![]() ![]() “Bright” hinges on the relationship between two reluctantly paired police officers: battle-scarred beat cop Daryl Ward (Will Smith) and his idealistic new partner, Nick Jakoby ( Joel Edgerton), the first Orc ever allowed on the force. Set in a parallel-universe version of Los Angeles, where humans live in harmony with Orcs, Elves and Fairies - well, maybe “harmony” isn’t quite the right word more like “an uneasy balance” - this ambitious, yet astonishingly well-executed Netflix tentpole directly benefits from the way Ayer’s gritty, streetwise sensibility grounds Landis’ gift for creating an elaborate comic-book mythology. His writing is familiar in the way that Tarantino movies are familiar (cleverly remixing familiar buddy-cop tropes with its “Alien Nation” premise), and fresh in the way that Tarantino movies are fresh (inventing original set pieces and new twists on old character types), which no doubt explains why Netflix paid so much (reportedly $3.5 million) for this screenplay. That’s not to suggest that “Bright” doesn’t stick to the script (this is a Will Smith starring vehicle after all, the most satisfying of its kind since his “Bad Boys” days), though writer Max Landis is something of a pop-culture savant, capable of synthesizing everything from pulp-fiction fantasy to Shane Black action-comedies into a kind of wild and witty blockbuster super-weapon. ![]() “ Bright” is the best Netflix original movie to date, and it absolutely deserves to be seen on the big screen, though don’t let that stop you from watching it home, as “End of Watch” director David Ayer’s welcome return to the cop-movie genre - following a disastrous wrong turn into “Suicide Squad” territory, of which we will say no more - fills an intense, grown-up movie niche that Hollywood once did so well, but has since replaced with formula-driven product. ![]() Foreign films that can be found among the offerings include “Mirai” (2018), “The White Tiger” (2021), and the Oscar-winning “Roma” (2018) – one of the 25 best original Netflix movies. Movies based on true events are represented, including “Official Secrets” (2019), “Philomena” (2013), and “Captain Phillips” (2013). )Ĭlick here to see the best movies to stream on Netflix this monthĪnother of the older movies on the list, the Roman epic “Gladiator” (2000), has the most IMDb user votes on IMDb of any film on the list – nearly 1.4 million. (These are the best romance movies of all time, according to the data. This includes the crime drama “Donnie Brasco” (1997), the World War II actioner “The Dirty Dozen” (1967), and the rom-com “When Harry Met Sally…” (1989). Most of the films listed here are recent releases, but there is a fair amount of vintage celluloid to select as well. One film, “Leave No Trace,” holds a score of 100%. We found that Netflix users can currently select from among 28 films that carry a Rotten Tomatoes critics’ score of 90% or above. (Documentaries were not considered.) Data on streaming availability, current as of this month, comes from the streaming guide Reelgood. We considered only movies with at least 5,000 audience votes on either IMDb or Rotten Tomatoes. To determine the best movies to stream on Netflix this December, 24/7 Tempo developed an index of Netflix offerings using average ratings on IMDb, an online movie database owned by Amazon, and a combination of audience scores and Tomatometer scores on Rotten Tomatoes, an online movie and TV review aggregator, as of Dec. For the 223 million subscribers who’ve stuck with Netflix, however, they have more than 3,000 movies to select from. Almost 1.2 million have defected this year. Some subscribers have voted with their feet because of more choices and lower subscription fees elsewhere, among other reasons. Competition has been ratcheted up from rival streaming services like Disney, Hulu, and Amazon. ![]() The pioneering streaming service Netflix, which received such a boost in subscriptions during the pandemic, is under siege. ![]()
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