The best movies leaving Netflix, Max, and Prime at the end of July 2024

polygon.com:

The heat of the summer has arrived and that means it’s time for baseball, robots, drive-in movies, and more. As we close the books on July, the best way to beat the heat is to stay inside and catch up on a few of the movies that you won’t be able to stream next month.

To help you do that, we’ve pulled together some of the best movies leaving streaming in July, including a couple of great thrillers, one of the saddest, sweetest rom-coms around, a misunderstood gem, and one of the best summer streaming movies ever.

Here are the movies new to streaming services you should watch this month.

Director: Bennett Miller
Cast: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Leaving Netflix: July 31

Moneyball is, for better and worse, an absolutely perfect streaming movie. This semi-factual account of the Oakland A’s 2002 season and the baseball revolution kicked off by their general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), is endlessly watchable and infinitely entertaining.

Pitt is absolutely outstanding in the movie, giving one of his best and most charismatic performances. The supporting performances, led by Jonah Hill and Philip Seymour Hoffman, are equally arresting with a new parade of “that guys” cropping up in every single scene.

But the real star here is Aaron Sorkin’s script, which marries his usual mile-a-minute dialog with one of the most jargon-heavy sports there is. Whether it’s Pitt and Hill arguing that you can recreate a great expensive player’s contributions with a variety of cheaper ones, or some old baseball lifer criticizing a player’s intangibles like grit and heart, every scene is a treat. Which is exactly why you need to watch Moneyball before it leaves Netflix. Whether you’re watching it for the first time or the tenth, every single line and moment is a renewed excuse for the movie to hold your attention. —Austen Goslin

Director: Zhang Yimou
Cast: Matt Damon, Jing Tian, Willem Dafoe
Leaving Netflix: July 31

One of the most unfairly maligned movies of the