10 great movies leaving Netflix, Hulu, and HBO Max at the end of August 2022
This month’s list of streaming departures includes some old classics, new favorites, and some underseen gems in between.
To start things off, Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s trilogy leaves HBO Max — it’s a good time to catch up with those movies again (unless you are one of the few people who haven’t seen them, in which case I have good news — you get to watch the Ocean’s movies for the first time!).
There’s also Spike Lee’s masterful Do the Right Thing, the classic mystery thriller Klute, and a legal thriller from the showrunner of Andor, as well as an action-horror DTV master class and so much more.
Let’s get into it.
Set over the course of a swelteringly hot day in Bed-Stuy, Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing is a masterful drama that traces the simmering racial tensions between a local Italian American pizzeria and the African American community living beside them. With impressive performances by Danny Aiello, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, and Lee himself, not to mention a fantastic opening sequence featuring none other than the Rosie Perez — in her debut film role, no less — dancing and shadowboxing to Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power,” Do the Right Thing is an essential milestone of American filmmaking that cannot be missed.—Toussaint Egan
Do the Right Thing leaves PeacockAug. 31.
Ethan Hawke stars in Andrew Niccol’s 1997 debut Gattaca as Vincent Freeman, a genetically “inferior” man born in a eugenic caste society who yearns to become an astronaut. Assuming the identity of Jerome (Jude Law), a physically gifted athlete who is paralyzed from the waist down following an automotive accident, Vincent’s dream is almost within his reach — that is, until the administrator of the Gattaca Aerospace program is murdered, causing a swarm
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