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Stream it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Years before winning an Oscar for \u201cThe Blind Side,\u201d Sandra Bullock revealed the first hints of her considerable range in this engaging serio-comic drama from the director Betty Thomas (\u201cPrivate Parts\u201d) and the screenwriter Susannah Grant (\u201cErin Brockovich\u201d). Bullock stars as a fast-living New York writer whose functional alcoholism is becoming less functional; she checks into a rehabilitation facility only when ordered to do so to avoid jail time for a D.U.I. As Michael Keaton did in 1988\u2019s \u201cClean and Sober,\u201d Bullock allows the loose formula of the rehab narrative to stretch her acting chops without eschewing the charm and charisma that made her a movie star. It\u2019s a scrappy, alive performance, and Steve Buscemi provides able support as the counselor who has seen it all before.<\/p>\n Stream it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n With this 1984 exploration of terror, dreams and the American suburbs, Wes Craven created one of the finest horror pictures of the 1980s, and one of its most popular boogeymen, Fred Krueger (Robert Englund). Krueger, a long-dead child murderer, begins invading the dreams of teenagers, resulting in their grisly deaths. Heather Langenkamp is a charismatic protagonist, while Johnny Depp makes a memorable feature film debut as her beau. Several of the film\u2019s numerous sequels (and its ill-advised 2010 remake<\/a>) also leave Netflix this month; \u201cA Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors<\/a>\u201d is probably the best of the bunch, though the second<\/a> and fourth<\/a> installments have their fans.<\/p>\n Stream it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n John Huston\u2019s adaptation of the long-running Broadway smash<\/a> was not well received by critics (including ours<\/a>) when it hit theaters in 1982. But kids who saw it at the time \u2014 and were, to be fair, the target audience \u2014 adored it, and have maintained that affection in the decades since. It\u2019s not hard to see why; the star Aileen Quinn is a cheerful audience surrogate as the title character, a precocious and plucky Great Depression-era orphan, Albert Finney is suitably stiff-upper-lipped as the millionaire who adopts her, Ann Reinking is dazzling as his personal secretary, and Carol Burnett, Tim Curry and Bernadette Peters provide ample and earthy comic relief.<\/p>\n Stream it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cSurprise, surprise,\u201d our critic wrote<\/a>. \u201cMark Wahlberg, the pug-faced actor formerly known as Marky Mark, could be on the verge of full-fledged movie stardom.\u201d It seemed a laughable notion \u2014 that the rapper and underwear model fancied himself a thespian, but Wahlberg proved himself the real deal with this 1996 erotic thriller, part of the era\u2019s \u201c[blank] from hell\u201d (nanny, mistress, secretary, etc.) cycle. Wahlberg plays the boyfriend from hell, a smoldering bad boy who sets his sights on a 16-year-old good girl (an excellent Reese Witherspoon), much to the chagrin of her overprotective father (a pre- \u201cCSI\u201d William Petersen). The director James Foley, who made the marvelous \u201cGlengarry Glen Ross\u201d earlier in the decade, cheerfully embraces the conventions of the subgenre; \u201cFear\u201d is trash, but it\u2019s deftly made, deliciously entertaining trash.<\/p>\n\u2018A Nightmare on Elm Street\u2019 (June 30)<\/h2>\n
\u2018Annie\u2019 (June 30)<\/h2>\n
\u2018Fear\u2019 (June 30)<\/h2>\n
\u2018Firestarter\u2019 (June 30)<\/h2>\n