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As soon as there’s a fall chill in the air, you can finally bust out your coziest sweaters and sip pumpkin spice-flavored tea while you curl up on the couch with some must-see TV. Netflix has you covered in September with new true-crime docs, reality series, star-studded original movies and returning seasons of your favorite escapist shows (including Emily in Paris). Here are the 15 best things coming to Netflix this month.
Coming Sept. 1
Midnight Run (1988, R)
The odd couple pairing of Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin really shouldn’t work, but in Martin Brest’s planes, trains and automobiles buddy caper, it proves to be comedy magic. De Niro, 81, plays a gruff bounty hunter who can finally get out of the business by bringing in Grodin’s high-maintenance Mafia accountant. “You don’t look much like a criminal,” a kid tells Grodin. “I’m a white-collar criminal,” he explains. De Niro and Grodin start off as bickering enemies and slowly become bickering pals, all while giving the FBI, mobsters and fellow bounty hunters the slip. An underseen ’80s classic.
Coming Sept. 5
Apollo 13: Survival
“Houston, we have a problem.” Everyone knows that famous (but slightly inaccurate) quote from Ron Howard’s terrific 1995 dramatization of NASA’s doomed Apollo 13 mission to the moon. In director Peter Middleton’s riveting documentary, the immediacy and danger of that mission come into terrifying relief. Featuring archival footage from mission control, Apollo 13: Survival offers a fresh, never-before-seen look at the crisis that almost stranded three astronauts in space nine short months after Neil Armstrong’s triumphant “one small step for man.”
Caught in the Web: The Murders Behind Zona Divas
This harrowing documentary investigates a string of Mexico City murders connected to a shadowy online escort site. The women advertised on it were poor refugees from various South American countries held hostage and forced into sex work. Caught in the Web digs into a tragedy that Mexican officials barely lifted a finger to address.
The Perfect Couple
Nicole Kidman, 57, and Liev Schreiber, 56, star in this six-episode murder-mystery series from director Susanne Bier (Bird Box, The Night Manager). Eve Hewson’s Amelia is about to marry into one of the wealthiest families on Nantucket (which is saying something). That is, until an accidental drowning — or was it? — derails the nuptials and turns all the guests into suspects. If this setup sounds a bit like Glass Onion, well, you’re not wrong. But with Kidman and Schreiber at the top of this family tree, we’re RSVP’ing yes.
Coming Sept. 6
Rebel Ridge
The only thing that may be better than a dirty-cop movie is a dirty-cop movie starring a sinister Don Johnson, 74. The Underground Railroad’s Aaron Pierre plays a Black former Marine who travels to a small, largely white town to bail his cousin out of jail and stumbles on to a conspiracy involving the police. Directed by Jeremy Saulnier (2015’s tense and taut Green Room), Rebel Ridge looks like an extremely promising late-night thriller.
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