HBO Max to Remove 50 Movies In 8 Days: The 3 to Watch Before They Leave

By Phillip Swann
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HBO Max plans to remove 50 movies after December 31, 2025. Here are the three to watch before they leave, in my humble opinion:

Pearl An X-traordinary Origin Story (2022)
Mia Goth stars as an unhinged young woman whose unrelenting ambition to become a movie star leads to a bloodbath on a Texas farm in 1918. Pearl, a prequel to director Ti West’s X may be the superior film here with Goth delivering one of the best and hypnotic performances of the decade. (Martin Scorsese calls Pearl “mesmerizing” and, as usual, he is right.)

Gone Girl (2014)
Gone Girl is the brilliant 2014 film from director David Fincher about a wife (Rosamund Pike) who fakes her disappearance to frame her philandering husband (Ben Affleck). No one does the dark side of humanity better than David Fincher and his exceptional skills are on full display here. And Pike is captivating as the damsel in distress.

Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Bradley Cooper (pictured above with Jennifer Lawrence) shines in this David O. Russell comedy/drama film as a bipolar teacher named Pat who loses his grip on reality after seeing his wife having sex with a fellow teacher. Once out of a mental institution, Pat attempts to rebuild his life but is soon thrown a curve by a curvaceous young widow (Jennifer Lawrence) whose hold on reality is equally suspect. Cooper and Lawrence are wonderful together in this dysfunctional romcom and Robert De Niro is a hoot as Pat’s mentally uncertain father who lives and dies with the hometown Philadelphia Eagles. Silver Linings Playbook is a great movie that will make you smile, laugh and cry.

50 Movies Leaving HBO Max After December 31, 2025

Mortal Kombat Legends – Cage Match
Edward Scissorhands
Elf
Gremlins
Gone Girl

Justice League Crisis On Infinite Earths
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
The 2000s
Life As We Know It

Four Christmases
A Christmas Story
The Polar Express
The Sixth Sense
A Christmas Carol

The Shop Around the Corner
Amityville Horror
Dangerous Liaisons
Dances With Wolves
Key Largo

Red Dawn
House of Wax (1953)
Get Shorty
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
The Bride of Frankenstein

Pearl
Hereditary
Volunteers
Heaven Help Us
Rick and Morty Yule Log

Happy Feet
Jason Bourne
Hellboy
Better Off Dead
It Comes at Night

It Follows
Insidious Chapter 3
Love & Other Drugs
Save Haven
Marcel: The Shell With Shoes On

Spy Kids
Spy Kids 2
Spy Kids 3
Silver Linings Playbook
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

50 First Dates
Barber Shop
Barber Shop 2
The Big Year
In Time

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