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And then she has a meet cute with Cary Grant and finds herself swept up Read more. You know those types that are way more into chatting than getting their work done? Yeah, well the new comedy series The Cleaner on Britbox is about exactly that — only this guy's job is cleaning up crime scenes.

Greg Davies stars as Wicky, a man that's ready to roll up his sleeves and get to the dirty work Once Halloween is over, the rush to stream as many holiday feel good movies begins!

You can start with Netflix's new rom-com, Love Hard , a lighthearted addition to the catalogue. Nina Dobrev stars as Natalie, a Carrie Bradshaw contemporary who writes a column about online dating. The good and bad news is that she's got plenty to write about, The wholesome, comedically-hypnotic series follows a fictionalized version of Pera, a soft-spoken middle school choir teacher living in Michigan, as he converses with viewers on a variety of humdrum topics like how to pack a lunch, dancing, But other times?

Other times you just want to lounge on the couch with a beer and laugh at a show that understands how gross we all are. There are no easy answers proffered by this tender and compassionate film, just an irreconcilable combination of happiness, relief, and frustrated longing for an unachievable happy ending.

As the hesitant-to-come-out Lupe, Moroles is a consistent delight, and Verma is even better as the frazzled Sunny, in what may be the breakout performance of the year. Bob Odenkirk takes one hell of a beating in Nobody — and, per a joke made by his Hutch Mansell, you should see the other guys.

The late participation of Christopher Lloyd and RZA only boosts the goofy charm of this R-rated romp, which goes for broke — and breaks a lot of bones in the process — to amusingly ferocious ends.

In Summer of Soul The canny, rhythmic structure of the film, which also includes commentary from those who played and attended the event, is key to its pointed power. The revelations that follow are of a semi-oblique sort, the better to cast an eerie pall that never tips over into exposition-heavy leadenness.

Grief and guilt are an identical monster in this disquieting thriller, which gets suspenseful mileage out of shrewd perspective-manipulating imagery and skillful pacing.

Most of all, though, it benefits from Hall, whose superb turn as the devastated Beth is equal parts solemn and seething, vulnerable and fierce, unstable and assured. Jia Zhangke investigates the ongoing transformation of China — and the inextricable relationship between the past and the present, the urban and rural — through the prism of three famed authors in Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue.

Loss leads to retreat for Edee Robin Wright , a woman who responds to an unspecified tragedy by moving to a remote Wyoming cabin in Land. Willfully cut off from civilization, Edee finds her new survivalist existence more than a bit difficult, what with the bitter cold, the sparse food courtesy of fishing , and the occasional outhouse run-in with a bear.

In her directorial debut, Wright employs compositions that call understated attention to the alienated anguish of her protagonist, whom she embodies as a fragmented and potentially suicidal woman with a sorrow as deep and cold as the vast wilderness.

Fiery tensions are everywhere in this hypnotic film — be it between love and sex, passion and reason, sanity and madness, or modern art and reggaeton street culture — as Ema reacts to her situation by concocting a scheme to get her child back through carnally devious means. Not only do you not need to be a fan of Sparks — the L. The aptly named William Tell Oscar Isaac is an ex-con with a dark past who now makes his monotonous way through life earning a living as a small-time card-counting gambler.

His path is altered by run-ins with La Linda Tiffany Haddish , an alluring financial backer, and Cirk Tye Sheridan , a college dropout with an ugly connection to William.

The unlikely trio are eventually united on a mission to not only win big at the blackjack tables but, more importantly, to achieve a much-coveted — if elusive — measure of peace, healing and salvation.

A love letter to The New Yorker and its particular brand of erudite journalism, The French Dispatch is another Wes Anderson effort brimming with idiosyncratic humor and charm.

Billy Murray — and a dramatization of its final issue. Epitomized by Howitzer Jr. The ensuing fable that Roman recounts concerns a local gangster whose blind father was counselor to a queen, and who rose to prominence in the aftermath of a revolution — a legend that boasts echoes with the predicament of Roman himself, trapped as he is in a jail where treacherous schemes are afoot.

There are no easy answers here, only longing for a happier if unhealthier time, and fury over an inheritance of a squandered past and a bleak future. Less interested in being a definitive account than an authentic portrait of their attitude and ethos during their brief lates heyday, The Velvet Underground refuses to play by normal non-fiction rules, and thrives because of it.

Commissioned by the Lutheran Society to highlight the problems of aging and elder abuse, George A. Drugs are a destructive scourge on this Washington, DC household, culminating with the senseless murder of Emmanuel, an infectiously cheery kid and good student who seemed destined to transcend his difficult circumstances.

Blending neo-realism and mannered stylization, and led by an agonized Sukhitashvili performance, Beginning is a sober and mysterious character study that announces Kulumbegashvili as a filmmaker of immense promise.

When the characters open their mouths to sing, the vibrancy pops off the screen. Since its release, there have been important conversations had about the lack of representation of the Afro-Latino community on screen , but, while flawed in its portrait, In the Heights still feels like a breakthrough moment.

Show , the prospect of seeing the mild-mannered year-old go full John Wick in a movie written by John Wick writer Derek Kolstad is intriguing. Luckily, Nobody mostly delivers on the potential of its premise, stringing together brutal, bone-breaking fight scenes with a Bourne meets Death Wish meets Taken plot that moves from set piece to set piece.

He may not move with the balletic grace of Keanu Reeves or growl with the Biblical anger of Liam Neeson, but Odenkirk brings a psychological intensity and a winning wryness to a part that a more conventional action hero might have simply slept-walk through. With John Wick: Chapter 4 now pushed to , Nobody might be the most satisfying jolt of slick, mean mayhem you get from a major studio project this year. The place known as MACA in Abidjan is very much real and the site of frequent violence, but there's a mystical quality that hangs over Night of the Kings' tale of warring factions and political upheaval.

As a last grasp at control, he anoints a new arrival the "Roman" and orders him to tell a story upon the appearance of the red moon. The terrified young man's life is at stake as he weaves the narrative of Zama King, the saga getting more fantastical as he continues. As Roman speaks, his rapt audience uses dance and song to act out Zama's trials. It's a hypnotic combination of magical realism, choreography, and true life terrors.

It's a period piece about mobsters in s Detroit pitched at a minor key that reveals facets of its twisty storyline as it goes along. Don Cheadle plays a low-level gangster assigned to what seems like an easy job. He's paired up with Benicio Del Toro, and their fractured alliance gets more complicated as they get deeper into the heart of the conspiracy they've been thrust into, which goes up higher on the food chain than anyone might expect.

Though the plot can get downright overheated at times, particularly as characters inevitably start to double- and triple-cross one another in the climax, Soderbergh keeps the engine humming by making inventive visual choices throughout and allowing his performers, particularly his two excellent leads, to take the wheel when necessary.

These recordings of the Harlem Cultural Festival, a weeks-long musical event that happened the same year as Woodstock, have been unavailable for public consumption until now, an example of a Black historical artifact being buried.

Thompson frequently lets the music speak for itself, but also uses it as a guide through the place and the period, showing how Black artists were responding and evolving during the era. Summer of Soul is thoroughly joyous and also enormously vital. But Riders of Justice , a philosophically knotty and refreshingly contemplative Danish action thriller, is more than your average Neeson-esque revenge movie knock-off.

Yes, Mikkelsen, sporting a gnarly beard and a shaved head, plays a stoic, violent man seeking to find the men responsible for killing his wife. There's plenty of suspense and twists and shoot-outs and even a deadly motorcycle gang, but director Anders Thomas Jensen, who also penned the script, finds room in this sprawling tale for bits of sharp comedy, most of it involving the team of stat-obsessed nerds who assist Mikkelsen's tough commando, and welcome detours into more metaphysical concerns surrounding ethics and randomness and chaos.

As the plot digressions and the bodies pile up, Mikkelsen keeps the narrative humming with his unceasing intensity.

But for as meditative as her voice is, there's a turmoil that rages through Mona Fastvold's film like the storm that appears in the first act. At times, Daniel Blumberg's magnificent score sounds like screams, and even in moments of peace there's creeping anxiety. Abigail has resigned herself to a life of discontentment with her husband Dyer Affleck when their new neighbors Finney Abbott and Tallie Kirby arrive.

Abigail and Tallie become fast friends. Tallie is worldly and self-assured, even as she steals away from her pompous spouse who has a violent streak. Their long afternoons talking turn into physical expressions of love, but Fastvold is less interested in how that may have been taboo in the era than in how the threat of isolation is always just around the corner for these women. Its stars?

A bunch of older Italian men and their beloved dogs, who they treat like children. Directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw offer gorgeously shot windows into the serious business of scouring the forests for these delicacies. It's not entirely sweet pups and their devoted owners, though. Without any extra context, Dweck and Kershaw introduce us to the traders who make the industry a vicious one with a lot of money on the line. Still, the indisputable star is Birba, a sweet pooch of unidentifiable breed whose elderly person feeds from his own dinner table and worries about leaving behind once he passes.

Release date: February 5, Director: Jo Sung-Hee Phantom Detective Cast: Song Joong-Ki, Kim Tae-Ri, Jin Seon-Kyu, Yoo Hae-Jin Why it's great: Right from its first, electrifying sequence involving a bunch of bounty hunting spaceships chasing after a careering piece of garbage, Space Sweepers spins a far-future of multicultural, multilingual human life in space that's as exhilarating as it is crushingly dystopian. Tae-Ho is a pilot aboard the freighter Victory, along with Captain Jang, engineer Tiger Park, and loudmouthed robot Bubs, all of them part of an outer-space trash-collecting bounty-hunter guild known as the Space Sweepers, who capture space junk and sell it for parts.

After a particularly harrowing chase, the crew finds a little girl hiding in a derelict spaceship, who just happens to be a nanobot-filled android that a group of space terrorists have fitted with a hydrogen bomb. At first the Victory crew plans to sell the "little girl" back to the terrorist group who lost her, before they realize that she's much more special than she seems.

Also from producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the family comedy about a group of weirdos besieged by an AI apocalypse is very funny and extremely heartfelt, featuring a nuanced father-daughter relationship that feels akin to something out of Lady Bird.

Release date: September 10, Director: James Wan Aquaman Cast: Annabelle Wallis, Maddie Hasson, George Young, Michole Briana White Why it's great: James Wan's horror-thriller about a woman who realizes her dreams of a spooky figure violently murdering people are actually happening is by turns effectively creepy, utterly baffling, and absolutely hilarious, with an electrifying third act that plays as its own superhero origin story.

The only way to accurately describe this movie's goofy, heightened aesthetic is that it's like a fake movie inside another, much more normal movie, except the fake movie turns out to be the actual movie.

A profile of an imprisoned artist on the cusp of a new movement. A student protest with all the whirlwind emotion of a Shakespeare tragedy. A dinner party unexpectedly bearing witness to a kidnapping. One thing ties all of these vignettes together: The French Dispatch , a magazine that connects the French expat town of Ennui-sur-Blase with Liberty, Kansas, managed by a beloved editor and populated by a series of eccentric journalists.

They are sleeping in the bed where parts of Scenes from a Marriage was filmed, if there weren't enough dread hanging over their coupling. But Bergman Island is not exactly about a marriage falling apart. Rather, it's about what we ask from art and artists and how we choose to utilize that in our own work.

While Tony is diligently working on a screenplay, Chris is searching for what her next project will be, looking to establish herself independently of her influences, almost rejecting the darkness that has come to define Bergman's work.

About midway through the narrative, a film within a film—Chris' idea—starts to take over, starring Mia Wasikowska as another woman who comes to this gorgeous and strange locale searching.

Release date: October 15, Director: Todd Haynes Carol Why it's great : As a showcase for the music of a great band, Todd Haynes' The Velvet Underground does not disappoint: Loud and visceral, the film reanimates songs like "All Tomorrow's Parties," "Venus in Furs," or "Heroin" that might feel like canonical relics of the '60s when deployed by less deft hands.

If you're a fan, it will send you back to the original albums with new zeal. If the group is only something you know from banana t-shirts and that classic quote about how everyone who bought their first record formed a band, it will likely make you a convert. It feels lame to describe the movie in such blunt terms, but there might not be a better way to put it: The Velvet Underground is a very cool movie, one that understands matters of taste and style on an almost instinctual level.

Release date: March 26, Director: Kitao Sakurai Cast: Eric Andre, Lil Rel Howery, Tiffany Haddish Why it's great: There are hidden camera pranks meant to embarrass or provoke the prankee to the point that they're practically forced to react out of an animalistic type of anger, and then there are the others that are simply there to capture everyday human behavior in the face of absolute absurdity. Bad Trip , the logical extension of the unpredictable gags featured on The Eric Andre Show , is the latter, even in its most egregiously ridiculous stunts.

With the narrative backbone of Chris Carey Eric Andre and Bud Malone Lil Rel Howery road tripping from Florida to New York to pursue Chris's unrequited love Michaela Conlin in Bud's sister Trina's Tiffany Haddish hot pink car, the cast ingeniously use the film's interpersonal conflicts to engage the people they encounter along the way, soliciting advice, asking for help, and bonding with generally receptive locals from the Deep South up to New Jersey.

The result is a hilarious and lighthearted take on the genre from Jackass producer Jeff Tremaine, The Eric Andre Show 's director Kitao Sakurai, some very funny comedians, and the demented meme king of goofing around.