The 24 best movies to watch on Paramount Plus

polygon.com:

In the expansive world of streaming services, there are loads of different options when it comes to what to watch. In our continued quest to refine your potential movie picks to only the best possible choices, it is time to turn our attention to Paramount Plus.

Paramount Plus has something many of its streaming rivals do not: a deep back catalog from one of the most storied production companies in the history of Hollywood, boasting classics from just about every era of American movie making.

We’ve pulled our favorites from their extensive selection of movies, with a mix of all-time classics and new gems from a variety of eras. Take a stroll through a history of great movies, in chronological order of release.

David Fincher’s 2007 mystery thriller Zodiac may be the celebrated director’s greatest accomplishment. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey Jr., the movie follows the manhunt surrounding the notorious Zodiac Killer, a serial murderer known for terrorizing the San Francisco Bay Area with a string of gruesome killings throughout the late ’60s and early ’70s, all while taunting the police with a slew of esoteric ciphers and newspaper letters. Dark, cerebral, and thoroughly engrossing, Zodiac is David Fincher’s answer to Bong Joon-ho’s Memories of Murder; a masterful murder thriller inspired by a real-life nightmare. —Toussaint Egan

For a while, Paul Thomas Anderson’s mesmerizing story about the rise and fall of an oil baron was best known for an unfortunate milkshake meme. But it’s been 14 years since its release, so surely by now we can let go of that particular gag and get back to appreciating Daniel Day-Lewis’ typically intense performance and the film’s particularly uncompromising severity.