You'd higher be an Amazon Prime Video subscriber in July. Why? Effectively, the streamer has added tons of nice new films this month.
Watch With Us can inform by utilizing Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer as a benchmark of high quality.
This month, these three movies — the neo-Western No Nation for Previous Males, the old-school thriller Witness for the Prosecution and the surrealist masterpiece Blue Velvet — all scored at the very least 90 % or extra on Rotten Tomatoes.
They're all unforgettable in their very own manner and are price watching now or later.
‘No Nation for Previous Males' (2007)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93 percent
Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) thinks he has simply hit the jackpot when he discovers $2 million in a briefcase on the scene of a botched drug deal. It's no shock he takes the cash, neither is it terribly surprising that the house owners of that cash need it again. After they rent Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), a sociopath with a Dorothy Hamill hairdo, to retrieve the cash at any value, Llewelyn makes a run for it, however how can he — or anybody, actually — outrun somebody who's seemingly unstoppable?
Immediately acknowledged as a traditional, No Nation for Previous Males was a business and significant hit in 2007, grossing over $170 million worldwide and profitable 4 Oscars, together with Greatest Image. It was deserved, because the movie is just about good in each manner, from its lovely, evocative imagery of an American West overwhelmed by mindless violence to its very good performances from Bardem, Jones and Woody Harrelson as a bounty hunter. It's darkish, violent and unrelentingly bleak — however it's so good that you just wish to watch it time and again.
No Country for Old Men is streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
‘Witness for the Prosecution' (1957)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 100 percent
When Leonard Vole (Tyrone Energy) is accused of murdering a rich widow to inherit all her cash, he hires revered barrister Wilfrid Robarts (Charles Laughton) to defend him in an English court docket. Leonard desires his spouse Christine (Marlene Dietrich) to testify for him, however Wilfrid doesn't belief her — or what she might reveal. Because the trial unfolds, secrets and techniques emerge that threaten Wilfrid's repute — and Leonard's life.
Only a few movies maintain the excellence of getting an ideal 100% Rotten Tomatoes ranking, however Witness for the Prosecution is considered one of them. Directed by Billy Wilder from a stage play by Agatha Christie, it's one of the best courtroom dramas ever made, with a third-act twist so good, it's nonetheless surprising as we speak. The film acquired six Oscar nominations, however not one for Dietrich, who is solely sensational as enigmatic Christine.
Witness for the Prosecution is streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
‘Blue Velvet' (1986)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 91 percent
It began with a severed ear in a parking zone and a university child with an excessive amount of time on his fingers. When Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) finds the bloody appendage, he instantly desires to seek out its proprietor. His curiosity leads him to Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini), a lounge singer who has a wierd, violent relationship with native mobster Frank (Dennis Hopper). As Jeffrey grows nearer to Dorothy, he finds himself reevaluating how he defines his seemingly regular small city that holds darkish, disturbing secrets and techniques.
One of the crucial groundbreaking films of the Eighties, Blue Velvet was additionally one of the crucial divisive movies of that decade. Roger Ebert famously gave it zero stars, however no matter haters it had have now became admirers of what director David Lynch achieved along with his twisted tackle American suburbia.
Blue Velvet defies straightforward categorization or easy understanding; like most of Lynch's movies, it's greatest skilled reasonably than defined. Hopper was nominated for a Greatest Supporting Actor Oscar for Hoosiers in 1987, however he ought to've gained for his creepy work because the out-of-it Frank.
