The weekend is here! If you’re looking for something to watch, we can help. We’ve dug through Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max and Disney+ to find some of the best titles on each service. STREAMING ON NETFLIX ‘28 Years Later’
When the director Danny Boyle and the screenwriter Alex Garland teamed up in 2003 to make a zombie film, the result was “28 Days Later,” one of the most influential horror movies of the modern era — not only for its on-the-ground realism and digital video photography, but for replacing the traditional lumbering, Frankenstein-like undead with fast-moving, terrifyingly quicksilver flesh-eaters. After skipping the 2007 follow-up “28 Weeks Later,” Boyle and Garland return for this arresting third installment, which follows young Spike (the tremendous Alfie Williams) his mother, Isla (Jodie Comer), and father, Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), after they inadvertently upset the delicate balance of survivors and infected. Our critic called it “a classic boys-into-men coming-of-age story updated for the postapocalypse.” These are the 50 best movies on Netflix.STREAMING ON NETFLIX ‘Lord of the Flies’
This mini-series delivers a mostly faithful adaptation of William Golding’s classic 1954 novel, about a group of British boys — ranging in age from grade school to preteen — who survive a plane crash on a remote island. The screenwriter Jack Thorne (an Emmy winner for co-writing “Adolescence”) and a cast of uncommonly gifted young actors explore Golding’s themes of class privilege and toxic masculinity, showing how discipline and order breaks down as the children default to slovenliness and cruelty. This “Lord of the Flies” captures the book’s hallucinatory imagery and youthful savagery. Here are 30 great TV shows on Netflix.STREAMING ON HULU ‘Sicario’
The brutality and hopelessness of the war on drugs gets the thriller treatment in the hands of the director Denis Villeneuve (“Arrival”) and the screenwriter Taylor Sheridan (“Hell or High Water”). They tell their story through the eyes of Kate (Emily Blunt), a tough but idealistic F.B.I. agent who is asked to join a task force to track and apprehend the head of a Mexican drug cartel. In doing so, Kate gets a quick education in moral flexibility, courtesy of a folksy C.I.A. agent (Josh Brolin) and his coldblooded associate (Benicio Del Toro). Sleek and muscular, filled with pulse-pounding action and harrowing suspense, “Sicario” nonetheless approaches its subject matter with the practicality and cynicism of a sharp political drama. Here are Hulu’s best movies and TV shows.STREAMING ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’
Audrey Hepburn’s part fragile, part slinky, totally mesmerizing performance as Holly Golightly, the Manhattan party girl who finds love in the least likely of places, is deservedly iconic — and the movie surrounding it isn’t half-bad either. Just have your fast-forward button at the ready for the racist antics of Mickey Rooney. The director Blake Edwards mines both the humor and desperation of the novella by Truman Capote, while Hepburn and George Peppard (as her would-be beau) generate enough sparks to power their shared apartment building. Here are a bunch of great movies on Amazon.STREAMING ON HBO MAX ‘Irma Vep’
One of the great movies about making movies, Olivier Assayas’s ingenious, ultracool cult classic acts as a barometer of the French film industry in the late 20th century and finds it both creatively and institutionally bereft. Appearing as herself, Maggie Cheung arrives in Paris to play the lead role in a remake of “Les Vampires,” the silent crime serial from the midteens, now revived by a long-in-the-tooth director, played by the French new wave legend Jean-Pierre Léaud. As the production spins out of control, Cheung’s increasing sense of confusion and alienation causes her to turn inward, leading to an unforgettable sequence where she dons her character’s latex catsuit and stalks her hotel. See more great movies streaming on HBO Max.STREAMING ON DISNEY+ ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’
The first full-length animated feature remains a treasure and an institutional touchstone, establishing the outsized clashes between good and evil, the comical interludes and the lush house style that would endure as Disney hallmarks for decades. A princess’s beauty, a queen’s vanity, a magic mirror, a poisoned apple and a cottage full of diminutive miners are among the classic elements plucked from the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale. Our critic called it “sheer fantasy, delightful, gay and altogether captivating.” The 50 best things to watch on Disney+ right now.
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