Topline
Amazon Prime Video is adding plenty of acclaimed movies and Oscar winners to its catalog in April, including Whiplash, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Descendants.
“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” starring Michelle Yeoh will soon hit Prime Video. (Photo by Mike … [+]
Key Facts
Amazon will add documentaries including Life Itself, a biographical film about film critic Roger Ebert, and Whose Streets?, a film about the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the highest-rated film by critics coming to Prime Video next month, stars Michelle Yeoh, who became the first Asian woman to win Best Actress at the Oscars this year for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Whiplash, Speed and The Descendants are among the other Academy Award-winning films joining Prime Video’s catalog.
Surprising Fact
Though they didn’t rank among the ten highest-rated films by critics’ scores, two Best Picture Oscar winners are coming to Prime Video next month: Forrest Gump (1994) and Titanic (1997).
Top 10 Films
1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2001), April 1 (98% Rotten Tomatoes, 94% Metacritic)
2. Life Itself (2014), April 12 (98% Rotten Tomatoes, 87% Metacritic)
3. Whiplash (2014), April 1 (94% Rotten Tomatoes, 89% Metacritic)
4. Whose Streets? (2017), April 12 (98% Rotten Tomatoes, 79% Metacritic)
5. Bigger, Stronger, Faster (2008), April 19 (96% Rotten Tomatoes, 80% Metacritic)
6. Face/Off (1997), April 1 (92% Rotten Tomatoes, 82% Metacritic)
7. (Tie) Dirty Pretty Things (2003), April 1 (94% Rotten Tomatoes, 78% Metacritic)
7. (Tie) Speed (1994), April 1 (94% Rotten Tomatoes, 78% Metacritic)
9. The Descendants (2011), April 1 (87% Rotten Tomatoes, 84% Metacritic)
10. The Joy Luck Club (1993), April 1 (86% Rotten Tomatoes, 84% Metacritic)
Key Background
The Rotten Tomatoes critics score, known as the Tomatometer, is the percentage of critics who have given the film a positive review. A movie with at least 60% positive reviews is given a fresh tomato, while those with a score of less than 60% are given a splat. Metacritic calculates a weighted average of critics’ reviews, assigning different weights to each critic and publication depending on importance or quality. Scores are displayed in green, yellow or red—indicating favorable, mixed or unfavorable reviews—and films with a score of at least 81% are designated as “must-see.” Both Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic track user ratings and allow users to write reviews, though these are displayed separately from critics’ scores.
Further Reading
Amazon Prime’s Best New Movies In March According To Critics—Including ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ And ‘Carrie’ (Forbes)
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2023/03/27/the-best-films-coming-to-prime-video-in-april-according-to-critics-including-whiplash-and-speed/