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| The Best Movies and TV Shows New on Netflix Canada in June | The Best Movies and TV Shows New on Netflix Canada in June |
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| Every month, Netflix Canada adds a new batch of TV shows and movies to its library. Here are the titles we think are most interesting for June, broken down by release date. Netflix occasionally changes schedules without giving notice. | Every month, Netflix Canada adds a new batch of TV shows and movies to its library. Here are the titles we think are most interesting for June, broken down by release date. Netflix occasionally changes schedules without giving notice. |
| ‘Shoplifters’Starts streaming: June 1 | ‘Shoplifters’Starts streaming: June 1 |
| The Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda has been quietly turning out one great domestic drama after another, including “Like Father, Like Son” and “Still Walking,” but “Shoplifters” is special even by his high standards. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival last year — and an Oscar nominee for best foreign language film — “Shoplifters” is about the daily lives of a marginalized family in Tokyo that has perfected the art of stealing in order to meet its basic needs. In the best neorealist tradition, the film aims to shake the conscience of a country blind to the poverty that surrounds it, but Kore-eda is equally interested in how resilient families (and surrogate families) can fortify themselves against extreme challenges. | The Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda has been quietly turning out one great domestic drama after another, including “Like Father, Like Son” and “Still Walking,” but “Shoplifters” is special even by his high standards. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival last year — and an Oscar nominee for best foreign language film — “Shoplifters” is about the daily lives of a marginalized family in Tokyo that has perfected the art of stealing in order to meet its basic needs. In the best neorealist tradition, the film aims to shake the conscience of a country blind to the poverty that surrounds it, but Kore-eda is equally interested in how resilient families (and surrogate families) can fortify themselves against extreme challenges. |
| ‘Alles Ist Gut (All Good)’Starts streaming: June 6 | ‘Alles Ist Gut (All Good)’Starts streaming: June 6 |
| Winner of the best first feature award at the Locarno Film Festival last year, Eva Trobisch’s ironically titled German drama contends with the fallout of a drunken pass that led to rape. “Alles Ist Gut” suggests the don’t-worry-about-me vibe that Janne (Aenne Schwarz) projects to friends as a cover for her own persistent trauma over the event, all while running through her memories of what happened and questioning every particular. Trobisch explores these painful ambiguities and the way they affect Janne’s relationships and daily life, especially given that she still moves in the same social circles as her rapist. | Winner of the best first feature award at the Locarno Film Festival last year, Eva Trobisch’s ironically titled German drama contends with the fallout of a drunken pass that led to rape. “Alles Ist Gut” suggests the don’t-worry-about-me vibe that Janne (Aenne Schwarz) projects to friends as a cover for her own persistent trauma over the event, all while running through her memories of what happened and questioning every particular. Trobisch explores these painful ambiguities and the way they affect Janne’s relationships and daily life, especially given that she still moves in the same social circles as her rapist. |
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| ‘The Black Godfather’Starts streaming: June 7 | ‘The Black Godfather’Starts streaming: June 7 |
| The ultimate guy-behind-the-guy, Clarence Avant spent decades in the music business as a manager and producer, first representing jazz and R&B artists and then growing to influence the fates of the Stax and Motown labels and having an impact on the careers of Quincy Jones, Muhammad Ali, Snoop Dogg and countless other African-American icons. Avant isn’t a household name, but the director Reginald Hudlin’s documentary aims to change that with a murderer’s row of high-profile testimonials. “The Black Godfather” connects the disparate pieces of Avant’s life through commentary from music stars like Snoop and P. Diddy, executives like David Geffen and Clive Davis, and former President Barack Obama. | The ultimate guy-behind-the-guy, Clarence Avant spent decades in the music business as a manager and producer, first representing jazz and R&B artists and then growing to influence the fates of the Stax and Motown labels and having an impact on the careers of Quincy Jones, Muhammad Ali, Snoop Dogg and countless other African-American icons. Avant isn’t a household name, but the director Reginald Hudlin’s documentary aims to change that with a murderer’s row of high-profile testimonials. “The Black Godfather” connects the disparate pieces of Avant’s life through commentary from music stars like Snoop and P. Diddy, executives like David Geffen and Clive Davis, and former President Barack Obama. |
| ‘I Am Mother’Starts streaming: June 7 | ‘I Am Mother’Starts streaming: June 7 |
| Many movies have been made about humans building robots and having their creations turn on them, but the dystopian science-fiction thriller “I Am Mother” attempts the opposite. In a future where Earth has been obliterated by an apocalyptic event, a robot (voiced by Rose Byrne) raises a girl from infancy as the start of a larger scheme to repopulate the planet. But when a wounded woman (Hilary Swank) infiltrates the underground facility they call home, she starts to raise doubts in the girl’s mind about her robot mother’s intentions. It sounds like a twist on Harry Harlow’s notorious monkey studies: How does someone raised by a wire mommy react when a flesh-and-blood mommy turns up? | Many movies have been made about humans building robots and having their creations turn on them, but the dystopian science-fiction thriller “I Am Mother” attempts the opposite. In a future where Earth has been obliterated by an apocalyptic event, a robot (voiced by Rose Byrne) raises a girl from infancy as the start of a larger scheme to repopulate the planet. But when a wounded woman (Hilary Swank) infiltrates the underground facility they call home, she starts to raise doubts in the girl’s mind about her robot mother’s intentions. It sounds like a twist on Harry Harlow’s notorious monkey studies: How does someone raised by a wire mommy react when a flesh-and-blood mommy turns up? |
| ‘The Edge of Seventeen’Starts streaming: June 8 | ‘The Edge of Seventeen’Starts streaming: June 8 |
| Despite almost universally positive reviews, this coming-of-age comedy struggled to find an audience, but it’s one of those movies that will be the subject of breathless anniversary pieces once the younger generation starts writing about the culture that shaped it. The writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig doesn’t give “The Edge of Seventeen” any high-concept hook beyond the trials of a teenage outcast (Hailee Steinfeld) who experiences a rift with her best and only friend (Haley Lu Richardson), but that’s to the film’s creative benefit. Craig has poured as much insight, humor and specific detail as she can into her adolescent characters, and their fullness is matched by the adults on the periphery, especially Kyra Sedgwick as a super-dramatic mother and Woody Harrelson as the one teacher the film’s hero trusts with her problems. | Despite almost universally positive reviews, this coming-of-age comedy struggled to find an audience, but it’s one of those movies that will be the subject of breathless anniversary pieces once the younger generation starts writing about the culture that shaped it. The writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig doesn’t give “The Edge of Seventeen” any high-concept hook beyond the trials of a teenage outcast (Hailee Steinfeld) who experiences a rift with her best and only friend (Haley Lu Richardson), but that’s to the film’s creative benefit. Craig has poured as much insight, humor and specific detail as she can into her adolescent characters, and their fullness is matched by the adults on the periphery, especially Kyra Sedgwick as a super-dramatic mother and Woody Harrelson as the one teacher the film’s hero trusts with her problems. |
| ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’Starts streaming: June 11 | ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’Starts streaming: June 11 |
| Centuries from now, when historians and cultural anthropologists are picking through the artifacts to understand humanity at the turn of this millennium, “Ralph Breaks the Internet” will be more effective than carbon dating at identifying the year 2018. In bringing the lovable 8-bit lug (John C. Reilly) from “Wreck-It Ralph” into the wider world of interconnectivity, the film is like an animated trending topic, seizing on the conversations and art that most captured the popular imagination. A scene where Vanellope (Sarah Silverman) burst into a room full of Disney princesses shows off the company’s Disney/Marvel/Star Wars crossover potential, and the plot is about the potential of toxic masculinity to destroy the world. | Centuries from now, when historians and cultural anthropologists are picking through the artifacts to understand humanity at the turn of this millennium, “Ralph Breaks the Internet” will be more effective than carbon dating at identifying the year 2018. In bringing the lovable 8-bit lug (John C. Reilly) from “Wreck-It Ralph” into the wider world of interconnectivity, the film is like an animated trending topic, seizing on the conversations and art that most captured the popular imagination. A scene where Vanellope (Sarah Silverman) burst into a room full of Disney princesses shows off the company’s Disney/Marvel/Star Wars crossover potential, and the plot is about the potential of toxic masculinity to destroy the world. |
| ‘Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese’Starts streaming: June 12 | ‘Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese’Starts streaming: June 12 |
| Between the fall of 1975 and the spring of 1976, Bob Dylan embarked on a two-leg, 57-date tour called the Rolling Thunder Revue, in which he and a rotating cast of musical guests played in cities and venues much smaller and more intimate than his stardom afforded. The tour was extensively documented at the time, and now the director Martin Scorsese, who made the definitive Dylan doc “No Direction Home” in 2005, has assembled the footage into a concert film that doubles as a piece of cultural and political history. The project brings Scorsese back to his landmark concert film “The Last Waltz,” in which Dylan made his only musical appearance in the 21 months after the Rolling Thunder Revue concluded. | Between the fall of 1975 and the spring of 1976, Bob Dylan embarked on a two-leg, 57-date tour called the Rolling Thunder Revue, in which he and a rotating cast of musical guests played in cities and venues much smaller and more intimate than his stardom afforded. The tour was extensively documented at the time, and now the director Martin Scorsese, who made the definitive Dylan doc “No Direction Home” in 2005, has assembled the footage into a concert film that doubles as a piece of cultural and political history. The project brings Scorsese back to his landmark concert film “The Last Waltz,” in which Dylan made his only musical appearance in the 21 months after the Rolling Thunder Revue concluded. |
| ‘Murder Mystery’Starts streaming: June 14 | ‘Murder Mystery’Starts streaming: June 14 |
| The last time Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston teamed up, in the 2011 rom-com “Just Go With It,” they brushed off terrible reviews en route to over $200 million at the box office. Large viewing numbers are assured for “Murder Mystery,” their first Netflix pairing, and it’s worth hoping that the quality will improve this time around. Set during a European vacation, the film stars Sandler as a New York police officer and Aniston as his mystery novel-obsessed wife, whose fixation pays off after there’s a murder on a yacht and the couple tries to rebuff suspicion by figuring out whodunit. The writer James Vanderbilt (“Zodiac”) seems to be doing a play on Agatha Christie’s “Death on the Nile,” but “Murder Mystery” opens up into a more wide-open comic adventure across the Continent. | The last time Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston teamed up, in the 2011 rom-com “Just Go With It,” they brushed off terrible reviews en route to over $200 million at the box office. Large viewing numbers are assured for “Murder Mystery,” their first Netflix pairing, and it’s worth hoping that the quality will improve this time around. Set during a European vacation, the film stars Sandler as a New York police officer and Aniston as his mystery novel-obsessed wife, whose fixation pays off after there’s a murder on a yacht and the couple tries to rebuff suspicion by figuring out whodunit. The writer James Vanderbilt (“Zodiac”) seems to be doing a play on Agatha Christie’s “Death on the Nile,” but “Murder Mystery” opens up into a more wide-open comic adventure across the Continent. |
| ‘Beats’Starts streaming: June 19 | ‘Beats’Starts streaming: June 19 |
| Last year, Netflix released “The Kindergarten Teacher,” a troubling drama featuring Maggie Gyllenhaal as a Staten Island teacher who identifies one of her students as a poetry prodigy and goes to great lengths to introduce his talent to the wider world. The new film “Beats” has a similar premise, with Anthony Anderson starring as a high school guard and former music manager who takes an agoraphobic hip-hop savant (Khalil Everage) under his wing, but appears to take it in a more inspirational direction. Shot on location on Chicago’s South Side, “Beats” celebrates a teenager’s musical talents while reflecting on the lasting trauma of a violent tragedy in his past. | Last year, Netflix released “The Kindergarten Teacher,” a troubling drama featuring Maggie Gyllenhaal as a Staten Island teacher who identifies one of her students as a poetry prodigy and goes to great lengths to introduce his talent to the wider world. The new film “Beats” has a similar premise, with Anthony Anderson starring as a high school guard and former music manager who takes an agoraphobic hip-hop savant (Khalil Everage) under his wing, but appears to take it in a more inspirational direction. Shot on location on Chicago’s South Side, “Beats” celebrates a teenager’s musical talents while reflecting on the lasting trauma of a violent tragedy in his past. |
| ‘The Edge of Democracy’Starts streaming: June 19 | ‘The Edge of Democracy’Starts streaming: June 19 |
| Anyone curious about how Brazil came to elect its current far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, will find some context in Petra Costa’s widely admired documentary “The Edge of Democracy,” which ties the country’s volatile politics to institutional rot and the meddling of Western superpowers. The film starts with the rise of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (popularly known simply as Lula), a former steelworker and activist who won the presidency in 2002 and sought to lift working-class Brazilians out of poverty. His successor, Dilma Rousseff, ran into trouble when sensationalized reports of corruption started finding their way into the mainstream. Costa contends that the forces behind Rousseff’s political demise are a threat to Brazil’s fragile democracy. | Anyone curious about how Brazil came to elect its current far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, will find some context in Petra Costa’s widely admired documentary “The Edge of Democracy,” which ties the country’s volatile politics to institutional rot and the meddling of Western superpowers. The film starts with the rise of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (popularly known simply as Lula), a former steelworker and activist who won the presidency in 2002 and sought to lift working-class Brazilians out of poverty. His successor, Dilma Rousseff, ran into trouble when sensationalized reports of corruption started finding their way into the mainstream. Costa contends that the forces behind Rousseff’s political demise are a threat to Brazil’s fragile democracy. |
| ‘Le Chant du Loup’Starts streaming: June 20 | ‘Le Chant du Loup’Starts streaming: June 20 |
| Submarine thrillers are a reliable source of exploitable tensions: men in close quarters, depth charges dropped from above, the crushing squeeze of water pressure from below. In France’s $23 million contribution to the subgenre that has brought us “Das Boot” and “The Hunt for Red October,” the focus is on barely perceptible signs of trouble. “Le Chant du Loup,” which translates as “The Wolf’s Call,” descends inside a French attack sub assigned with rescuing a special forces unit off the Syrian coast. The success of the mission relies heavily on a “golden ear” (Francois Civil) whose job is to listen closely to sonar to determine the specific pings that might foretell their doom. | Submarine thrillers are a reliable source of exploitable tensions: men in close quarters, depth charges dropped from above, the crushing squeeze of water pressure from below. In France’s $23 million contribution to the subgenre that has brought us “Das Boot” and “The Hunt for Red October,” the focus is on barely perceptible signs of trouble. “Le Chant du Loup,” which translates as “The Wolf’s Call,” descends inside a French attack sub assigned with rescuing a special forces unit off the Syrian coast. The success of the mission relies heavily on a “golden ear” (Francois Civil) whose job is to listen closely to sonar to determine the specific pings that might foretell their doom. |
| ‘Black Mirror’: Season 5Starts streaming: June 5 | ‘Black Mirror’: Season 5Starts streaming: June 5 |
| Binge-watching Charlie Brooker’s science fiction series has become a Netflix tradition, even as the quality of his tech-dystopian anthology has gradually dipped to the wrong side of “varied.” The fifth season consists of only three episodes, each with recognizable faces in the lead: “Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too” casts Miley Cyrus as a singer and the voice of a cute companion robot that takes on an insidious life of its own. “Striking Vipers” stars Anthony Mackie and Nicole Beharie as a couple whose efforts to start a family are undermined by Mackie’s character’s furtive use of reality-altering nodes he attaches to his temples. “Smithereens,” with Andrew Scott and Topher Grace, toys with the idea of GPS and other navigational technology punishing people for their reliance on it. | Binge-watching Charlie Brooker’s science fiction series has become a Netflix tradition, even as the quality of his tech-dystopian anthology has gradually dipped to the wrong side of “varied.” The fifth season consists of only three episodes, each with recognizable faces in the lead: “Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too” casts Miley Cyrus as a singer and the voice of a cute companion robot that takes on an insidious life of its own. “Striking Vipers” stars Anthony Mackie and Nicole Beharie as a couple whose efforts to start a family are undermined by Mackie’s character’s furtive use of reality-altering nodes he attaches to his temples. “Smithereens,” with Andrew Scott and Topher Grace, toys with the idea of GPS and other navigational technology punishing people for their reliance on it. |
| ‘The Chef Show’Starts streaming: June 7 | ‘The Chef Show’Starts streaming: June 7 |
| Good food and conversation have been continuing passions for Jon Favreau, from his IFC round-table show “Dinner for Five” to his 2014 comedy-drama “Chef,” in which he starred as a culinary wizard who gives up his post at a popular Los Angeles restaurant to open a humble food truck with his son. The celebrity chef Roy Choi served as Favreau’s mentor on “Chef,” and now the two have teamed up again for “The Chef Show,” which travels to dining spots across the country and brings in some of Favreau’s many friends in the entertainment industry. Several members of Favreau’s Marvel family make an appearance, including Gwyneth Paltrow, Robert Downey Jr., Tom Holland and Kevin Feige, and the ubiquitous David Chang pops in for a cameo, too. | Good food and conversation have been continuing passions for Jon Favreau, from his IFC round-table show “Dinner for Five” to his 2014 comedy-drama “Chef,” in which he starred as a culinary wizard who gives up his post at a popular Los Angeles restaurant to open a humble food truck with his son. The celebrity chef Roy Choi served as Favreau’s mentor on “Chef,” and now the two have teamed up again for “The Chef Show,” which travels to dining spots across the country and brings in some of Favreau’s many friends in the entertainment industry. Several members of Favreau’s Marvel family make an appearance, including Gwyneth Paltrow, Robert Downey Jr., Tom Holland and Kevin Feige, and the ubiquitous David Chang pops in for a cameo, too. |
| ‘Tales of the City’Starts streaming: June 7 | ‘Tales of the City’Starts streaming: June 7 |
| Armistead Maupin’s “Tales of the City” novels were adapted into a television mini-series 26 years ago and proved to be a minor sensation for PBS, bolstered by controversy over the show’s explicitness and notions of unconventional families. Now Netflix has brought back three of the original cast members — Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis and Paul Gross — for a 10-episode sequel that brings Mary Ann (Linney) back to 28 Barbary Lane in San Francisco, where Anna Madrigal (Dukakis) presides over a bustling queer community. Ellen Page has the lead role as Mary Ann’s daughter, and L.G.B.T.Q. perspectives are represented on both sides of the camera, all following the lead of the show runner Lauren Morelli, one of the main writers on “Orange Is the New Black.” | Armistead Maupin’s “Tales of the City” novels were adapted into a television mini-series 26 years ago and proved to be a minor sensation for PBS, bolstered by controversy over the show’s explicitness and notions of unconventional families. Now Netflix has brought back three of the original cast members — Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis and Paul Gross — for a 10-episode sequel that brings Mary Ann (Linney) back to 28 Barbary Lane in San Francisco, where Anna Madrigal (Dukakis) presides over a bustling queer community. Ellen Page has the lead role as Mary Ann’s daughter, and L.G.B.T.Q. perspectives are represented on both sides of the camera, all following the lead of the show runner Lauren Morelli, one of the main writers on “Orange Is the New Black.” |
| ‘The Alcàsser Murders’Starts streaming: June 14 | ‘The Alcàsser Murders’Starts streaming: June 14 |
| Netflix’s latest foray into true-crime documentary explores a 1992 crime so notorious in Spain that a monument to the victims can be visited in Valencia. Miriam García Iborra, Antonia (Toñi) Gómez Rodríguez and Desirée Hernández Folch are commonly known as the “Alcàsser Girls,” three teenagers who were kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered while trying to hitchhike to a nightclub. The four-episode documentary “The Alcàsser Murders” goes into the details of the crime, the botched (and still incomplete) investigation and its questionable treatment by the media. It has been over 25 years since this unsolved mystery began, and the series looks to offer some perspective that wasn’t possible at the time. | Netflix’s latest foray into true-crime documentary explores a 1992 crime so notorious in Spain that a monument to the victims can be visited in Valencia. Miriam García Iborra, Antonia (Toñi) Gómez Rodríguez and Desirée Hernández Folch are commonly known as the “Alcàsser Girls,” three teenagers who were kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered while trying to hitchhike to a nightclub. The four-episode documentary “The Alcàsser Murders” goes into the details of the crime, the botched (and still incomplete) investigation and its questionable treatment by the media. It has been over 25 years since this unsolved mystery began, and the series looks to offer some perspective that wasn’t possible at the time. |
| Also of interest: “Apocalypse Now” (June 1), “Inception” (June 1), “Jurassic Park” (June 1), “Do the Right Thing” (June 5), “Vertigo” (June 5), “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (June 9), “Awake: The Million Dollar Game” (June 14), “Charité at War” (June 14), “Bolívar” (June 21), “The Avengers” (June 22). | Also of interest: “Apocalypse Now” (June 1), “Inception” (June 1), “Jurassic Park” (June 1), “Do the Right Thing” (June 5), “Vertigo” (June 5), “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (June 9), “Awake: The Million Dollar Game” (June 14), “Charité at War” (June 14), “Bolívar” (June 21), “The Avengers” (June 22). |