From Cannes winners to Oscar contenders, here are some critically acclaimed films that deserve a second life on your streaming service.
With Sundance in full swing, it's a great time to explore some under-the-radar films that deserve a second life on streaming. We hope you love the shows and movies we recommend! Just so you know, BuzzFeed may collect a share of revenue or other compensation from the links on this page. Oh, and FYI: Platform, prices, and other availability details are accurate as of time of posting. Several films currently making waves at Sundance are worth revisiting.
In anticipation of its wider release, why not dig into the acclaimed director's earlier work with this Hong Chau- and Brian Dennehy-starring film? It should be said up top that this quiet little indie couldn't be more different in tone from Ahn's recent films (particularly, is a slow burn that takes its time introducing us to the small town (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and our three central characters (a retired war veteran, an introverted young boy, and his grieving single-mother) who are each in a period of transition. The sweet and unlikely relationship that's formed between Jaye's Cody and Dennehy's Del, who spends his days playing Bingo and sitting alone on his porch, is the reason to watch this film. It's a life-affirming film I recommend to just about anyone looking to calm their nerves. Every awards season, Oscar prognosticators remind us to save a slot in the Best Director category for an international auteur. Thomas Vinterberg — the Danish filmmaker who earned one of the most surprising nods in recent memory for). Even with its Best International Feature Film win, this sneakily existential comedy about four middle-aged teachers who try maintaining a daily blood-alcohol concentration level of .5 to optimize their performance, has remained criminally underwatched. And believe me when I tell you, it's worth watching just for the culminating dance sequence of Mads Mikkelsen absolutely freaking it on the Copenhagen waterfront. is a soothing balm of a movie about the occasionally agonizing but worthwhile pursuit of creativity. Along this meditative two-hour journey, we see the world through Paterson's eyes — rising early with him as he begins his usual bus route and carries out his daily tasks. Only, Paterson, who also happens to be a poet, finds inspiration in each seemingly banal moment or encounter. From all eligible categories should have been this blanked cannibal love story from 2022 starring Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell, and Mark Rylance. Like Luca Guadagnino took some big swings that left many viewers with a bad taste in their mouth. (A human carcass taste, even.) and its distinct, singular vision. Even taking Timothée's star power out of the equation, this film is still worth sinking your teeth into for the haunting supporting work from Rylance and, of course, Russell's utterly magnetic performance as a teenage misfit discovering that she is part of the cannibal community. is back for Season 3 on Feb 16 (and renewed for a Season 4 already). In case you're looking to explore more of writer-director Mike White's deliciously cringey material, you'll definitely want to check out this slept-on film starring You can see a clear through-line from this film to the complicated father-son relationships depicted in both S1 and S2 of. Here, we follow a father (Stiller) and his wise-beyond-his-years, deadpan son (Abrams) on a college tour that unearths complicated feelings of paternal jealousy. Surely, someone has ranked all of Stiller's most neurotic performances and put this at the top of the list alongside — a political thriller about three environmentalists who decide to blow up a hydroelectric dam — is just that type of slow-burn film that you never stop thinking about. ended up being one of the least-watched films of Kelly Reichardt's oeuvre I'll never quite understand, but this mood piece demands to be seen now more than ever. Even if... you have to squint at moments to see it. (Yes, it is arguably even.' Or, more specifically, the film with the infamous 'grassroots' Oscar campaign for Andrea Riseborough which successfully resulted in a Lead Actress nomination for the actor (and the Academy's Board of Governors to update its campaign promotional regulations). But... did you know that Riseborough's performance, and by extension, say that it was more than just industry cachet that landed Riseborough the nomination; delivering a remarkable performance as a small-town single mother burning every bridge as she struggles with alcoholism, the British stalwart manages to breathe new life into the stale Oscar-bait genre. Also, Marc Maron is... pretty good in it! We live in the age of the 10-minute-long standing ovation, so it's always refreshing to remember a time when a film could elicit a from the crowd at its Sundance premiere.
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