Streaming
Underneath most of your recommendations on Criticker, you'll see a row of small, square icons, indicating the platforms on which you can currently stream the title. Many of the icons are familiar (for better or worse, almost everyone instantly recognizes the Amazon smile, the Netflix "N", and the Apple with a missing bite out it). But there are others you might not immediately be able to identify.
One icon we see a lot while browsing our own Criticker recommendations is a little black box with the word "Kanopy" in white. Kanopy isn't a typical streaming platform. Rather, it's a service for public libraries, which allows them to make their video content available to anyone who has a card. And yes, that means the titles are available to stream for free, as long as you're a member of the library.
Criticker has no agenda when it comes to recommending movies. The only thing which influences our recommendations is the raw data from your top users. As a consequence, older films are just as likely to be suggested by Criticker as newer films... and it's here that Kanopy really shines. They have a wealth of classic cinema available. But we've also found a decent selection of newer films. For example, one of last year's most acclaimed movies, Brazil's The Secret Agent is currently on the platform. And new titles are being added all the time.
We usually describe Criticker as a place to get recommendations on films you might not know about, but our own experience shows that it's also useful for finding new streaming platforms. Have you discovered any new service, after seeing it pop up for a bunch of recommendations on Criticker? When you start to pay attention, it's amazing how many are out there!
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Only movies written and directed by the Coen Bros.
Includes She, Midnight Mass, Heartstopper Forever, and We Are the Wave
Includes Monsters University, Turning Red, Coco, and Toy Story
http://mubi.com/topics/uncanny-disturbingly-weird-films - The Uncanny (Ger. Das Unheimliche -- literally, "un-home-ly", but ideomatically, "scary", "creepy") is a Freudian concept of an instance where something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time, resulting in a feeling of it being uncomfortably strange.1 (See Uncanny valley)
Includes Dead Ringers, Darkman, Double Team, and Married to the Mob
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Annoyingly meta, painfully on the nose, screaming common knowledge at the top of its lungs in each scene: we're living the epilogue, the holocaust happened, financed by greed and sloth, masterminded by terrifyingly efficient clowns and their stone-age, high-tech prophets for hire. The cat's dead, the politicians frozen and diseased, no one has the guts to toss 'em in the flames, so we nitpick, ridicule, pretend fight, and toast token victories as the water rises. Obvious. Futile. Necessary.
TOS is ultimately a show I respect more than I like. I get why it was so groundbreaking and all that, but watching it today is a bit of a chore. Give me TNG or DS9 any day over this.
I feel the marketing for this movie was deceptive. I do appreciate the director trying something different but I don’t think it quite worked. I liked a lot of the daft stuff but I just wish we had the ‘production’ side of the film fleshed out a bit more. Tom Cruise and John Goodman really blew it out the water, and Riz Ahmed got some good scenes too.
Man willing to do anything but have a healthy conversation.
I won’t bandy around phrases like “neo-noir” like I know what they mean, but that feels appropriate. As does “black comedy”. This resonated with me in terms of recalling times I stayed out far too late and got into bizarre situations with strange characters. It also reminded me of certain nightmares. And Eyes Wide Shut. A compelling, surreal little adventure with a great cast. I probably wouldn’t have clocked this as a Scorcese film if I didn’t know beforehand, for what it’s worth. Recommended.
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