Netflix has higher-profile content streaming this week, but that shouldn’t stop you from combing through the streamer’s deep movie library.
Watch With Us has culled the best from the worst and selected three underrated Netflix movies you should watch this weekend.
The comedy Western A Million Ways to Die in the West with Charlize Theron, the charming coming-of-age tale Apollo 10 ½ and the sci-fi prequel Furiosa with Anya Taylor-Joy should all be on your Netflix queue this weekend.
‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’ (2014)
Seth MacFarlane is mostly known as the creator of Family Guy, but he’s made some funny movies too. A Million Ways to Die in the West is the best of them, even though it was a box-office disappointment when it was released in 2014. With a star-studded cast and at least one joke per minute, it’s a hilarious comedy that deserves more love than the inferior Ted movies.
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MacFarlane stars as Albert Stark, a meek sheep farmer who is ditched by his longtime girlfriend and is soon befriended by Anna (Charlize Theron), the wife of famous outlaw Clinch Leatherwood (Liam Neeson). She shows him how to stand up for himself, and she helps her realize she needs to escape her bad marriage. Their friendship turns into something more meaningful, which doesn’t sit too well with Clinch. Can these unlikely lovers find their happily ever after?
A Million Ways to Die in the West is streaming on Netflix.
‘Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood’ (2022)
One of the downsides of streaming is that terrific movies from your favorite directors can get lost in the algorithm. Apollo 10 ½ is the perfect example of this unfortunate phenomenon. The Richard Linklater movie, which recounts the 1969 moon landing through the eyes of a 10-year-old, is an absolute charmer and one of the director’s best, yet few people know about it.
Young Stanley (Milo Coy) lives in a Houston suburb that’s near NASA headquarters. As they begin to launch a space shuttle that will travel to the moon and back, Stanley fantasizes about being a test subject who mans his own shuttle to space so it will be safe for the adult astronauts to take flight. Back in reality, Stan spends his summer doing normal kid things, like biking with his friends, watching TV with his family and going to the local amusement park.
Like his previous films Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly with Keanu Reeves, Linklater uses rotoscope animation (filmed footage that’s later animated, usually by hand) to elevate his story and break the barriers of reality. In Apollo 10 ½, the animation helps to connect Stan’s space fantasies, which show him landing and walking the moon, with his more mundane life on Earth, which is just as beautiful as the celestial bodies he’s eager to travel in. The movie absolutely nails that lazy, dreamy feeling you have as a kid on summer break, when anything felt possible as long as you dreamed about it.
Apollo 10 ½ is streaming on Netflix.
‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ (2024)
One of 2024’s biggest box-office bombs was Furiosa, the long-awaited sequel to the much-celebrated Mad Max: Fury Road. Some blamed the long time between the two movies, while others thought the absence of Fury Road stars Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy was to blame. Most agreed that it didn’t fail because of the film’s quality. With its stunning action scenes and crisp, sun-baked cinematography, Furiosa is a technical marvel and one of the greatest prequels ever made.
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga gives its title character an origin story and a nemesis — Dementus (Chris Hemsworth), who kidnapped and murdered her mother. Years later, she’s determined to get revenge, and she’ll bring down the entire Australian wasteland they all live in to do so.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is streaming on Netflix.
