What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend
Including reviews of Judas And The Black Messiah, Cowboys, The Map Of Tiny Perfect Things and Saint Maud By Norman Wilner
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OW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of February 12. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
Judas And The Black Messiah
(Shaka- King)
In less skilful hands, Judas And The Black Messiah could play like hollow Oscar bait, a tragedy of Black lives manipulated by cynical white authority in a less enlightened time. Instead, director/co-writer King’s powerhouse drama about the complicity of FBI informant William O’Neal in the 1969 murder of Black Panthers community organizer Fred Hampton keeps subtly drawing parallels to the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement, showing us how little has changed in the ensuing half-century. The film has a nervous, contemporary feel, every scene carrying an immediacy that threatens to punch through the period setting. And t
OUR FRIEND: 3 ½ STARS Magazines may be becoming an artifact of the past, but Hollywood still looks to them for inspiration. In the last few years a half dozen movies found inspiration in the pages of Esquire, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, including The Friend, a new drama starring Dakota Johnson, Casey Affleck and Jason Segel and now playing in theatres and on-demand. Based on Matthew Teague s Esquire article The Friend: Love Is Not a Big Enough Word, the film uses a broken timeline, jumping back-and-forth to tell the true story of Teague s terminally ill wife Nicole and their friend-turned-nursemaid Dane. Affleck is Matt, a war correspondent with an attitude. It s Friday, says his editor, I ve been tired of you since Wednesday. He s an up-and-comer, married to Nicole, a talented musical theatre performer played by Johnson. Her best pal at the theatre is Dane (Segel) a sad sack who can t seem to get a girlfriend. It s not fair, she says. I m the only woman
Action, Thriller
While picking his son Shawn (Jack Griffo) up from college, Secret Service Agent Vic Davis (Ryan Phillippe) meets Shawn s college friend, Erin Walton (Lexi Simonsen), the daughter of Supreme Court Justice Walton. She s being picked up by a new driver (Casper Van Dien), but has to run back inside the empty school to get her laptop. Feeling suspicious, Vic follows her and suggests she call her father to confirm the new driver s identity.
Suddenly, they find themselves in the middle of a high stakes terrorist operation, surrounded by gunfire. Vic has to use his skills to combat the armed and highly trained faction to stop them from kidnapping Erin.
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When a new driver arrives to pick up Erin Walton the daughter of Supreme Court Justice Walton from college, her friend s father, Secret Service Agent Vic Davis (Ryan Phillippe), is suspicious. He asks Erin (Lexi Simonsen) to call her father to verify that a new driver was sent. They soon find themselves in the middle of a high stakes terrorist operation during which Erin was meant to be kidnapped.
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