What to Watch
What to Watch: Pre-Oscar Catch-up
Recent movies at affordable VOD prices! Plus: One to avoid.
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Directors
The Whole Almodóvar
All 23 of the Spanish director's feature films are newly available on demand. I rate every last one of them and tell you where to find them.
What to Watch
What to Watch: Stone'd Again
Questlove's "Sly Lives!" comes to Hulu, a powerhouse Marianne Jean-Baptiste double-bill pops up on Amazon, and more.
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Reviews: "No Other Land" and "Porcelain War"
Two stark Oscar-nominated documentaries of struggle and endurance in the West Bank and in Ukraine.
What to Watch
Fiddling (with the Remote) While Rome Burns
Five new releases just hitting VOD -- and seven sleepers hiding on your streaming platform menus.
What to Watch
Eight Good Movies on Prime (and 1 Stinker)
Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. It’s a sunny day with a fresh three inches of snow here in Boston and a good time to count one’s blessings and plot out ways to make this a better country for everyone in it in the weeks, months, and years
Good Movies 📽
New reviews: "The Brutalist," "The Room Next Door," "September 5" & "Hard Truths"
Good Movies 📽
Tangled Up in Bob - further thoughts on "A Complete Unknown"
Some further thoughts on "A Complete Unknown, a broadside against nasty commenters, and a review of "The Tree of the Sacred Fig"
What to Watch
What to Watch: "A Complete Unknown" and more
New reviews of James Mangold's Bob Dylan bio-pic, Robert Eggers' "Nosferatu" and "Babygirl"
Ty's Movie Club
Ty's Movie Club: "Paterson"
On Thursday December 19 at 6:30 p.m. at the West Newton Cinema, join us for a screening and discussion of Jim Jarmusch's beatific 2016 film.
Best of the Year
The 10 Best Movies of 2024 (D.C. area version)
Some larger thoughts on the state of movies 2024 and one version of a Top 10, plus reviews of "All We Imagine as Light" and "The End."
What to Watch
What to Watch: 11 to Wrap to
New films on VOD include "Kneecap," "Maria," Sugarcane," and more.