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Every divorce drama plays a little like a horror movie. The bloodshed may be chiefly emotional, but it’s still plenty blood
curdling at least for those less chilled by the roar of a chainsaw than the thought of a whole life you’ve built with another person slowly unraveling.
Separation, which arrives in gradually reopening theaters this weekend, puts a literally supernatural spin on the horror of a shattered union and an ugly custody battle. That’s not a terrible idea in theory. But this bargain-basement thriller approaches both its jack-in-the-box scares and its domestic scenario with the negligence of an unfit parent; it will spook neither the superstitious nor the matrimonially anxious.
Film Shorts // April 28-May 4, 2021
OPENING
Cliff Walkers (NR) This Chinese spy thriller by Zhang Yimou (
Hero) is about a group of agents (Qin Hailu, Yu Hewei, Zhang Yi, and Zhu Yawen) who return to their Japanese-occupied country in the 1930s to find that they’ve been betrayed by persons unknown. Also with Liu Haocun, Li Naiwen, and Ni Dahong. (Opens Friday at AMC Grapevine Mills)
Four Good Days (R) Rodrigo Garcia delivers yet another dull, earnest drama about white people living on the West Coast. Glenn Close stars as a mother who takes in her estranged, opioid-addicted daughter (Mila Kunis, looking emaciated with bleached-blonde hair and blackened teeth) to help her stay clean for four days prior to receiving a shot of naltrexone that will prevent her from getting high. The film doesn’t drag, but every argument in this movie feels like something you’ve heard from a thousand other movies about drug addiction. The performances here aren’t enough to lift the film above t
Four Good Days
About Endlessness Over the course of 20 years, Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson has remained committed to his stylistic gimmick master-shot tableaux of simple situations, often building to absurdist punch lines to the point where it’s not clear what more he might have to say within this framework. Once again, his episodic scenes aren’t really connected to any overarching narrative, though a couple of characters including a minister despairing over his loss of faith do recur at various points. Mostly, however, we have moments in the lives of everyday people, here supplemented with the voice of an omniscient narrator (Jessica Louthander) whose observations at times step on whatever simple emotion might have been found in a bit like a father pausing during a downpour to tie his young daughter’s shoes, or a woman arriving at a train station to find no one waiting for her. At their best, Andersson’s meticulously constructed shots can hit their black-humored
The coronavirus pandemic has had a major impact on the film industry. Movie theaters continue to operate with enhanced health and safety measures, following CDC recommended COVID-19 safety guidelines. Some films are tentatively scheduled for big-screen releases while others will be available digitally via video on demand.
âThe Mitchells vs. The Machinesâ
Genre: Comedy and animation
Cast: Abbi Jacobson, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Mike Rianda, Eric Andre, Olivia Colman, Fred Armisen, Beck Bennett, Chrissy Teigen, John Legend, Charlyne Yi, Conan O Brien, Sasheer Zamata, Elle Mills, Jay Pharoah, Alex Hirsch, and Griffin McElroy
Directors: Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe
Rated: PG
Where to watch Separation: Is the 2021 movie on Netflix, Amazon Prime or HBO Max?
Separation crawls onto screens on April 30th, 2021, but where is the movie available to watch? Is Separation on Netflix, Amazon Prime or HBO Max?
Thanks to a certain pandemic, movie releases have been hugely affected over the past year with many films moving online or having their release dates delayed.
Despite these difficulties, new releases have still come thick and fast and the latest film to star Rupert Friend, Separation, is fast approaching.
But just where will fans be able to watch 2021’s Separation when it releases? Is the creepy horror movie going to be on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max or Hulu?