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Private Life

Sunday

Wind River

Well-acted

Birds of Passage

Thrilling

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

True-crime

Incendies

Touching

A Most Wanted Man

Thrilling

Sicario

Action / Mystery

Suspenseful

You Were Never Really Here

Intense

Okja

Thought-provoking

Bleeding Edge

Sunday

Added 7 days ago

Good Show

90% Vouch

Barry

Bill Hader writes and stars in Barry as an assassin who decides to take up acting in Hollywood. In very familiar Bill Hader fashion, Barry is funny and yet has a lot of heart. He plays his character so well that you find yourself rooting for him from the start as he navigates Chechnyan gangs, the FBI, and intense acting lessons. A lovely, funny, and smart TV show.

Under 30 Minutes

Added 1 week ago

Foreign

Good Movie

80% Vouch

Birds of Passage

Birds of passage is one of the few movies that has come out of my home country (Colombia) I can vouch for. It is insanely appealing and well-done on a visual level, and the story doesn’t fall far behind.
The movie revolves around the rise and fall of a drug business, pretty standard for Colombian narratives, but the way it blends with indigenous customs makes for a pretty unique story. An absorbing and captivating tale.

Thrilling

Good Show

86% Vouch

Forever

Something happens in Forever episode three that I can’t tell you about. If I did it, I would spoil the show up for you. I don’t want to do this. So I will try very hard to sell you on the first two episodes, just remember, the show gets very different afterward. Both in premise, general vibe, and humor.

Here’s my best pitch: Fred Armisen. That face, that tone, that voice. How can you resist a TV show that doesn’t have many characters and yet he’s the main one.

Pitch No. 2: Maya Rudolph. She is funny, expressive, and whenever she looks at something, that thing instantly gains a lot of interest. This is the best performance of her career so far, I would wager.

30 minutes to 1 hour

Good Movie

80% Vouch

Mid90s

It wouldn’t be too far of a reach to evoke Kids (1995) while diving into Mid90s. But instead of taking on the HIV crisis, Mid90s is a much more tender, poignant reflection on coming of age in 90’s skate culture. Jonah Hill, writer and director, examines the complexities of trying to fit in and the difficult choices one has to embrace individualism. From an opening of physical abuse to scenes of drug usage and traumatic experiences, Mid90s is a meditation not only on culture, but also a subtle examination of what it means to be human, to reach emotional and physical limitations, and to seek acceptance. Filmed in a 4:3 aspect ratio, Mid90s doesn’t concern itself with grandiose filmography, but instead the aspect ratio almost reflects the tonal and metaphorical aspects played out on screen. With a smaller dynamic range of color and the familiar dust/scratches, the 16mm film compliments gritty and emotional moments of Mid90s. The emotional range of the film will take the audience from the depths of empathy to laughing out loud, but there is no compromise to the weight of each moment. Jonah Hill’s directorial debut is beautiful in every sense of the word.

Sunday

On Netflix

High Vouch Movies

Good Movie

81% Vouch

76% Users

Obvious Child

This is a revelation of a movie for its simplicity in handling a pretty serious and dark subject. It’s the story of a generally immature and newly unemployed stand-up comic in New York and her unplanned pregnancy with a man that was supposed to be a fling, and it’s surprisingly funny and yet rather touching. I can’t think of many actresses who would’ve fit the bill quite like Jenny Slate. Not only is she hilarious, but her treatment of a generally sensitive issue from the honest, crass point of view of a down-on-life, New York-er leaves you drowning in empathy for her. I recommend this for anyone looking to cuddle up, have a few little clever laughs and feel all tingly in the chest-al area.

Sweet

Best Film

90% Vouch

84% Users

It Follows

This movie is distilled horror. A teenager sleeps with her boyfriend for the first time, after which he tells her that he was the latest recipient of a curse that is transmitted through sexual contact. After she becomes completely paranoid without any manifestations, the curse manifests itself in assassins that kill their way to her. A genuinely creepy film that’s also very smart.

Raw

Foreign

Best Film

91% Vouch

93% Users

Mustang

Five orphaned sister are put under house arrest by their uncle and grandmother after they are seen horsing around with local boys from school. While their actions were purely innocent, their behaviour is viewed as scandalous and shameful by the conservative elders in their small Turkish village. After this incident, their grandmother turns her attention towards marrying off her granddaughters. Each of the five sisters rebel in their own way, but it is the youngest and rowdiest sister, Lale, who is the central protagonist of the film. She watches helplessly as each of her older sisters are married off with an increasing sense of dread and desperation. While this may sound hopelessly depressing, the movie is equal parts beautiful and tragic, and floats across the screen in a dreamlike manner. Not all of the sisters escape their oppressive surroundings or their assigned fate, but the message is clear: it’s crucial to try.

Well-acted

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Foreign

Best Film

92% Vouch

93% Users

The Handmaiden

From Park Chan-wook (maker of Oldboy) comes The Handmaiden, a great movie in line with his now mastered style of portraying the beautifully weird. A rich Japanese lady isolated from the world accepts a new handmaiden, a shrewd young Korean girl with hidden motives. The men around them, full of greed and lust, complete the grand Victorian tale of deception, romance or lack thereof, and dark humor. You will find yourself at times screaming “what?”, and at times bewildered by the general aesthetic of the film including clothes, traditions, and the stunning nature of both Korea and Japan. If you love cinema, you can’t miss this movie. It’s just too big of an achievement.

Drama / Mystery / Romance

Well-acted

Good Movie

86% Vouch

82% Users

Margin Call

A thoughtful drama about the financial crisis, Margin Call is gripping. Seriously, even something as convoluted as the 2008 global economic meltdown is not only accessible and understandable, but it’s gripping. Margin Call transports you to the heart of Wall Street, both the financial institutions and the street, literally. It is exciting, well-acted and informative. Uh, also: Kevin Spacey.

Thrilling

Good Movie

80% Vouch

88% Users

The Man from Earth

The movie starts with Professor John Oldman packing his things to leave and start a new life. He invites his friends to say goodbye and decides to reveal the reason for his departure. The starting point of the narration is a simple question asked by Oldman to his friends: what would a man from the upper paleolithic look like if he had survived until the present day? As scientists, the protagonists play his game and investigate the question, not knowing whether the story is a bad joke or a genuine narration. One of the best movies I’ve watched and definitely one of the most under-rated.

Thought-provoking

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9 Best Shows on Amazon Prime You’re Missing Out

At this point, Amazon Prime is becoming less of a crappy alternative to Netflix more of a wide and extensive catalog. However, not many people have been paying attention to this shift.

Take Homecoming for example. It’s an amazing show starring Julia Roberts and directed by Sam Esmail (Mr. Robot). If it was a Netflix Original it would have been one of the most talked about shows right now.

But because it is on Amazon Prime, very few people have seen it. This list is a quick guide to similar titles. Below are the best shows on Amazon Prime you’re probably missing out on.

18 Best Movies on Amazon Prime You’re Missing Out

Amazon Prime is a mine of hidden gems if you’re looking for quality movies. Netflix might invest more in new original content, most of which is average at best, but Amazon Prime has had a solid acquisition push over the past couple of months.

So the moment you know how to navigate it, you will think of Amazon Prime differently – less as something you go on every time there is a new The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel season, and more as a source of good movies.

Below is a list of the best movies on Prime that you probably don’t know were there, but for a full look at what the big streaming platform has to offer – you can visit our Amazon Prime page.

17 Best Shows on Netflix You’re Missing Out On

Do you know the old saying “finding a good movie to watch solves one problem, finding a good TV show solves one problem x number of seasons x number of episodes”? No? Really?

OK, I made it up, but it sounds like something future generations will say once this list is shared across the globe. Just remember, you first read it here.

With Netflix throwing more and more money into television, it’s hard to keep track of what’s out there that’s worth your time. And this is why, just like we did for movies, we’re putting together this list of the best TV shows you’ve probably missed.

Below are handpicked highly-rated and award-winning shows that you should definitely watch.

16 Best Movies on Netflix You’re Missing Out On

Finding what to watch on Netflix is easy, finding good things to watch is hard. There is so much movement in the Netflix catalog it sometimes confuses even the journalists covering the platform.

Our job is to go through that catalog and waste time so that you wouldn’t have to. We hunt down the best things to watch at any one time, and in the end we summarize everything in a list like this one. So after our list of 23 best-on-Netflix list, this is our shorter, tighter recap for the best movies we’ve been recommending on Netflix lately. Because we only suggest highly-rated, little-known movies, there is a big chance that you’ve missed these picks.

The 18 Best Titles Added to Netflix in 2018

We’ve made a lot of jokes about the end-of-year lists in our previous best movies of 2018 list.

We thought were being funny but now we’re out of jokes. There are no catchy sentences or ideas to start this list that we haven’t already used, I’m sorry. Just facts: these movies or shows (created or continued) in 2018 are absolutely amazing.

Our previous list doesn’t have anything that is on Netflix yet – this way together they compliment each other. One has things on Netflix, the other one, things available for streaming elsewhere. Once has jokes, the other one has references to the first one’s jokes.

agoodmovietowatch is a website that offers an alternative to Netflix’ selection. Instead of letting Netflix’s corporate algorithms pick your next viewing, we aggregate movies and shows that were handpicked by humans. ALL movies and shows are highly-rated by both critics and viewers. This means that they’re good, very good even. Also, most of our picks didn’t make a huge splash at the box office, so there is little chance you’ve already seen them. Movies and shows you haven’t yet seen, which you will love – that’s our motto.

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