This Week in Streaming (March 25th)
Our recommendations to counteract the endless scrolling.
The Electric State (Netflix) We can’t quite endorse this $300 million post-apocalyptic sci-fi epic with Chris Pratt and Millie Bobby Brown trying to survive amid a robot takeover. Still, it’s the best case for the return of theatrical moviegoing that we’ve ever seen. No wonder its directors are going straight back to the Marvel sandbox. Has to be seen to be believed.
The Studio (Apple TV) Seth Rogen stars as a newly minted head of a struggling Hollywood studio who is forced to balance the economic demands of a medium in crisis while trying to will projects into being that could make the movies relevant again. It’s not as glossy as Entourage and other Hollywood TV fables, but it’s a clear-eyed statement on American culture’s current identity crisis.
Goodfellas (Hulu) Though DeNiro’s The Alto Knights didn’t set the box office on fire over the weekend, his turn in Scorsese’s gold-standard gangster film is more than worth a rewatch to see one of America’s greatest actors at the peak of his powers.