

Returning to the Sunset Strip after a monthlong prison stint, Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) gets word that her pimp-boyfriend cheated on her while she was away and she drags along her friend Alexandra (Mya Taylor) to find them. Shot entirely on iPhone 5s cameras, Sean Baker’s supercharged day-in-the-life comedy about the combustible friendship between two transgender sex workers in Los Angeles has a seat-of-the-pants spontaneity that belies its sophistication and emotional depth.

Here are our lists of the best movies and TV shows on Netflix, the best movies on Amazon Prime Video and the best of everything on Hulu and Disney+. (Note: Streaming services sometimes remove titles of change starting dates without notice.) The list below is an effort to recommend a diverse range of movies - old and new, foreign and domestic, all-ages and adults-only - that cross genres and cultures while appealing to casual and serious movie-watchers alike. HBO Max is also an education in Golden Age Hollywood classics and in independent and foreign auteurs like Federico Fellini, Satyajit Ray and John Cassavetes.


That means a lot of large-scale fantasy series like Harry Potter and “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, and selections from the DC extended universe. WarnerMedia, which owns HBO, is a huge conglomerate, and its premiere streaming service comprises decades of titles from Warner Bros., Turner Classic Movies and Studio Ghibli, as well as new work produced directly for HBO Max. But, if anything, its movie library draws from a much deeper well. When HBO Max debuted in May 2020, subscribers rightfully expected (and got) the formidable catalog of prestige television associated with the HBO brand.
