As any Netflix viewer knows, with one hand the streamer may giveth movies and series, but with the other it taketh away… Steve Newall lets you know what’s leaving Netflix next month, so you can arrange some last-chance viewing accordingly.
My list of The 50 best movies on Netflix always requires a few adjustments each month—but June’s departing titles put a dent in the list.
I’ll figure out suitable replacements soon enough, but for now, consider watching best 50 selections Moonlight (June 1), Fast Five (June 1), Midsommar (June 7), Room (June 8), The Big Short (June 10) and Hustlers (June 20) before they leave Netflix.
Also on my Top 50 and bidding farewell: The most painfully honest and funny insight into the music biz since This is Spinal Tap, 2004’s Some Kind of Monster perhaps ought to have buried Metallica, being such an unflattering portrayal of a musical juggernaut that had sold 80 million albums and now found itself creatively becalmed. Something interesting was always going to come from the access allowed to documentary filmmakers Berlinger and Sinofsky, who were best known for their Paradise Lost Lost trilogy of docos about the West Memphis Three (heavy-metal-loving teens wrongfully convicted of murdering three children).
Despite starting its life as a ‘making of an album’ doco, some 1200 hours of footage were shot across two years of crisis—capturing everything from the band’s hiring of a therapist to their struggles with writer’s block, the hiring of a new bass player, James Hetfield’s departure to rehab and, eventually, the making of a pretty average album.
In the nearly twenty years since, we’ve grown more accustomed to unvarnished coverage of megastars and idols, with plenty of famous people having faux pas on social media and elsewhere. Our awareness of mental health wellbeing alongside the destigmatisation of professional assistance has increased too. This makes Some Kind of Monster a time capsule in some ways, a trailblazer in others, but certainly no less effective as a film dissecting interpersonal dynamics.
As James Hetfield observes in the press conference above, the film blows away the mystique of the rock idol. When pretence, defensiveness and self-deception fall away (to some extent), this is a classic example of doco makers being in the right place at the wrong time, armed with a relentless, inquisitory camera that the people on screen are perhaps not media-trained enough to manipulate.
It’s so quotable, so entertaining, and through the passage of time and culture, more relatable and moving. Speaking of the passage of time, please join me in saluting Lars’s dad (RIP).
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster leaves Netflix on June 13. Read on for the full list of departing titles, and prepare yourself to farewell a large number of other faves, including the likes of A History of Violence, L.A. Confidential, Amadeus, Pretty Woman and the first eight movies in the Fast & Furious series.
Leaving Netflix June 1
44 Cats: Season 1 (Part 2)
90 Minutes in Heaven
Amar
American Pie
Arrival
Barbie in a Mermaid Tale
Catfight
Chicken Run
Chronicle
Copenhagen
Dreamland: Season 1
Dreamland: Season 2
Dreamland: Season 3
Dreamland: Season 4
Friday After Next
Her
Malverde, el santo patrón: Season 1
Moonlight
My Old Lady
National Security
Ocean’s 8
Searching
Seven Souls in the Skull Castle: Season Moon Jogen
Seven Souls in the Skull Castle: Season Moon Kagen
Slender Man
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
The Batman
The Cup
The Day Will Come: Season 1
The Dish
The Fast and the Furious
2 Fast 2 Furious
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Fast & Furious
Fast Five
Fast & Furious 6
Furious 7
The Fate of the Furious
The New Guy
The Sweetest Thing
The Zookeeper’s Wife
Transformers: The Last Knight
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June 2
Oh, Ramona!
The Platform: Season 1
The Platform: Season 3
The Platform: Season 2
June 3
Firestarter
June 4
Back to Q82
Blind Intersections
Here Comes the Rain
Wanted
June 5
I Have a Script: Season 1
In the Bosom of a Thorn: Season 1
What If?: Season 1
The Writer: Season 1
June 6
Late Night
June 7
A History of Violence
Alvin Purple
Blue Murder
Howzat! Kerry Packer’s War
Midsommar
Phar Lap
Puberty Blues: Season 1
Puberty Blues: Season 2
RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars: Season 5
Stree
Tangle: Season 1
Tangle: Season 2
Tangle: Season 3
The Beautiful Lie: Season 1
The Delinquents
The Informer
The Peanut Butter Falcon
The Secret Life of Us: Season 1
The Secret Life of Us: Season 2
The Secret Life of Us: Season 3
The Secret Life of Us: Season 4
The Silver Stallion
Unlocked
June 8
All About the Benjamins
American Sniper
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
Room
Rock My Heart
Sex and the City: The Movie
Sex and the City 2
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
June 10
Assassin’s Creed
Cook Off
The Big Short
The Girl Next Door
The Switch
June 13
How to Get Away With Murder: Season 1
How to Get Away With Murder: Season 2
How to Get Away With Murder: Season 3
How to Get Away With Murder: Season 4
How to Get Away With Murder: Season 5
How to Get Away With Murder: Season 6
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster: Collection 1
June 14
A Dirty Shame
Freddy vs. Jason
Viva the Underdogs
Marlon: Season 1
Marlon: Season 2
Pihu
The Unknown Hitman: The Story of El Cholo Adrián: Season 2
June 15
Aliens in the Attic
Beyond Evil
Black Spot: Season 1
Black Spot: Season 2
Four Christmases
Get Smart
Gone Baby Gone
Good Will Hunting
He’s Just Not That Into You
Home2Home
I Am Legend
L.A. Confidential
Looking for Alibrandi
Shaolin Soccer
Sherlock Holmes
Somewhere Only We Know: Season 1
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Legend of White Snake: Season 1
What Happens in Vegas
When My Love Blooms: Season 1
Yes Man
June 16
Right Here Right Now
The Unholy
June 17
Dirty Grandpa
June 18
Aziza
Eyes of a Thief
Besieged Bread
Pomegranates and Myrrh
June 20
21 Bridges
Hustlers
Rakkhosh
Rogue
June 21
Amadeus
Poseidon
The Milk System
June 22
ONE PIECE: The “Water Seven” Chapter
ONE PIECE: The Naval Fortress
ONE PIECE: The Foxy Pirate Crew
Peter Rabbit 2
The Dreamseller
June 23
Deadlock
Pretty Woman
The World To Come
June 24
Paul Virzi: Nocturnal Admissions
June 27
The Man from Snowy River
The Man from Snowy River II
June 28
French Exit
June 29
The Bling Ring
Pan
Super Deluxe
The Heartbreak Kid
The Young Victoria
June 30
Age of Tanks: Season 1
Chasing Liberty
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Go Karts
Inhuman Kiss
Legend of Exorcism
Occupied: Season 1
Occupied: Season 2
Occupied: Season 3
Redeeming Love
Romeo Akbar Walter
Sea Power: Season 1
The Daily Life of the Immortal King
The Final Quarter
The Walk
These Final Hours
