It’s just about that time again! Netflix has announced its lists of what will be coming and leaving the streaming service throughout June 2016, and the news comes with a disappointing reminder. Amongst the titles being added to the streaming service’s library, very few of them, outside of the original series, is worth sitting down to watch seriously, reinforcing the sense that since Netflix got into the original programming racket, they’ve given less and less of a care to the caliber of movies they are adding.
There’s one major title that is hitting the service, and its a controversial one.Clint Eastwood’sJ. Edgargot little respect from either side of the political spectrum, but it’s one of the best films to date from one of the most underrated American filmmakers currently working. Eastwood criticizes the diseases of uncertainty, repression, and control that made J. Edgar Hoover, played by a never-betterLeonardo DiCaprio, obsess over the repression and control of others, including Martin Luther King Jr. That being said, he doesn’t lose the sadness of the character, never denies the notorious FBI head his basic humanity, and its just this decision, to neither make him heroic or purely monstrous, that made people turn a blind eye to J. Edgar. Don’t repeat that mistake.
Beyond that, there’sJurassic Park, which you’ve probably already seen but should watch again, as well as small delights likeCold in July,Janis: Little Girl Blue, andTodd McCarthy’sSpotlight. And then, of course, there’s the new season ofOrange is the New Blackand the debut season ofVoltron: Legendary Defenderfrom Netflix’s original programming, which, yes, is nearly damn worth the lack of solid movies on the service.
7 Chinese Brothers
72 Cutest Animals: Season 1
72 Dangerous Places: Season 1
A Walk to Remember
Big Stone Gap
Bob Ross: Beauty is Everywhere
Breaking the Magician’s Code: Magic’s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed: Season 1-2
Cold in July
Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land On The Moon?
Cuba: The Forgotten Revolution
(Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies
El Libro de Piedra
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Extraordinary Tales
The Fear of 13
Gabo: The Creation of Gabriel García Márquez
Gentlemen and Gangsters: Season 1
The Good Witch: Season 1
The Great Alone
Hadwin’s Judgement
Janis: Little Girl Blue
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park III
Lion Heart
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Meadowland
The Odd Couple II
Off Camera: Series 1
Pokémon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages
Pokémon: XY: Kalos Quest: Season 2
Portrait of a Serial Monogamist
The Resurrection of Jake the Snake
Rock the Kasbah
Sam Klemke’s Time Machine
Second Coming
Tab Hunter Confidential
UFOs: The Best Evidence Ever (Caught on Tape)
What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy
Beauty & the Beast: Season 3
Hibana: Spark
Pretty Little Liars: Season 6
Bo Burnham: Make Happy
Every Thing Will Be Fine
Jarhead 3: The Seige
LEGO Friends: The Power of Friendship: Season 2
Voltron: Legendary Defender: Season 1
Me Him Her
Scandal: Season 5
Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong
The League: Season 7
After The Spill
Boom Bust Boom
In the Shadow of the Moon
Naz & Maalik
Night Owls
Poverty, Inc.
TransFatty Lives
Being Mary Jane: Season 3
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Season 3
The Unborn
All Hail King Julien: Season 3
Orange is the New Black: Season 4
Cedar Cove: Season 3
Grey’s Anatomy: Season 12
Bunk’d: Season 1
Life Story: Series 1
The Making of Life Story
Best Friends Whenever: Season 1
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Dragons: Race to the Edge: Season 3
The Fundamentals of Caring (2016)
Justin Time GO!
A Very Secret Service: Season 1
