Max at all times delivers with its month-to-month schedules, and though being within the UK means I can not reap the benefits of probably the greatest streaming companies, I nonetheless benefit from the easy pleasure in seeing what new motion pictures are coming every month within the US. But there’s additionally a treasure trove of movies in the event you look via its again catalog, which I’ve precisely performed to seek out these 5 motion pictures with over 91% on Rotten Tomatoes from the critics.
Action, thriller and journey motion pictures dominate my Max suggestions this week, spanning from monster motion pictures to crime tales. But to present you just a little little bit of vary, I’ve additionally squeezed in a comedy on the finish as a way to take a relaxation from the blockbuster motion.
This record of film suggestions is barely a small taste of what is obtainable on Max, so remember to test which different motion pictures and reveals are a part of every little thing new on Max in April 2025 so as to add much more selection to your watchlist.
Crouching Dragon, Hidden Tiger (2000)
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RT Score: 98%
Age score: PG-13
Length: 120 minutes
Director: Ang Lee
Exploring themes of gender roles and that includes hanging martial artwork battle scenes, Ang Lee’s Chinese action-adventure function grew to become a favourite on the Oscars and acquired a whopping 10 nominations together with Best Picture and Best Director. It took dwelling 4 awards, together with Best Foreign Language Film.
In Nineteenth-century Imperial China, two lovers and warriors Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun-fat) and Yu Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh) who should embark on a mission to retrieve Bai’s sword, the Green Destiny, when it is stolen from the palms of Lien by thief Jen Yu (Zhang Ziyi). Their story and journey takes a dramatic flip after they attain the House of Yu.
Speed (1994)
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RT Score: 95%
Age score: R
Length: 115 minutes
Director: Jan de Bont
Jan de Bont’s directorial debut not solely snatched an almost-perfect Rotten Tomatoes rating however he enlisted the performing skills of two of the most well-liked faces of the 1990’s; Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, with Jeff Daniels and Dennis Hopper in supporting roles.
In this motion thriller, LA police officer Jack (Reeves) is confronted with a terror menace like by no means earlier than when he pushes the buttons of bomb squad member and extortionist Howard Payne (Hopper). When Hopper arms a bus with a bomb that may explode if the car drops beneath 50 mph the lives of the passengers are positioned into Jack’s palms, however fellow passenger Annie (Bullock) unexpectedly intervenes, changing into integral to stopping the explosion.
The Host (2006)
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RT Score: 93%
Age score: R
Length: 119 minutes
Director: Bong Joon-ho
If you loved the Best Picture winner Parasite (2019), which occurred to be added to Netflix in February 2025, then take this as your signal to revisit certainly one of Bong Joon-ho’s earlier options. It’s a bonus in the event you’re a sucker for a post-apocalyptic monster film.
After chemical substances are dumped into the Han river in South Korea, a monster rises from the water years later and launches a mass assault on the folks of Seoul. Song Kang-ho, who additionally stars in Parasite, performs a vendor whose daughter will get kidnapped by the creature, leaving it as much as him and the remainder of his household to avoid wasting her and spare her life.
The Guilty (2018)
RT Score: 98%
Age score: R
Length: 85 minutes
Director: Gustav Möller
Gustav Möller’s directorial debut is a mere 85 minutes lengthy, however that did not cease Rotten Tomatoes critics from loving it. Not to be confused with the 2021 Netflix remake starring Jake Gyllenhaal (whose rating does not match), in an emergency name centre a former police officer on alarm dispatch obligation Asger Holm (Jakob Cedergren) receives a name from a kidnapped girl. When the decision is shortly disconnected he launches a seek for the lacking girl and her lethal abductor.
Support the Girls (2018)
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RT Score: 91%
Age score: R
Length: 93 minutes
Director: Andrew Bujalski
Among all of the motion, thriller, and journey motion pictures on Max this month, Support the Girls is a light-hearted comedy for when you want to change it up. With Regina Hall because the lead, the film follows Lisa (Hall), who’s the supervisor of a sports activities bar referred to as Double Whammies.
Situated on the facet of a reclusive freeway, the bar is a sizzling spot for males who attend purely for the waitresses that work there. Taking her job severely as supervisor, whereas Lisa is compassionate she’s additionally very protecting her workers, which she does every little thing in her willpower to uphold when she’s confronted with a very difficult shift.
