A Glean movie guide
The Best of Netflix: Critic's Choice
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- 01
Emilia Pérez
A bold, genre-defying musical crime drama that captivated international film festivals.
Rita, an underrated lawyer working for a large law firm more interested in getting criminals out of jail than bringing them to justice, is hired by the leader of a criminal organization.
- 02
Roma
Alfonso Cuarón’s black-and-white masterpiece and a landmark achievement in modern international cinema.
In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.
- 03
The Piano Lesson
A powerful adaptation of August Wilson’s play exploring family legacy and ancestral history.
A brother and sister's battle over a prized heirloom piano unleashes haunting truths about how the past is perceived — and who defines a family legacy.
- 04
Society of the Snow
A visceral and technically stunning retelling of the 1972 Andes flight disaster survival story.
On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.
- 05
His Three Daughters
An intimate, masterfully acted drama about estranged sisters reuniting in a time of crisis.
Emotions run high when three estranged sisters reunite in a cramped New York City apartment to watch over their ailing father during his final days.
- 06
All Quiet on the Western Front
A hauntingly beautiful and brutal German-language epic that redefined the modern war film.
Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
- 07
Hit Man
Richard Linklater’s sharp, sexy, and loosely true story about a professor posing as a contract killer.
A mild-mannered professor moonlighting as a fake hit man in police stings ignites a chain reaction of trouble when he falls for a potential client.
- 08
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
A deeply moving documentary that uses animation to reveal a gamer’s secret digital legacy.
The secret life of a young World of Warcraft gamer is vividly reimagined when his online friends contact his family after his death.
- 09
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
A dark, philosophical, and visually breathtaking stop-motion reimagining of the classic tale.
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.
- 10
Marriage Story
A devastatingly honest and brilliantly acted look at the complexities of a coast-to-coast divorce.
A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.
- 11
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
A colorful and clever whodunit that balances sharp social satire with a complex puzzle.
World-famous detective Benoit Blanc heads to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery surrounding a tech billionaire and his eclectic crew of friends.
- 12
The Irishman
Martin Scorsese’s sprawling, elegiac crime epic featuring legendary performances from a powerhouse cast.
Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.