The Twilight movies, which was once on Netflix, have formally moved over to Amazon Prime Video, and it simply would not be a listing of the best films to observe at the platform proper now without them. If youngster vampire shlock is not your thing, we also advocate the indie dramedy Emergency, Chris Pine-Thandiwe Newton secret agent thriller All the Old Knives, and Regina Hall’s horror film Master. Coming up later this month is the very last Daniel Craig James Bond movie, No Time to Die, which hits Prime Video on June 10.
An critical be aware about how this list was made: In order to maintain the listing as applicable as viable, we’re stressing the first-rate current releases, Prime Video originals, and critics’ favorites. But we are additionally placing our very own non-public spin on the list, with underrated gemstones we are recommending to our friends, classic favorites, and crucial choices that highlight various voices. We’ll be updating the list regularly.
Last updated on June four, 2022; the maximum recent additions are on the top
The Twilight film series
For fans of: The internet, vampires, CGI toddlers, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, Twilight Lionsgate
Year: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
Director: Catherine Hardwicke, Chris Weitz, David Slade, Bill Condon
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Romance
Rating: PG-13
Metacritic rating: fifty six, 44, 58, 45, fifty two
What is there to mention approximately Twilight that hasn’t already been stated? Stephanie Meyer’s teenager vampire romance books were adapted into a 5-film franchise that defined the overdue 2000s/early 2010s, introducing us to the love tale among human excessive faculty pupil Bella (Kristen Stewart) and her undead boyfriend Edward (Robert Pattinson), but most significantly, these are the movies that stimulated a thousand memes. When human beings say “so terrible it’s good,” they’re talking approximately Twilight.[Trailer]
Emergency (2022)
RJ Cyler and Donald Elise Watkins, Emergency Amazon Studios
Director: Carey Williams
Stars: Sabrina Carpenter, Donald Elise Watkins, RJ Cyler
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Rating: R
Metacritic score: seventy five
This Amazon movie will probable get lost within the noise of the high-profile releases, but do no longer permit it slip by means of in case you’re a fan of celebration comedies. The indie film follows a pair of young Black university seniors (RJ Cyler and Donald Elise Watkins) prepared to let out in a string of events before spring damage once they find out an subconscious white lady of their condo, and not using a concept how she were given there. Realizing the bad optics of the state of affairs, they (and their Latino roommate) set out to return her to protection with out their true intentions being misinterpreted. The film were given exquisite evaluations whilst it did the festival circuit earlier this yr. -Tim Surette [Trailer]
All the Old Knives (2022)
Thandiwe Newton and Chris Pine, All the Old Knives Stefania Rosini/Amazon Studios
Director: Janus Metz Pederson
Stars: Thandiwe Newton, Chris Pine, Jonathan Pryce, Laurence Fishburne
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Rating: R
Metacritic rating: sixty three
All the Old Knives feels like a Knives Out sequel set in a nursing home (that’s a unfastened idea for Rian Johnson), however it is sincerely a mystery starring Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton as spies who also are ex-enthusiasts. I have no court cases approximately that idea. Based on the novel of the identical call by using Olen Steinhauer, who wrote the film’s screenplay, the film follows Pine’s Henry Pelham as his research right into a CIA mole turns into entangled in his history with Newton’s Celia. Laurence Fishburne and Jonathan Pryce also big name. Pine promoted this one in a series of to-die-for clothes. -Kelly Connolly [Trailer] Master (2022)
Regina Hall, Master Sundance Institute
Director: Mariama Diallo
Stars: Regina Hall, Amber Gray, Zoe Renee
Genre: Drama/Horror
Rating: R
Metacritic score: 67
The buzz out of Sundance and SXSW is that Regina Hall offers one of the pleasant performances of her profession on this horror film approximately racism in the vein of Get Out. She performs a professor at a prestigious, predominately white New England university with a historic connection to the Salem Witch Trials and a legacy of racism that keeps into the present. She, a Black first-12 months scholar (Zoe Renee), and any other Black college member (Amber Gray) enjoy racism at the school as a literal haunting. It’s an assured debut film from writer-director Mariama Diallo (a Yale graduate) it really is adept at scares and social statement. -Liam Mathews [Trailer]
Lucy and Desi (2022)
Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, Lucy and Desi Library of Congress
Director: Amy Poehler (yes, that Amy Poehler)
Stars: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz
Genre: Documentary
Rating: NR
Metacritic rating: 75
Sure, Nicole Kidman performed a great Lucille Ball in Aaron Sorkin’s biopic Being the Ricardos (also on Amazon), but have you seen Lucille Ball play Lucille Ball? Amy Poehler directs this documentary looking at the lives of I Love Lucy’s stars, both on set and at domestic. (Not to be stressed with Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, a 1993 documentary directed by way of Lucy and Desi’s daughter, Lucie Arnaz, that is also on Amazon.) -Tim Surette [Trailer]
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The Protégé (2021)
Maggie Q and Michael Keaton, The Protégé Lionsgate
Director: Martin Campbell
Stars: Maggie Q, Michael Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson
Genre: Action, Thriller, Crime
Rating: R
Metacritic rating: 48
Look, if you inform me Maggie Q is starring in an movement movie, I’m quite a lot already on board. Here, she stars as a agreement killer who vows to get brutal, bloody revenge at the folks who killed her mentor (Samuel L. Jackson). Along the manner, she turns into entangled in a game of cat and mouse with every other ruthless crook (Michael Keaton), and the 2 of them have such effortless chemistry it’s going to make you overlook approximately the film’s shortcomings. The Protégé received middling critiques while it was launched in theaters, but the fight scenes are properly choreographed spectacles that make it the precise watch when you want to turn your brain off. -Allison Picurro [Trailer]
Book of Love (2022)
Sam Claflin and Verónica Echegui, Book of Love Amazon Studios
Director: Analeine Cal y Mayor
Stars: Sam Claflin, Verónica Echegui
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Metacritic rating: forty four
In this stupid, candy romantic comedy, Sam Claflin plays the sort of person Hugh Grant could’ve played again in the ’90s: an uptight British romance creator who learns that his brand new (and no longer superb) novel has become a large hit in Mexico, spurring him to journey there for a book tour. He most effective realizes after he arrives that the Spanish model of his e-book has truly been rewritten into a much spicier story it’s manner greater exciting than his original story, all thanks to Maria (Verónica Echegui), the lady who translated it. This is the sort of traditional rom-com premise that I cannot assist being completely endeared via. [Trailer]
I Want You Back (2022)
For enthusiasts of: Jenny Slate, Charlie Day, unwell-cautioned schemes
Jenny Slate, Charlie Day, I Want You Back Amazon Studios
Director: Jason Orley
Stars: Charlie Day, Jenny Slate, Gina Rodriguez, Manny Jacinto, Scott Eastwood
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Rating: R
Metacritic rating: 62
It’s a Jenny Slate rom-com; it is a Charlie Day rom-com; it’s a mixture Jenny Slate-Charlie Day rom-com! And that means it is surely funny. I Want You Back pairs up two of Hollywood’s maximum reliable chaos agents as a pair of strangers who bond over being currently dumped, then team as much as win again their exes with the aid of destroying their new relationships. It’s a strong romantic comedy that really feels fresh, and who would not love a messy scheme? -Kelly Connolly [Trailer]
A Hero (2021)