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, HBO Max and Disney+ to find some of the best titles on each service. STREAMING ON NETFLIX 'Mamma Mia'
The long-running Broadway jukebox musical, featuring the zippy music of the '70s pop group Abba, was something of a punchline for New Yorkers, a go-to example of how far the Great White Way had gone in its relentless pursuit of tourist dollars. But this spirited film adaptation (directed, as the stage production was, by Phyllida Lloyd) is altogether irresistible, offering up the peculiar but undeniable pleasure of heavyweight thespians like Meryl Streep, Stellan Skarsgard and Amanda Seyfried indulging in their inner theater kid. Our critic praised its "relentless, ridiculous charm." These are the 50 best movies on Netflix.STREAMING ON NETFLIX 'The Residence'
Shonda Rhimes's Shondaland production company is behind this inspired adaptation of Kate Andersen Brower's nonfiction book "The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House." Like the book, the series explains how the White House's domestic staff helps behind the scenes with the affairs of state. But in the TV version, the death of the staff's Chief Usher (Giancarlo Esposito) during a swanky state dinner adds a lightly comic mystery element. Uzo Aduba plays Cordelia Cupp, a special D.C. police consultant determined to find out what happened and who learns along the way about Washington's complicated social dynamics. Our critic called the show "fun," with "ample Agatha Christie references, a whooshing momentum and plenty of intrigue." Here are 30 great TV shows on Netflix.STREAMING ON HULU 'Devil in a Blue Dress'
Denzel Washington is terrific — smolderingly sexy, offhandedly funny, endlessly engaging — as Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, a '40s-era private detective, in this beautifully crafted adaptation of Walter Mosley's novel, from the director Carl Franklin ("One False Move"). Yet even with that great performance at its center, Don Cheadle steals the show as "Mouse," Rawlins's troublemaking best friend; this was Cheadle's breakthrough role, and he makes every scene crackle with energy and unpredictability. "Devil" was based on the first of 14 Rawlins novels (to date), and in a just world, we'd have seen Washington play him 13 more times. But at least we got this one. Here are Hulu's best movies and TV shows.STREAMING ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO 'Nosferatu'
The writer and director Robert Eggers ("The Witch") crafted his most ambitious effort to date with this remake of the influential 1922 horror classic, itself an unauthorized adaptation of "Dracula." It's a haunted, sweaty nightmare of a movie in which Eggers uses the cast iron pot of the original to cook up a hearty Transylvania stew, cheerfully intermingling ingredients from not only the previous adaptations but several official Draculas. Of particular note is the stylized and scary work by Bill Skarsgard in the title role, and the haunted, intense performance of Lily-Rose Depp as the object of his bloodthirsty desire. Here are a bunch of great movies on Amazon.STREAMING ON HBO MAX 'The Tree of Life'
Throughout his career, Terrence Malick has made films around massive topics like the Great Depression ("Days of Heaven"), the Pacific Theater ("The Thin Red Line") and American colonialism ("The New World"), but he always insists on grounding them in the relationship between man and nature. So it probably shouldn't come as much of a surprise that "The Tree of Life," his personal and breathtakingly beautiful film about his Texas upbringing, reaches all the way back to creation itself and the dawn of the dinosaurs. Closer to the present, Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain star as the parents of three sons in '50s Waco — the father stern and autocratic, the mother warm and permissive. A.O. Scott wrote "the sheer beauty of this film is almost overwhelming." See more great movies streaming on HBO Max.STREAMING ON DISNEY+ 'Ironheart'
As introduced in "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) is a precocious inventor in the Tony Stark mold, a Chicagoan who was admitted to M.I.T. as a 15-year-old and committed herself to using technology to advance public safety. But in this lively, kid-friendly series, Riri follows a wayward path to her goals, retreating to Chicago after getting kicked out of M.I.T. and turning to extralegal means to raise money to pursue her dreams. Her closest ally is the 3-D A.I. assistant she inadvertently creates — a robot resurrection of her late best friend Natalie (Lyric Ross) — but the show's most intriguing relationship is her sketchy alignment with Parker Robbins (Anthony Ramos), a.k.a. "The Hood," a criminal gang leader with access to the dark arts. The 50 best things to watch on Disney+ right now.
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