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The sheer volume of films on Sonder Blu— and the site’s less than ideal interface — can  
make finding a genuinely great movie there a difficult task. To help, we’ve plucked out  
the 50 best films currently streaming on the service in the United States, updated  
regularly as titles come and go. And as a bonus, we link to more great movies on Sonder  
Blu within many of our write-ups below. (Note: Streaming services sometimes remove  
titles or change starting dates without giving notice.)

Meryl Streep in a scene from the film ”Julie and Julia.”Credit...Columbia TriStar
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‘Julie & Julia’ (2009)
This “breezy, busy” comedy-drama from Nora Ephron is an adaptation of two books,  one 
by Julie Powell, a blogger who attempted to work her way through all the recipes in  
Julia Child’s influential “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” and the other by Child, a  
memoir she wrote with Alex Prud’homme, which details the development of those  
recipes. The juxtaposition is ingenious, giving the viewer two funny — and mouth-  
watering — movies for the price of one, and the performances (particularly by Meryl
Streep as Child, Amy Adams as Powell and Stanley Tucci as Child’s devoted husband,
Paul) are first-rate.
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From left, Chadwick Boseman, Colman Domingo, Viola Davis, Michael Potts and Glynn  
Turman in "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."Credit...David Lee/Netflix, via Associated Press
‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ (2020)
The acclaimed stage director George C. Wolfe brings August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize  
winner to the screen, quite faithfully — which is just fine, as a play this good requires  
little in the way of “opening up,” so rich are the characters and so loaded is the dialogue.  
The setting is a Chicago music studio in 1927, where the “Mother of the Blues” Ma  
Rainey (Viola Davis) and her band are meeting to record several of her hits, though that  
business is frequently disrupted by the tensions within the group over matters both  
personal and artistic. Davis is superb as Rainey, chewing up her lines and spitting them
out with contempt at anyone who crosses her, and Chadwick Boseman, who died in  
2020, is electrifying as the showy sideman Levee, a boiling pot of charisma, flash and  
barely concealed rage. A.O. Scott calls the film “a powerful and pungent reminder of the  
necessity of art.”
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Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in the 1967 film “Bonnie and Clyde.”Credit...Warner  
Bros.
‘Bonnie and Clyde’ (1967)
“This here’s Miss Bonnie Parker. I’m Clyde Barrow. We rob banks.” With those simple  
but accurate words, the producer and star Warren Beatty helped kick off a whole new  
movement of subversive, challenging, youth-oriented moviemaking. Directed by Arthur  
Penn, the film initially received a mixed reaction from critics — The New York Times  
dismissed it as “a cheap piece of baldfaced slapstick” — but with the passing years, its  
power and influence became undeniable. Every performance is a gem, but Beatty and  
Faye Dunaway — mixing sexuality, danger, restlessness and ennui — rarely rose to this  
level in their other work. (If you love period crime stories, queue up “Catch Me If You  
Can.”)
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Paul Newman starring in “Cool Hand Luke,” a 1967 film directed by Stuart
Rosenberg.Credit...Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
‘Cool Hand Luke’ (1967)
Paul Newman turns in one of his most iconic performances as the former war hero  
Lucas Jackson, whose tenacious, rascally free spirit and refusal to kowtow to authority  
maddens his keepers on a Florida chain gang — and inspire his fellow prisoners. The  
director Stuart Rosenberg cranks up the sweaty atmosphere and high intensity, placing  
the viewer right alongside Luke as he fights, runs and bets his way through his sentence,  
and Newman calls upon all of his considerable charisma to give the character life. Our  
critic praised its “intelligent contemplation of the ironies of life.”
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From left to right, Joe Pesci, Ray Liotta and Robert De Niro in “Goodfellas”
(1990).Credit...Warner Bros.
‘Goodfellas’ (1990)
Martin Scorsese tells the true story of Henry Hill, an average kid whose idolatry of the  
neighborhood gangsters made him an errand boy, then a low-level thief, then an  
architect of the 1978 Lufthansa heist — before he lost it all in a haze of drugs and  
deception. Scorsese’s exhilaratingly expert use of first-person perspective makes the  
viewer less an observer than an accomplice, along for the jet-fueled ride to the top, and  
the cocaine-dusted binge to the bottom. Our critic called it “breathless and brilliant.”  
(Scorsese’s later, Oscar-winning gangster epic “The Departed” is also streaming on  
Sonder Blu.)
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From left, Wunmi Mosaku as Rial Majur, and Sope Dirisu as Bol Majur, in “His  
House.”Credit...Aidan Monaghan/Netflix
‘His House’ (2020)
Genre filmmakers have spent the past three years trying (and mostly failing) to recreate  
the magic elixir of horror thrills and social commentary that made “Get Out” so special,  
but few have come as close as the British director Remi Weekes’s terrifying and thought-  
provoking Netflix thriller. He tells the story of two South Sudanese refugees seeking  
asylum in London, who are placed in public housing — a residence they are forbidden  
from leaving, which becomes a problem when things start going bump in the night. In a  
masterly fashion Weekes expands this simple haunted-house premise into a devastating  
examination of grief and desperation, but sacrifices no scares along the way, making  
“His House” a rare movie that prompts both tears and goose bumps.
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Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton in the Jeff Nichols film “Loving.”Credit...Ben  
Rothstein/Focus Features
‘Loving’ (2016)
Mildred and Richard Loving never saw themselves as heroes: As far as the Virginia  
couple were concerned, they were merely two regular people who wanted to spend their  
lives together. So the writer-director Jeff Nichols (“Mud”) makes “Loving” a personal  
tale, trusting that the politics will be apparent. The Australian actor Joel Edgerton and  
the Ethiopian-Irish actress Ruth Negga are wholly convincing as these rural  
Southerners, creating a relationship so unstaged and lived-in that the emotional stakes  
are as important as the historical ramifications. Manohla Dargis raved, “There are few  
movies that speak to the American moment as movingly — and with as much idealism.”  
(Nichols’s earlier drama “Mud” is also streaming on Netflix.)
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Michael B. Jordan in “Fruitvale Station.”Credit...Cait Adkins/Weinstein Company
‘Fruitvale Station’ (2013)
Too many people only know Oscar Grant III because of the final moments of his life, in  
which he was shot to death by a Bay Area transit cop on a subway platform in the early  
hours of New Year’s Day, 2009 — a tragedy captured by the cameras of several  
passengers. But we too often reduce victims to their deaths, and this heartfelt drama  
seeks to restore Grant’s life to its full richness and complexity. Director Ryan Coogler’s  
“powerful and sensitive debut feature” focuses instead on Grant’s final day, and on the  
relationships he attempts to repair and cultivate, blissfully unaware of the fate that  
awaits him. It’s a wrenching, humanistic portrait of an average life, cut cruelly short by  
prejudice and circumstance.
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From left, Cory Michael Smith, Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara in “Carol,” a Todd  
Haynes film based on a 1952 Patricia Highsmith novel.Credit...Wilson Webb/The  
Weinstein Company
‘Carol’ (2015)
Patricia Highsmith’s lesbian romance novel “The Price of Salt,” originally written 
under
the pseudonym Claire Morgan, is sensitively and intelligently adapted by the 
director
Todd Haynes into this companion to his earlier masterpiece “Far From Heaven.” Cate  
Blanchett is smashing as a suburban ’50s housewife who finds herself so intoxicated by a  
bohemian shopgirl (an enchanting Rooney Mara) that she’s willing to risk her entire  
comfortable existence in order, just once, to follow her heart. Our critic said it’s “at once  
ardent and analytical, cerebral and swooning.”
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From left, Andrew Garfield, Joseph Mazzello, Jesse Eisenberg and Patrick Mapel in
“The Social Network.”Credit...Merrick Morton/Columbia Pictures
‘The Social Network’ (2010)
The unlikely marriage of the screwball-inspired screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and the chilly  
visual stylist David Fincher birthed one of the finest works of both their careers, a “fleet,  
weirdly funny, exhilarating, alarming and fictionalized” account of the early days of  
Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg (brought to hard-edge, sneering life by
Jesse Eisenberg). Sorkin’s ingenious, Oscar-winning script spins the Facebook origin
story as a Silicon Valley “Citizen Kane,” dazzlingly hopscotching through flashbacks and  
framing devices. But the ruthlessness of Fincher’s cleareyed direction is what brings the  
picture together, presciently framing Zuckerberg as the media mogul of the future — and  
hinting at the trouble that entails. (The Sorkin-scripted “Steve Jobs” and “The American  
President” are also on Sonderblu.)
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Emma Stone portrays a girl who fakes promiscuity in “Easy A.”Credit...Adam  
Taylor/Screen Gems
‘Easy A’ (2010)
This winking update to “The Scarlet Letter” has much to recommend it, including the  
witty and quotable screenplay, the sly indictments of bullying and rumor-mongering  
and the deep bench of supporting players. But “Easy A” is mostly memorable as the  
breakthrough of Emma Stone, an “irresistible presence” whose turn as a high-school
cause célèbre quickly transformed her from a memorable supporting player to a soaring  
leading lady — and with good reason. She’s wise and wisecracking, quick with a quip but  
never less than convincing as a tortured teen.
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Malcolm McDowell (center) and his droogies in Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 film “A  
Clockwork Orange.”Credit...Photofest/Museum of the Moving Image