ON THE BASIS OF SEX (2018) Stream on Showtime and Sling TV; Rent on Amazon, Google Play, Vudu and YouTube. “This is, almost literally, the story of how Ginsburg found her voice,” A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The Times. Directed by Mimi Leder, the film stars Felicity Jones as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court Justice. Rather than reciting Ginsburg’s biography, Leder focuses on the first sex-discrimination case she argued in federal court in the early 1970s, and on the development of a legal strategy to challenge injustices so deeply ingrained as to seem perfectly natural.Armie Hammer plays Marty, the ultimately supportive husband, and Cailee Spaeny is their inquisitive daughter, Jane; both help and challenge Ginsburg, who is dealing with her own experiences of sexism in day-to-day life.

CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (1968) Stream on Netflix; Rent on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube. This musical film adaptation of Ian Fleming’s 1964 fantasy novel is, at its core, deeply strange and perfectly crafted for children. It stars Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts, a widowed inventor who creates a magical car — Chitty Chitty Bang Bang — that can float and fly. Renata Adler wrote in her review for The Times that the movie contains “the joys of singing together on a team bus on the way to a game.” It has everything from a number about candy, to an evil villain who snatches children, to a screenplay by Roald Dahl and Ken Hughes. Potts, his two children, and a beautiful woman named Truly Scrumptious brave it all with their “fine, four-fendered friend.”