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Let's be honest. When movies leave your favorite streamer, some of them will be missed more than others – so when Rappin ' leaves Prime Video in just under a week from now, there probably won't be people openly crying in the streets. But while you can probably live without Mario Van Peebles showing his neighbors "how to drive out riffraff with rap music", there are some real gems leaving Prime Video at the end of this month and there are three in particular I think are must-watch movies. For my picks this week I've tried to cover a wide range of movies, and I think it's fair to say that other than their impressive Rotten Tomatoes ratings these films don't exactly have much in common: there aren't many killer clowns in the literary biopic Capote or the urgent, suspenseful The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. But all three movies are guaranteed to entertain, albeit in very different ways. Capote Philip Seymour Hoffman is superb as the titular writer, and this dramatization of real events follows Truman Capote as he investigates the murder of a Kansas family. The big-city writer travels to small-town America with his friend, Harper Lee, and his research into the case and the friendship he forms with one of the killers lead to the creation of one of the classics of American literature, 1965's In Cold Blood. The movie has a very high 89% rating from the Rotten Tomatoes critic roundup, and it comes with high praise from The New York Review of Books : " Capote is the only movie I know of that comes close to suggesting successfully what the complex process of creating a literary work actually looks like." The Village Voice rated it too (no link available), saying: " Capote is a cool and polished hall of mirrors reflecting the ways in which Truman Capote came to write (and be written by) In Cold Blood." And Empire gave the movie the full five stars. It's "an outstanding film, anchored by a great central performance." Terrifier 2 This is unlikely to appear in a double bill with Capote, but Damien Leone's slasher sequel has a whopping 87% rating from critics with strong stomachs. Once again Art the Clown targets teenagers in a small town, and over its two-plus hours the film delivers a stylish and genuinely frightening horror story. This is not a movie for the faint hearted. "Skip dinner before you watch," LA Weekly recommends, "and maybe shower and then go do something nice for humanity afterward?" And HorrorBuzz was cautious in its praise, saying: "Mae West was once quoted as saying, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!'. Here it depends entirely on how you felt about the first Terrifier." But even Common Sense Media was won over. "The heinous Art the Clown returns in this intensely gory sequel that tries much harder – and is much smarter – than the original movie." The Taking of Pelham One Two Three This classic thriller was remade, largely unsuccessfully, as a Denzel Washington vehicle in 2009. But the one you want is the 1974 original starring Wa
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