i wonder as i wander an autobiographical journey

Everything they say about Jake changes, contradicting and folding in on itself. Jake’s parents (Toni Collette and David Thewlis) somehow grow younger, then older. She keeps getting a strange phone call from an unknown man. I’m Thinking of Ending ThingsĪ young woman (Jessie Buckley) is on a road trip with her boyfriend Jake (Jesse Plemons) to meet his parents for dinner.

How to watch: The Power of the Dog is now streaming on Netflix. A movie about repressed sexuality and the undoing of a masculine psyche, told so rarely from a female perspective, it also features both Cumberbatch and Dunst’s best work to date, and an all-timer score from Jonny Greenwood.

It’s fair to say that you won’t find a more masterfully made original film on Netflix than Campion’s latest, and most notably, it’s also the film that won her a long-overdue Best Directing Oscar. But throughout The Power of the Dog, a slow-burn psycho-drama from New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion, something begins to crack open in Phil, revealing what lies beneath that toxic masculine facade. A hardened cowboy who shows little emotion, Phil terrorizes his brother’s (Jesse Plemons) new wife Rose (Kirsten Dunst), mocks her son Peter’s (Kodi Smit-McPhee) sweet tenderness, and relishes in being the dirty, tough son of his wealthy, elite rancher family. The Power of the Dog Witness the undoing of toxic masculinity, with incredible acting from Benedict Cumberbatch.īenedict Cumberbatch’s Phil Burbank is every classic masculine trope you can imagine, especially in the Western genre. Here are the 30 best Netflix original films now streaming. We can only hope Netflix continues to greenlight more films like the ones below. Those gems include thought-provoking work from master filmmakers Jane Campion and Charlie Kaufman, dynamic horror films surging with sharp social commentary, small emotional indies, a delightfully sweet rom-com, powerful must-see documentaries, and more. That definitely isn’t to say all Netflix originals are wins - if anything, it takes meticulous scrubbing through the streamer to find the gems among the excess of straight-up bad, formulaic movies the studio continues to churn out. There are two things Netflix has done especially well in building up its ever-growing catalog of original movies over the past eight years, and that’s working with some of the most talented art house and indie filmmakers in the business, and also giving a platform to budding newcomers.

I wonder as i wander an autobiographical journey