The 7 best new movies on Netflix in June 2019

Netflix's June range is fully dedicated to old-fashioned comfort and bold counter-programming. While the summer movie season is warming up and even the most casual viewers are heading to the multiplex, Netflix is ​​serving one of its most robust slates in recent history. to convince people to stay at home. With the help of Steven Spielberg, Bob Fosse and Miles Morales, this could work.

On the blockbuster front, the TV giant debuts in the spirit of the season by re-mounting "The Dark Knight" and – even more exciting – by offering for the first time the movie "Spider-Man: Towards the Spider -Towards" . But the real action can be found in less obvious places, as the company completes its chosen range of new favorites with a diverse list of Netflix Originals that includes a hot documentary about the democratic crisis in Brazil, a piece of scientific thinking that has delighted the Sundance audience and a new film by Martin Scorsese (and apparently freewheeling) on ​​Bob Dylan. We have not seen the latest version yet, but this seems like a safe choice to add to your watchlist.

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Here are the seven best movies of Netflix in June 2019.

7. "The Black Knight" (2008)

The favorite movie of all IMDb users of all time, "The Dark Knight" is an absolute freight train in the sense of gravity. It does not matter if the script is a mishmash of isolated character beats or the symphonic style of Nolan – his preference for storytelling movements rather than acts – leads to an epic superhero who has some memorable pieces of scenery but very few real scenes. It does not matter that the action of the IMAX format film is often inconsistently assembled, or that Nolan's preference for generic blanks cancels life straight out of Gotham City (no disrespect for Chicago, but what movie has no idea how to turn it). It does not matter if bat surveillance in the last 20 minutes is a total chore or Harvey Dent is so inert that his character's design is too transparent for him to feel that it really matters.

But it does not matter. You do not have to believe in Harvey Dent because "The Dark Knight" believes so much in himself. Nolan's suite is more than the sum of its parts because it is animated by a degree of conviction almost without equal. From his first striking scene to the half-cliffhanger of his final line, the film runs through Batman's story as if the fate of the world was at stake. The scenario of Christopher and Jonathan Nolan is convinced that his epic story of symbols has power to decipher the twenty-first century. And, when the film weighs the power of chaos and the dangers of compassion, it is almost the case. Before we all start to live a cartoon reality with cartoon villains, "The Dark Knight" showed us what it could be.

Available to listen on June 1st.

6. "Magic Mike" (2012)

"Magic Mike XXL" is perhaps the undisputed masterpiece of the series, but the original is more than solid, alone. A full-bodied time that doubles as a study of post-recession greed, Steven Soderbergh's spectacular film is such a nice film because he never forgets that the heart is the strongest muscle in the human body.

… OK, it's not literally true, but it's good. Similarly, it is not Literally It's true that Channing Tatum's semi-autobiographical performance as an enterprising stripper lives up to everyone on the screen, but she feels good. Very right. He is the eye of the storm in a film that rains positively to men. "Magic Mike" wants to be a little more exuberant than Soderbergh's antiseptic style allows, and Cody Horn is too boring for a movie in which each character is interesting enough to play the lead role, but none of these drawbacks are enough to remember this thing to be a huge pleaser of the crowd. The law states that a movie about Florida's friends should not be so touching, but it seems like there are a lot of offenders in your house tonight.

Available to listen on June 1st.

5. "Cabaret" (1972)

Each month, Netflix adds exactly one movie made before 1985. This month, this movie is a masterpiece (and you can thank FX's "Fosse / Verdon" series for this addition). Freely adapted from the 1966 hit of the same name – but sufficiently different and sensational for all future productions in the series to be indebted to this film – Bob Fosse's "Cabaret" forced the musical into the real world in order to give a crucial meaning. of danger for the story of Sally Bowles (an icon Liza Minnelli) and her libertine misadventures throughout Germany from the time of Weimar. If only a lucid and catchy epic on the slow rise of Nazism in the context of a decadent republic had all its relevance in the era of the outbreak! Well, that's between episodes of "The Office" if you want it.

Available to listen on June 1st.

4. "20th Century Women" (2016)

The "beginners" of Mike Mills are a double tragicomic reflection on his father's slow death. Made six years later, her limpid, light and beautifully remembered "Woman of the 20th Century" sums up her mother's life. These two autobiographical reveries are concerned about how difficult it is for people to associate with their parents, especially when the age gap is large enough to engulf any cultural overlap – both play in Mills' retort "Beginners." described as "the sadness that our parents did not have time to live and the happiness we have never seen with them" – but this one is funnyand not only sweet; piercing, not just true.

Around 1979, in a mediocre Santa Barbara retreat, this nostalgic look at this "magical summer" tells the story of Dorothea Fields (Annette Bening never better), her teenage son (Lucas Jade Zumann), the sexually progressive girl next door (Elle Fanning), and the different people who come to stay in their place (including Greta Gerwig and Billy Crudup). From her heavy title to the final title of the film, to her boundless final plan, Mills invites us to ask if people are defined by their time or if the times are set by their people. More than that, it creates a space for us to ask ourselves about the trajectory of our own lives, to memorize the places where they meet and to marvel in an unconscious way where they could lead us.

Available for June 28th.

3. "A.I. Artificial Intelligence »(2001)

Made public to mixed reviews and somewhat confused in the summer of 2001 (when this profound meditation on life and death was hilariously positioned as a blockbuster of July 4), the film "A.I. Artificial Intelligence "was intended for reevaluation and lasting reverence upon arrival at the scene. A snapshot of humanity at the turn of the twenty-first century, an excruciating existentialist fairy tale and still perhaps the only film to ever convincingly defend the idea of ​​a ghost in the shell, "AI" found Spielberg Capturing Where Director Stanley Kubrick stopped and armed his often derisive sentimentality for the story of an kid the size of a child named David (Haley Joel Osment) who spends a very, very long time searching for love that he programmed. offer.

There is a lot of breathtaking magic, especially in a second act that is based on a gigolo robot played by Jude Law, but "A.I." never loses sight of his soul. The end, which people disdainfully attribute to Spielberg despite his resonant resonances with the last act of "2001: The Odyssey of Space", is the most artificial coda that the author of the "War of the worlds" has never done, and also the most honest. Even (or especially) if you consider this as indulgent madness, it might be time to look again at a film that has not aged every day.

Available to listen on June 1st.

2. "The end of Evangelion" (1997)

Netflix has insisted a lot on the acquisition of the broadcasting rights of the seminal animated series "Neon Genesis Evangelion", which is not a problem; the deep, troubled series and unparalleled influence on the Earth's "destroying" angels (and the anguished children who are forced to wage the fight against them) is no longer available since the DVD out of print since a few years long ago, and a new generation of myth-obsessed Redditors are about to be served a cup of red meat. It is high time to relaunch the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the gifs alone could make it the bustling event of the summer.

But Netflix does not stop there: the company has not just praised the episodes, it has seized the entire universe "Evangelion" and it is very good news for those who will remember the ambivalence they felt when the finale of the series ended in a budget crisis and a nervous breakdown (on screen and off). In addition to the TV show, Netflix brings Anno Hideaki's breathtaking postscript, "The End of Evangelion," which does not solve the story (ah!), But sublimates the audience in the psychic field. from the narrative itself, breaking down pesky barriers like screens and selfishness in order to reaffirm the great ideas that still reigned in Tokyo-3. Few animation films have ever asked more viewers, let alone gave so much in return.

Available for June 21st.

1. "Spider-Man: Towards the Spider-Verse" (2018)

Tragic news for those who are fed up with superhero movies: "Spider-Man: In the Spider-Verse" completely reinvigorates the genre, reaffirms why it resonates with a modern and diverse audience desperate to fight power, and reminds us how popular Spandex myths can reinvent themselves at any time. A fascinating and irreverent experience from the wonderful comic minds that brought you "21 Jump Street", this year's Oscar winner for the best animated feature film is somehow the super movie The most nerdi and most inviting hero of long time, as was the origin of Miles Morales the story is transformed into a kind of postmodern delirious spectacle that reminds us why these movies will exist as long as people will need to to see themselves reflected in them. Sometimes it may seem like a threat. Watching "In the Spider-Verse" is more of a promise – a promise that Miles holds with a little help from friends Gwen, Spider-Man Black, Penni Parker and of course Spider-Ham. It's one of the longest-running movies, and it's up to you now to see it whenever and wherever you want.

Available for June 26th.

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