Finding great films outside the streaming front page

For anyone browsing UpdateSee, here is a clear starting point on the subject.

Streaming home pages show what is being promoted, not what is good. Better sources are the lists that film lovers keep themselves: a director's full filmography, a festival's prize winners, a critic whose taste matches yours, or a friend's log of everything they watched this year. Searching by these lists turns a service you thought was empty into a deep library.

Streaming home pages show what is being promoted, not what is good.

Keep your own list too. Note each film in a sentence, including what did not work, and after a few dozen entries patterns appear: a decade, a country or a type of story you keep returning to. Following those threads leads to films you would never have found by scrolling, and the viewing becomes something you choose rather than something that happens to you.