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What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend: December 18 to 22 Including Thomas Vinterberg s Another Round, Adam Brody in The Kid Detective, and the time-loop comedy Palm Springs by Norman Wilner on December 18th, 2020 at 10:30 PM 1 of 4 2 of 4 Our critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of December 18. And list everything new to VOD and streaming platforms. Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg) Director and co-writer Thomas Vinterberg’s latest reunites him with Mads Mikkelsen for a film slightly looser but no less unforgiving than their last collaboration, 2012’s Another Round casts Mikkelsen, Lars Ranthe, Magnus Millang, and Vinterberg mainstay Thomas Bo Larsen as high-school teachers who embark on a radical experiment: would their careers and relationships be better if they maintained a minimum blood-alcohol level of 0.05? The answer may not surprise anyone, but the path to it is both very funny and very grim, w ....
This article originally appeared on Variety. Back in 1995, in the midst of cinema s brief fixation with Jane Austen, director Roger Michell made the definitive film of Persuasion : as literate and elegant as it was underestimated upon release. That same year, Amy Heckerling set the bar for modernized Austen adaptations with her lithely funny and era-defining Emma riff Clueless. A quarter-century later, the straightforwardly titled Modern Persuasion falls some way short of either benchmark. Refashioning Austen s bittersweet final novel about love surmounting prickly English class politics as a peppy romantic comedy of missed connections among the moneyed New York media set, Alex Appel and Jonathan Lisecki s film is both too innocuous and too flatly imagined to stir much feeling either way. ....
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Also, more from Whistler, Chinese history redux, Jane Austen updated and a video games romp. The pandemic has shut down so much, you’d think by now there’d be a slowdown in new movies arriving. For instance, a popular theatre in Ottawa, the ByTowne Cinema, is shutting down for good because of it. But on the streaming sites, the new titles keep coming. Add in the festivals that have gone online, and you’ve got so much to check out. Right now, there’s a small festival of Turkish films, and the Whistler Film Festival is still going, too. It’s adding new films until Sunday and then leaving everything up for streaming until the end of the month. ....
Mads Mikkelsen (centre) will drink to anything in Another Round. NOW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of December 18. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms. Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg) Director/co-writer Vinterberg’s latest reunites him with Mads Mikkelsen for a film slightly looser but no less unforgiving than their last collaboration, 2012’s The Hunt. Another Round casts Mikkelsen, Lars Ranthe, Magnus Millang and Vinterberg mainstay Thomas Bo Larsen as high-school teachers who embark on a radical experiment: would their careers and relationships be better if they maintained a minimum blood-alcohol level of 0.05? The answer may not surprise anyone, but the path to it is both very funny and very grim, with the quartet adapting to their state of constant inebriation with varying levels of success. Vinterberg is an old hand at spinning awkward human moments into explosive comedy or soul-freezing dread, as the situ ....