15 of the best films coming to Amazon Prime in August 2022
From recent adventures (The Lost City) to old Westerns (The Shootist), there's a bit of everything for film buffs on the streamer this month
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L-R: Downhill Racer (screenshot), Licorice Pizza (MGM), The Lost City (Paramount Pictures) Graphic: The A.V. Club
Lists of film highlights from streaming networks can sometimes lead to slim pickings, quality wise. Not so with Amazon Prime Video’s August titles. From concert films and docs to well received recent offerings and classic under-the-radar gems, there’s a bit of everything for film buffs this month—so read on for The A.V. Club’s favorites.
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The Lost City is a lot of fun, but it’s feels so much like a modern remake of Romancing the Stone, I have to believe that was what it was intended to be at some point. There are even scene-for-scene recreations, like the change-of-clothes-let’s-dance-in-the-square-of-the-village sequence.
That said, it might even be better than Romancing the Stone, so if you have any love for that movie, it’s definitely worth watching Lost City.
Haven’t seen Licorice Pizza or The Lost City but have wanted to so guess both will get knocked out soon.
Between Licorice Pizza and The French Dispatch, I’ve been completely let down by my anticipation of films from two of my favorite directors and I feel very far removed from the critical consensus on last year across the board.
The French Dispatch is lesser Wes Anderson certainly, but I’d put it ahead of The Darjeeling Limited.
Hard disagree. I didn’t initially like The Darjeeling Limited much following the prior three, which was probably inevitable, but it’s grown on me. Doubtful The French Dispatch will but who knows.
Licorice Pizza is like the LA hipster douchebag equivalent of one of those Adam Sandler movies where he rounds up all his famous actor friends like David Spade and Kevin James to go on vacation with him and then makes a movie studio pay for it. It’s much more well made and enjoyable than any of those shit bombs, of course, but if Robert Altman decided to make ‘Grown Ups 2′, this is pretty much what it would look like. There are not one, but TWO Spielberg children in it, for chrissakes. I found TFD boring as well. Beautiful, but boring. I’ve fallen asleep while watching the last two Wes Anderson movies (this and Isle of Dogs). That just makes me sad..
I fell asleep the first two times I watched Isle of Dogs. I love stop animation (I watch literally every release on every platform that I notice) and I wasn’t expecting it to live up to the ride of FMF but what a let down.
To be fair, I did watch Isle of Dogs in a huge reclining theater seat that was heated, but yeah, it didn’t draw me in at all. Again, I found it beautiful, but boring. You’d think Wes and stop-motion animation would go together perfectly, but that clearly wasn’t the case here..