From a film about sneakers to a modern Tom Cruise classic, here are 10 great movies streaming on Amazon Prime to watch for Father’s Day.
As it was written in the Kalmar and Ruby standard popularized by Groucho Marx: “Today, Father, is Father’s Day, / And we are giving you a tie… According to our mother, you’re our father, / And that’s good enough for us.”
Once the requisite ties, haphazardly wrapped, have been deposited in your father’s lap, here are some of the best Amazon Prime Video films with which your father can while away the remaining uncomfortable hours he has to be the center of attention.Air (2023)
A basketball story that focuses not on the court but on the white-collar sports enthusiasts who helped bring Air Jordans into existence, Ben Affleck’s 2023 Prime Original is unexpectedly smart and engaging.
For a movie nominally about fashion, Air is notable for how much it delights in Matt Damon’s ill-fitting khakis and the outrageous neon-colored sweatsuits sported by Affleck as Phil Knight, CEO of Nike — in this respect, it’s a conscious throwback to the vaunted analog ’80s.Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Violence, tension, and discursive lunch table conversation — Quentin Tarantino’s debut film, the story of a heist gone spectacularly wrong, has pretty much everything. Ultimately, it’s a movie about how men relate to one another, slipping into father, buddy, or macho rival dichotomies depending on stress and circumstance.
The relationship that stays with you is that of Mr. White (Harvey Keitel) and Mr. Orange (Tim Roth) (fake names, obviously). White is a career criminal whose stalwart (and mistaken) insistence that Orange couldn’t possibly be an undercover cop comes from a deep-seated paternal instinct.Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Director Kathryn Bigelow, the first woman to win the Best Director Oscar, has always made ironically testosterone-heavy movies — like the vaguely homoerotic extreme sports flick Point Break (1991), or her Oscar-winning Iraq War film The Hurt Locker (2008). With Zero Dark Thirty, her retelling of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, she took on only her second female protagonist, Maya (Jessica Chastain), loosely based on CIA agent Alfreda Frances Bikowsky (known as the “Queen of Torture”).
