Katerine Savard
While young and in her prime, Nadia decides to retire from pro swimming after the Olympic Games; to escape a rigid life of sacrifice. After her very last race, Nadia drifts into nights of excess punctuated by episodes of self-doubt. But even this transitional numbness cannot conceal her true inner quest: defining her identity outside the world of elite sports.
Including Let Them All Talk, The Wilds, A Suitable Boy, and Wolfwalkers by Norman Wilner on December 11th, 2020 at 9:00 PM 1 of 5 2 of 5
Our critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of December 11, and list everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
A Suitable Boy
(Mira Nair)
Mira Nair’s landmark BBC miniseries is an expensive, elaborate adaptation of Vikram Seth’s 1993 novel, and the first such production to feature an almost entirely South Asian cast. Seth’s tale of people finding their way in a newly partitioned nation is told through the eyes and experiences of Indian characters, rather than from a colonial perspective that exoticizes or marginalizes the locals. Lata (Tanya Maniktala) is a student determined not to let her traditional mother (Mahira Kakkar) choose her husband and therefore her future, while Maan (Ishaan Khatter) whose brother has just married Lata’s sister is rebellious in a different way, embarrassing his politicall
What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend
Including Let Them All Talk, The Wilds, A Suitable Boy and Wolfwalkers By Norman Wilner
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NOW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of December 11. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
Let Them All Talk
(Steven Soderbergh)
Soderbergh and Meryl Streep follow 2019’s The Laundromat with a lighter and considerably less problematic project. Streep plays celebrated author Alice Hughes, who takes the Queen Mary II to pick up a literary prize in England, bringing along her nephew (Lucas Hedges) and two old friends (Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest) – and decades’ worth of baggage. Deborah Eisenberg’s script builds a farcical structure out of everyone’s resentments, jealousies and perceived betrayals, with the lofty Alice fussing at its centre and Bergen fuming at its outer points. Wiest coasts blithely through it all and Hedges fumblingly courts Alice’s agent