Paramount+ has time once more proven why it deserves to be among the best streaming providers and since dropping its May 2025 schedule, I can see why it’s. This month Paramount+ has some stand-out dramas arriving on May 1, every with over 90% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Not solely have every of my suggestions soared excessive on the Rotten Tomatoes entrance however 4 out of 5 have grabbed the eye of the Academy, garnering a number of nominations and a small handful of Oscars for performing and directing. One of these consists of the primary non-English language characteristic to win Best Picture which has turn out to be a contemporary favourite of mine – film buffs will be capable to guess which one.
These new Paramount+ films usher a brand new section of highly-rated Rotten Tomatoes films to the platform and go as excessive as 99%, which I think about will little question sneak their method into our roundup of the perfect Paramount+ films.
Minari (2020)
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RT rating: 98%
Age ranking: PG-13
Runtime: 115 minutes
Director: Lee Isaac Chung
With only a mere 2% off having an ideal critics rating, Minari is undoubtedly a smash hit for the A24 studio and having not but had the chance to catch it on streaming, not is my likelihood to seize it.
In this semi-autobiographical account of Chung’s personal upbringing, Minari facilities round a Korean-American household who discover a new house in Arkansas after transferring from South Korea within the Eighties. Searching for his or her American Dream deep within the Ozarks, the household faces new challenges upon settling into their new life, and the arrival of the household matriarch shakes up the household unit.
Out of six nominations Minari was awarded one Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Yuon Yuh-Jung, who delivered a healthful and heart-warming speech.
Parasite (2019)
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RT rating: 99%
Age ranking: R
Runtime: 132 minutes
Director: Bong Joon Ho
The 12 months earlier than Yuon Yuh-Jung took away the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, Parasite was one other South Korean film that made waves with audiences and the Academy alike, taking house the Best Picture Oscar – the primary non-English language movie to take action.
Through unforgettable cinematography and meticulous mise-en-scene director Bong Joon Ho crafts a singular commentary on class division and greed by means of visible components the place a poor household infiltrates the lives of their wealthier counterparts. The Kim household are a poor household dwelling in a basement flat with low-income jobs. When their son lands a job as a tutor for the daughter of the rich Park household, he makes use of this as an opportunity to safe a job for every of his members of the family.
Each of the members of the family conceal their actual identities pretending that they do not know one another, however issues go from unhealthy to worse when the Park’s outdated housekeeper finds out the reality.
Pride (2014)
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RT rating: 93%
Age ranking: R
Runtime: 119 minutes
Director: Matthew Warchus
This film holds a really particular place in my coronary heart because it’s set within the South Wales valleys and chronicles a vital time of queer and dealing class resilience throughout a Thatcher-era Britain. Not solely that. however it packs an important forged of British icons from Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, and Dominic West – George McKay and Andrew Scott get particular shout-outs from me.
In 1984 the miner’s strike reaches small cities throughout the entire of Britain and a London-based LGBTQ+ group uncover they share the identical distaste for Margaret Thatcher as these in small mining communities. Activist Mark Ashton (Ben Schnetzer) learns that the police have stopped harassing queer communities and at the moment are focussing on concentrating on the miners. After elevating cash in assist of the strikers, Ashton and his crew of fellow queer folks make a journey to the village of Onllwyn in Wales to instantly hand over donations, which is met with a blended bag of reactions.
The Queen (2006)
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RT rating: 97%
Age ranking: PG-13
Runtime: 101 minutes
Director: Stephen Frears
The Queen is a characteristic about one other monumental time in British historical past; the loss of life of Princess Diana and its aftermath. With a rating of 97% on Rotten Tomatoes and an Oscar for Best Actress for Helen Mirren, author Peter Morgan created a putting historic account which might then lead him to go on to put in writing among the best Netflix exhibits The Crown.
It’s clear that Princess Diana was essentially the most well-known particular person on the planet from her marriage into the British royal household till her premature loss of life in 1997 which shocked the nation, and the world. Frears’ docudrama dives into the occasions after the crash which shakes up the royal household.
Queen Elizabeth II (Mirren) and the remainder of the household views the loss of life of Princess Diana as a personal matter and since she was not a royal, does not represent as a royal loss of life. But within the eyes of Prime Minister Tony Blair (Michael Sheen), he believes the general public needs to be entitled to an official acknowledgement of her loss of life, suggesting the royal household go towards royal protocol.
In The Bedroom (2001)
RT rating: 93%
Age ranking: PG-13
Runtime: 138 minutes
Director: Todd Field
Before Todd Field made his debut directorial characteristic with In The Bedroom, he had already established himself as a one-to-watch filmmaker by means of directing a number of quick movies and even a music video.
Based on the quick story Killings by Andre Dubus, Field’s drama follows a household throughout an attention-grabbing interval of transition. Maine-based physician Matt Fowler (Tom Wilkinson) and his spouse Ruth Fowler (Sissy Spacek), a music trainer from New York share a college-aged son Frank (Nick Stahl). When it is revealed that Frank is having an affair with single mom of two Natalie (Marisa Tomei), the characters discover themselves on the centre of an enormous household drama.
