Read more about every movie coming to Max in January 2024
As the new year approaches, plenty of films are slated to hit various streaming platforms.Netflix, in particular, has quite a few offerings that will undoubtedly be worth exploring. While no two movies appear to be similar in the slightest, they are each sure to provide something for everyone as the new year begins. Given themovies that came to Netflix in Decemberoffered every holiday film under the sun, it’s no surprise January’s offerings are anything but cheery or joyful, at least for the most part.
With a wild documentary about a con involving cryptocurrency, an impossible survival film, a movie about love and grief in the wake of death, an action-packed heist movie filled with plenty of comedy, and a dystopian film set on the streets of London, Netflix has a wide range ofgreat original filmssure to entertain a myriad of audiences. As such, opting for a movie to stream at home rather than venture to something playing on the big screen is likely to take the cake, given Netflix’s January lineup of original films.
Stream on Jan. 1
ANetflix true-crime documentary,Bitconneddetails the rise of Centra Tech and the men, founders Sohrab Sharma, Robert Farkas, and Raymond Trapani, behind the smoke and mirror company. By exploiting the wild west of cryptocurrency, the company managed to scam $25 million from investors during an illegal initial coin offering (ICO).
However, the funds only seemed to finance their lavish lifestyles. Seemingly the first of its kind, the company created debit cards, allowing people to spend their cryptocurrency in real-time. However, the company started to crumble as the New York Times began investigating claims from Visa that Centra Tech was illegally offering cards with their name. Soon after, the company’s fall from grace was inevitably speedy.
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Society of the Snow
Stream on Jan. 4
Based on a true story,Society of the Snowis a Spanish-language film that chronicles the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster that captivated and ultimately shocked the world. After their plane crashes into the snowy mountains of the Andes, 16 survivors of a rugby team on their way to Chile must face impossible odds if they want to make it home alive. Far from civilization and unprepared for such harsh conditions, their limits are tested as they look to one another for hope.
Unfortunately, something more tragic ultimately emerges. Without food, the group resorts to cannibalism when a potential rescue appears farther and farther out of reach. Although distressing, their gripping tale details the nuances of their survival and their efforts to never give up.
Good Grief
Stream on Jan. 5
After the unexpected death of his husband, Oliver (Luke Evans), Marc’s (Dan Levy) world completely falls apart as the future he thought he would have crumbles. Turning to his two best friends in the wake of his grief, they swoop him up and offer the comfort he needs. After a year passes, the trio takes a trip to Paris for the weekend, where they each embark on a soul-searching journey.
While across the pond, hard truths ultimately emerge that each one of them is forced to confront. Written and directed by Dan Levy,Good Griefexplores the complicated feelings of love and grief that surround the ones we care for most.
Stream on Jan. 12
Mixing comedy and action,Liftis an over-the-top film about an expert thief named Cyrus (Kevin Hart) who is roped into an impossible mission by his ex-girlfriend and the FBI. Unless he does what they ask, he and the rest of his crew will go to prison for their various criminal activities.
With half a million dollars in gold on its way to a terrorist organization, Cyrus and his international crew of fellow thieves are tasked with stealing it. However, it must be done at 40,000 feet on a 777-passenger flight traveling from London to Zurich. Stocked with the latest tech, the film appears to be something akin toThe Italian JoborOcean’s Eleven, which means it’ll surely be a humorously action-packed ride and hopes to become one of thebest heist movies on Netflix.
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The Kitchen
Stream on Jan. 19
In a not-too-distantdystopian future of London, social housing has been eliminated, and the Kitchen is all that remains as the city’s last working-class housing estate.The Kitchenfollows Izi (Kane Robinson) and Benji (Jedaiah Bannerman), whose paths unexpectedly cross just as Izi is on the cusp of escaping. After discovering the son he never knew, Izi is forced to face difficult choices about the decisions that lie ahead, which now prove complicated with a young Benji in his life. Co-directed by Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe Tavares, the film serves as Kaluuya’s directorial debut.
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