Prayer breaks into terror in âSaint Maudâ
By Ty Burr Globe Staff,Updated February 10, 2021, 11:44 a.m.
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Morfydd Clark in Saint Maud. A24 Films via AP
If there were ever a case of a stellar directing debut more poorly treated in the marketplace than âSaint Maud,â Iâd like to hear about it. A startling psychological horror story with a breakout performance by Welsh actress Morfydd Clark, the film was the talk of the 2019 Toronto Film Festival, got snapped up by indie distributor A24, and then saw its theatrical release scotched by the pandemic. It opened in mostly-empty movie houses last month (none in Boston) and finally comes to video on demand this week â exclusively on the EPIX subscription streaming platform. Thus the Balkanization of content prompted by the streaming platform wars punishes audiences and filmmakers alike.
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Nomadland Tops Winners List of 2021 London Critics Circle Film Awards
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The road movie directed by Chloe Zhao dominates the 41st annual London Critics Circle Film Awards by picking up a total of three top honors including Film of the Year. Feb 8, 2021
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Nomadland has cemented its place as Oscars Best Film frontrunner after picking up three top honours at the 41st London Critics Circle Film Awards on Sunday (07Feb21).
The movie claimed the Film of the Year while Zhao took home the Screenwriter of the Year prize and her leading lady,
Frances McDormand, was named Actress of the Year.
Rose Glass’s debut feature is a deeply dark and frequently painful-to-watch horror movie that has one thing on its mind – how the road to fanaticism leads directly to hell