Certified Fresh Films

Celine Song’s tender debut traces a decades‑spanning almost‑romance with piercing restraint and luminous performances from Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, and John Magaro. It starts streaming on Max on Nov 2, 2025.

Youssef Chahine’s lean, pulsing thriller turns a bustling depot into a pressure cooker of longing and class tension, anchored by Chahine’s own twitchy turn and Hind Rostom’s star power. It’s on Criterion Channel on Nov 1, 2025.

Screwball at its fizziest: Hepburn’s chaos meets Grant’s befuddled precision, and Hawks keeps the madness fleet, fizzy, and irresistible. It’s on Criterion Channel on Nov 1, 2025.

Hawks, Bogart, and Bacall spin Chandler’s labyrinth into pure noir electricity: razor banter, smoky menace, and momentum that never lets up. It’s on Criterion Channel on Nov 1, 2025.

Cagney’s volcanic breakthrough and Wellman’s lean brutality set the gangster‑movie template, all swagger, shock, and social bite that still lands. It hits Max on Nov 1, 2025.

James Whale’s puckish, poignant sequel turns Gothic terror into tragic romance and sly satire, crowned by Karloff’s pathos and Lanchester’s iconic hiss. It’s on Max on Nov 1, 2025.

Reginald Owen’s warm, fleet Dickens adaptation wraps moral reckoning in MGM gloss, delivering a tender holiday staple that still twinkles. It’s on Max on Nov 1, 2025.

Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart give this hard‑hitting Warner Bros. crime melodrama real bite, turning a ripped‑from‑the‑headlines story into a brisk, bruising stand for justice. It’s on Max on Nov 1, 2025.

Jafar Panahi’s urgent, home‑shot diary turns censorship into searing cinema, a quietly electrifying testament to creative defiance. It’s on Criterion Channel on Nov 1, 2025.

Werner Herzog’s bittersweet odyssey tracks a Berlin busker’s American misadventure, blending deadpan humor with an aching view of dislocation and the fading dream. It’s on Criterion Channel on Nov 1, 2025.