ose Glass’ directorial debut, SAINT MAUD, which she also wrote, is superb. The weight of God, faith, doubt and the Devil are brought to bear on a vulnerable and disturbed, pious twenty-something nurse.
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Darren Starr’s new series, EMILY IN PARIS, is lightweight and breezy, chock-full of clichés and with zero believability, yet entertaining and good to look at. Lily Collins is a young out-of-her-depth assistant, who has to go to Paris in lieu of her boss, played by Kate Walsh, to help an esteemed French marketing company with its social media campaigns.
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I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS is Charlie Kaufman’s new film, on Netflix. It’s based on an elliptical, awkward novel by Iain Reid. Kaufman has turned in an elliptical, awkward film that is beautiful and extraordinary.
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ENOLA HOLMES on Netflix is a treat! Delightful, whip smart, and carrying a lightness of touch that belies the hard work behind it.
Millie Bobby Brown and Helena Bonham Carter excel as the daughter and mother pulled apart by the politics of the times.
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THE NEW MUTANTS. I rather enjoyed it. It got such poor reviews from critics and comics fans, my expectations were low, but if you can separate it from the comics and treat it as its own thing: a film that tries to give a contemporary X-Men story a Mike Flanagan horror treatment, then you can enjoy a half-decent low-key provisionally spooky movie that feels like a pilot episode for a Netflix series (which I’d happily watch).
Two excellent documentaries on Netflix, both trending at the moment. Both are the right length, one at sixteen minutes, one at thirty-nine; both are about friendship, obsession and drive, and finding what it is in the world that defines you.
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THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON is a 2019 film about an illegal fisherman-thief, Tyler (Shia LaBeouf), and a young man with Down's syndrome, Zak (Zack Gottsagen), who go on the run together.
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MIDDLEDITCH & SCHWARTZ is essentially three fifty-minute improv shows starring Silicon Valley's Thomas Middleditch and Parks & Rec's Ben Schwartz.
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Guy Ritchie returns to his madcap gangster roots with this movie starring Matthew mcconaughey, Hugh Grant, Colin Farrell and Michelle Dockery.