The life list, Which was one of seven new movies and shows released in late March is Netflix’s current most watched movie around the world, but it doesn’t get brilliant reviews.
The Guardian called it a “Too nice Netflix Weepie [that] leaving dry eyes “and assigned only two out of five stars. It is currently sitting with a vicious 44% on the rat tomatoes from the critics, and while Sophia Carson’s performance is widely praised, the critics are not so eager for the film itself – despite the film’s best efforts, many found themselves effortlessly.
It’s a shame because crying is good for you: As the health experts at Harvard point out, “Crying is an important safety valve” and emotional crying-the kind we do at SAD-Film- “releases oxytocin and endogenous opioids, also known as endorphins. These sensor-good chemicals help to mild both physical and emotional pain.”
Like Techradar’s unofficial ‘Queen of Cry’ ‘there is nothing I like better than having a big ugly cry for a song, a show – has anyone else jumped in every single episode of Pitt? – or a movie. And here are three very different Netflix movies that are guaranteed to turn the tears on.
Roma
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RT -Critic Score: 96%
To date, Roma Have won incredible 256 awards all over the world – and it deserves each one of them. Seen in the 1970s Mexico City, Alfonso Cuarón’s beautiful shot film focuses on Cleo, which helps Antonio and Sofía look after their four children and whose life is taking a very unexpected turn. It is a story of families and about love and about deep sadnesses.
Roma is “an epic of tear effect magnificent,” says The Guardian. It’s “exciting, captivating, moving – and just amazing … those who came to see that this movie had better prepared to be emotionally wrapped out”.
“It’s like nothing you’ve ever heard or seen,” Slashfilm says. “Roma is a story of motherhood, complicated by socio -economic boundaries, yet filled to the brim with tragic love. And its tale … is simply masterful.”
Privacy
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RT -Critic Score: 97%
Privacy Isn’t billed like a weepie-it is a comedy drama-but this tale of two Fortysomething New Yorkers’ IVF journey is often quietly devastating, especially if you’ve been through the process yourself: Many online reviewers have written about having a big cry for this movie.
The Guardians Ann Lee chose it as her streaming pearl and explained that “its history of a middle-aged couple in New York struggling to get pregnant-inspired by author and director Tamara Jenkins’ own experiences-is really authentic. It is an intimate and unclear look at pain and heartache of infertility that is deeply included and at times.” And the New York Times [paywall] Described it brilliantly: “Someone once said that life is what happens while you make other plans. This movie is about the plans that happen while trying to make another life.”
If something happens I love you
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RT -Critic Score: 100%
If something happens I love you is just twelve minutes long but you cry much longer.
This one comes with a wealth of trigger alerts because it is about a very violent event.
This beautiful, Oscar-winning animated short is “a bold, heartbreaking tale of grief that asks unpleasant questions about the reality of business America,” flickering myth, while the decision says “If something happens I love you a stunner, a true heartache.”
