Good Movies to Watch – Highly-Rated Movies on Youtube (Page 34)
A beautiful, poetic and disturbing ode to the waters of the Chilean archipelago from the perspective of the stars and planets, its Indigenous inhabitants, and the bodies of those who were disappeared into it under the Pinochet regime. As Patricio Guzman tells us and shows us, water has a memory and a voice. The opening […]
Chadwick Boseman who you might now know as the Black Panther had his break out role in 42, the true story of the first Black major league player Jackie Robinson. A story of expected struggle but also a humbling and humane account that is full of warmth. Jackie Robinson’s coach is played by Dustin Hoffman, […]
This is a complex yet wonderful sci-fi about a skeptical biologist who is fascinated by the human eye and its uniqueness. The cast is wonderfully chosen and the dialogues are impressive. But what really sets it apart is the underlying romance that it features. I would strongly recommend this film to those who enjoy intriguing debates between science […]
On one side, this is a look at the real-life efforts of local North Dakota Pastor Jay Reinke to provide shelter for Oil-working migrants in his Church for the course of well over two years – he ends up calling this The Overnighters Program. On another, it is the story of more than a thousand […]
An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family’s longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the newspaper […]
It almost makes the cut at a 6.3 from IMDB, and a 65% from RT, but this documentary is fantastic. This movie looks at the hidden side of everything from grades on standardized tests to professional sumo wrestling. Using numbers and mathematics, an economist is determined to find a pattern in why things are the […]
Directed by Sam Mendes Jarhead is based on the best-selling 2003 memoir of the same title. In the film, Swofford is a 20-year-old soldier in the US Marine Corps during the 1991 Gulf War who is trained to be a sniper. But as the days go by, he doesn’t fire a single shot, given there […]
One of the most memorable entries to the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, The Diary of a Teenage Girl caused considerable controversy for its story about a love affair between a 15-year-old wannabe cartoonist, Minnie (Bel Powley), and her mother’s boyfriend (Alexander Skarsgård). With the narrative never straying from Minnie’s point of view, the film deals […]
Electrick Children is the debut film for director Rebecca Thomas and one of the most unique and visually stunning films I’ve seen in a while. This gem is about a teenager born and raised in a religious community who believes she has been impregnated with the son of God from a cassette tape she listened […]
A beautiful and subtle masterpiece exploring the life of Alike, a teen in Brooklyn navigating her identity as a gay black girl. Caught between the traditional world of her family and the butch and sexual world of her friend who has already come out, director Dee Rees allows the audience to see the trials and tribulations […]
An insightful documentary that profiles several video game developers who have eschewed mainstream opportunities in order to pursue their dreams of self-employment and independent game production. The film follows four developers over the months, days and hours leading up to looming launch dates for their creations, and captures many of the difficulties and anxieties therein. […]
Even after browsing through the entire AGMTW this is still my favorite movie. It is the first movie that I watched where I felt so pulled in to an incredibly real, heartbreaking family drama. Not only is the movie beautifully shot, but the acting is terrific, tight and sharp. Contrary to her nice girl image, Anne […]
A happy-go-lucky couple who are expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover “home” on their own terms for the […]
Matthew McConaughey is pretty much the whole movie here. He plays a lawyer whose office is his Lincoln car and who usually defends cases of morally bankrupt clients. When he is lured into defending a wealthy guy for a sexual assault charge, he finds out that the guy might be involved in a series of […]
Incredible footage combined with a great soundtrack will keep you frozen in your seat until global warming melts you off (so to speak). Chasing Ice is about a National Geographic photographer who tries to capture a complete overview of what climate change is doing to our planet. Consequently this movie took years to make and […]
A modern yet entertaining take on an alien invasion movie but with a twist with who’s defending us against these wretched beasts. Taking place on Guy Fawkes night in South London, it pits a Brixton gang of ne’er do wells against technologically advanced space aliens. With a sharp sense of humor and eye for detail, first-time director […]
A refreshing shot in the arm to a stagnant genre, Warm Bodies takes a typical boy meets girl plot and pairs it with a paranormal and comical twist. Telling the story of R, a zombie with an insatiable need for human brains, and Julie, one of the few remaining survivors of the apocalypse, the film […]
Robert Downey Jr. and James Woods star in this movie about a Lawyer who, along with his staff, attempt to get an Asian man out of jail after their office is visited by the convicted man’s mother. In my opinion, this is one of the best performances by James Woods in his entire career. This […]
In a world where many women learn about relationships from movies and many men learn about women from porn, how does reality take shape when two people of each group get into a relationship? The explosion is as insightful as it is funny as director, screenwriter, and main character Joseph Gorden Levitt takes you on a genuine […]
Jason Schwartzman plays an environmentalist who teams up with a fireman (Mark Wahlberg) to tackle their metaphysical woes and the meaning of existence. Together they employ an ‘existential’ detective couple (Dustin Hoffman and Lilly Tomlin). I ♥ Huckabees is whip smart and funny, gleefully skewering being and nothingness with equal aplomb. Adults are more likely to enjoy […]
An intelligent and very funny comedy film which isn’t formulaic, doesn’t rely on tired old cliches and situations. I watched this film with no preconceptions and was frankly blown away by how good it was. It features sympathetic and believable characters and you yearn to know about them. Proof also that you don’t necessarily need […]
Topher Grace puts on a great show in this witty yet sadly underrated movie. Really the whole crew is casted extremely well. The story is very warm, smart, and thoughtful. It is only a bonus that it is genuinely funny and realistically romantic. It strikes the right balance between the grit of the real world and […]
When creepy meets captivating you can’t help, but watch with a dropped jaw. This is achieved in Stoker. From the director of Oldboy, this drama thriller not only engages you with what you see, it challenges you by what you hear and feel. India’s father has passed suddenly and with his death comes her birthday […]
The Dirties is a Canadian drama that portrays the hot-button issue of high-school bullying and retaliation with a sensitive and realistic touch. When two bullied students start filming a “comedy” dramatizing their ideas for revenge, it becomes clear that there are darker issues and hidden violence beneath the surface. Filmed with only light scripting and […]
It is one of those movies in which you cannot separate fun from sincerity and poetry from pain. 100 Girls is a good teen movie, and those are becoming very rare. The beauty and diversity of the other students is presented through the eyes of a romantic young man, with their own particularities, contradictions, hopes, […]
