
The streaming giant’s deep, wide bench makes it perhaps the hardest service to pare down to 30 great films, but somehow we found a way. You can watch villains such as No Country for Old Men’s Anton Chigurgh one minute and hopscotch to Gene Wilder’s madcap performance in Young Frankenstein the next.īut you’re not here to celebrate the size of HBO Max’s library.

Discovery holds onto its licensing deals). catalog, as well as hosting Criterion, TCM, and Studio Ghibli (at least for as long as the newly merged Warner Bros. Discovery, HBO Max is still best understood as the streaming service with the richest, densest catalog of classic films, pulling from generations of the Warner Bros. These days, despite the hurdles that come with the newly merged Warner Bros. What’s the identity of HBO Max? Once upon a time, it was where you could stream blockbusters like Dune and The Matrix Resurrections on the same day they landed in theaters, but that era is over.

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