January is almost over, but that doesn’t mean you can’t discover all the new movies that have been added to Paramount+.
There’s a lot to watch on the streamer, that’s why Watch with us has compiled a list of the best movies to watch.
Using Rotten Tomatoes as a barometer, we’ve selected three great movies for you to watch: the action flick Baby Driver with Jamie Foxxthe thriller The Grifters and comedy Everyone wants it!! – which have around 90 percent on the tomometer.
‘Baby Driver’ (2017)
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 92 percent
Miles (Ansel Elgort) is a young man with a unique gift: he is Atlanta’s best getaway driver. He’s not a criminal, but he’s just paying a debt to the town’s murderous boss, Doc (Kevin Spacey). But when Doc’s misfit team convinces him to take part in a risky heist that goes wrong, Miles’ life is turned upside down. With a new romance with the kind-hearted waitress Debora (Lily James) on the line, can Miles stage one last escape from his fellow criminals and the cops hot on his trail?
A bedroom hit in 2017, Baby Driver is an effortlessly cool action flick with killer stunt driving, a captivating narrative loaded with breathless chases and double crosses and a great soundtrack. The cast is pretty impressive too, with a baby-faced Elgort effortlessly slipping into a reluctant action hero role and Jon Hamm unleashing his inner psychotic villain. It’s also one of the rare action films that has a realistic ending, with Miles facing the music in more ways than one.
‘The Grifters’ (1990)
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 92 percent
Roy Dillon (John Cusack) believes he has what it takes to be an expert con artist. Her mother, platinum blonde Lilly (Anjelica Huston), does not believe so; he thinks Roy is too reckless and stupid to pull off the kind of counters he pulls off effortlessly. When Roy is turned on by his new girlfriend, the scheming bombshell Myra (Annette Bening), to engage in some risky crimes, drives a wedge between mother and son, and forces Myra to cut Lilly out of Roy’s life for good.
Nominated for four Oscars in 1991, The Grifters is one of the best neo-noir films ever made. Adaptation of the famous author of the crime Donald E. Westlakethe plot has enough twists and turns to keep you on edge, and an ending so shocking that you might lose your breath. All three leads are fantastic, with Huston giving a career-best performance as the woman who will do anything, and I mean anything — to survive, even if it costs him what is left of his soul.
‘Everyone wants it!!’ (2016)
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 87 percent
It’s the fall of 1980, and freshman Jake Bradford (glee‘s Blake Jenner) is looking forward to moving in with members of his University of Texas baseball team before school starts. At first, he is somewhat intimidated by them, especially the alpha male Glen McReynolds (Tyler Hoechlin), but soon he’s one of the boys, drinking too much on the weekends and falling in love with fellow student Beverly (Zoey Deutsch). With classes on the horizon, will Jake find a place for himself in Beverly’s life and with his new friends?
directed by Before sunrise filmmaker Richard Linklater, Everyone wants it!! it’s a pleasantly low-stakes comedy that thrives more on vibes than plot. It’s a laid-back get-together movie with a bunch of bros who just want to have a good time, and that feeling is infectious — these characters are fun to hang out with, even if they don’t have much to do. The film nails the feeling of that specific period in the waning days of summer, when you want to experience as much fun as possible before school starts.