The best movies on Max right now
01.11.2023 - 16:45
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Max has gone through quite a transformation since the days of its initial launch in 2020. Following the unprecedented day-and-date release of the studio’s entire film slate in 2021, Max’s reach has continued to grow thanks to its direct-to-streaming releases and ongoing TV series like House of the Dragon, Succession, Westworld,The Rehearsal. And, thanks to the merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery, it’s also courted controversy.
But at the end of the day, Max is a service brimming with great movies, from pop culture mainstays like Mad Max: Fury Road and The Matrix series to canonical classics like Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane and The Shining. there are a ton of awesome titles to choose from across the service as more and more continued to be added each month. With that said, there’s a lot to choose from and only so many hours in the day.
Don’t sweat it, we’ve got you covered: Here are the best movies on Max to stream so you can finally start whittling down that watchlist.
Genre: Romantic comedy anthology
Director: Max Ophüls
Cast: Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Simone Simon
I challenge you to find a more joyous time at the movies than La Ronde. But, like, really — if there is any, I’d love to know about it, because I don’t know if I’ve ever had a better time than watching La Ronde.
The incomparable Anton Walbrook (The Red Shoes) is your master of ceremonies, taking the audience on a merry-go-round of love and affairs, bouncing from one romance to another in a dizzying array of passionate connections. It’s a joyous and infectious anthology story the likes of which we haven’t seen since (you can safely ignore the 1964 remake).
Despite being nominated for two Oscars (Best Writing and Best Art Direction), La Ronde was banned in 1953 from screening in New York, on the grounds that it was “immoral.” But producers appealed to the Supreme Court, including screening it for the justices (oh, to be a fly on that particular wall), and it was approved for screening in the state in 1954. Catch up with some movie history and a delightful, lost style of filmmaking and watch La Ronde. You won’t regret this stop on your own merry-go-round of life. —Pete Volk
Genre: Sci-fi
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood
2001: A Space Odyssey is an unassailable classic of science-fiction cinema, a work of stunning visual achievement and operatic scale whose legacy looms as far and wide over the expanse of film history as the shadow of one of its iconic monoliths. Co-written by science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, Stanley Kubrick’s landmark 1968 film follows the epic voyage of the Discovery One from Earth to Jupiter following the discovery of a mysterious artifact on the surface of the Moon. As humanity