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Encountering man Top Box Office. Jester McGree. What's the Tomatometer? Follow Us. Home Home. Comedies Critics Consensus: The Art of Self-Defense grapples compellingly with modern American masculinity -- and serves as an outstanding calling card for writer-director Riley Stearns. Directed By: Riley Stearns. Critics Consensus: The role of a lifetime for Matthew McConaughey, The Beach Bum is set apart by Harmony Korine's distinctive style, but that isn't always enough to offset the unfocused story.
Directed By: Harmony Korine. Critics Consensus: The Boy Downstairs finds a few fresh moments in its familiar setup and benefits from Zosia Mamet's charismatic performance, both of which are enough to keep viewers interested.
Directed By: Sophie Brooks. Directed By: Chris Morris. Critics Consensus: Colossal 's singular strangeness can be disorienting, but viewers who hang on may find that its genre-defying execution -- and Anne Hathaway's performance -- is well worth the ride. Directed By: Nacho Vigalondo. Critics Consensus: Greener Grass is far from the first comedy to skewer suburbia -- but it might be among the most bizarre and surreally distinctive.
Critics Consensus: Thoroughly sweet, comfortably familiar, and elevated by the chemistry between Nick Offerman and Kiersey Clemons, Hearts Beat Loud offers feel-good father-daughter drama. Directed By: Brett Haley. Critics Consensus: Juliet, Naked 's somewhat familiar narrative arc is elevated by standout work from a charming cast led by a well-matched Rose Byrne and Ethan Hawke.
Directed By: Jesse Peretz. Critics Consensus: Lemon succeeds in its aim as a tart satire, but audiences may find this foray into abrasiveness too sour to swallow. Directed By: Janicza Bravo. Critics Consensus: Let the Sunshine In pairs a powerful performance from Juliette Binoche with a layered drama that presents director Claire Denis at her most assured.
Directed By: Claire Denis. Critics Consensus: Like a favorite song you know by heart, Military Wives offers few surprises -- but its pleasures are no less formidable for their familiarity. Directed By: Peter Cattaneo. Critics Consensus: Mister America misses a number of its targets, but fans of Tim Heidecker's unique brand of comedy will find moments worth savoring in this dry political satire.
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Directed By: Griffin Dunne. Critics Consensus: The Sisters Brothers rides familiar genre trails in occasionally unexpected ways - a satisfying journey further elevated by its well-matched leading men.
Starring: John C. Directed By: Jacques Audiard. Critics Consensus: Support the Girls handles serious themes with wit and humor, and provides a strong showcase for Regina Hall and a talented ensemble cast.
Directed By: Andrew Bujalski. Critics Consensus: Tangerine shatters casting conventions and its filmmaking techniques are up-to-the-minute, but it's an old-fashioned comedy at heart -- and a pretty wonderful one at that. Directed By: Sean Baker. But Sheridan—who tackled the moral difficulties of the drug war with his script for Sicario —has even bigger thematic game in mind.
Hell or High Water is also meant to be a topical anti-capitalist lament, being that it takes place in a west Texas town that looks to have been decimated by the recent economic recession, with big billboard signs of companies advertising debt relief amid stretches of desolation, and with Toby driven in large part by a desire to break out of what he sees as a cycle of poverty for his loved ones, to provide a better life for his two sons and ex-wife. Over two nights in January , Aretha Franklin just shy of her 30th birthday recorded what would become the greatest-selling gospel album of all time—and arguably her finest album, period.
The record Amazing Grace has been with us ever since, but the record of that night, shot by a young filmmaker named Sydney Pollack, has been kept away from public view for myriad reasons. Not credited to any director but completed by music producer Alan Elliott and shot by Sydney Pollack , Amazing Grace is a straightforward presentation of archival materials without contemporary context or insights. Brandon cuts deeper than daddy, though, if not yet with the same incisiveness, then with a clinical precision that only intensifies the oneiric oddness coursing intractably through Possessor.
Cronenberg charts a horrific journey from mind to mind, plotted along neural pathways but predictably expressed along physical routes. It veers off into an arterial journey, the narrow vessels containing the stuff of life—and death—in a larger body. Reilly and Tilda Swinton. Reilly and Swinton construct a fractured window into a marriage, with one possibly evil rock thrown square through it.
Props to the designers on one of the more unique movie monsters of the last few decades—the mutated creature in this film looks sort of like a giant tadpole with teeth and legs, which is way more awesome in practice than it sounds.
The real heart of the film is a superb performance by Song Kang-ho also in Snowpiercer and Parasite as a seemingly slow-witted father trying to hold his family together during the disaster. Shane is another of the great Hollywood westerns and probably the most archetypal and mythical in its execution. The heroes are truly good, the villains badder than bad. It explores one of the classic Western expansion themes, cattle ranching—or the freedom and lawlessness of the open range—versus farming, which eventually leads to civilization and settling down in one place, bringing families and the laws of the city into play.
Visually a character straight out of the Old Testament, Rufus Ryker Emile Meyer is a shaggy bearded cattle baron hell-bent on driving farming families from the land he considers his. A mysterious rider named Shane Alan Ladd arrives in the nick of time to bolster the courage of a group of homesteaders led by Joe Starrett Van Heflin. Shane and Ryker, along with their cohorts, are relics of the past, ultimately doomed to extinction once the wives and children move in.
Unlike Ryker, Shane knows this, and spells it out in their final showdown. The future of the West is in cities and communities. There is no place for lawless men like them in these new frontiers. All these years later, we know that Shane was wrong. Killing and lawlessness still abound in the cities, and big business still tramples the rights of the common man.
The film is a reminder, though, that if communities band together, holding strong in faith and trusting one another, they can take back what is rightfully theirs and shape a collective destiny.
Year: Director: M. Strange things begin occurring on the farm: complex crop circles, footsteps on the roof, aggression from the family dogs. Soon, the family is in the middle of a full-blown, global alien invasion. Set during the Tokugawa era of Japan, Ninja Scroll follows the story of Jubei Kibagami, an itinerant samurai warrior partly inspired by the real-life folk hero, Jubei Yagyu who is recruited by a government agent to defeat the Eight Devils of Kimon, a cabal of demonic ninja who conspire to overthrow the Tokugawa regime and plunge Japan into destruction.
Along the way he meets Kagero, a beautiful and mysterious poison eater, and is forced to confront the demons of his past as he fights to preserve the present. Its well-defined animation, unflinching hyper-violence, and impressively creative fight sequences made it a requisite gateway title for early anime fans and is rightfully looked upon as a cult classic to this day.
Ninja Scroll pushed the boundaries of excess, with unflinching depictions of sensuality and sexual violence shown alongside showers of gore and decapitation. Featuring an immense catalogue of footage that sat in a basement virtually untouched for 50 years, Summer of Soul acts as an interrogation of what the absence of these materials has meant for the subsequent generation of Black artists, including Questlove himself.
Despite the apparent cultural amnesia that followed the event at least among non-Black Americans , the Harlem Cultural Festival easily overshadowed a ubiquitous moment in American history: The moon landing. Archival interviews with several attendees reveal that for many Black Americans, the moon landing was not seen as a boundary-pushing event worth celebrating.
Considering the undeniable essence of colonialism that space travel entails, who can blame them? While Woodstock may have been emblematic of the power of counter-culture, the predominance of white spectators in the crowd cemented the event as an artistic awakening. Meanwhile, the equally hyped Harlem Cultural Festival was relegated to the sidelines of historical preservation due to its predominantly Black audience and centering of Black acts on stage. Anyone arguing for any other film in the Trek franchise will find themselves speaking into a black hole chewed in the matte canvas by exquisitely potent villain, played by Ricardo Montalban.
Sorrow hangs around the edges of his eyes as surely as bliss spreads across his face with each occasion for drinking. That balancing act culminates in an explosive burst of anger and, ultimately, mourning.
Good times are had and good times always end. Without a pause we lose perspective on all else life has to offer, especially self-reflection. In her post- Parks and Rec career—wherein the crux of her performance was rolling her eyes—and relegated to typecasted roles like Life After Beth and Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates , Aubrey Plaza has gone as far as she can with that kind of material. But in Ingrid Goes West she finds a seed of something so much more complicated, her talents are able to elevate the script to a new plane.
Playing Ingrid, whose mental illness allows her social media activity to consume her life and the lives of those around her, Plaza unearths curious, complicated gradations in the character, one that could be easily written off as a weirdo freak. What Plaza senses in Ingrid, as the character desperately tries to become something else, hiding her vulnerability beneath layers of social media performance, is the ostensibly monstrous morphed into the deeply human. Accordingly, production and costume designs borrow from multiple time periods—slightly resembling medieval Europe—while characters speak in Shakespearean prose, their body language still distinctly modern.
Instead of the usual sea of white faces for such a tale, different races that seem to have equal social standing populate this world.
With a magical Nordic setting that perfectly suits its fantastical vibe, Rare Exports settles in alongside chilly, Scandinanvian horror contemporaries such as Let the Right One In or Dead Snow , although it never strives for the emotion or gravity or the former.
It does, however, build to a formidable conclusion, giving us perhaps the most oddly unique origin story for Santa Claus that has yet been brought to the horror genre.
Her character also named Hye-ja is an herbalist and unlicensed acupuncturist who has raised a mentally disabled son by herself. Do-joon Bon Win is an indulgent, infantile year-old who is the village idiot in their provincial town, subjected to mockery and casual violence, yet also prone to drunken antics and misdemeanors.
The smother-love goes into overdrive when Do-joon is jailed for the rape and murder of a local schoolgirl, whose body is found near a bar Do-joon had been kicked of the previous night. Why: Granik affords us little background, save tattoos and a few helicopter-triggered flashbacks and a visit to the hospital to acquire PTSD meds all implying that Will is a military vet, though what conflict he suffered and for how long remains a mystery. As does the pain at the heart of Leave No Trace , though it hurts no less acutely for that.
Will begins to understand, as Tom does, that she is not broken like him. Leave No Trace asserts, with exquisite humanity and a long bittersweet sigh, that the best the broken can do is disappear before they break anyone else. She takes a few combs, carefully wraps them for the slow journey home. This is how their days pass, until a big family of neighbors rolls up with a camper, some cattle and a desperate ambition to make something out of all that land.
Honeyland resists the tendency to sprawl out. We do the same. Like three seasons of The Wire adulterated into two hours, Collective begins with the aftermath of a nightclub fire in Bucharest in , which killed 27 people and wounded nearly , as parents of victims—both those who perished that night and many of those who died in hospitals soon after—begin to gather and question how the Romanian government, top to bottom, seems to be at the heart of such tragic dysfunction.
Nanau shows us startling clear video from that night, unflinching and terrible, and then continues to not look away as a group of journalists begin to uncover the corruption that led to so much suffering. Meanwhile, Nanau follows survivors and activists, and then the newly appointed Health Minister after the other guy resigned for gross incompetence , young and idealistic, as the system crushes every moral step he tries to make, buffeted on all sides by conservative propaganda and the bourgeois class, who have long profited from so much death and misery.
He eschews interviews and talking heads for incisive observation, sometimes so intimate it feels like empathy; he returns over and over to the vulnerable people who must endure—their courage, their fear, and the marginal hope they provide the rest of us by simply doing their jobs.
Before Sicario, Arrival , and Blade Runner , the French-Canadian directed this dark drama about the abduction of two young girls and how it tears a community apart.
A father, played well by Hugh Jackman, becomes convinced he knows the identity of the kidnapper, and takes justice into his own hands. Jake Gyllenhaal and Paul Dano are also phenomenal here. A nominee for Best International Feature Film, this Bosnian war drama is tragically unforgettable. As the opposing Army takes over the area, the UN starts to pull out, leaving dozens of victims behind.
Gore Verbinski directed one of the best animated films on Hulu , this Oscar-winning featuring voice work by Johnny Depp in the lead role and some of the most inspired visuals in any animated film this decade. Rango is a chameleon who stumbled into a town called Dirt in this inventive riff on the Western genre that plays equally to children and adults.
Forget that Queen nonsense, this is the best rock biopic in recent memory. Taron Egerton plays Elton John , whose life story unfolds in vibrant musical numbers actually sung by the leading man in this case. Energetic and emotional, Rocketman works by embracing the creative passion of its subject and trying to express it cinematically.
People love a good thriller, and this is a tight piece of work. People identify with the story of Andy Dufresne Tim Robbins and his time in the titular institution, where he meets the beloved Red Morgan Freeman , another character that fans just adore. Amy Seimetz directed one of the best movies of in this intense thriller that really captures the national mood of the year better than any other work. Imagine if dread could be contagious. Surreal and unforgettable, and unlike anything else on Hulu.
After its premiere at Sundance in January , Shirley was planned for theaters by Neon, but the company had to move it to Hulu thanks to the pandemic. Consider it one of the better things to happen in the last few months. It will break your heart. Night Shyamalan followed the success of The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable with one of the biggest hits of his career, the story of an average family man Mel Gibson who ends up the center of an alien invasion.
Look at that cast! John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix play the title characters in this low-key Western that just happens to co-star Jake Gyllenhaal and Riz Ahmed. One of the wonderful thing about this film is how it blends genres and styles, playing like Western, noir, comedy, and drama in subsequent beats.
Almost no one saw it after a minor theatrical release, but it feels destined for cult classic status. The 23rd official James Bond film is also one of the best. Watch it while you wait for the long-delayed No Time to Die. One of the best movies of the s has returned to Hulu to remind people how wildly far ahead of its time this movie was when it was released. Boots Riley writes and directs one of the most daring debuts of in this satire of modern race relations and corporate dynamics.
Lakeith Stanfield stars as a man who climbs the ladder of a telemarketing company only to find true horrors on the top floors. The many feature films about the voyages of the starship Enterprise have a habit of jumping from streaming service to streaming service but almost all of them are currently on Hulu.
You can watch all of the films in the original series franchise as well as all of them from The Next Generation crew. Finish it off with Star Trek Beyond. A stunning concert film, it captures the joyous Harlem Cultural Festival in with footage that was only recently discovered. Performances include Stevie Wonder, B. King, Gladys Knight, Nina Simone, and many more.
Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci star in this tender drama about a couple faced with the sadness of increasing dementia. Max Minghella directs a great performance from Elle Fanning in this story of a shy teenager who becomes a pop superstar. Like a minor variation on A Star is Born , this is the inspirational story of a girl following her dreams through a talent competition.
The lesson is that Fanning could have been a pop star too. The WTF story of Three Identical Strangers is the kind of thing that would be deemed ridiculous if it were in a fictional screenplay but the film gets even more interesting when it turns to an investigation of nature vs. Community News Get the Latest. Member Recoginition. View All News. Ground Rules. Using the Community. Help Center.
Sign Up for Hulu. Why is Hulu so bad? Every time I try it. Every time I try hulu, the app is terrible. No matter what connection or device I use, the overall "binge watching" experience is bad.
There are always interruptions between episodes after the first couple. Every error message blames my end, but the service is always much worse than any streaming I have with Netflix. Would love to know how you're skewing your reviews
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