Watching: The best things to stream
The holiday weekend is here! If you're looking for something to watch, we can help. We've dug through Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, Max and Disney+ to find some of the best titles on each service. STREAMING ON NETFLIX 'Between the Temples'
The prickly, knotty humanism and '70s vibe of the director Nathan Silver and his writing partner C. Mason Wells, wielded promisingly in their 2017 indie "Thirst Street," comes to full flower in this often warm and occasionally uncomfortable comedy-drama. Jason Schwartzman stars as a recent widower, unable to fulfill his duties as a cantor at an upstate New York synagogue. But he's unexpectedly re-energized by helping his elementary school music teacher (Carol Kane) prepare for her very belated bat mitzvah. Schwartzman is marvelously morose, putting across the character's pain and mourning without asking for sympathy, while Kane is a firecracker, juicing every scene with the kind of electrifying unpredictability that's always made her an M.V.P. in supporting roles. These are the 50 best movies on Netflix.STREAMING ON NETFLIX 'Dark Winds'
This combination neo-western and neo-noir is adapted from the detective novelist Tony Hillerman's Leaphorn and Chee book series. Zahn McClarnon plays Joe Leaphorn, a lieutenant in the Navajo Tribal Police, who looks after his people while holding a healthy suspicion of outsiders. Kiowa Gordon plays Jim Chee, Joe's deputy, who has worked undercover for the F.B.I., gaining intel on radical Indigenous political groups. "Dark Winds" combines complex mystery plots with an insider's take on Navajo culture for a unique spin on the crime drama that feels like it's taking place in an older, wilder America. Our critic said the show "has a sensibility that draws you in." Here are 30 great TV shows on Netflix.STREAMING ON HULU 'M*A*S*H'
Robert Altman's hit 1970 antiwar comedy didn't seem like a slam-dunk for television adaptation, thanks to its raw style and bawdy humor. The series creator and TV comedy veteran Larry Gelbart sanded away most of those edges, yet found a way to ground the show in the horrors of war while keeping the laughs digestible. Much of that was because of the chemistry and camaraderie of the flawless cast — particularly Alan Alda's brilliantly realized characterization of "Hawkeye" Pierce, the unflappable wiseguy who found, over the course of the show's 11 seasons, that there were some things even he couldn't manage to make light of. Here are Hulu's best movies and TV shows.STREAMING ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO 'A Simple Favor'
Paul Feig made his name directing such movies as "Bridesmaids" and "Spy," uproarious comic gems that provided career-best showcases for their stars. He shines a similarly flattering spotlight on Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively here, though with a surprising genre shift, eschewing the broad comedy of his earlier work for this stylish neo-noir thriller. Kendrick is a typical suburban mom who finds herself dazzled by (and quietly attracted to) Lively's sophisticated outlier; their children are schoolmates, but they may as well be from different planets. The twists and turns of Jessica Sharzer's screenplay (from the Darcey Bell novel) are compelling, but Kendrick and Lively's swoony relationship, and its spiky playfulness, are what make "A Simple Favor" sing. Here are a bunch of great movies on Amazon.STREAMING ON MAX 'Dune: Part 2'
The first part of Denis Villeneuve's "Dune" ended with Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) joining Chani (Zendaya) and the Indigenous Fremen in their fight against the universal conspiracists who plunder the desert planet Arrakis for its precious "spice." While the sequel continues its imposing world-building — and adds sandworm-surfing — it follows Frank Herbert's novel closely, becoming the rare epic to question its hero's messianic destiny, as Paul wrestles with the likelihood that his ascendance could lead to a holy war of inconceivable devastation. Manohla Dargis wrote, "The art of cinematic spectacle is alive and rocking in 'Dune: Part Two,' and it's a blast." See more great movies streaming on Max.STREAMING ON DISNEY+ 'Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor's Version)'
Without a second of behind-the-scenes footage or any apparent directorial flash, this three-and-a-half hour concert film, shot over three nights at SoFi Stadium in California, aims simply to bring Taylor Swift's mammoth Eras Tour from stage to screen with minimal fuss. The approach works beautifully, in part because the tour's conceit — drawing selections from Swift's complete discography — has a built-in narrative scaffolding that supports the entire show. The sheer magnitude of the event is like getting hit by a pop-culture tsunami. Wesley Morris called attention to Swift's stamina, writing in The New York Times that "she's as ebullient descending into the stage, for her farewell, as she is in the opening minutes magically materializing upon it." The 50 best things to watch on Disney+ right now.
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