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NOW Magazine The 50 best movies on Netflix Canada right now NOW critics pick the best recent movies, overlooked classics and essential titles available on the streaming platform By Norman Wilner, Kevin Ritchie and Radheyan Simonpillai May 15, 2021 The 40-Year-Old Version, Uncut Gems and Bad Trip should be in your Netflix queue. The greatest selling point of streaming services – a near-infinite choice of entertainment, instantly available to anyone anywhere – is also its greatest drawback: if you don’t have a clear plan, you can spend an hour or more just scrolling through the v...

Fans of animation were excited to hear about the announcement of The Mitchells vs. the Machines this past March. Directed by Gravity Falls creator Michael Rianda and produced by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, known for their work on The Lego Movie and Spider-man: Into the Spider-Verse, the Netflix original set some high expectations for itself solely through these associated names. While it may not quite live up to the hype, a near-impossible feat, it does impress with a beautifully unique animation style, some great performances from its cast of comedians and a touching emotional core.  Th...

The Simpsons. In real life, artificial intelligence has so far proved itself pretty benign — Siri and Alexa haven’t tried to kill us, even if Netflix’s content-recommendation algorithm can at times be a little creepy. But the fear that our present-day technological wonders could one day bring about our downfall is never too far from our minds. And if it ever does get very far from our minds, Hollywood is always there to remind us that the robot apocalypse may be right around the corner. The latest iteration in this line of AI-panic movies, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, comes to us co...

Subscribe to our newsletter here. Quirky, dysfunctional families everywhere might see a bit of themselves in the animated family flick “The Mitchells vs. The Machines.” The Netflix film, directed by Michael Rianda, follows the Mitchells and their cross-country, family-bonding road trip, which quickly goes awry when machines take over the world and the Mitchells are the last people left to save the human race. The Mitchell family includes outdoorsy dad Rick (Danny McBride), endearing mom Linda (Maya Rudolph), film school-bound daughter Katie (Abbi Jacobson), dinosaur-fanatic little brother...

Their latest film, this time as producers, is The Mitchells vs. The Machines, an animated film that takes our increasing reliance on smart technology to apocalyptic extremes. The Mitchells – dad Rick (Danny McBride), mom Linda (Maya Rudolph), daughter Katie (Abbi Jacobson), and son Aaron (co-writer/co-director Michael Rianda) – are kind of a disaster as a family unit, as they’re rarely on the same page and can’t seem to find time to spend together, especially with Katie about to head off to college. Rick aims to fix this with a family road trip to take Katie to campus, a journey th...