The Best Movies on Netflix Right Now

Netflix is a great place to enjoy a film that might’ve flown under your radar and isn’t perfect but has a number of amazing moments. That sentence describes Neil Jordan‘s visually arresting but chillily distant return to the vampire genre (Interview with the Vampire), Byzantium. Told from the viewpoint of a forever young vampire (Saoirse Ronan)—who only preys on those already at death’s door—she writes about her vampire mother (Gemma Arterton) as half tragic, half inspiring, because she’s a woman who’s never been able to evolve beyond the world’s oldest profession (selling her body), but who also chose to become a vampiric being when that was reserved solely for men. Jordan’s film is eerie, feminist, and a bit meandering. What Jordan excels at with Byzantium is elaborately displaying blood—from decapitations, waterfalls, and bandages—with a can’t-look-away voyeurism POV. Blood has never looked so enticing—nor has the vampire’s desire to feast and bathe in it—than in this film. – Brian Formo