The best movies leaving Netflix, Hulu, Prime, and Max at the end of July 2023
The weather and the box office are heating up — after seeing Barbieand Oppenheimer, maybe you’d like to stay home this weekend and watch a movie? There are new movie options: Netflix’s They Cloned Tyroneis a ton of fun, as is Shin Kamen Rider (newly on Prime), but those will be around on those platforms for some time. What about those movies that will be leaving streaming services at the end of July?
That’s what we’re here for. Each month, we gather select options from what’s leaving the major streaming services for you to choose from in your movie-watching time. This month, we’ve got thrillers of the action and crime varieties, big franchise movies, indie fare, and some good old-fashioned nostalgia.
Enjoy!
Year: 2012Genre: Spy action thrillerRun time: 2h 23mDirector: Sam MendesCast: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris
Skyfall marks the defining moment not only for Daniel Craig’s rugged incarnation of James Bond, but also for Dame Judi Dench’s M, the connecting tissue between Pierce Brosnan’s and Craig’s tenures.
The film opens with Bond having been betrayed. Surviving a near-fatal wound from a gunshot ordered by M, 007 finds himself adrift in the world, unable to reconcile his newfound distrust for his longtime commander and his nascent discomfort with his role as a glorified wetworker for Britain. When a terrorist bombing on MI6’s headquarters and the loss of a classified NOC list of undercover MI6 agents threatens the safety of the organization — and M’s own life — Bond reemerges to track down the culprits responsible and bring them to justice.
Skyfall might be the best Bond film of Craig’s run due in no small part to the film’s cast, which includes pitch-perfect supporting performances from Naomie Harris and
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