Update: Netflix users in the UK shouldn't miss the touching Japanese animation A Silent Voice this week. Those in the US can look forward to the underappreciated snowy neo-western Wind River and a slice of guilty pleasure with Jeepers Creepers 3.
Netflix and chill? You must be joking. Most of the time we spend 45 minutes browsing through movie covers, end up in an argument and settle for an episode of Friends we've already seen 45 times.
That's why we're here with the latest crop of top movies and TV shows just added to the service. We have picks for both US and UK subscribers. It's your one-minute solution to movie streaming fatigue.
Be sure to come back every week if you want to avoid relying on Netflix's algorithms to show you what's hot on the streaming service.
New movies on Netflix this week
A Silent Voice (UK): Every story seems to get more charming when passed through the filter of Japanese animation. A Silent Voice is the tale of a young man called Shoya Ishida who tries to reconnect with a deaf girl he bullied in his school years.
Unlike the body-swapping Your Name there’s no grand high concept here, but there is real charm. And, as is often the case, the Japanese aesthetics help to avoid the cloying sentimentality that might arise if this story was made by the US studio system. Don’t miss this if you like grown-up animated movies.
Wind River (US): US Netflix subscribers are in for a treat this week. Moody crime drama Wind River, an under-watched 2017 critical smash, has arrived on Netflix.
Jeremy Renner plays a wildlife officer investigating the murder of a young woman on an American Indian reservation. Desolate and snowy Wyoming is just as important as the characters or plot in Wind River, lending it a tone different to your average mystery. It’s a neo-western, where dusty horizons are replaced by silent snowy ones.
Jeepers Creepers 3 (US): Fancy some movie junk food? Jeepers Creepers 3 is part of the US Netflix library now. It’s a direct-to-video style release that was only shown in a few cinemas on one day, if you’re wondering why you missed it.
A 20 per cent Rotten Tomatoes score tells you what to expect. Jeepers Creepers 3 is another ride on the trashy horror rollercoaster. However, fans of the series and those who lap up horror releases should give it a watch. The surprisingly effective original still isn’t in the library, though. Get it sorted, Netflix.
The Breadwinner (US): Stills of The Breadwinner make it look like an ordinary animated kids’ feature. But it isn’t. Lead Parvana is a young girl growing up in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. The film explores the culture of her home as she poses as a boy to try to earn money for her family, after her father is arrested.
As some of you may be able to tell from The Breadwinner’s style, it’s directed by Nora Twomey, who made 2010’s The Secret of Kells. The Breadwinner was nominated for the Best Animated Feature prize at the 2018 Academy Awards.
Forgotten: One of Netflix’s early Original 2018 movies, Forgotten is a South Korean thriller. Lead character Jin-seok’s brother is kidnapped. He returns after 19 days with no memory of his abduction. He starts behaving oddly, leading Jin-seok to look into what happened.
This is a classic twisty-turny thriller we won’t spoil by giving any more away. You will need to watch it with subs as there’s no English dub. But we’d recommend that anyway.
New TV shows on Netflix this week
Derren Brown: The Push: Derren is back with another dose of his mind-altering trickery, The Push. In the show, Brown tries to see if social pressure and a carefully manufactured scenario can cause someone to commit murder.
It plays out as a captivating 68-minute examination of the mind that, like most of Derren Brown’s output, will have you rapt, worried and wondering if you’d do the same.
Recently added movies on Netflix
Mute: This relatively high-profile Netflix exclusive has not had the best critical reception. Mute has been panned by almost all reviewers, but we think there are a few flashes of director Duncan Jones’s brilliance that break through.
Set in a near-future Berlin, it stars Alexander Skarsgård, Paul Rudd and Justin Theroux. Skarsgård plays a mute bartender, searching a seedy futuristic underworld to discover what has happened to his missing girlfriend.
Downfall (UK): One of those “what do you mean you haven’t seen it?” films, Downfall is a critically acclaimed 2004 drama based on the last few days of Hitler’s life.
It’s no jolly ride, but Bruno Ganz’s portrayal of a broken and desperate HItler is spellbinding. It’s gripping stuff. And once you’re done you can be the one saying, “what do you mean you haven’t seen Downfall?”
The Zero Theorem
Now, we’re not going to pretend it’s an easy watch. But if you’re up for some real mind-bending, chin-scratching sci-fi action, you should definitely give The Zero Theorem a go.
Directed by Monty Python alumni Terry Gilliam, it’s a darkly comic, bittersweet and, to be honest, somewhat confusing story of a computer programmer (played by Christoph Waltz) tasked by a bureaucratic boss to solve ‘The Zero Theorem’. Its purpose? To prove that the universe ends with nothing, and that life is meaningless. So, what, if anything, will he find?
Jiro Dreams of Sushi: A fantastic documentary following the life of master chef Jiro Ono, whose three-star Michelin restaurant is regularly considered the best in the world.
Pride: An uplifting true story of the UK's embattled gay community teaming up with downtrodden coal miners in the dark days of 1980s Britain's miner's strike to bring justice to those left isolated.
Recently added TV shows on Netflix
Altered Carbon: Netflix's latest big-ticket TV extravaganza, Altered Carbon is a big-budget production worthy of Hollywood. A sci-fi spectacular, this dystopian cyberpunk series is based on the lauded Richard K. Morgan novel of the same name.
Consciousness has become a commodity to be uploaded. Bodies are replaceable, industrially built "sleeves". There are obvious shades of Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell to this murder mystery. But it's rare to see the cyberpunk genre expanded to an ongoing series, so it'll be interesting to see if the tropes of the genre hold out over an extended run.
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