Every month, the best streaming services have a bit of a clear-out and some movies drop out of their catalogs to make way for everything new on Max in June. And on Max this month some of the casualties include genuine classics, so you don't have long to catch them or rewatch them before they're banished to wherever it is movies go when their streaming rights expire.
Some of this month's departures are among my favorite movies, and I'd describe them as masterpieces even though I'm sure some movie buffs would disagree with me. We've got three movies from three fascinating directors: Martin Scorsese, Paul Verhoeven and George Miller. We've got three beautifully realized, often violently ugly worlds: a dystopian Detroit; a post-apocalyptic Australia; and a late 20th-Century New York. And we've got guns, knives and at least one vat of highly toxic waste.
