While liaising with the FBI investigation, Chen insists on the aid of his old friend Nicholas Hathaway (Chris Hemsworth, who has never been hotter or cooler), an imprisoned genius hacker. In the film, Chen Dawai (Wang Leehom), a captain in the PLA’s cyber warfare unit, is tasked with getting to the bottom of a computer attack that melts down a nuclear power plant in Hong Kong. It is peak Mann - if you’re not a fan of the Heat director’s work, your mileage may vary. Photo: Frank Connor/Legendary Pictures-Universal PicturesĬast: Chris Hemsworth, Tang Wei, Viola DavisĪ sleek and sexy thriller that makes hacking look extremely cool, Michael Mann’s unfairly maligned Blackhat stands tall as a high mark in digital filmmaking. The twist leads into Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, another two-and-a-half-hour epic currently streaming on Netflix.

If you fall hard for it, get pumped - this is only part one. Exploding with hyper-choreographed fight sequences and CG spectacle (not to mention a handful of musical numbers with equal bravura), The Beginning is 159 minutes of mythical excess, going big like only Indian film can and resting on the muscular shoulders of its hero, the single-name actor Prabhas. The Beginning chronicles the life of Shivudu, an adventurer with superhuman strength who escapes his provincial life by scaling a skyscraper-sized waterfall, aids and romances a rebel warrior named Avanthika, then teams up with her to rescue a kidnapped queen from an evil emperor. In Western terms, this Tollywood production from the future director of RRR, the most expensive Indian film at the time of its release, is like a biblical epic by way of Marvel Studios, with a little Hamlet and Step Up thrown in for good measure. Run time: 2h 39m ( Baahubali: The Beginning) 2h 47m ( Baahubali 2: The Conclusion)Ĭast: Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Anushka Shetty

With Scorsese expected to deliver yet another masterpiece with the upcoming Killers of the Flower Moon, now is the perfect time to watch this film.

Matthew McConaughey’s brief but memorable performance as Belfort’s mentor Mark Hanna stands out as one of the best roles of his “McConaissance” peak Jonah Hill’s turn as Belfort’s best friend and partner Donnie Azoff marked the actor’s pivot from being a typecasted funnyman to a powerhouse performer and Margot Robbie’s performance as Belfort’s cunning wife Naomi catapulted her to household name fame. Scorsese’s film is a gleeful, fourth wall-breaking crime comedy about the worst people imaginable played by some of the best actors in Hollywood at the top of their game. Adapted from Belfort’s 2007 memoir of the same name, The Wolf of Wall Street follows the disgraced former stockbroker from his meteoric rise to wealth and infamy amid the economic boom of the ’90s to his precipitous downfall in the wake of a coordinated FBI sting operation. Leonardo DiCaprio’s portrayal of Jordan Belfort is his generation’s Gordon Gekko: A funny, charismatic (albeit unscrupulous) avatar of American excess and wanton greed. This week’s editor’s pick The Wolf of Wall StreetĬast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie Our latest update added The Wolf of Wall Street as our editor’s pick. We’ll be updating this list weekly as Netflix cycles movies in and out of its library, so be sure to check back next time you’re stuck in front of the app’s home screen. And for our readers across the pond, we have a list of the best movies on Netflix U.K.

If you’re looking for a specific genre, we’ve got the best action movies on Netflix, the best horror movies on Netflix, the best thrillers on Netflix, and the best comedy movies on Netflix ready for you. For those suffering from choice paralysis in July, we’ve narrowed down your options to not only our favorite current movies on the platform, but the best movies Netflix has to offer. This makes the challenge of keeping up to date with best the service has to offer - let alone finding something the best of what to watch after a long day - a task that feels herculean at best and impossible at worst for someone not plugged into its inscrutable rhythms. Netflix’s huge catalog of movies continues to expand day by day, week by week, month by month. What’s the best movie I can watch on Netflix? We’ve all asked ourselves this question, only to spend the next 15 minutes scrolling through the streaming service’s oddly specific genre menus and getting overwhelmed by the constantly shifting trend menus.

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