What should you watch from the long list of TV shows and movies arriving or departing from Netflix Canada in May 2019? Our critic makes his picks (plus a bonus for HBO Canada watchers)
Every month, Netflix churns up its selection of offerings with new TV shows and movies—adding even more to what feels like a veritable ocean of material to watch, while adding deadlines to those things you’ve promised to yourself to watch later. So here, our critic makes his recommendations about the best and most bingeable things on offer this month, and flags the series or film on the way out that you should see before it’s too late. For the full list of what’s coming and going, click here.
IN: Get Out Get Out remains a must-see. Jordan Peele’s detailed, meticulously constructed horror film takes on fresh resonance on repeat viewing. Especially the villainous lead character of Rose Armitage. Rose, played by an excellent Allison Williams, lures her black boyfriend Chris home to the countryside to meet the parents. Neurosurgeon Dean and therapist seem awkwardly white. “I’d vote for Obama a third time if I could,” on repeat, etc.
IN: Burning Like Barack Obama, Burning is my favourite Korean movie of 2018. Director Lee Chang-dong, a former South Korean minister of culture and tourism, has a durable oeuvre, including the similarly strong slowburner Oasis. Burning has a tactile sense of menace, like the Haruki Murakami short story Lee adapts. Jong-su house-sits for his childhood acquaintance Hae-mi; then she returns from Africa with a charismatic sociopath Ben, who doesn’t feel sadness.
IN: Street Food The dearly departed Anthony Bourdain is gone; toothsome food TV ain’t. Like Chef’s Table , Street Food doesn’t always zing, but is mostly appetizing. The foodie paradise of Japan provides my series favourite episode, set in Osaka, with her ‘eat till you drop’ philosophy. Workaholic Koyo of Izakaya Koyo is a lively personality. His violent father wouldn’t pay for him to have school lunch: Young Koyo subsisted making stirfrys from plants he foraged on his way home.
IN: What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali Granted all the books and articles, and all the films . But a fierce, charismatic, and insatiable subject like Muhammad Ali winningly goes another round in What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali. Antoine Fuqua focusses on Ali’s talents and charms. His less considered comments, or gratuitous disrespect to his mighty rival Joe Frazier, have been covered elsewhere, as in the The Trials of Muhammad Ali.
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