Weekly Digest
What to Watch: Outsider Art Edition
Reviews of "Hundreds of Beavers," "Sasquatch Sunset," Cindy Lee's double album "Diamond Jubilee" and more.
Support Your Local Film Festival (2024 Edition)
12 Movies to Watch at the 21st Annual Independent Film Festival of Boston
Two Good Films: "The Act of Killing"/"The Look of Silence"
Joshua Oppenheimer's Oscar-nominated documentaries -- two of the most audacious films ever made about genocide -- come to Netflix.
What to Watch: "Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill"
A new doc about a haunted and haunting singer-songwriter; plus reviews of "The Beast," "The Invisible Extinction," "La Chimera" and "The Greatest Hits"
Who's the Next Brando? Nobody.
Intuitive and intense, Marlon Brando rewrote the rules of acting and inspired generations of imitators. Where did they go?
What to Watch: "Ripley"
Andrew Scott plays a new version of Patricia Highsmith's classic anti-hero on Netflix; plus "Girls State" on Apple TV+ and more.
Joe Flaherty 1941-2024
Remembering a consummate comedy team player. Plus: one of 2023's best movies comes to VOD.
What To Watch: Express Lane
VOD recommendations: Something new ("Full Time"), something old ("Taste of Cherry"), something classy ("Anatomy of a Fall"), something trashy (the 1989 "Road House").
One Good Film: "I'm Not There"
Like Dylan himself, the meanings of this once-radical film have come to seem accepted wisdom and common comfort.
What To Watch: "Love Lies Bleeding"
Plus: Recommended movies, new and old, for all the major platforms.
Oscars 2024: The Post-Mortem
What can we learn from last night’s awards ceremonies, a pleasantly scandal-free event that was just classy enough to avoid being embarrassing and just tacky enough to avoid being boring?
Watch List Digest 3/8/24
A forgotten indie, some non-fiction shorts (including one of the year's best movies, period), and the annual reading of the Oscar tea leaves.