The Best Movies to Stream on Netflix This Week
With the cold January winds blowing across the country, no one will blame you for spending the entire weekend on the couch watching movies, waiting for the sun to warm us up again.
It may be the result of lengthy actor and writer strikes that have disrupted the content pipeline, but Netflix’s new offerings this month are loaded with foreign films and TV shows. What well; it gives viewers the opportunity to try something different. Below, I’ve selected nine of the best movies and shows streaming on Netflix this week. Since it’s blustery January, I included some cinematic food to keep me warm.
Snow Society (2023)
It may be cold where you are, but that doesn’t mean “eating your friends” cold. In 1972, a plane carrying an amateur rugby team from Uruguay crashed in the Andes. Despite tenacity, heroism and cannibalism, 16 of the 45 passengers survived. The Society of Snow tells its story through photographs that make the mountains appear as sinister as they are beautiful, but they also delve into the mysterious center of this incredible true story, offering a spiritual journey as much as a physical one.
Bitcoinned (2024)
I mean, I’m tired of documentaries about poverty, but the appeal of crime is strong. The charming criminals in Bitconned , a new Netflix original docuseries, are a gang of Miami villains who are as brainless as they are ruthless. In 2017, Ray Trapani and his buddies got in on the ground floor of the booming world of cryptocurrencies and scammed everything the Internet had to offer—which is a lot. Unlike international bankers, dumb dudes from Florida who scam people tend to get caught, so Bitconned offers a comeuppance narrative that fits into the core story of “scumbags getting rich” in the form of a New York Times financial reporter. who after some time unravels Trapani’s scheme. eight minutes.
School of Rock (2003)
If you’re looking for a comedy with hilarious jokes, great music, and a surprisingly emotional core, get high and click on School of Rock . Jack Black plays a sleazy rocker who tries to get a job as a music teacher at a school for stuck-up rich kids. As you might guess, the kids learn to relax and rock out from their new teacher, and Teach learns from them how to be an adult. Sure, it’s formulaic, but it’s just a formula because it works so well.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
The complacency of 1970s cinema can be annoying, but One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is an exception, as it remembers to be entertaining and humane while peddling big ideas. Jack Nicholson’s portrayal of a petty criminal who feigns insanity to serve his sentence in a mental hospital evokes the anti-hero attitude of the ’70s. Randle P. McMurphy (RPM – revolutions per minute. Get it?) spends his days inspiring his fellow mental patients to think for themselves and rebel against the authoritarian power structure personified by the evil Nurse Ratchet. Because, dude, isn’t the whole world a mental hospital? As time went on, the humanity and wounded dignity of the supporting characters shone brighter than the slightly trite “messianic rebel against the Man” in Cuckoo’s Nest. It also features a very young Christopher Lloyd.
The Good Grief (2023)
This romantic tragicomedy is set among the sophisticated citizens of London, who have better furniture and better friends than you. But Good Sorrow manages not to irritate, because tragedy and death spare no one; mourning is mourning, even if you spend it in a well-furnished Parisian apartment. Whether you like serious films wrapped in funny jokes or tragic comedies, The Good Grief is the movie you should watch this weekend.
Gravity (2013)
If you’re looking to show off your new 8K TV and surround sound system, Gravity provides an amazing demo. The special effects and cinematography are head and shoulders above anything I’ve ever seen—if someone had told me this was actually filmed in Earth orbit, I would have believed it—and the story is alternately existentially terrifying and strangely uplifting. Plus, the charisma of stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney almost eclipses the technical achievements.
Love is Blind: Sweden (2024)
January is a Monday of the year, and if you want to spend it binge-watching mindless romance reality shows, the first few episodes of Love is Blind: Sweden just dropped on Netflix. The show’s premise—couples meet, date, fall in love, and propose marriage without seeing each other—is a bit like online dating, except everyone’s Swedish, so they’re probably taller and have whiter teeth than yours Tinder. dates.
John Wick (2014)
For a long time I thought I didn’t like action movies, but a few months ago I finally saw John Wick and realized that I fucking love action movies, but most of them are terrible. John Wick isn’t scary. Even though it matches every beat and é million action films that came before it, Wick feels fresh. This has a lot to do with Keanu Reeves’ unlikely action-hero character, but it’s also because every detail is put together so carefully. Two John Wick sequels also arrived on Netflix this month, but in true genre fashion, they’re not as good as the original.
Boy Swallows the Universe (2024)
Based on the beloved young adult novel, Swallow Boy Universe is an Australian-set series about a teenage boy struggling to become an adult in a world of drug dealers, gangsters and other underworld dirtbags. With a dash of magical realism and poetry , Boy Swallows Universe is a reminder that childhood is full of love and wonder, even for kids halfway across the world.