![]() ![]() 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 He’s like if Gordon Gekko from 1987’s Wall Street was a villain from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. If that weren’t enough to pique your interest, Michael Douglas stars as the film’s antagonist: a sleazy loan shark who relishes in his power to inflict pain and suffering through debt bondage. The stakes? Life or death.Īnimal World has one of the most gonzo premises of any film I’ve watched on Netflix: a nail-biting gambling drama combined with a psychological horror thriller about a man who handles stress by imagining himself as a murderous katana-wielding clown battling bizarre insectoid eldritch monstrosities. With no other options, Kaisi is given an ultimatum: Either work off the debt for the rest of his life, or compete in a high-stakes gambling competition aboard a retrofitted battleship known as “Destiny.” The game? Rock, paper, scissors. After being tricked by an old friend from school to mortgage his mother’s home as part of a failed property scheme, Kaisi is driven even further into debt. Zheng Kaisi (Li Yifeng) is a down-on-his-luck math prodigy working a menial job as a clown mascot at a children’s arcade in order to pay his mother’s medical bills. For those unfamiliar with Kaiji, the next-best explanation is through simple comparison: Animal World is Squid Game meets Yu-Gi-Oh meets Fight Club. One way is to just say it’s an adaptation of Kaiji, Nobuyuki Fukumoto’s 1996 suspense manga about the misadventures of a masterful hustler and gambler. There are a few ways one could go about describing Animal World. Toussaint EganĬast: Li Yifeng, Michael Douglas, Zhou Dongyu ![]() If you enjoyed similar screenlife films like Searching, Unfriended: Dark Web, or Dashcam, Missing will be right up your alley. ![]() The film is the best sort of surprise: An unassuming movie with a simple premise that quickly spirals into a terrifying and engrossing drama anchored by a strong lead performance. When June’s mother Grace (Nia Long) seemingly disappears after a week-long trip to Columbia with her boyfriend Kevin (Ken Leung), she resorts to all her skills as an amateur online sleuth to uncovering the mystery.īrilliantly edited, well-performed, and riveting throughout, Missing is inventive take on the screenlife subgenre of mystery thrillers for our hyper-online times. The directorial debut of co-directors Will Merrick and Nick Johnson, Missing stars Storm Reid ( A Wrinkle in Time) as June Allen, a teenage girl struggling to cope with the loss of her father who died of a brain tumor. This standalone sequel to the 2018 screenlife mystery thriller Searching and a spiritual sequel to Aneesh Chaganty’s 2020 psychological thriller Run is not only one of the best thrillers of the year, but one of the best movies available on Netflix. This week’s editor’s pick Missing Image: Sony PicturesĬast: Storm Reid, Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung Our latest update added Missing as our editor’s pick. We’ll be updating this list monthly 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 Netflix home screen. And for our readers across the pond, we have a list of the best movies on Netflix UK. 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 May, we’ve narrowed down your options to not only our favorite current movies on the platform, but the best movies Netflix has to offer. Netflix’s huge catalog of movies continues to expand day by day, week by week, month by month making 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. 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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