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Five Free Movies to Stream Now
In films like “First Cow” and “Red Rocket” on Tubi, Plex and PlutoTV, you’ll see the arc of a country that bends from opportunity to opportunism.
Parked underneathan overpass, a hit man looks out the window, surveying a bleak American landscape. The nation is, in a word, screwed. “There’s a plague coming,” Jackie (Brad Pitt) declares early on in “Killing Them Softly.”
It’s 2008, and on radios and televisions, a young senator from Illinois is promising a new era of hope in the wake of the rubble from the financial crisis. Hasn’t disaster already struck?
More is yet to come is the 2012 movie’s unsettling premonition. Together, the five entries from this month’s column take stock of how we got here. From the early 1800s to the 2016 election season, from postwar to post-recession trauma, you will see the arc of a country that bends from opportunity to opportunism.
These movies revolve around strongmen and grifters, hit men and con men, and the idea of an American dream that belies perhaps a truer guiding tenet: screw or be screwed. Still, there’s room, if you believe in it, to strive for something else, to look out for one another, to hold people close.
‘First Cow’ (2020)
Stream it on PlutoTV.
