The 11 best films on Netflix in January 2022
An eclectic mix of cult classics, blockbuster hits, and bold auteur statements to ring in the new year
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From left: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Wedding Singer, Taxi Driver Screenshot: YouTube
As the calendar turns from 2021 to 2022, movie theaters enter what’s traditionally been a dumping ground for all the film deemed unworthy of a high-profile November or December slot on the big screen. No such rut exists at Netflix, whose catalog adds singular films by fascinating filmmakers and a handful of modern classics in January of 2022. Oh, and Interview With The Vampire—which might not be what you’d call a “great film,” but it is a timely addition, given the recent death of Vampire Chronicles author Anne Rice, and the upcoming AMC series.
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It always seems like T2 cycles between Netflix/Hulu/HBO annually, about 4 months for each. This isn’t necessarily a problem, but it makes me wonder what the licensing agreement looks like.
Saw it again about a year ago in 4K. Looks like an HD print this time. Why?
There is no movie that will make me weep more than Big Fish. That ending gets me every time. Not just weeping … sobbing. I think maybe because my grandfather, whom I loved very very much, was a larger than life kind of guy. Very much like the father in this movie.
Hello? Hello? Are you there, AV Club ? Jokes aside, and just to be clear, as someone who, sort of cretinously, followed you to the cold, hard world of Kinja because I was so fond of you, you’re just never going to publish actual, meaningful content ever again? Or, one substantial article every two weeks maybe? Just let us know, would you ? Or maybe just change your name entirely.
Holy shit. Until just now, I was still in the naive believe that it’s still holiday season on the AV Club, but that regular publishing will take up aaaaany day now. But… this is the new new, isn’t it? There’s no such thing as regular publishing any more, just slide shows and slide shows and slide shows and snarky news items?Honest question: Is there a thread somewhere — on an another article, or The Other Site, hell, I’d even take reddit if regular commenters were there — in which the commmentariat discusses this whole shitshow? Like, feelings and facts? Who’s left and who has left from the writers? I mean, the film crew is the biggest reason why I still stuck around, and I see that at least Katie is still here (hi Katie!). But she’s doing slide shows, of course. And the rest of the starting page is basically just Tatiana doing news? Is anyone else left? Dowd? Or is it Barsantis all the way down? I would really like to talk about it. I’m sorry.
There’s still Katie, Caroline, and Tom Breihan writing thoughtful intelligent stuff. Hassenger and Dowd try sometimes.But I wouldn’t be surprised if all of them were gone after the move to L.A. and A.V. Club just full-on became the E! Network or whatever the fuck they’re trying for with all the gossipy reality shit
I hope that at least a few of the kiddies who swarmed to see Joker will tune in to see Taxi Driver to see how much better the original was.
Between Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy you’ve already seen a much better Joker. And if you want to see Joaquin being all scrawny and weird you can watch any of his other films
Cloud Atlas? Seriously? Is that the true true?
What you are seeing at the beginning of Taxi Driver is steam not smoke. NYC still has a steam plant and underground piping to heat some of the vintage skyscrapers.
You lost me at “Start slideshow”.That said, Wedding Singer? Even in the Sandler oeuvre, it’s in the bottom grouping.Is this saying there isn’t anything worthwhile on Netflix anymore?
I dunno—I don’t think you have to justify listing Neil Jordan’s Interview with a Vampire here, by saying “well it’s probably not a great film, but Anne Rice died, you know, and…” I’m not even a big Anne Rice fan, and I think it definitely holds up.
Tell me that despite years as sovereign film critic you still harbor enough insecurity regarding internet fame not to admit “Ingrid Goes West” is Aubrey Plaza’s masterpiece without telling me that despite years as sovereign film critic you still harbor enough insecurity regarding internet fame not to admit “Ingrid Goes West” is Plaza’s masterpiece.Also, “Hell or High Water” is a terrible dull movie and I have no idea why people like it so much. Just the most empty dialog-humping shit I’ve seen since “Things To Do in Denver.”