The best movies leaving Netflix, Hulu, Max, and Prime at the end of June 2024
It’s officially summer, and boy is it hot. Some might call it sweltering, even. It’s enough to make you want to plunge into a swimming pool or, barring that, stay home on the couch and crank the air conditioning up before settling into a good movie. There’s plenty of great movies this weekend that you should watch before they leave streaming at the end of June, and we’ve pulled together a list of our favorites.
We’ve got a underappreciated cult classic by The Exorcist director William Friedkin, a brilliant noir drama starring Denzel Washington, arguably the best Die Hard sequel, and more.
Here are the movies new to streaming services you should watch this month.
Director: William Friedkin
Cast: Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal
Leaving Criterion Channel: June 30
There was no one else quite like William Friedkin. The proudly Chicago-born and notoriously foul-mouthed director of The Exorcist and The French Connection was a master of his craft, capable of conjuring breathtaking performances and bone-chilling scares in equal measure. Though not a horror movie per se, his underrated 1977 remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1953 thriller The Wages of Fear is a striking depiction of human fear at its most raw and elemental.
Set in a remote village in South America, Sorcerer follows four men: a disgraced French banker, a Palestinian militant, a Mexican hitman, and an Irish mobster. All of them are exiled from their respective homes, on the run and quickly running out of time. Their chance at earning their passage back to civilization comes in the form of a deadly job in which they are tasked with transporting loads of unstable dynamite through a harsh jungle to stop an oil rig explosion.
Sorcerer is not a pleasant film. The humidity of the rainforest and the rising tensions of the men radiate off the screen, as does the pain of their precarious attempts to avoid fatal injury. How far would you go to reclaim everything you’ve ever loved? Friedkin opened a portal
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