help with that by assembling on official ranking of the best Netflix movies to stream right now.
The list we've put together below (not ranked, just in alphabetical order) includes both the best of the ever expanding slate of Netflix original movies, which are always going to be available on Netflix, and movies that rotate in and out of the service each month; so be sure to check back with this post to see what's new on the service that you should be watching. (FYI, we're only doing feature length movies, so not including shorts, even the Oscar-winning The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.)
Netflix has plenty of amazing documentaries in its library that challenge and inform viewers, perhaps none more so than the Oscar-nominated 13th, directed by Ava DuVernay. The movie reexamines the 13th amendment to the US Constitution, which officially ended slavery but, as the movie posits, also may have led to the racial inequality of the current US prison system. Available: US/UK
Sam Mendes put viewers into the middle of World War One action with his movie 1917. Following two British soldiers (Dean-Charles Champman and George MacKay) as they attempt to deliver a message that could save the lives of 1,600 men is made to look like it is done in one take, which ratchets up the intensity as the audience (like its two main characters) get very little time to breathe. Available: US/UK
1930's All Quiet on the Western Front, an anti-war story depicting a young German soldier's harrowing experiences during World War One, was among the first Best Picture winners, but Netflix's remake of All Quiet of the Western Front from German director Edward Berger maybe even better than the original. With today's technology they can masterfully reconstruct the intense battle sequences of the story, but at its heart are still the characters who are forced to endure the worst. Available: US/UK
The rom-com has found new life on Netflix, with Always Be My Maybe as one of the streamer's best original movies in the genre. Ali Wong and Randall Park star as childhood friends we reconnect as adults wondering with the question hanging over their heads: why did they never end up together? An excellent script, Wong and Park's great chemistry and a memorable Keanu Reeves cameo make Always Be My Maybe a movie you'll love in love with. Available: US/UK
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