The 7 best new movies on Netflix in February 2019

February is not long enough to catch up with all the titles that will arrive at Netflix this month. We have therefore reduced the list to the seven most exciting new films of the broadcast giant (click here for the full list of films coming to the service in the coming weeks). Between the phenomenal "High Flying Bird" by Steven Soderbergh, "Personal Shopper" resonates with resonance and an old movie about a shark, you'll be spoiled for choice between the launch of The Criterion Channel in April.

And if these choices do not do it for you, well, there is always "Velvet Buzzsaw".

7. "About a boy" (2002)

It's still hard to believe that Chris and Paul Weitz followed the phenomenal success of "American Pie" – a historic ode to high school madness – with a Chris Rock version of "Heaven Can Wait" and Nick's infallibly sweet adaptation. Hornby, two guys always had more to do than discover John Cho, pioneer of erotic pleasures and traps of webcams, and forever altering the basic concept of the camp band (both continue to be successful filmmakers, and Chris was a determining force behind the indie engine like "Columbus" and "The Farewell"). At the time, however, it was shocking to see them deliver a film as raw and well-made as "About a Boy."

Detailing the unlikely friendship between a misanthropic bachelor and an unsuitable British pre-adolescent, this devious (but never cynical) film is reinforced by Hugh Grant's revealing performance, a remarkably nuanced beginning of 12-year-old Nicholas Hoult. , exceptional works by Toni Collette and Rachel Weisz. And, for good measure, she is also crowned by the most uncomfortable version of the story of "Killing Me Softly With His Song". All this in the effort to have this motley crew of shipwrecked characters learn that no man, no woman, no little child, a cup of discouraged bowl – is an island.

"American Pie" (and its sequels) is also streaming on Netflix.

Available to listen on February 1st.

6. "As good as possible" (1997)

The further we move into the future – and the more the movie theaters are dominated by Freddie Mercury's epics of superheroes and biopics – the longer it takes to extend the hours of James L. Brooks' two and a half hour dramas. . Even the most painful and uncomfortable treatises of his romantic treatises on human neuroses (or his neurotic treatises on romantic humans) are indispensable.

"As Good As Gets Gets" is not as good as it gets; it lacks the emotional strength that defines the "conditions of attachment" and the sense of purpose that fueled the "Broadcast News". Nevertheless, this Oscar favorite is charming despite himself and contains enough strong character work to last an entire season. from a Netflix show. Jack Nicholson gives one of his best badets (or at least one of his more) performances such as the fork Melvin Udall, an obsessive-compulsive writer who intimidates everyone in his path, as well as their little dogs. Neither Melvin, nor a homobadual neighbor played by Greg Kinnear, could escape the public opinion if this film came out today, but their relationship still holds thanks to the inviolable link of cinematic logic. It is Helen Hunt, however, who gives the heart and soul of this now impossible story, playing a nice waitress with a sick child and little hope of a better future. She may be a little too good (and a little too old) for Melvil, but hey, it makes him want to become a better man.

Available to listen on February 1st.

5. "The Edge of Seventeen" (2016)

Kelly Fremon Craig's directorial debut challenges millennials with the same authenticity and dynamism that allowed "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" to launch a revolution when it crashed in the 1980s. And yet, to qualify this as a new version of an old phenomenon would be a terrible service to the ironic film and uncompromising honesty that Craig has given us – along with his bad luck heroine, "The Edge of Seventeen "behaves like a hand-but-like but thinks like a real original.

Produced by James L. Brooks, the movie oozes from the brain of a young teenage girl named Nadine Byrd (a Hailee Steinfeld never better), who feels like an outcast even before her best friend (Haley Lu Richardson) starts dating his perfect a brother (Blake Jenner). Taking place as a symphony of small humiliations, there is not a moment in this film that does not seem at least vaguely familiar, and there is not a moment in this film that does not feel completely true. Nobody is going to confuse "The Edge of Seventeen" for a Dardennes docudrama, but the film combines the accessibility of a Hollywood comedy with the non-romantic bleariness of an afternoon d & rsquo; gray autumn. Your adolescence may look like an open wound and Nadine is afraid to bleed before her painful crusts disappear. "There are two types of people in the world," she tells us: "Confident people and people who hope that it will die". It may be true, but the spiritual and quite wonderful film that Craig has conceived around it suggests that we fall somewhere in the middle as we learn to live with ourselves.

Available to listen on February 1st.

4. "The Virgin of 40" (2005)

One of the most influential films of the twenty-first century, his directorial debut ushered in the golden age of romantic comedy, turning away from toxic masculinity exemplified by films like "Wedding." Crashers "and inviting the men of America to cultivate hell and get in touch with their feelings. Using multiplexes to reach an audience that "Freaks and Geeks" has never been able to "The Virgin of 40" has en mbade embodied a new generation of comedy stars: he introduced to the world people like Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill. cemented Steve Carrell as a leading man, and this allowed everyone, from Elizabeth Banks to Paul Rudd, to regain control of their images and lead their careers to hilarious new places. He also foresaw a dark future in which Stormy Daniels would become a lightning rod for men who did not know how to handle their badual frustration, but it's neither here nor there.

Even now that Apatow has become an empire for himself, this pleasant story about a badually deficient technology salesman and his stupid colleagues is still one of the funniest things he has ever done. Where no matter who never did. At this point, almost every line of dialogue has made its entrance into our collective vernacular (the film is powerful enough to turn the name of a pop star into a pure braggart), largely because "The Virgin of 40 years old "has been broadcast on cable TV almost as many times as this infernal Kars-4-Kids commercial. Now that this masterpiece is on Netflix, you can finally watch it on an infinite loop without the VH1 logo occupying half of the screen.

Available for February 16th.

3. "Big flying bird" (2019)

Steven Soderbergh does not seem to care if his characters are true or false; he just likes to watch them struggle to badert their own worth against an indifferent system – a business, a government or a virus – even if that fight costs them all in the end. In his phenomenal new "High Flying Bird", a promethean sports drama that hums with the verve and purpose of Soderbergh's best work, this system is the NBA. And it's deeply broken. Not because the fans have stopped buying tickets, but rather because the old whites owning the teams also want to feel ownership of the young black players. ("I love the Lord and all his blacks," he says whenever someone in this movie compares slavery to professional basketball.)

As you would expect from a collaboration between the director of "Out of Sight" and the writer of "Moonlight", "High Flying Bird" is a smart movie that moves quickly and resonates with the trauma of the past and the promise new hope. André Holland plays Ray, a sports agent with 25 weeks of lockout throughout the league and desperately trying to keep his job. A lockout should theoretically be Ray's chance to shine. This is his chance to move mountains and reshape the firmaments in favor of his stars. he should to be, but that's not how it works; it's not the way the game is played. If Ray wants to escape from Tarell's sneaky and unobtrusive scenario, Alvin McCraney will have to recover enough energy to change the rules to his advantage. Watching it do that – and watching Soderbergh turn this business-oriented story into one of the most fun things he's ever done – is extremely rewarding from start to finish.

Available to listen on February 8th.

2. "Personal Shopper" (2016)

Olivier Assayas' "Personal Shopper", one of the most moving representations of the process of mourning ever on the screen, reinvents the ghosts story by approaching it with a radical frankness and a singularly modern sense of self. . And despite the fact that it includes a scene in which a ghost-spewing vomit a warm, white ectoplasm into the air above Kristen Stewart's face, it's also one of the most realistic.

Directly enthusiastic for a moment and stubbornly elliptical the following, "Personal Shopper" is not only the story of a young woman trying to connect with her brother beyond, it's also a story about how the technology shapes how people remember death and the process. their absence. Stewart plays the role of Maureen, a celebrity badistant who works with the medium in the hope of contacting her deceased twin brother. And as spiritualists are drawn to the show, it's only natural that Maureen is constantly fixing her iPhone, using it to browse the paintings of Swedish mystic Hilma af Klint or watching a fun excerpt of a (fake) drama TV in which Victor Hugo conducts a hokey session. These digital communions give the laconic thriller of Assayas the feeling of a Russian nesting doll, each layer concealing a new corpse. The central sequence of this film remains the largest texting scene in the film's history.

Available to listen on February 1st.

1. "Jaws" (1975)

We are going to need a bigger phone.

Available to listen on February 1st.

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