What’s new on VOD and streaming this weekend: April 9-11
Including Nomadland, Sugar Daddy, The Nevers, Held and Exterminate All The Brutes By Kevin Ritchie and Norman Wilner
Apr 9, 2021
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OW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of April 9. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
Sugar Daddy
(Wendy Morgan)
NOW named Kelly McCormack one of Canada’s rising screen stars in 2019. Watch Sugar Daddy and you’ll see why: Morgan’s slightly stylized, emotionally charged drama stars the Letterkenny and Killjoys scene-stealer – most recently seen as an unwelcome guest in Ginny & Georgia – as a struggling musician who joins an agency that provides “paid dinner companions” to older men who don’t want emotional attachments, or anything further. Naturally, the reality of it turns out to be a little more complicated. McCormack wrote and produced the film, and does her own singing, but Sugar Daddy’s not just a showcase for her
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In âQuo Vadis, Aida?,â a final horror in a century filled with horror
An Oscar nominee for best international picture, the film set in Bosnia in 1995 combines the intensity of a thriller with the force of tragic drama
By Ty Burr Globe Staff,Updated March 17, 2021, 12:50 p.m.
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Jasna Djuricic in Quo Vadis, Aida? Super LTD
âQuo Vadis, Aida?â has the narrative beats and the intensity of a classic thriller: a cornered protagonist, an implacable villain, a breathless pace, hairâs-breadth escapes. The difference is that the setting is the Bosnian city of Srebrenica in July 1995, and everything here actually happened. That turns Jasmila Zbanicâs film from entertainment to tragic drama â a white-knuckle portrayal of one womanâs resourcefulness in the face of bureaucratic inertia and certain death. Recently nominated for this yearâs international film Oscar and available at the Kendall Square theater and some online platfor
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In "Quo Vadis, Aida?," Jasmila Zbanic s swift and shattering movie about the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, a woman climbs onto a small structure and stares out over a barbed-wire fence into