11 movies to check out on Prime Video in January

Mad Max, Foe, The Passenger, Fast X, and Superman II lead the offerings from Amazon's streaming platform

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11 movies to check out on Prime Video in January
Clockwise from left: Foe (Amazon Studios), Mad Max (American International Pictures), The Passenger (Paramount Home Entertainment) Image: The A.V. Club

Amazon’s Prime Video revs up the new year with new originals and several movies focused on automobiles and other modes of transportation. A few short months before Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga races into theaters, check out George Miller’s original postapocalyptic adventure Mad Max starring Mel Gibson to see why Max became so mad. Johnny Berchtold and Kyle Gallner leave a trail of destruction in the rearview mirror in The Passenger. Vin Diesel and Aquaman star Jason Momoa face off in Fast X. Other new arrivals in the Prime Video film library this January include Non-Stop, Pulp Fiction, Superman II, Foe, Transformers: Rise Of The Beast, The Other Zoey, and many more.

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FAST X | Official Trailer

Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto faces off against the vengeful son (Jason Momoa) of a drug lord in . The A.V. Club’s , “What did we do to deserve Vin Diesel, that manly man of a vintage they haven’t been bottling since the heyday of Axl Rose’s first bandana? Vin’s tough but he’s tender. He puts women on the exact pedestal feminists thought they’d knocked over maybe 40 years ago. He’s loyal to his friends—the dead ones especially. And as he moves through the world as he knows it, powered by some unquantifiable mixture of ostentatious humility and laid-back self-love, he makes you believe that all the contradictions he embodies can be brought into balance with a crooked smile and the sound of his Barry White baritone crooning, ‘I don’t have friends. I got family.’”

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  • fireupabove-av says:

    I watched Landscape with Invisible Hand last night. What a film. I don’t even really know how to describe it. It’s not a comedy but it’s frequently funny. It’s very human-focused sci-fi, pretty thought-provoking. I was very much into it, even though it was fairly uneven.

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