1 week Ago By [email protected] (Axel Metz)
You don’t need to be subscribed to the to gain access to the best movies. Sure, the likes of Netflix, Prime Video and Max offer a great selection of to enjoy, but the boast a surprising number of older titles for your perusal. Last week’s included , , and , and this week’s edition is similarly varied.
Below, I’ve highlighted five of the best free movies to stream on Tubi, Pluto TV, Freevee, and other free streaming services in September. Speak No Evil (Hoopla – leaving soon) January 2022 84% 98 minutes Christian Tafdrup Morten Burian, Sidsel Siem Koch, Fedja van Huêt, Karina Smulders The James McAvoy-led English remake of Christian Tafdrup’s 2022 psychological horror is currently playing in theaters, but with the Danish original also streaming, for free, on Hoopla right now, you needn’t pay the new film’s entry fee. Set for the most part in rural Netherlands, this low-budget thriller centers on a Danish family who reconnect with a Dutch couple they met while vacationing in Italy.
The reunion quickie turns sour, however, when the couple in question begins acting strangely. To say more would ruin the film’s biggest surprises, but rest assured that is not one to watch with the kids. Boyhood (Pluto TV) : January 2014 97% 165 minutes Richard Linklater Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Lorelei Linklater For all its critical acclaim, Richard Linklater’s remains something of an underappreciated – or at least under-watched – cinematic achievement.
Filmed over 11 years (between 2002 and 2013), this coming-of-age drama depicts the childhood and adolescence of a fictional boy, Mason Evans Jr. (Coltrane), as he grows up in Texas with divorced parents (Arquette and Hawke). The plot is simple, and the drama naturalistic, but that only adds to ’s emotional impact.
Sicario (Tubi – leaving soon) May 2015 93% 121 minutes Denis Villeneuve Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin. Daniel Kaluuya Denis Villeneuve needs no introduction. In recent years, the director has become synonymous with grandiose sci-fi epics, but his lesser-hyped 2015 thriller is no less of a masterclass in top-notch cinematography.
Starring Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, and Josh Brolin, (which means “hitman” in Spanish) follows a principled FBI agent government (Blunt) as she accompanies a ruthless government task force on a mission to bring down a powerful Mexican drug cartel. It’s dark, it’s gritty, and it’s leaving Tubi soon, so get watching ASAP. The Big Short (Hoopla) November 2015 89% 130 minutes Adam McKay Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt Adam McKay’s excellent tragicomedy is rightly regarded as this generation’s go-to financial crisis biopic, and it’s now streaming, for free, on Hoopla.
Starring Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, and many more A-listers, the film follows three separate but intertwining stories in the run-up to the 2007 housing market crash. is an undeniably entertaining romp through mid-noughties Wall Street culture, but it’s also in equal parts educational and depressing. What more could you want from a mid-week movie? Platoon (Amazon Freevee – leaving soon) December 1986 89% 120 minutes Oliver Stone Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Forest Whitaker The first (and best) in a trilogy of Vietnam War films directed by Oliver Stone, follows a young US Army recruit (Sheen) whose Platoon Sergeant (Berenger) and Squad Leader (Dafoe) have very different ideas about morality and how to conduct a war.
won Stone his first directing Oscar (as well as Best Picture) at the 1987 Academy Awards, and it continues to rank alongside the likes of and as one the best Vietnam War movies ever made. As with on Tubi, this one is leaving Amazon Freevee soon. For more free streaming coverage, read our recent roundups of the , the and the.
