Watch List Weekly Recap 12/22/23
This week: Shameless self-promotion, a brand new podcast, and the 70 best movies currently on Netflix.
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A Holiday Reminder
Ty Burr • Dec 19, 2023
For those last-minute shoppers, a gentle reminder that your movie-besotted friends or family members might welcome a Watch List subscription in their holiday stocking.
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Ty Burr's Watchcast
Classics of the New Millennium: "The Tree of Life" (2011) with guest filmmaker Alex Winter
Ty Burr • Dec 20, 2023
The "Zappa" documentarian (and erstwhile Bill S. Preston Esq.) joins me to sing the praises of Terrence Malick's masterpiece.
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Good Movies 📽
Xmas Special: The 70 Good Movies on Netflix
Ty Burr • Dec 22, 2023
It’s been a while since I did a round-up of the better movies on Netflix, the streaming service everybody subscribes to but isn’t sure why, but the Friday leading into a long holiday weekend seems a propitious time. Families converge on households and multiple generations must be entertained, sometimes en masse and sometimes piecemeal. My standard process involves combing through the 4,008 feature films (as of this week) offered by Netflix and, after dodging the many, many Bollywood and Chinese titles that I can’t profess to being an expert in, assembling a list of films that I can guarantee are good to great. Following are 70 films you can pretty much bet on, with 20 broken out as specific recommendations. All title links are to the films’ trailers on YouTube. (Paid subscribers)
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