Good Movies to Watch – Highly-Rated Movies on Paramount+
Sarajevans find solidarity through music during the Bosnian War in this comprehensive, inspiring documentary .
A gentle but emotionally devastating account of love persisting through Alzheimer's.
A joyous blast from the past, this documentary takes us through the makings of an unforgettable star.
A painful but necessary primer on assisted death, built on love and consent.
A hypnotic compilation of footage that compels us to make our own conclusions about capitalist labor.
An urgent plea for empathy told through the initial, frantic outbreak of COVID in Wuhan.
Hiroshima survivors try to return to their lives in this poignant black-and-white historical drama.
A gritty, hard-edged coming-of-age story featuring some of the best of '90s American independent filmmaking.
Paul Thomas Anderson's first film is a small-scale crime drama with finely textured performances.
See, low budget films do work! Like Crazy schools other romantic films on what they should all be: cute and sweet but also frustrating and nerve-wracking. Felicity Jones is absolutely fantastic here, she stars as a British girl who falls in love with an American, Jacob, while in college. On a whim, she overstays her visa […]
A prodigy learns about chess and living in this introspective sports drama.
A group of college freshmen baseball players hit the town in 1980, Texas, where they’re here for a good time, not a long time.
What is a good low-budget film? A film stripped to the intelligence of its makers and the talents of its actors. Clerks is that and more. Filmed in black-and-white and at the convenience store where its director Kevin Smith worked in real life, it’s a hilarious slice-of-life story about two slackers working in minimum wage […]
Starring Matthew Broderick and a young Reese Witherspoon as, respectively, Jim McAllister, a high school teacher and Tracy Flick, a notorious ‘that girl’ in his class. When Tracy decides to run for class president, we see the floodgates open as all sorts of bizarre and insane behavior pours out of the two. Quickly, it becomes […]
The insightful exploration of class and gender elevates this romcom from teen savant John Hughes .
Labyrinth is a fantasy film starring a young Jennifer Connelly as Sarah Williams, a teenager who wishes her infant brother away to the goblins. Immediately regretting her decision, she pleads to the Goblin King, played by David Bowie, for his safe return. He agrees, but only on the condition that she escapes his massive, trap-filled […]
Terrence Howard transforms a midlife crisis into music in this unexpected underdog drama.
In Rounders, Matt Damon plays a law student and reformed poker player who is forced back into the game in order to help his newly-paroled best friend (Edward Norton) pay off overwhelming gambling debts. It’s an enjoyable insider’s look into the world of high stakes gambling and of Poker specifically, giving the viewer compelling insights […]
Just about what you'd expect from a cheap, corny superhero sitcom movie aimed at kids.
An odd blend of genres stuffed into a young-adult story, nevertheless led by great performances.
From Edward Zwick (Blood Diamond), Defiance is the unheard and untold true story of Polish Jewish brothers who defied all odds during World War II and built a community in the woods of Belarus to escape Hitler’s persecution and save around a thousand civilians from certain death. Interestingly, the film tries to avoid the dramatization of characters and […]
A historically-significant, formally apt film about a noteworthy event in American history that deserves more attention.
It’s an admirable passion project, but this documentary tracking David Oyelowo’s seven-year journey to playing MLK holds little interest for the general viewer.
There is a chance we will be known as the generation that perfected mixing the two mediums of movie and theater. Think Hateful 8, Horace & Pete, Wild Tales, and Fences! A movie not only packed with Broadway talent, it’s also based on a Pulitzer-winning play by August Wilson. The play element is both strong […]
