Movie of the day
Every day, we cut through the bottomless list of streaming options and recommend something to watch. See all our Netflix movie of the day picks, or our Prime Video movie of the day choices.
On paper, Whiplash (now available to stream on Prime Video) sounds – if you pardon the music-based pun – terrible. On the screen, though it's an astonishing piece of theatrical melodrama. Imagine Full Metal Jacket but, instead of Vietnam, the battleground here is jazz. Or, how about One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest set in a music school, rather than a hospital.
