Max to Remove 55 Movies This Month – Here Are 4 to Watch Before They Leave

By Phillip Swann
The TV Answer Man –Follow me on X.

Max, the streaming service formerly known has HBO Max, this month (December 2024) plans to remove at least 55 movies from its lineup. (Max might announce more removals later in the month.) Here are the four you should definitely watch before they leave, in my humble opinion.

Goodfellas (1990)
Martin Scorsese’s brilliant 1990 mob drama starring Ray Liotta (RIP), Joe Pesci and Robert DeNiro. Ten years earlier, Scorsese made Raging Bull and it seemed improbable then that he could top such a work of art. But he did. Goodfellas has become one of those movies that you can watch over and over and never be bored. Leaving after December 31.

Panic Room (2002)
Jodie Foster stars as a mom who squirrels herself and daughter in their ‘panic room’ when a band of burglars break in. What might seem like a pedestrian storyline from there turns into a taut thriller thanks to director David Fincher’s masterful and meticulous staging and bravura performances from Foster, Kristen Stewart as the daughter and Jared Leto, Forest Whitaker and Dwight Yoakam as the thieves. Leaving after December 31. 

Dirty Harry (1971)
The 1971 police drama stars Clint Eastwood as the no-blinking San Francisco police detective who sometimes forgets his shot-count. More than 50 years later, the film continues to trigger (pun alert) controversy over its apparent endorsement of unlawful behavior by law enforcement. But it’s a great action film that still holds up. Leaving after December 31.

Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
The film, which is based on a real-life story, stars LaKeith Stanfield as Bill O’Neal, an FBI informant who infiltrates the Black Panthers during the 1960s to get incriminatory evidence against its leaders. However, O’Neal soon regrets his mission when his work triggers a controversial homicide of the group’s leader, Fred Hampton, played exceptionally by Daniel Kaluuya. Leaving after December 28.

List of Movies Leaving Max In December 2024

Leaving After December 14
The Little Things

Leaving After December 19
Bodies, Bodies, Bodies

Leaving After December 28
Judas and the Black Messiah

Leaving After December 31
Goodfellas
It Comes at Night
Meet Me in St. Louis
Brokeback Mountain
Gremlins

Dirty Harry
Amelie
The Company You Keep
Jurassic Park
Evil Dead Rise

Gremlins 2
The Death of Superman
Jurassic Park: The Lost World
Grown Ups 2
Grown Up

They
Saw
A Return to Salem’s Lot
17 Again
Unbreakable

Into the Blue
Panic Room
Cyrus
Sweet Dreams
Beowulf

The Hitcher
Blind Sided
Attack the Block
21 & Over
As Good As It Gets

Babe
The Full Monty
The Smurfs
Richochet
Saw III

Mortal Kombat
West Side Story (1960)
Saw VI
Saw II
Anaconda

Bandits
Into the Blue 2
Static Shock
The Sixth Sense
Saw IV

Saw V
Switch
Collision Course
Head Office
Spirited Away

National Velvet
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