15 finest motion pictures to look at on Netflix, Hulu, and HBO earlier than they depart (Feb 2022)

February is sort of over, which implies now we have a contemporary new number of motion pictures to stay up for on streaming subsequent week. Till then, you realize what which means: it’s time to marathon all the most effective movies out there to stream proper now earlier than they depart your service of selection and flutter off to who is aware of the place. From Gareth Evans’ Indonesian motion movie The Raid 2 and Michael Mann’s Miami Vice to 2005’s The Hitchhiker’s Information to the Galaxy and Showdown in Little Tokyo starring Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee, these are all the flicks you want to find time for earlier than they depart streaming subsequent month.

Listed below are 15 of the most effective motion pictures leaving main streaming platforms by March 1.

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21 Soar Road

Primarily based on the 1987 TV sequence of the identical identify, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s 2012 buddy cop comedy 21 Soar Road stars Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum as Morton Schmidt and Greg Jenko, two highschool classmates from radically completely different social circles who befriend each other later in life as police academy cadets. After a humiliating screw-up, the pair are despatched undercover to pose as highschool college students so as to discover the supply of an unlawful artificial drug. By chance mixing up their identities, Morton and Greg get a style of what life was like for each other again after they have been at school, all whereas stepping into all sorts of shenanigans and shootouts. Acutely self-aware and incessantly hilarious, 21 Soar Road is a comedy reboot accomplished properly. —Toussaint Egan

21 Soar Road leaves Netflix on March 1st.

Constantine

Keanu Reeves stars in Francis Lawrence’s 2005 paranormal motion horror movie as John Constantine, an professional demonologist and exorcist caught in the course of a proxy struggle between heaven and hell on Earth. When police officer Angela Dodson (Rachel Weisz) involves Constantine to help her in proving her sister’s mysterious demise was not a suicide, the pair turn out to be entangled in a century-long conspiracy to unleash Lucifer’s Mammon utilizing the Spear of Future. —TE

Constantine leaves HBO Max on Feb. 28.

The Dialog

Francis Ford Coppola’s The Dialog is a paranoia-inducing homicide thriller starring Gene Hackman as Harry Caul, a surveillance professional — one who does precise spying! — whose skilled integrity and private morality are put in direct opposition when he suspects that he has eavesdropped on a pair who he imagine are going to be murdered. Drawn right into a plot of veiled conspirators and unsavory violence, Harry should seek for the reality behind what he has witnessed whereas staying alive. Over the journey, Coppola creates an aura of paranoia with every passing scene, and David Shire’s piano rating is a temper. —TE

The Dialog leaves Hulu on Feb. 28.

Gangs of New York

Martin Scorsese’s interval epic follows the story of Amsterdam Vallon (Leonardo DiCaprio), the son of an Irish Catholic gang chief who returns to the slums of New York as an grownup to avenge his father’s demise by the hands of Invoice “The Butcher” Chopping (Daniel Day-Lewis), the ruthless xenophobic chief of a Protestant road gang. Greater than a story of revenge, Gangs of New York is a vibrant depiction of New York within the mid-1800s, full of memorable performances by colourful character actors like John C. Reilly and Brendan Gleeson, blisteringly violent road fights, and an exquisite shifting rating by Howard Shore. —TE

Gangs of New York leaves HBO Max on Feb. 28.

Gone Woman

When Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) returns residence to seek out his spouse Amy (Rosamund Pike) lacking, he all of a sudden finds himself squarely within the crosshairs of a real crime media frenzy. What follows is a gripping thriller about gender expectations, the media, and the methods through which our society’s altering relationship to crime as leisure has an actual impact on individuals’s lives.

Primarily based on the 2012 novel by Gillian Flynn, David Fincher’s psychological thriller is a high-mark in a profession full of hits. Affleck and Pike carry their A-game to wealthy roles with quite a lot of depth and nuance. Neil Patrick Harris additionally stands out as Desi, Amy’s rich creep of an ex-boyfriend. —Pete Volk

Gone Woman leaves Hulu on Feb. 28.

The Hitchhiker’s Information To The Galaxy

Garth Jennings’ 2005 adaptation of Douglas Adams’ beloved sci-fi comedy stars Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, Sherlock) as Arthur Dent, a uninteresting strange everyman who inadvertently turns into one of many final surviving people within the universe after the Earth is destroyed by a bureaucratic alien race to construct a hyperspace overpass. Venturing alongside a forged of colourful characters performed by Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def), Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel, and the late Alan Rickman as a paranoid android, The Hitchhiker’s Information to the Galaxy is gleefully out of this world and perennially hilarious. The whale scene alone … —TE

The Hitchhiker’s Information To The Galaxy leaves HBO Max on Feb. 28.

I Noticed The Satan

South Korean revenge thrillers have a popularity for being brutal and gory, however Kim Jee-woon’s I Noticed The Satan is a complete different beast completely. The movie follows Kim Soo-hyun (Lee Byung-hun), a particular agent of the Nationwide Intelligence Service, who embarks on a twisted mission of retribution and revenge when his fiance Joo-yeon is kidnapped and murdered by Jang Kyung-chul (Choi Min-sik), a vicious psychopath and serial killer. The film unravels as a cat and mouse recreation of sadistic psychological brutality, as Soo-hyun stalks and hunts Kyung-chul’s each step, attacking him till he’s on the point of demise earlier than pulling again so as to extend his struggling. Stuffed with bracing violence, thrilling chase scenes, and a chilling climax that brings the query of what justifies revenge into stark aid, I Noticed The Satan is a pulse-pounding expertise. —TE

I Noticed The Satan leaves Amazon Prime Video on Feb. 28.

Girl within the Water

M. Night time Shyamalan’s critically maligned fairy story deserves reconsideration, and now’s the time to do it. Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti), the superintendent of a Philadelphia house complicated who doubles because the caretaker for a lot of of its quirky residents, discovers Story (Bryce Dallas Howard), a magical being discovered swimming within the complicated’s pool. Story is right here to seek out the Author, who is meant to bear a magical awakening and write a e-book that may save humanity. What follows is a young story of a neighborhood working collectively in disaster. Fantastically shot by cinematographer Christopher Doyle (a frequent Wong Kar-wai collaborator), Girl within the Water was developed from a bedtime story Shyamalan instructed his kids. —PV

Girl within the Water leaves HBO Max on Feb. 28.

Miami Vice

Michael Mann returned to his outdated tv world of Miami Vice on this 2006 movie adaptation, which takes the basic buddy cop duo of Crockett and Tubbs and brings them into the twenty first century. When this model of Crockett (Colin Farrell) and Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) go undercover to analyze a big drug operation, issues get private as their romantic lives intertwine with their skilled ones.

One of many many examples of Mann’s experimentation with and mastering of digital cinematography, Miami Vice is a magnificence to have a look at and has seen its popularity develop after combined evaluations on launch. —PV

Miami Vice leaves Peacock on Feb. 28.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Wes Anderson’s eccentric 2004 ensemble comedy is devoted to Jacques Cousteau, and is a loving (and hilarious) homage to the legendary French oceanographer. Steve Zissou (Invoice Murray) is an oceanographer/documentarian who loses his finest buddy to a shark assault whereas engaged on his challenge. Zissou units out for his subsequent challenge: to seek out and kill the shark, and movie the entire thing.

The hilarious ensemble forged consists of Anjelica Houston (Zissou’s estranged spouse who funds his tasks), Willem Dafoe (an emotionally insecure German first mate), Owen Wilson (a Zissou super-fan who believes he’s Zissou’s son), and Jeff Goldblum (enjoying Zissou’s rival, a extra profitable oceanographer). With a wonderful soundtrack of Portuguese David Bowie covers by Brazilian singer/songwriter Seu Jorge and Anderson’s typical consideration to element in composition, Zissou is a cinematic feast of the senses. —PV

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou leaves Amazon Prime Video on Feb. 28.

The Lengthy Goodbye

Robert Altman’s 1973 neo-noir thriller stars Elliot Gould as Phillip Marlowe, a non-public detective who finds himself implicated within the demise of his buddy’s spouse after driving him to the Mexican border and drawn right into a seedy internet of deception rife with cash, homicide, and sin. Tailored from Raymond Chandler’s novel of the identical identify, The Lengthy Goodbye is championed as a masterpiece of type and style; a morality story charged with the paranoia and suspicion endemic to the tradition of the ’70s. —TE

The Lengthy Goodbye leaves Criterion Channel on Feb. 28.

The Raid 2

The follow-up to the smash (and we do imply smash) 2011 hit The Raid, Gareth Evans’ 2014 sequel packs a heavy punch as properly (and a few hammers). Set simply after the occasions of the primary film, Rama (Iko Uwais, reprising his lead function) is distributed undercover to show corruption in Jakarta’s police. This includes getting himself despatched to jail, surviving a jail riot, and ingratiating himself to members of the Jakarta underworld. Stuffed with high-octane motion sequences, loads of gore, and jaw-dropping shows of the Indonesian martial artwork pencak silat, followers of The Raid must also try the second iteration. —PV

The Raid 2 leaves Hulu on Feb. 28.

Showdown in Little Tokyo

It’s Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee doing a buddy cop motion film — what extra is there to say?

Okay, I’ll provide you with just a little extra. Lundgren performs Chris Kenner, an American cop who was raised in Japan and is deeply tied to Japanese tradition. Lee (in his third film function, three years earlier than The Crow) performs Johnny Murata, an American of combined Japanese heritage who doesn’t care a lot in any respect about Japanese tradition. Collectively, they attempt to break up a Yakuza ring in Little Tokyo in Los Angeles.

With kickass struggle scenes, a hamming-it-up villain (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), and loads of nearly-nude Dolph Lundgren, Showdown in Little Tokyo is a lean 79 minutes of early 90s motion style fare. A phrase of warning for these unfamiliar with the movie: it features a temporary scene of sexual violence. —PV

Showdown in Little Tokyo leaves HBO Max on Feb. 28.

Tangerine

Filmed completely with iPhone cameras, Pink Rocket director Sean Baker’s 2015 comedy-drama Tangerine follows Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) and Alexandra (Mya Taylor), two trans intercourse employees who got down to discover Chester (James Ransone), Sin-Dee’s boyfriend/pimp and unravel a salacious rumor that he cheated on her whereas she was serving a 28-day stint in jail. Set throughout Christmas Eve and filmed completely on the streets of Los Angeles, Tangerine is a uncooked, uproariously stunning, touching, heartbreaking, and completely engrossing expertise that gives an affecting glimpse into the emotional trials and tribulations of intercourse work whereas setting up a portrait of Los Angeles in all its many-splendored chaos. —TE

Tangerine leaves Amazon Prime Video on Feb. 28.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

James Cameron’s follow-up to The Terminator is rather more action-oriented than the horror-tinged sci-fi authentic. Set 11 years after the primary film, Skynet has as soon as once more despatched a Terminator to the previous to kill a Connor. This time, the goal is younger John Connor (Edward Furlong) and the Terminator is a brand new mannequin that form shifts (Robert Patrick). For a further twist on the unique movie’s premise, the T-800 that served because the antagonist in Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger), has now been despatched again to guard the Connors from the risk.

With groundbreaking use of CGI that also appears unimaginable to today, T2 is a landmark within the historical past of huge motion cinema and of the business’s relationship with digital results work. The visible results for Robert Patrick’s liquid steel Terminator are excellent, involving one of many first recorded makes use of of movement seize for visible results. —PV

Terminator 2: Judgment Day leaves Netflix on Feb. 28.