Best movies on Netflix: ‘Money Heist’ documentary, thrilling horror, and more hidden gems

More of my free time lately has been consumed with streaming movies, at the expense of endless TV show binge sessions. It's a function of time, mostly. Or, more specifically, the lack of it. There's a comparatively much less daunting pile of movies that catch my attention at any given moment, compared to the staggering amount of TV content that's always available and ready to stream. Sure, I'll dip my toe in the water from time to time for whatever truly must-watch TV happens to float into my field of view. But otherwise, for now, I'm happy shading myself underneath the palm tree here on my little atoll, in the terrifyingly vast ocean of content, where for me, at least, the living is easy. Thanks, that is, to feature films like the ones you'll find below.

These are my humble recommendations, at any rate, for some of the best movies on Netflix that I've seen recently. "Best" and "recently" both being somewhat elastic words, but I hope that you'll indulge me all the same.