Watching: The best things to stream
The 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 'Rear Window'
James Stewart is as an antsy magazine photographer, in a wheelchair while recovering from an on-the-job injury, whose nosy but harmless observation of his apartment-complex neighbors turns deadly in this "tense and exciting" nail-biter from Alfred Hitchcock. Grace Kelly is his high-society girlfriend who joins him in his amateur investigation of a possible murder. It's a deliciously good mystery, and more besides; as in his best films, Hitchcock uses the genre story as clever cover for his explorations of voyeurism, sexual frustration and guilty impulses. These are the 50 best movies on Netflix.STREAMING ON NETFLIX 'The Four Seasons'
Tina Fey co-created and stars in this TV adaptation of Alan Alda's hit 1981 romantic comedy movie "The Four Seasons," about a group of lifelong friends whose regular shared vacations are disrupted when of the couples — played by Steve Carell and Kerri Kenney-Silver — goes through a divorce. Fey plays Kate, a persnickety planner married to a perhaps too convivial college professor named Jack (Will Forte); while Colman Domingo and Marco Calvani play a seemingly stable couple who secretly aren't sure if they can grow old together. Our critic wrote, "Some of Fey's signatures, like social neurosis and a respect for sandwiches, are present here, though deployed less for jokes than for realism." Here are 30 great TV shows on Netflix.STREAMING ON HULU 'Abbott Elementary'
Quinta Brunson's new, yet already acclaimed, workplace comedy is more than a little reminiscent of "Parks and Recreation," from its style (mockumentary) to its setting (a barely functioning government service) to its focal character (a cheerful optimist, also played by Brunson). But "Abbott Elementary" separates itself from such clear influences via the specificity of its storytelling; in detailing the true-to-life day-to-day woes of Philadelphia public schoolteachers, Brunson and her cast tap into a deeper well of resignation and desperation, while exploring the delightful character quirks that provide the show's biggest laughs. Here are Hulu's best movies and TV shows.STREAMING ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO 'September 5'
The tragedy at the 1972 Munich Olympics — in which armed members of the militant Palestinian group Black September took several members of the Israeli delegation hostage — is mesmerizingly dramatized in this tightly-wound drama from the director Tim Fehlbaum. The approach is unconventional and unexpected: rather than focusing on the perpetrators or their victims, "September 5" sees the standoff through the eyes of the ABC Sports television crew, which was on the ground to cover the Olympics, only to find themselves in over their heads with a "real" news story. Our critic called it "a tense ethical showdown with the racing pulse of a thriller." Here are a bunch of great movies on Amazon.STREAMING ON MAX 'The Brutalist'
To make his stirring epic about the tension between art and capital, the director Brady Corbet found an audacious form to match his theme, defying modern commercial trends with a 215-minute epic (with a scored intermission!) shot on a widescreen format, VistaVision, that had not been used for an American studio film since 1961. Despite its outsized scale, however, "The Brutalist" focuses sharply on the collaboration and conflict between a Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivor (Adrien Brody) bringing his architectural genius to America and the erratic industrialist (Guy Pearce) who hires him for a major public project. Manohla Dargis called it "a bursting-at-the-seams saga of bold men and their equally outsized visions." See more great movies streaming on Max.STREAMING ON DISNEY+ 'Toy Story'
The first feature-length Pixar movie was also the first entirely computer-animated feature, representing an evolutionary leap for Disney on par with "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." The sequels would add a more emotional component, but the original "Toy Story" may be the funniest and most fast-paced, scoring jokes off the interplay and adventures of Woody, Buzz and other toys that come to life when they're not being watched. Our critic called it "the sweetest and savviest film" of 1995. The 50 best things to watch on Disney+ right now.
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