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Amazing Grace (1972) Metacritic Must-See Trailers
In January 1972, Aretha Franklin performed over two days with a gospel choir at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Southern California's Watts neighborhood, and the resulting live album culled from those sessions became a massive hit. Fortunately, director Sydney Pollack was also on hand to film the performances; unfortunately, technical snafus meant that the resulting footage was completely unusable. But recent developments in digital technology finally enabled the film to be salvaged, and it was hailed as an all-time great concert documentary when it was finally released late last year.
An audience award winner at this year's Tribeca, Plus One is a rom-com from a pair of first-time feature directors, Andrew Rhymer and Jeff Chan. Jack Quaid (The Hunger Games) and Maya Erskine (PEN15) star as a pair of single college friends who agree to spend a busy summer of weddings as each other's dates. Critics mostly felt that the film was able to overcome its formulaic nature with warmth and winning performances, with critics singling out Erskine as a breakout star.
No, the world still doesn't have a good videogame movie. But you can do far worse in the genre than this first-ever live-action adaptation of the Pokémon franchise (and, specifically, the Detective Pikachu adventure game spinoff). Director Rob Letterman's (Goosebumps) film stars Justice Smith as a young man investigating the disappearance of his father with the help of his father's former partner: Detective Pikachu (voiced by Ryan Reynolds). Pokémon fans will probably find enough here to sustain interest; others likely won't.
At the time of its release (following a series of ecstatic reviews that began with its world premiere at Sundance early this year, where it was the unanimous winner of the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema competition), The Souvenir was 2019's highest-scoring film, though it has since dropped all the way to #2 behind an even better Cannes hit. British writer-director Joanna Hogg (Unrelated, Archipelago, Exhibition) pulls from her own life experiences to tell the story of Julie (newcomer Honor Swinton-Byrne, delivering what could be a star-making performance), a well-off but inexperienced cinema student (and Hogg surrogate) who falls for the troubled Anthony (Tom Burke) in the 1980s. It's her first real love, and Julie finds herself giving too much of her time and (her parents') money to Anthony, to the exclusion of her friends and her budding career as a filmmaker. Swinton-Byrne's real-life mother, Tilda Swinton, plays her mother in the film, and Richard Ayoade also makes an appearance. A sequel is already in production.
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Amazing Grace (1972) Metacritic Must-See Trailers
In January 1972, Aretha Franklin performed over two days with a gospel choir at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Southern California's Watts neighborhood, and the resulting live album culled from those sessions became a massive hit. Fortunately, director Sydney Pollack was also on hand to film the performances; unfortunately, technical snafus meant that the resulting footage was completely unusable. But recent developments in digital technology finally enabled the film to be salvaged, and it was hailed as an all-time great concert documentary when it was finally released late last year.
An audience award winner at this year's Tribeca, Plus One is a rom-com from a pair of first-time feature directors, Andrew Rhymer and Jeff Chan. Jack Quaid (The Hunger Games) and Maya Erskine (PEN15) star as a pair of single college friends who agree to spend a busy summer of weddings as each other's dates. Critics mostly felt that the film was able to overcome its formulaic nature with warmth and winning performances, with critics singling out Erskine as a breakout star.
No, the world still doesn't have a good videogame movie. But you can do far worse in the genre than this first-ever live-action adaptation of the Pokémon franchise (and, specifically, the Detective Pikachu adventure game spinoff). Director Rob Letterman's (Goosebumps) film stars Justice Smith as a young man investigating the disappearance of his father with the help of his father's former partner: Detective Pikachu (voiced by Ryan Reynolds). Pokémon fans will probably find enough here to sustain interest; others likely won't.
At the time of its release (following a series of ecstatic reviews that began with its world premiere at Sundance early this year, where it was the unanimous winner of the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema competition), The Souvenir was 2019's highest-scoring film, though it has since dropped all the way to #2 behind an even better Cannes hit. British writer-director Joanna Hogg (Unrelated, Archipelago, Exhibition) pulls from her own life experiences to tell the story of Julie (newcomer Honor Swinton-Byrne, delivering what could be a star-making performance), a well-off but inexperienced cinema student (and Hogg surrogate) who falls for the troubled Anthony (Tom Burke) in the 1980s. It's her first real love, and Julie finds herself giving too much of her time and (her parents') money to Anthony, to the exclusion of her friends and her budding career as a filmmaker. Swinton-Byrne's real-life mother, Tilda Swinton, plays her mother in the film, and Richard Ayoade also makes an appearance. A sequel is already in production.
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42 Blu-ray and DVD Changeland COMEDY | Seth Green, Breckin Meyer
56 Blu-ray and DVD Charlie Says DRAMA | Matt Smith, Hannah Murray, Sosie Bacon
41 Blu-ray and DVD The Curse of La Llorona HORROR/THRILLER | Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz
DVD Deep Murder HORROR/COMEDY | Jerry O'Connell
DVD Division 19 SCI-FI/THRILLER
53 Blu-ray and DVD Donnybrook DRAMA | Frank Grillo, Jamie Bell
Blu-ray A Foreign Affair (1948) ROM-COM | Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund
Blu-ray The Front Page (1974) COMEDY/DRAMA | Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau
51 Blu-ray and DVD Girls of the Sun FOREIGN/DRAMA
64 DVD Halston DOCUMENTARY
Blu-ray and DVD How Long Will I Love U FOREIGN/DRAMA
Blu-ray and DVD The Outsider WESTERN | Trace Adkins, Jon Foo, Danny Trejo
Blu-ray and DVD Penguin Highway ANIME Prime Video
36 Blu-ray and DVD Poms COMEDY/DRAMA | Diane Keaton, Rhea Perlman, Jacki Weaver, Pam Grier
Blu-ray and DVD Project Ithaca SCI-FI/THRILLER | James Gallanders
DVD Room for Rent THRILLER | Lin Shaye Prime Video
Blu-ray and DVD Saving Flora FAMILY/ADVENTURE Prime Video
48 Blu-ray and DVD Tolkien DRAMA | Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins
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