Skip or stream: ‘Truffle Hunters,’ ‘Tom & Jerry,’ ‘Billie Holiday,’ ‘Tiny Perfect Things’
Dana Barbuto
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Need something to do while repeatedly hitting refresh on the COVID-vaccination website? Try taking one of these new streaming flicks for a spin. They include a quirky documentary, a music biopic, a modern update to a beloved cartoon and a teen time-loop movie. Skip or stream? Read on and find out.
“THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY:” Andra Day’s Golden Globe-winning performance is the lone reason to check out director Lee Daniel’s chronicling of the FBI’s harassment of the legendary singer as she repeatedly battles her dependence on heroin. Day dazzles, oscillating between blues diva crooning standards like “All of Me” to smack junkie to civil rights activist. It’s a big ask and Day answers, but her great performance is stuck in a middling movie born of a muddled script by playwright Suzan-Lori Park culled from Johann Hari’s
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Although Groundhog Day is the most notable example, the time loop story is its own genre by this point. There are time loop episodes of Agents of SHIELD, Star Trek, movies like Edge of Tomorrow, the recent (very fantastic) Palm Springs and a whole bunch more. The latest entry in the time loop genre is The Map of Tiny Perfect Things and while two time loopers falling in love is very similar to Palm Springs, it’s sort of a mash-up of Groundhog Day and the young people walk and talk philosophically about life of Before Sunrise. There are bits where this movie seems a bit too enamoured of its concept of finding perfect moments, but it provides some cool twists in the time loop genre and the chemistry of the two leads carries a lot.