Even with the streaming company’s sophisticated algorithms, it’s not always easy to decide what to watch on Netflix. The right mood is difficult to find and whether you’re feeling a sober classic like “Schindler’s List” or a heart-warming Disney-Pixar flick like “Coco,” there are options to fit every movie palate. Here are 20 films worth watching to begin your transition into the holidays.
“The Irishman”
Martin Scorsese’s latest is a long-form epic about the real-life mafia action of the ’70s. Frank Sheeran, truck-driver-turned-hitman played by Robert De Niro, gets involved with the Bufalino family — led by Joe Pesci’s Russell — and Jimmy Hoffa, played by Al Pacino. With three and a half hours of runtime, we recommend settling in with a smooth scotch. — Lorraine Wheat
“Zodiac”
David Fincher’s iconic thriller follows three real-life characters as they attempt to solve the mystery of the Zodiac serial...
“The Irishman”
Martin Scorsese’s latest is a long-form epic about the real-life mafia action of the ’70s. Frank Sheeran, truck-driver-turned-hitman played by Robert De Niro, gets involved with the Bufalino family — led by Joe Pesci’s Russell — and Jimmy Hoffa, played by Al Pacino. With three and a half hours of runtime, we recommend settling in with a smooth scotch. — Lorraine Wheat
“Zodiac”
David Fincher’s iconic thriller follows three real-life characters as they attempt to solve the mystery of the Zodiac serial...
- 11/28/2019
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
Don Kaye Mar 2, 2019
Why David Fincher’s masterpiece about the Zodiac Killer still haunts us all these years later.
David Fincher’s Zodiac is now over ten years old. The two-hour-and-38-minute film follows the years-long investigation by police and journalists of the Zodiac Killer, a serial murderer who killed five people and injured two others during a spree that stretched across 1968 and 1969 in northern California. The Zodiac may have also been responsible for a number of other killings, going back as far as 1963 and as late as 1972, but those have never been confirmed. The Zodiac himself, who wrote a series of letters to the press, was never captured and a long list of suspects that have surfaced over the years has yet to yield a conclusive answer to the question of his identity.
Fincher’s goal with Zodiac was not to make a fast-paced, grisly thriller like his earlier classic,...
Why David Fincher’s masterpiece about the Zodiac Killer still haunts us all these years later.
David Fincher’s Zodiac is now over ten years old. The two-hour-and-38-minute film follows the years-long investigation by police and journalists of the Zodiac Killer, a serial murderer who killed five people and injured two others during a spree that stretched across 1968 and 1969 in northern California. The Zodiac may have also been responsible for a number of other killings, going back as far as 1963 and as late as 1972, but those have never been confirmed. The Zodiac himself, who wrote a series of letters to the press, was never captured and a long list of suspects that have surfaced over the years has yet to yield a conclusive answer to the question of his identity.
Fincher’s goal with Zodiac was not to make a fast-paced, grisly thriller like his earlier classic,...
- 3/1/2017
- Den of Geek
There are Famous Monsters…and then there are famous monsters.
Both Psycho and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre were inspired by the real-life crimes of mass murderer Ed Gein; The Silence of the Lambs, book and film, incorporated character traits of multiple serial killers in the depiction of Jame Gumb, the psychopath hunted by FBI agent Clarice Starling — with a little help from the imprisoned Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter, himself a (still-mysterious) amalgam of stranger-than-fiction monsters of past and present.
While the profoundly disturbing thriller Se7en reeked with authentic nihilism, and films like Dawn of the Dead and Hostel took blood-soaked pains to offer satiric commentaries on the sorry state of humanity, there’s an entire genre of films that bypass the more commercial goals of “escapism” in favor of more directly dramatizing the horrific tales we’ve read about in the newspapers, pored over in paperback, or seen described...
Both Psycho and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre were inspired by the real-life crimes of mass murderer Ed Gein; The Silence of the Lambs, book and film, incorporated character traits of multiple serial killers in the depiction of Jame Gumb, the psychopath hunted by FBI agent Clarice Starling — with a little help from the imprisoned Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter, himself a (still-mysterious) amalgam of stranger-than-fiction monsters of past and present.
While the profoundly disturbing thriller Se7en reeked with authentic nihilism, and films like Dawn of the Dead and Hostel took blood-soaked pains to offer satiric commentaries on the sorry state of humanity, there’s an entire genre of films that bypass the more commercial goals of “escapism” in favor of more directly dramatizing the horrific tales we’ve read about in the newspapers, pored over in paperback, or seen described...
- 3/15/2010
- by Movies Unlimited
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
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