7 New Movies Amazon Prime Video’s January 2022 Best Sellers

It’s easy to feel like there’s nothing left to watch, after getting caught up on everything during the holidays (and something of a deficit when it comes new movies and television shows). Don’t worry! But don’t worry! There are still many classics and catalog favorites that you can enjoy, whether for the first time or for the hundredth.

Below, we’ve assembled a list of the best new movies on Amazon Prime Video in January 2022. All genres are represented, from time travel thrillers to dueling magickals to voodoo in the bayou. There’s certainly something for everybody!

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Eve’s Bayou

Eve's Bayou
Trimark Pictures

One of the very best films of the 1990s and one of the most consistently overlooked (how Criterion hasn’t ponied up for a new restoration and an array of special features is truly baffling), “Eve’s Bayou”You can stream it right now, so don’t miss this chance. Written and directed by the ridiculously talented Kasi Lemmons (as an actor you might remember her as Clarice’s roommate in “The Silence of the Lambs”), “Eve’s Bayou”Share elements with films such as “Atonement,”But with greater detail and deeper mythological implications. Jurnee plays Eve, a young girl in Louisiana’s wealthy African American community. In the 1960s she witnesses her father Samuel L. Jackson having an affair. From there things get very tense within the family, a feeling that is only intensified by the movie’s flourishes of magical realism (yes, there is some voodoo introduced) and the atmospheric score by the great Terence Blanchard. This is the type of movie you’ll watch and think, This is where I have been all my adult life.?

Déjà Vu

Deja Vu
Disney

Did you know that Tony Scott and Denzel Washington made a time-travel thriller (complete with a car chase occurring in two different timelines) almost a decade-and-a-half before Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet,” which starred Washington’s son John David? Well, it’s true! Co-written by “Pirates of the Caribbean”Terry Rossio, scribe “Déjà Vu” concerns the aftermath of a terrorist bombing in New Orleans (this was one of the first big post-Katrina productions in the city) with Washington’s ATF agent being sucked into an experimental government time travel project; initially it’s just surveillance but, of course, Denzel zaps himself to the past to try and prevent the tragedy. Most of the cast, including Adam Goldberg and Val Kilmer as the nerds behind the project, is operating at an 11 (perhaps in an effort to compete with Scott’s gonzo visual aesthetic), with Paula Patton adding some nice emotional nuance as a victim that could be key to the terrorist (Jim Caviezel). “Déjà Vu”This is insanely fun.

Judge Dredd

Judge Dredd
Disney

One of the biggest box office failures of 1995. “Judge Dredd,”This is a tribute to the beloved comic book character, “2000 A.D.,”It is an area that is ready for rediscovery. Sylvester Stallone is the title character. “judge, jury, and executioner”In futuristic Mega-City One, he is accused of murder and sent to the Badlands. He teams up with Rob Schneider, a comic strip character who is a screwball, and makes his way back to the city. There, he must uncover the conspiracy to clear his name. Technically speaking, “Judge Dredd” is pretty unimpeachable – it’s got a sturdy script by William Wisher and Steven E. de Souza, it’s handsomely photographed by Adrian Biddle, and the Alan Silvestri score has some “Batman”-y grandeur. The film’s visual effects were created at a time when digital was becoming more common. They still feel cutting-edge and handcrafted. Is it the best movie? No. It’s not even the best “Judge Dredd” film (that’d be 2012’s “Dredd”). To dismiss it outright is just as criminal.

The Master

7 New Movies Amazon Prime Video's January 2022 Best Sellers
Annapurna/Weinstein Company

With “Licorice Pizza” in theaters now, it’s the perfect time to revisit another Paul Thomas Anderson epic. “The Master,”The Church of Scientology was founded by L. Ron Hubbard, a sci-fi author. It is singularly fascinating. Phillip Seymour Hoffman portrays Lancaster Dodd, who is a man who starts a religious movement called The Cause. Soon a self-destructive drifter (played by Joaquin Phoenix) comes under Dodd’s spell, and the story is really about their relationship, as it ebbs and flows with the foundation of this movement. “The Master” features magical flourishes and is maybe the PTA film most indebted to his love of Jonathan Demme (there are entire sequences lifted directly out of Demme’s masterpiece “Melvin and Howard”). Luxuriously shot in 70mm. Filled with dream logic, and flights of fancy. “The Master” might not be Anderson’s best film (the climax, in particular, shares uncomfortable similarities to “There Will Be Blood”), but like all of his movies, it’s one that you can get endlessly lost in.

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Mission: Impossible 1-4

7 New Movies Amazon Prime Video's January 2022 Best Sellers
Paramount

Sadly, the seventh and eighth installments of Tom Cruise’s grand saga were just delayed once again. But that doesn’t mean you can’t revisit earlier installments in the action-packed franchise. Brian De Palma’s original film is still a masterpiece (and arguably remains the series’ highpoint), full of edge-of-your-seat suspense and simmering sexual energy. It showed that it was possible to adapt an old TV series with style. The sequel, directed by Hong Kong superstar John Woo, falters a little bit; it’s the most tonally dissonant of the series with its turn-of-the-millennium aesthetics and hard rock attitude. But there’s still plenty to love, including some weird gay sexual chemistry between the villains, and Thandiwe Newton commanding every second of screen time. J.J. Abrams is the TV genius who made the first feature film. It sometimes feels like a third movie. Too muchAs a long episode of “Alias,”It is still charming. And “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol,” the live-action debut of animation director Brad Bird, hums with an energy all of its own, adding some much-needed humor and humanity to the franchise, while delivering a sequence that still has yet to be topped: Tom Cruise’s climbing of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. It’s filmmaking that will literally take your breath away.

The Prestige

7 New Movies Amazon Prime Video's January 2022 Best Sellers
Disney/Warner Bros.

Perhaps one of Christopher Nolan’s most underseen movies, and certainly one of his best, “The Prestige”Based on Christopher Priest’s novel, it tells the story about a pair of Victorian magicians who are in a duel. Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale play them. As their rivalry becomes more bitter, it also becomes more dangerous, leading to them reaching uncomfortable extremes. (The twists are just too amazing to share here!) The same time “The Prestige”In theaters, another Victorian magician movie was released. “The Illusionist” starring Edward Norton. It is possible that people were confused. “The Prestige” is a much better, more electric film, and features David Bowie as Nikola Tesla, wonderful supporting performances from Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Michael Caine, and Andy Serkis, and some of the most striking images in Nolan’s grand oeuvre. It’s quite the magic trick.

Unfaithful

Unfaithful
20th Century

Adrian Lyne’s new erotic thriller, the Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas-starring “Deep Water,”Hulu has been delayed and the film will be available later this year. To help fill the gap why not watch one of his earlier classics, 2002’s “Unfaithful”His last feature film was, amazingly. Richard Gere stars alongside Diane Lane as an affluent couple in New York. Lane has an affair with Olivier Martinez. Gere is swindled and hires a private detective. It ends in murder. (You’ll never look at snow globes the same way again.) “Unfaithful”It was a modest success at release, but it has grown in popularity over the years and is now often cited alongside other Lyne classics. “Fatal Attraction” “Flashdance.”This movie is really sexy, and it’s also very touching. It has some heartfelt and moving messages about the sacredness of marriage and the unspoken connection that exists between committed couples.

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