The best movies new to Netflix, Max, Prime, and Hulu this January

Happy New Year, Polygon readers! 2024 is gone; long live 2025, or at least the next… *glares at calendar* 361 days.

The year is off to a strong start with plenty of The highly anticipated theatrical versionincluding Steven Soderbergh’s presentRay Whannell’s werewolfand “Den of Thieves 2: Pantera”. However, if you want to watch something from the comfort of your own home, there are just as many options to choose from, if not more! This month we have a Christopher Nolan masterpiece that just celebrated its tenth anniversary, Paul Thomas Anderson’s breakthrough debut starring Mark Wahlberg and Burt Reynolds, and arguably the best Bat ever made Hero movie.

Let’s take a closer look at what to expect this month!

Editor’s recommendation: “Interstellar Effect”

type: science fiction drama
director: Christopher Nolan
Throw: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Nestle

Ten years have passed since it was first released to great success Interstellar. Now, just weeks after the film returns to theaters in IMAX and 70mm formats, it’s available to watch on Netflix, so you can watch it however you want. But if you haven’t seen it recently and missed the theatrical revival, you should still revisit Nolan’s galactic masterpiece.

There are many good reasons to give Interstellar Put another perspective on it, including the fact that it might be even better than you remember. But in the years since Oppenheimerobviously Interstellar marks an interesting midpoint in Nolan’s career. The director has always been fascinated by time, but this is the first time in his career that he’s really begun to examine how it affects the humanity of his characters. It’s a more mature and dramatic approach to the concept than a movie like this InceptionBut it was also a key experiment on his path to a Best Picture-winning biopic. —Austin Gosling

type: science fiction drama
director: Lars von Trier
Throw: Kirsten Dunst/Charlotte Gainsbourg/Alexander Skarsgård

Lars von Trier depression Star Kirsten Dunst (Marie Antoinette) plays Justine, a young bride who experiences depression on the eve of her wedding. When a rogue planet called Melancholy hurtles toward Earth on a collision course, Justin’s sister Claire struggles to stay calm in the face of impending disaster, while Justin experiences a strange feeling in his final days on Earth. of euphoric resignation. depression It’s an achingly beautiful, melancholic and painful journey through depression and ennui, and one of von Trier’s best films to date. ——Dusan Egan

type: heist drama
director: McMahon
Throw: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Tom Sizemore

Michael Mann’s 1995 crime thriller stars Al Pacino as Vincent Hanna, an eccentric but highly capable police detective caught up in a tense A cat-and-mouse struggle; Robert De Niro stars as Neil McCauley, a career criminal. This is a movie made up of moments and scenes that could make up the entire third act finale of a small movie. Here they are perfectly put together, composed of carefully interlocked parts, in harmony with the precision of Swiss timepieces.

Pacino and De Niro give two of their greatest performances as a pair of obsessive workaholics whose razor-sharp mastery of their trades comes at the expense of everything they love or hold dear. Dante Spinotti’s cinematography transforms Los Angeles’ vast cityscapes into a sea of ​​shimmering lights that flicker on the dark surface of the ocean, a den of moral inequality from which no soul can emerge completely clean or unscathed Appear. -this

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

type: superhero drama
director: Eric Radomski, Bruce Timm
Throw: Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, Dana Delany

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is one of the greatest Batman movies ever made, period. Originally by Batman: The Animated Series Producers Eric Radomski and Bruce Timm produced it as a direct-to-video film before it was released theatrically in 1993 Mask of Illusion The Dark Knight teams up with his old nemesis the Joker to battle a mysterious new enemy. The film explores the character’s inherent tragedy and history with a nuance and depth that few subsequent incarnations (live-action or otherwise) have successfully attempted since, painting a portrait of fatalistic loss and heartbreak that continues to this day. Broken portrait. -this

type: drama
director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Throw: Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds

No other movie comes close to it Boogie Nights. Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic film set in the 1970s is both one of the funniest movies ever made and one of the most tragic.

The film follows nearly a dozen characters in and around the adult film industry, who first fell in love with the industry as the advent of mass-produced home videos took over the old-world art. Anderson presents each of these characters, with their complexities and flaws, with care and love, establishing a wonderful world of family and occasional moments that only arise when one artistic era gives way to another. tragedy. —joint stock company

type: sci-fi action
director: Steven Spielberg
Throw: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton

This is a slightly complicated suggestion, not that there’s anything wrong with it minority reportbut because it’s the perfect starting point to recommend the entire series of movies that the Criterion Channel is focusing on this month: Surveillance Cinema. This standard feature is all about surveillance status and the character’s sneaking suspicion that they’re being watched. It contains the perfect combination of absolute classics (Thank you 1138, dialogue, body double, ghataka, Truman Show) and movies you may not have seen before (anderson tapes, death watch, Tiaozi, the end of violenceand devil lover).

The series also includes Steven Spielberg’s minority reportwhat better place to start when it comes to surveillance? This paranoid thriller tells the story of John Anderton (Tom Cruise) in a near future where almost all crimes can be prevented through the predictions of some state controllers with psychic powers. However, before the system accuses John of a crime, he wonders if his society’s justice system is entirely fair and sets out to prove his innocence. —joint stock company