The Best Movies Coming To Netflix In August 2016
As July comes to an end and August looms, it has arrived: the complete list of movies and television shows arriving on Netflix next month. But since picking something to watch can be a painful and agonizing process, we've done the heavy lifting for you. Here are the must-see movies from everything coming to Netflix within the next thirty days.
The Fast and the Furious and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Everyone seems to agree that the Fast and Furious series really became something special with Fast Five, which transformed a loose series about street racing and related crimes into a globetrotting adventure story full of outrageous characters and preposterous action. However, to truly appreciate and study how far this series has come, the early films are required viewing. The original 2001 film, The Fast and the Furious, is a rough watch these days. It hasn't aged well and Paul Walker and Vin Diesel aren't comfortable screen presences quite yet. Still, it's a bizarre artifact and the exception that proves the rule about movie franchises getting worse with age.
And then there's The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, which began as a completely disconnected sequel to the first two movies and now acts as a vital turning point for the series thanks to some wacky timeline restructuring. More importantly, it marks Justin Lin's first time in the director's chair for one of these movies and it's actually the first entry in the series to be legitimately and honestly good.
Final Destination 3
It may not be on the same bonkers level as Final Destination 2, but Final Destination 3 is one of the stronger entries in this very silly series. As you'd expect (and let's face it, hope), the film is built entirely around finding grisly ways to off the cast members one by one through absurd scenarios that don't even bother asking for your suspension of disbelief. There's a natural comedic rhythm to the best of these films: a meticulous and agonizing set-up filled with misdirection and distractions suddenly turns around with drops a gooey punchline covered in viscera right in your lap. Pour yourself a strong drink and enjoy the perfectly modulated carnage.
No Country For Old Men
One of several films from Joel and Ethan Coen that can be described as a masterpiece, No Country For Old Men is a bleak, terrifying, and occasionally blackly funny odyssey into nihilism and consequence and fate and random chance. It begins as one of the best thrillers of the '00s and concludes as a maddening, thoughtful rumination on violence and a changing world. That ending, which can feel so frustrating upon first viewing, is one of the all-time great cinematic denouements and a perfect ending for a movie that refuses to offer easy answers or small comforts. Javier Bardem's Oscar-winning performance is as good as you remember, but it's Josh Brolin, as the hapless hero thrown into a living hell because of a moment of mercy, who is quietly magnificent.
The Road
If you still have a single warm or pure thought left in your body after watching No Country For Old Men, John Hillcoat's The Road will stamp out the ashes. Like that film, this is an adaption of an acclaimed Cormac McCarthy novel and unlike that film, there is nothing thrilling or even remotely humorous about anything that transpires here. The setting is the post-apocalypse. The characters are an unnamed man and his son. There is no story, just a serious of violent and miserable episodes. There is no supporting cast, just a serious of increasingly unsettling encounters with other wanderers. Hillcoat sticks true to McCarthy's text and the result is one of the bleakest movies ever made. It's a tough watch. You may hate it. But oh boy, it sure is something.
Sleepy Hollow
If this movie was made today, it would probably be terrible. You have Tim Burton directing a quirky re-imagining of a classic story and it stars Johnny Depp, who is putting on a funny voice and indulging in all manner of quirks. That sounds like an Alice in Wonderland-esque recipe for disaster, but Sleepy Hollow comes from an age where these two working together wasn't quite so old hat. This violent and odd riff on the tale of the Headless Horseman is stylish and moody, a hugely entertaining gothic horror tale that's surprisingly earnest in its storytelling. If not for all of the gore, this could be a Hammer horror movie from the '60s.
AVAILABLE AUGUST 1
The American Side (2016)
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
APEX: The Story of the Hypercar (2016)
Beethoven's Christmas Adventure (2011)
Big Daddy (1999)
Black Widow (1987)
Critical Condition (1987)
Deadfall (2012)
Destination: Team USA (2016)
Funny or Die Presents: Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie ?NETFLIX EXCLUSIVE
The Family Man (2000)
The Fast and the Furious (2001)
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
Final Destination 3 (2006)
From the Terrace (1960)
Holding the Man (2015) NETFLIX EXCLUSIVE
How To Win The US Presidency (2016)
In the Shadow of the Moon (2007)
ISIS: Women Unveiled (2016)
Masha and the Bear: Season 2 NETFLIX EXCLUSIVE
Memoria (2015)
The Naked Prey (1966)
NCIS: Season 13
Pay It Forward (2000)
The Real Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
Roseanne Collection: Collection 3
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Sliding Doors (1998)
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Teacher's Pet (1958)
The Verdict (1982)
The Wedding Planner (2001)
What Women Want (2000)
Young@Heart (2007)
Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)
AVAILABLE AUGUST 3
Beat Bugs: Season 1 NETFLIX ORIGINAL
AVAILABLE AUGUST 5
David Cross: Making America Great Again (2016) NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Ever After High: Epic Winter NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Little Prince (2016) NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Punk's Dead: SLC Punk 2 (2016)
Slow TV: National Firewood Evening (2016) Slow TV: National Firewood Morning (2016)
Slow TV: National Firewood Night (2016)
Slow TV: National Knitting Evening (2016)
Slow TV: National Knitting Morning (2016)
Slow TV: National Knitting Night (2016)
Slow TV: Northern Passage (2016)
Slow TV: Northern Railway (2016)
Slow TV: Salmon Fishing (2016)
Slow TV: The Telemark Canal (2016)
Slow TV: Train Ride Bergen to Oslo (2016)
AVAILABLE AUGUST 5
The Confirmation (2016)
AVAILABLE AUGUST 9
Real Husbands of Hollywood: Season 4
TRex (2015)
AVAILABLE AUGUST 10
St. Vincent (2014)
AVAILABLE AUGUST 11
Flight of the Butterflies (2012)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
AVAILABLE AUGUST 12
Ask the StoryBots: Season 1 NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Get Down: Part 1 NETFLIX ORIGINAL (see below for trailer)
Project Mc2: Season 2 NETFLIX ORIGINAL
AVAILABLE AUGUST 13
13 Cameras (2016)
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Louis CK: Live at the Comedy Store (2015)
AVAILABLE AUGUST 16
Let's Go to Prison (2006)
Our Last Tango (2015)
AVAILABLE AUGUST 17
The Curse of Sleeping Beauty (2016)
The Last Heist (2016)
Puffin Rock: Season 2 NETFLIX ORIGINAL
AVAILABLE AUGUST 19
Bottersnikes and Gumbles: Season 1 NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Fearless: Season 1 NETFLIX ORIGINAL
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead NETFLIX ORIGINAL
AVAILABLE AUGUST 21
Maz Jobrani: I'm Not a Terrorist, But I've Played One On TV (2015)
AVAILABLE AUGUST 22
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: The Seventeenth Year
AVAILABLE AUGUST 23
Septembers of Shiraz (2015)
AVAILABLE AUGUST 25
The Road (2009)
AVAILABLE AUGUST 26
Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)
Dawn of the Croods: Season 2 NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Glitter Force: Season 2 NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy: We've Been Thinking... NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Once Upon a Time: Season 5
XOXO (2016) NETFLIX ORIGINAL
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Rams (2015)
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The State of Marriage (2015)
AVAILABLE AUGUST 31
Ku'damm 56: Season 1