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Max has you covered this summer if you want to take a day off from sunny days and cool down inside with a good movie. For the month of July, Max is adding over 70 movies to the platform, doubling the titles added in the previous month of June. This includes a handful of DC animated films, seven Saw movies, and the first three Spy Kids movies for those looking for some family viewing.

We have highlighted some choice cuts from the July lineup that you will want to check out, whether first-time views or revisiting these popular titles. We have also listed every movie being added to the platform. Classics, thrillers, chillers, and comedy gold, subscribers to Max will have plenty to enjoy this July.

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Roman Polanski's Chinatown has long been regarded as one of the best...

Chinatown is a masterclass in filmmaking and screenwriting, paying tribute to classic Film Noir with an unforgettable performance by Jack Nicholson. The movie delves into themes of corruption and entitlement, with characters like Noah Cross embodying the greed and evil that plagued 1930s Los Angeles. Despite its timeless quality, some character actions in Chinatown, like Jake's violence towards Evelyn, may not sit well with modern audiences.

The following contains brief discussion of child abuse and sexual assault, including director Roman Polanski's guilty plea for unlawful sexual contact with a minor.

50 years ago, cinema was in a unique position as both an industry and an art form, and Chinatown was a film that bridged two eras of Hollywood. Movies were changing in the '70s thanks in part to the burgeoning New Hollywood movement. Instead of the clean and palatable movies of Hollywood's Golden Age, these new auteur filmmakers told...

Chinatown's dark ending continues to shock audiences with its tragic and ambiguous finale. The movie's storyline is inspired by real events, but the main plot and ending were fictionalized for the sake of the film. Chinatown is a tragedy at heart and explores themes of corruption, futility, and the darkness of human nature.

One of the movies that helped launch Jack Nicholson's career, 1974's Chinatown has a stunningly dark ending that still has the power to shock. Directed by Roman Polanski and written by Robert Towne, Chinatown offers a unique spin on the detective stories of the 1940s, giving it a much darker twist than movies of the era would ever allow. Chinatown was immediately recognized for its greatness and received a slew of accolades, among them an impressive 11 Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture, and was honored as part of the AFI's 100 greatest films list in...

Season 2 of Nic Pizzolatto's HBO series "True Detective" was a frustratingly disjointed affair. It played like the first draft of a James Ellroy L.A. noir: it was emotionally overheated and graphically violent, but the inciting incident and ensuing intrigue never caught fire. The quintet of compromised main characters, who worked in different Los Angeles law enforcement agencies, were fascinating in their own right (save for Taylor Kitsch's overmatched California Highway Patrol officer), but the stakes were strangely un-engaging. Imagine "Chinatown" with Perry Lopez' Lieutenant Lou Escobar getting a full arc to give more oxygen to the Hollis Mulwray investigation from the LAPD's perspective, and that's this season of "True Detective" in a nutshell.

Season 2 was a rough sit, but it had its pleasures. The narrative never locked into place, but the actors punched their weight. Colin Farrell clawed his way through the scarred skin of...

What Matt Reeves initially pitched to Warner Brothers wasn’t a story idea. There was no premise or villain, only an approach. What Reeves promised the studio was he would tell his story in a more emotional and empathetic way than previous Batman films. He would make the story more personal and adapt a more subjective mode of filmmaking, where the audience experienced the film through Batman’s point of view.

The studio knew that Reeves accomplished this empathetic approach to the hero’s journey with the motion-captured gorilla Caesar (Andy Serkis) in Reeves’ two “Planet of the Apes” films. That was enought to make them believe Reeves could be entrusted with its most valuable and beloved piece of IP. But when it came time to time to face the blank page with co-writer Peter Craig, Reeves admits it was more daunting that usual.

“It’s horrifying because there have been great movies.