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Amazon\u2019s Prime Video believes in a kind of shock-and-awe approach to streaming, often dropping dozens of titles in a single day throughout the month. But the dirty secret is most of them are awful. It can be tough to dig through the streamer\u2019s overwhelming amount of junk to find the stuff worth watching, and that\u2019s where we come in. Every month, we highlight a dozen or so titles that just landed (or are about to land) in the free-to-subscribers section of Prime Video. This month, we have an incredible array of tones, including essential works from Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Soderbergh, alongside a few movies you may not have heard of yet.<\/p>\n
Year: <\/strong>1989 More than 35 years after its release, Spike Lee\u2019s masterpiece feels as urgent and current as the day it premiered. If it divided critics then, it has since proved to be one of the most enduring films to tackle American race relations. \u201cSome of the advance articles about this movie have suggested that it is an incitement to racial violence. Those articles say more about their authors than about the movie,\u201d the critic Roger Ebert wrote in 1989. \u27bd Streaming now.<\/a><\/p>\n Year: <\/strong>1990 One of the best films of the 1990s<\/a>, Martin Scorsese\u2019s movie about Henry Hill changed the language of how we tell stories about mobsters, and it\u2019s a work that feels more like a classic with each passing year. GoodFellas has held up perfectly over the past three decades, partially owing to how much of what followed has tried to hollowly repeat it. But it\u2019s still a wildly entertaining piece of work, a movie with more life in any five-minute stretch than most films have in their entire runtime. \u27bd Streaming now.<\/a><\/p>\n Year: <\/strong>1995 Robert De Niro and Al Pacino star in one of the best movies of the \u201990s, a stunning cat-and-mouse game between a career criminal and a workaholic cop. The book release of Heat 2<\/a> in 2022 (and subsequent in-production movie) brought a lot of people back to this flick, one that has held up remarkably well over the nearly three decades since its release. It\u2019s a masterpiece. \u27bd Streaming now.<\/a><\/p>\n Year: <\/strong>2007 The center of Edgar Wright\u2019s Cornetto Trilogy (with Shaun of the Dead and The World\u2019s End) remains the best film in the bunch \u2014 and they\u2019re all on Prime, by the way. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost play a pair of ordinary police officers who get sucked into a crazy case involving multiple murders in their small English town. Both a parody of action films and a legitimately great action film on its own terms, this is one of the best genre hybrids of the aughts. \u27bd Streaming now.<\/a><\/p>\n Year: <\/strong>2014 James Gray co-wrote and directed this 2013 period piece<\/a> with a fantastic ensemble anchored by Joaquin Phoenix, Marion Cotillard, and Jeremy Renner. Cotillard plays a Polish woman who comes to Ellis Island in 1921 with her sister and falls under the spell of a theater owner played by Phoenix and a performer played by Renner. With gorgeous period detail, this is a film that casts a spell. \u27bd Streaming now.<\/a><\/p>\n Year: <\/strong>1999 Steven Soderbergh directs a searing performance by Terence Stamp<\/a> in this 1999 thriller about a Brit who comes to California trying to find his missing daughter and those who may be responsible for hurting her. Soderbergh rarely missteps, and this is one of his most underrated films \u2014 a perfectly paced angry shout of a movie that matches its captivating leading man. \u27bd Streaming now.<\/a><\/p>\n Year: <\/strong>1994 The director of Wayne\u2019s World tackled comedy history in this film version of the beloved Our Gang shorts from generations ago. Including some remakes of classics most viewers first saw rebroadcast on television, this is a big-hearted comedy that could introduce your little ones to a whole new world of classic characters. \u27bd Streaming now.<\/a><\/p>\n Year: <\/strong>2025 This wry comedy didn\u2019t get enough attention last summer when it landed in theaters shortly after its Cannes premiere. It\u2019s pretty damn wonderful. Benicio del Toro plays businessman Zsa-zsa Korda, who takes the most recent of several assassination attempts seriously. A dissection of business and faith, this is high-tier Wes and includes maybe the best performance of Michael Cera\u2019s career. \u27bd Streaming now.<\/a><\/p>\n Year: <\/strong>2024 This has to be the film you haven\u2019t heard of yet in this roundup, but it belongs here. \u201cDo you need a reason to be unhappy?\u201d asks Sarah Gadon\u2019s Carol in this study of depression and grief and how we often don\u2019t need reasons to be struck by them. A couples retreat hinges on the recent loss of a matriarch while the kids battle their growing emotions in very different ways from group therapy. Smart, moving, and visually striking, it\u2019s an indie you should seek out. \u27bd Streaming now.<\/a><\/p>\n Year: <\/strong>2018 A24 had no idea what to do with David Robert Mitchell\u2019s follow-up<\/a> to It Follows, holding it for almost a year after its Cannes premiere and then giving it a modest release. The lack of exposure sucked at the time, but this Los Angeles\u2013set neo-noir, in which a slacker (Andrew Garfield) must track down a missing neighbor (Riley Keough), has quietly developed a loyal following. It\u2019s one of those movies that everyone will tell you they always loved a decade later. \u27bd Streaming now.<\/a><\/p>\n Year: <\/strong>2023 The 2024 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film is now available on Prime and couldn\u2019t be timelier. Based on the novel of the same name by Martin Amis, it\u2019s the story of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf H\u00f6ss and his family<\/a>, who reside just outside the concentration camp. As they profit off horror, the sights and sounds of the Holocaust give the film a terrifying, unsettling foundation, reminding us how often true evil can exist right next door. \u27bd Streaming now.<\/a><\/p>\n Sign up for the Vulture Daily<\/p>\n An entertainment newsletter for the pop-culture obsessed.<\/p>\n Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n
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Director: <\/strong>Spike Lee<\/p>\n
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Director: <\/strong>Martin Scorsese<\/p>\n
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Director: <\/strong>Michael Mann<\/p>\n
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Director: <\/strong>Edgar Wright<\/p>\n
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Director: <\/strong>James Gray<\/p>\n
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Director: <\/strong>Steven Soderbergh<\/p>\n
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Director: <\/strong>Penelope Spheeris<\/p>\n
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Director: <\/strong>Wes Anderson<\/p>\n
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Director: <\/strong>Meredith Hama-Brown<\/p>\n
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Director: <\/strong>David Robert Mitchell<\/p>\n
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Director: <\/strong>Jonathan Glazer<\/p>\n