Best Netflix Movies of 2019

Best Netflix Movies 2019

Netflix is the bond which connects all the original film production. This streaming service has been there in storytelling for years, but last year there was a definitive shift making Netflix the crown of prestige awards circuit with titles like “Roma” and “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”. It also helped to rekindle the rom-com genre with originals and doubling down on star power.

Netflix is poised to dominate more awards season, setting a new record with 17 Golden Globe nominations on the film side (34 total if we include the TV Season).With films like “Marriage Story”, “The Irishman”, and “Dolemite Is My Name” in Netflix rode from mass to serious awards, while populist films like “Always Be My Maybe” and “In the Tall Grass” continue to cover the crowds.

"Between Two Ferns: The Movie"

It is basically a handful of new episodes of the popular Funny or Die web series in which Zach Galifianakis plays a fictional version of himself as the host of an interview show that asks insulting and abusive questions of its celebrity guests, connected together by the road trip. The interview segments are hilarious especially the opening sequence with Matthew McConaughey and Galifianakis enduring the protracted revenge of John Legend after a hotel encounter with Chrissy Teigen.

‘Atlantics’ (2019)

Mati Diop’s Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix winner is set in Senegal, where a young woman named Ava (Mama Sané) loses the boy she loves to the sea, just days before her arranged marriage to another man.

American Factory (2019)

Documentary filmmakers have been fascinated by the logistics and complexities of manual labour. Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert who were the recent Oscar winner for Best Documentary Feature, viewed these issues through a 21st century lens. Focusing on a closed GM plant in Dayton, Ohio, that’s taken over by a Chinese auto glass company, Bognar and Reichert explore how cultures – both corporate and general – clash. Manohla Dargis calls it “complex, stirring, timely and beautifully shaped, spanning continents as it surveys the past, present and possible future of American labour.

Marriage Story (2019)

Noah Baumbach’s searing, Bergman-esque drama is the story not of a marriage, but of a loving couple who grew apart and whose uncoupling is nowhere near that organic. Their shifting of priorities and geographic preferences prompts the hiring of lawyers, the spending of savings, and the stating of old resentments and regrets better left unsaid. Baumbach’s screenplay is full of tiny, human touches and graceful tonal shifts; he can move from screwball comedy to open-wound drama in the blink of an eye.

The Irishman’ (2019)

Martin Scorsese re-teams with Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci for the first time after “Casino” (1995), returns to the crime territory. Scorsese does something far trickier, and more poignant: He takes all the elements we expect in a Scorsese gangster movie with this cast, and then he strips it all down, turning this story of turf wars, union battles and power struggles into a chamber piece of quiet conversations and moral contemplation. A.O. Scott called it “long and dark: long like a novel by Dostoyevsky or Dreiser, dark like a painting by Rembrandt.”