Stream These 8 Titles Before They Leave Netflix in March

There’s a fascinatingly wide array of big titles leaving Netflix in the United States in March — everything from kiddie cartoons to star-heavy dramas to action extravaganzas. (Dates indicate the final day a title is available.)

‘Bee Movie’ (March 1)

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You can’t accuse Jerry Seinfeld of embarking on a traditional career in the years since his eponymous sitcom concluded in 1998. He remains one of the most reliably excellent stand-up comedians in the game, but he has resisted the surely tempting follow-ups: doing another conventional television series (he created and hosts the laid-back shoptalk talk show “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee”) or making a “Seinfeld”-style movie.

Instead, he co-wrote, produced and voiced the lead role in this animated family comedy, starring as Barry B. Benson, a honeybee who mounts a lawsuit against the entire human race. Little kids will love it, adults will get a kick out of the celebrity voice actors (including Matthew Broderick, John Goodman, Chris Rock, Rip Torn, Patrick Warburton, Oprah Winfrey and Renée Zellweger) and everyone in between will enjoy it ironically.

‘This Is Where I Leave You’ (March 1)

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This adaptation of Jonathan Tropper’s best seller boasts one of the most impressive ensemble casts of the mid-aughts: Jason Bateman stars as a beleaguered yuppie whose father has just died; Adam Driver, Tina Fey and Corey Stoll are his siblings; Jane Fonda is their mother; and Connie Britton, Rose Byrne, Kathryn Hahn and Timothy Olyphant turn up as romantic interests past and present. All are brought together, at the deceased patriarch’s request, to sit shiva for a backbreaking seven days. Hilarity and high tension ensue. The director Shawn Levy has some trouble keeping a consistent pace and tone, but the skill of the cast pulls the film through the rougher spots, and the familial dynamics are relatable to the point of occasional discomfort.

‘Get On Up’ (March 16)

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The current vogue of jukebox biopics shows no sign of slowing, thanks to the impressive grosses of films like “Bob Marley: One Love,” even though most of these dramas are still trafficking in tropes that should have been decimated by the pitch-perfect satire of “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” a decade and a half ago. But credit where due: Tate Taylor’s biopic about the “Godfather of Soul,” the hardest-working man in show business, the one and only James Brown, zigs where most of these movies would zag. The inventive screenplay by Jez and John-Henry Butterworth hopscotches through his life, eschewing the cradle-to-grave march of so many biopics for a more stream-of-consciousness approach, with Brown frequently breaking the fourth wall to address his audience (and comment on the action) directly. There are some telling erasures, personally and politically, but the picture moves fast, and is loaded with great songs (Mick Jagger is a producer of both the film and its music). Also top-notch is its ensemble cast, including Dan Aykroyd, Nelsan Ellis, Craig Robinson, Jill Scott and Tate’s “The Help” stars Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, and Chadwick Boseman convincingly fills Brown’s (big, tall) shoes.

‘Savages’ (March 16)

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After a rough run in the early 2000s, the director Oliver Stone took a shot at recapturing some of his “Natural Born Killers” juju with this 2012 adaptation of Don Winslow’s crime novel. It’s not altogether successful — mostly because of the severe lack of charisma and danger from its stars, Taylor Kitsch and Aaron Taylor-Johnson — but Stone keeps things moving at a brisk pace, and gets excellent late-period performances out of three key supporting players: John Travolta, as a cheerfully corrupt D.E.A. agent; Benicio Del Toro, as an utterly amoral enforcer for a Mexican drug cartel; and best of all, Salma Hayek as the head of the cartel, turning her customary purring sexiness into eye-opening menace.