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New movies to stream this week: Roe v. Wade, Every Breath You Take and more Michael O Sullivan, The Washington Post April 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 8 1of8John Schneider, left, and Jon Voight play Supreme Court justices in Roe v. Wade. Quiver DistributionShow MoreShow Less 2of8Matt Smith in Mapplethorpe: The Director s Cut. Samuel Goldwyn FilmsShow MoreShow Less 3of8 6of8 7of8A scene aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in the documentary The Last Cruise. HBOShow MoreShow Less 8of8 Arriving amid controversy and with a chip on its shoulder, the drama Roe v. Wade lands on premium video-on-demand services after premiering at February s Conservative Political Action Conference. Billed as the true story of the landmark 1973 Supreme Court case affirming the right to safe and legal abortion, the film was produced, co-written and co-directed by Nick Loeb, who also plays the film s main character: Bernard Nathanson, bes ....
Two wives are drawn together by an erotic undertow in the ultimately frustrating Affair Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post March 3, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 3of3 An interesting but ultimately frustrating struggle between form and content animates The Affair, an attractive but inert drama set in Czechoslovakia amid the most pivotal events of the 20th century. Hanna Alstrom and Carice van Houten play Liesel and Hana, best friends whose relationship possesses an undeniably erotic undertow, even after they re both married. In Liesel s case, the man in question is Viktor Landauer (Claes Bang), a prosperous auto executive who shares his wife s taste for sleek, modernist lines. They commission a noted German architect to build a low-slung, glass-and-steel house outside the metropolis of Brno. Initially a monument to the optimism and boldness of prewar Europe, the Landauer house goes from being a statement to a family home, as Liesel and Viktor begin to have c ....
Minari is a movie about the immigrant experience that s both universal and surprising Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post Feb. 10, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3From left: Steven Yeun, Alan Kim, Yuh-Jung Youn, Yeri Han and Noel Kate Cho in Minari. Josh Ethan Johnson/A24Show MoreShow Less 2of3Alan Kim and Yuh-Jung Youn in Minari. Melissa Lukenbaugh/A24Show MoreShow Less 3of3 To call Minari uncannily timely almost does it a disservice. This modestly scaled but enormously heartfelt drama touches on any number of so-called hot buttons, including immigration, assimilation, the American Dream and the fluctuations of identity. But it s not about those things. Rather, this is the funny, sad, inspiring and ultimately universal story of how one family experiences displacement and belonging, in ways that never quite line up with conventional expectations. ....
New movies to stream this week: Cowboys, Spoor and moreWrite headline here Michael O Sullivan, The Washington Post Jan. 21, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of15Steve Zahn, right, and Sasha Knight in Cowboys. Samuel Goldwyn FilmsShow MoreShow Less 2of15Agnieszka Mandat-Grabka, left, and Miroslav Krobot in Spoor. Robert Palka/Samuel Goldwyn FilmsShow MoreShow Less 3of15 4of15Mohamad Dalli, left, and Gia Madi in 1982. Mad Dog Films/Tricycle Logic/Abbout ProductionsShow MoreShow Less 5of15Filmmaker Justin McConnell in Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business. Gravitas VenturesShow MoreShow Less 6of15 7of15Dorian Missick, right, and Elimu Nelson in A Cold Hard Truth. Indican PicturesShow MoreShow Less ....