HBO and Max added a lot of great titles in June, but it may be surprising to hear that very few of them scored over 90 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Even some of the films we hold up as classics, like Casino with Robert De Niro and Fight Club with Brad Pitt, only had 78 percent and 67 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, respectively. And getting a high RT score isn’t always indicative of the impact a film has on its audience. Many of the older titles on Max don’t even have Rotten Tomatoes scores because they were released decades before RT was a thing.
Regardless, the Watch With Us team has successfully found three new HBO Max movies with over 90 percent scores on Rotten Tomatoes.
Our selections include an acclaimed documentary, a sci-fi/horror flick from the ’70s and 2019’s upset winner for Best Picture at the Oscars.
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‘I Am Not Your Negro’ (2016)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 99 percent
Samuel L. Jackson lends his voice as the narrator of I Am Not Your Negro, an ambitious documentary about civil rights activist James Baldwin and his searing look at race relations with a focus on Black Americans and the racism they face in their everyday lives.
Baldwin argues that the fate of the nation is intertwined with the fate of the Black people live here, and it’s hard to feel much hope for the future against the backdrop of the assassinations of Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Even decades after Baldwin’s death, many of his conclusions are still relevant in modern America and worth reexamining.
I Am Not Your Negro is streaming on Max.
‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ (1978)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93 percent
There have been multiple adaptations of Jack Finney‘s The Body Snatchers, but it’s the 1978 version that’s recognized as one of the all-time great sci-fi/horror films. Invasion of the Body Snatchers also has a terrific cast, including Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright and even Star Trek‘s Leonard Nimoy.
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The film primarily focuses on Elizabeth Driscoll (Adams) and her friend, Matthew Bennell (Sutherland). They’re among the first to realize that the people they know are being replaced by nearly identical alien duplicates. However, the duplicates don’t have the capacity for human emotion or compassion. When the remaining survivors are unable to convince authorities that the world is in danger, they’re left with nowhere to run or hide. The ending of this film is so famous that you may have already seen it and not realized it yet.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers is streaming on Max.
‘Parasite'(2019)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 99 percent
In 2020, Parasite rocked the movie industry by becoming the first South Korean film to win Best Picture at the Oscars. Mickey 17 helmer Bong Joon-ho won Best Director for this darkly funny story. Song Kang-ho and Jang Hye-jin star as Kim Ki-taek and Chung-sook, the parents of Ki-jung (Park So-dam) and Kim Ki-woo (Choi Woo-shik). The Kim family is poor and suffers bad fortune until Ki-woo is offered the chance to work for the wealthy Park family.
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With the help of Ki-woo, each member of the Kim family assumes a new identity and lands a job within the Park family household. It’s more luxurious than the Kims have ever seen, and they may have to fight to retain their new positions when they are threatened with the exposure of their true identities.
Parasite is streaming on Max.
