Chris Pratt stars in “The Terminal List”.
Do you have an Amazon Prime subscription, but are you getting the most out of its massive streaming platform? We’ve rounded up the best movies of all genres—from classic dramas to fizzy comedies—coming to Amazon this month. Don’t miss a thing with our list.
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The Terminal List (2022)
Critics say Chris Pratt’s thriller series about a Navy SEAL whose team is ambushed by conspirators at the top of the government is boring and corny, but 92 percent of viewers love it. Starring Taylor Kitsch and Jeanne Tripplehorn.
Ali (2001)
Will Smith has never been better than in Michael Mann’s Muhammad Ali biopic, which packs a punch – though it’s not a knockout. Also new on Amazon: the slightly longer and remastered Ali Director’s Cut.
Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
A perfect Woody Allen movie, in which he’s not his usual self, but a friendly talent agent for blind xylophone players with no talent, bird pianists and a sweet singer whose girlfriend (Mia Farrow in her greatest role) has an ex-gangster who thinks Danny is her beauty. This may interest you : Amazon Prime Video Streaming Offers: Watch Hit Movies With Up To 55 Percent Off.
Cedar Rapids (2011)
Sweet but uneven comedy starring Ed Helms as a naïve, repressed insurance agent who meets John C. Reilly, Anna Heche and Isiah Whitlock Jr. Read also : There’s a new movie to watch on Netflix.’s party animals at a convention.
Clueless (1995)
The best update yet of Jane Austen’s Emma, the director’s youth satire of Fast Times at Ridgemont High, starring Alicia Silverstone at her peak. This may interest you : ‘July’ free games with Amazon Prime Gaming have been unveiled.
Coffy (1973)
A funny blaxploitation film about a woman who goes on a rampage against drug addicts who destroyed her sister. It’s worth seeing for its non-pareil star: Pam Grier.
Dark Waters (2019)
Mark Ruffalo gets angrier than the Hulk as a lawyer who exposes a corporation poisoning West Virginia farmers. Perennial Best Supporting Actor Bill Camp is at his best as his client in this David and Goliath tale based on fact.
Dead Ringers (1988)
Jeremy Irons plays chillingly evil identical twin gynecologists in David Cronenberg’s horror fantasy inspired by two evil identical twin gynecologists. A bravura performance by Irons, and Geneviève Bujold is even better as the patient.
Eye of The Needle (1981)
A well-crafted thriller about a lonely lighthouse keeper’s wife (the brilliant Kate Nelligan) who is wooed by a lonely, shipwrecked visitor (Donald Sutherland) who is also a Nazi spy.
Gladiator (2000)
An evil punk Roman emperor (Joaquin Phoenix) condemns his best general (Russell Crowe) to fight men and tigers in the Colosseum—spectacular. With Derek Jacobi as the Senator and Oliver Reed as Crowe’s trainer.
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011)
Not everyone loves sushi, but everyone loves this documentary about the world’s greatest sushi chef, an 85-year-old whose 10-seat restaurant in a Tokyo subway station charges $365 per meal and requires reservations a month in advance. The Michelin guide recommends a trip to Japan to eat there.
Lincoln (2012)
Daniel Day-Lewis stands tall as America’s greatest president in the nation’s darkest hour, but Sally Field outshines him as his tormented and tormented wife. Steven Spielberg beautifully realizes Tony Kushner’s clever screenplay, which is partly inspired by Doris Kearns Goodwin’s rival team.
Mandela (1996)
A gripping Oscar-nominated documentary about the lawyer and 27-year prison sentence that saved South Africa from civil war and won the Nobel Prize.
Midnight in Paris (2011)
Woody Allen’s greatest hit takes you (and Owen Wilson’s hero) to Jazz Age Paris to meet Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds and Gertrude Stein.
Racing With the Moon (1984)
Sean Penn and Nicolas Cage win as high schoolers in a small Northern California town, six weeks from being shipped off to World War II, and Downton Abbey’s Elizabeth McGovern shines as Penn’s first love. A good old fashioned movie.
Raging Bull (1980)
Robert De Niro punches well above his weight as Jake LaMotta in Martin Scorsese’s stunningly shot classic about boxing and toxic masculinity.
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
In Mia Farrow’s second best performance and Roman Polanski’s second best film, she is a mom-to-be with a sinister actor husband (John Cassavetes) and his diabolically duplicitous friends (Ruth Gordon and Sidney Blackmer).
Speed (1994)
L.A. cop Keanu Reeves and plucky passenger Sandra Bullock try to thwart Dennis Hopper’s plot to blow up the bus if its speed drops below 50 miles per hour. An action movie that won’t slow down.
The Fighter (2010)
The great boxing drama that relaunched director David O. Russell’s career is also a great family drama that did Oscar-winning wonders for everyone: Mark Wahlberg as a fighter mismanaged by his brother (Christian Bale), Amy Adams as his scrappy girlfriend, and, above all, Melissa Leo as his tough love mother.
The Italian Job (2003)
An unambitious, totally successful heist movie about a heist involving many Mini Coopers, heistmaster Mark Wahlberg, accomplices Donald Sutherland and Charlize Theron, and a dastardly doppelganger of Edward Norton.
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
A wonderful adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s chillingly intriguing thriller about a copycat killer (Matt Damon) and aristocrats (Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett and Philip Seymour Hoffman) whose lives in Italy are destroyed by him in an invasion.
House of Gucci (2021)
Lady Gaga absolutely kills it as the ambitious wife of the quietest member (Adam Driver) of a notoriously loud family of fashion plutocrats. Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons are excellent as their elders, and the unrecognizable Jared Leto outdoes them in chewing the scenery.
Don’t Make Me Go (2022)
In the intergenerational tearjerker, John Cho plays a terminally ill guy who invites his daughter (Mia Isaac) on one last trip to a college reunion in New Orleans — but actually to meet the mom she never met.
Paper Girls (2022)
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Tim Appelo covers entertainment and is the film and TV critic for AARP. Previously, he was entertainment editor at Amazon, video critic at Entertainment Weekly, and a critic and writer for The Hollywood Reporter, People, MTV, The Village Voice, and LA Weekly.
