The Top 15 movies added to or extended on the streaming services this week:
1) NOMADLAND
Stuffed with semi-socialist rhetoric and quiet contemplation on the American soul, if Chloé Zhao’s acclaimed Oscar Best Picture winning old-fashioned road movie were a song, it would be written by Bruce Springsteen. ~ NME
It's a tactfully acted film, beautifully shot in snowy widescreen, subtly scripted and directed with a rare touch. The subject is as painful as it is possible to imagine, but the treatment, while never preachy or affected, is humane, insightful and extremely movingᵗ. ~ Empire
A striking movie that peels back that feel-good façade of the “coming to America” narrative for a much more painful reality, one that feels freshly steeped in tears, heartache, and headlines, which boldly confronts both uncaring governments on either side of the border and the cartels that have warped these areas into the stuff of nightmares, while also mourning the human cost of losing a loved one to uncertainty and the ones who will never make it home again. ~ Roger Ebert
A remarkable time-travel fantasy from Terry Gilliam, who utilizes fantastic set design and homemade special effects to create a vivid, original universeᵗ. ~ Rotten Tomatoes
This animation about a robot uprising, led by Olivia Colman’s nefarious AI, is a beautiful and inventive treat for viewers both young and oldᵗ. ~ Telegraph
Vicomte de Valmont (John Malkovich) and the Marquise de Merteille (Glenn Close) enjoy a relationship of equal parts desire and disdain. They constantly try and outdo the other in their morally reprehensible acts, which usually involve the deflowering of young socialites, in this devilishly seductive comedy, with a heart of black pulsing beneath the blushing surface. ~ Empire
I have never before seen something yucky on screen make an entire cinema audience suddenly hunch forward and bury their heads in their laps at the same time, as if in some secular mosque for wimps. But that's what we all did during Danny Boyle's new movie, which candidly, but not too explicitly, reimagines the gruelling, real-life story of Aron Ralston's canyoneering accident in the breathtakingly beautiful Blue John Canyon in Utah when he got his arm immovably trapped under a boulder. ~ Guardian
There's excellent chariot action and a wonderful, if brief performance by Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius. Sophia Loren has seldom looked lovelier opposite upright Stephen Boyd as the soldier hero, and the screenplay with its nods to historian Edward Gibbon is resolutely intelligent. ~ Radio Times
There’s warmth, intimacy and real archive fascination to this true-life tale from the second world war: a rare example of a regular soldier being allowed to tell his own story. ~ Guardian
A Gothic melodrama relieved by comedy and effective conjuring tricks, this can be read as a provocative metaphysical chiller or as one of Ingmar Bergman's most revealing personal works in its picture of an artist ruthlessly criticised and humiliated who plots his revenge, gives his tormentors a lot to think about and, vindicated, rides off on a jubilant note. ~ Empire
