Plus ‘The Velvet Underground’ on Hulu, ‘The Trip’ on Netflix, ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ series on Amazon, ‘Free Guy’ and ‘The Green Knight’ on VOD and more…
Category: Crime Cinema
Park Chan-wook’s ‘The Handmaiden’ on Amazon Prime
The director of ‘Oldboy’ delivers a sexy, savage, utterly compelling con thriller tangled up in national and sexual politics in 1930s Korea.
‘Castle: Complete Series’ on Hulu
Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic star in the breezy, self-aware show that stirs humor, romantic heat, and playful mysteries in the TV crime procedural.
What to stream: ‘The Many Saints of Newark’ on HBO Max, ‘The Guilty’ and ‘Maid’ on Netflix, Jon Stewart on Apple TV+
Plus ‘Queenpins’ on Paramount+, Britney Spears documentaries on Netflix and Hulu, ‘Diana: The Musical’ on Netflix, ‘Pauli Murray’ on Amazon, ‘The Perfect Candidate’ on Criterion Channel, and more.
What to stream: ‘News of the World’ on HBO Max, the women of ‘Kate’ and ‘On the Verge’ on Netflix, a new ‘Doogie’ on Disney+
Plus ‘Come From Away’ on Apple TV+, ‘LuLaRich’ on Amazon, ‘The Father’ on Starz, ‘Malignant’ on HBO Max, the final season of ‘Lucifer’ on Netflix, and more…
‘District B13’ – Stunning stunt action on Amazon Prime and free on Kanopy
Pierre Morel’s twist on ‘Escape From New York’ set in a near-future Paris is a lean, clean, B-movie action machine fueled by adrenaline and indignation.
‘Breathless’ – Jean-Luc Godard’s new wave classic on HBO Max, Criterion Channel, and Kanopy
Jean-Paul Belmondo plays a charming rogue of a street thug in this cinematic blast across the bow of the French filmmaking and international cinema.
‘Exiled’ – Johnnie To’s gangster odyssey on Amazon Prime
A simple hot becomes a buddy crime odyssey in Johnnie To’s elegant genre exercise reuniting the stars of his gangster classic ‘The Mission.’
Keanu Reeves is ‘John Wick’ on Peacock
This 2014 action movie hit revived a kind of thriller that Hollywood had ignored in the age of superhero movies: simple, streamlined, driven by action scenes that rely on physical prowess rather than computer generated elements. It also turned Keanu Reeves into an unexpectedly terrific action star.
Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx collide in ‘Collateral’ on HBO Max
Tom Cruise is well cast as a coldly efficient professional assassin and Jamie Foxx is excellent as the cabbie who picks unwittingly drives him to his targets in Michael Mann’s coolly attenuated thriller Collateral (2004). Mann is the king of crime movie professionalism and his characters are the best at what they do, consummate professionals […]