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\n Slap Shot and Happy Gilmore 2, two households, both alike in dignity, are streaming this month.
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Summer may be about beaches and soft-serve from the ice-cream truck melting down your fingers, but it\u2019s just as much about time spent inside \u2014 the cool hum of the air conditioner and the glow of a screen on a relaxed night in. The Northeast endured a heat wave last month, and temperatures are only getting hotter. So start lining up some movie nights for July. The lineups on streaming have turned over, and while we\u2019ve already recommended the new movies on Netflix<\/a> and the best movies on Netflix<\/a>, we\u2019ve rounded up some personal favorites to share as well \u2014 one brand-new to the service, a couple about to exit, and others that you have no excuse not to watch. Consider this your shortlist.<\/p>\n Year:<\/strong> 2025 The Sandman is back on the green! Nearly 30 years later, Sandler, Christopher McDonald, and Julie Bowen are reprising their roles from Happy Gilmore. In the new film, Happy comes out of retirement to cash in \u2014 he needs to pay the ballet-school tuition for his daughter (played by Sunny Sandler, because this is a family business, after all). Several other appearances and cameos have been confirmed, but we don\u2019t see the benefit of spoiling them here. As you wait for it to drop later this month, rewatch the original<\/a> and remember: \u201cIt\u2019s all in the hips.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n Year:<\/strong> 1977 In the opening minutes of this raucous hockey jeremiad Slap Shot, a player makes a confession to his opponent, Paul Newman, right before the puck drop: He\u2019s so drunk he can barely stay on his skates. (\u201cLouise left me, and that sonuvabitch over there keeps playing me when he knows I\u2019m shit-faced,\u201d in his words.) The two hours that follow comprise one of the funniest sports movies ever made, as Slap Shot understands two ingredients crucial to both hockey and film: spectacle and violence.<\/p>\n Year:<\/strong> 2010 Twin shadows follow George Clooney\u2019s character in The American: death, because he is a gunsmith for criminals, and regret, because his job costs him all the human connections he could hope to maintain. Set mostly in the Italian countryside, where he\u2019s decamped to build his latest sniper rifle, The American\u2019s cinematography visualizes his emotional distance and proximity to hell: Whether he\u2019s sitting supertemporally alone in a cafe or driving across the landscape, everything threatens to swallow him up.<\/p>\n Year:<\/strong> 2024 It may not be Fury Road, but it\u2019s at least on par with Beyond Thunderdome, if not better. The latest (and we pray not the last) Mad Max\u2013universe film stars Anya Taylor-Joy as a youthful Furiosa. We get much of the same heart-stopping action as well as the apocalyptic backstory for the titular character that was teased in Fury Road. \u201cEverything in this movie is always on the verge of running out and dying out,\u201d wrote critic Bilge Ebiri in his review of Furiosa<\/a>. That\u2019s what makes its weirdness, brutality, and hope cut through.<\/p>\n Year:<\/strong> 2022 Though Sonic the Hedgehog is still the fastest of this film series, the sequel is bigger and more stuffed with video-game fan favorites. Knuckles is here (voiced by Idris Elba), as is Tails (Colleen O\u2019Shaughnessey), and the\u00a0all-powerful Master Emerald serves as the film\u2019s central Macguffin: If Sonic and Tails don\u2019t get to it before Knuckles and Robotnik do, reality is doomed. It\u2019s basically The Avengers but for video games, which is not a knock, especially on a family movie night. Shoutout to Jim Carrey\u00a0as Dr. Robotnik, who fully embraced and revived the camp villainy of his role as the Riddler 30 years ago in Batman Forever to make his Eggman shine.<\/p>\n Year:<\/strong> 2024 The Brazilian military dictatorship of 1964 was notorious for its practice of killing and disappearing its political opponents<\/a>. I\u2019m Still Here, which won Brazil its first Oscar for Best International Feature Film as well as a Golden Globe for Best Actress (Fernanda Torres), focuses on the story of one family affected by that cruel practice. It\u2019s a timely and powerful watch that underscores the duality of living under an oppressive regime: One moment you\u2019re enjoying a pleasant day on a beach, and the next agents of the state are showing up at your house without a warrant and kidnapping you and your loved ones. Without spoiling too much, the film, as its title suggests, is\u00a0also\u00a0about living on the other side of that cruelty and the importance of publicly stating that it happened in the first place, rather than allowing its victims to be forgotten.<\/p>\n
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Director:<\/strong> Kyle Newacheck<\/p>\n
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Director:<\/strong> Anton Corbijn<\/p>\n
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Director:<\/strong> George Miller<\/p>\n
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