![]() Based on the book of the same name by Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor Greive, Ivin’s latest feature tracks a familiar enough story about injury, grief, and resilience, though one wonderfully fluffed up by the unlikely heroine at its heart.Īvailable to stream January 27. Nearly a decade later, it’s time for another: Give an Oscar for the bird(s) that star in Glendyn Ivin’s dramatic real-life story, “Penguin Bloom.” That’s not to diminish the work of the human actors - including a stirring Naomi Watts and a breakout performance by young actor Griffin Murray-Johnston - but there’s a reason why this gentle Aussie drama about a family wracked by tragedy is named after its sole winged character. It wasn’t an ask without precedent (Rin Tin Tin was in the race for the very first Best Actor award, and arguably won the accolade), but it was certainly the most public awards campaign for a non-human actor. ![]() VanAirsdale suggested - not entirely facetiously - that the dog who played Uggie in the then-Oscar contender “The Artist” be considered for his own Academy Award. Netflix has such a monopoly on awards season this year that - to go by Kate Erbland’s TIFF review of “Penguin Bloom” - the streamer is now angling for Oscars that don’t even exist. The sum may not have the same breathless power as its most indelible parts, but Kirby’s shattering performance stays with you, and the movie around her - for all of its clumsiness - shines a rare light into places that are usually considered too dark for mainstream entertainment.Īvailable to stream January 7. It’s a traumatizing sequence (borderline unwatchable for expecting parents) that might seem emotionally pornographic if not for how thick a pall it casts on the rest of the film, which pits the devastated would-be mom (Vanessa Kirby) against the midwife who oversaw her botched delivery (Molly Parker). A strained and splintered melodrama that’s broken in a way that a series of clunky metaphors can’t hope to repair, “Pieces” starts with a 30-minute long-take that follows an ill-fated home birth in real time as Mundruczó’s camera wends through a Boston townhouse on a gimbal, supplanting the chaos of a handheld camera with a sense of awe and holy terror. Mundruczó’s virtuosic movies tend to open like a house on fire only to spend the last two acts finger-painting with the ashes (see: “White God,” “Jupiter’s Moon”), and his latest is no exception. If any Shia LaBeouf movie is difficult to recommend - or even to stomach - in light of recent allegations, that’s especially true of Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber’s “Pieces of a Woman,” which was a tough watch from the moment it premiered on the festival circuit in September. ![]() ![]() Here are the seven best movies coming to Netflix this January. Anthony Mackie sci-fi thriller “Outside the Wire” and Carey Mulligan/Ralph Fiennes archaeology drama “The Dig” won’t drop until the end of the month, but “Enter the Dragon” and a pair of Martin Scorsese masterpieces should help pass the time until then. “Penguin Bloom” might not be as much of an Oscar player, but it is a tender family saga in which Naomi Watts is saved by an emotional support bird, and that’s also important. ‘The Perfection’ Is a Gayer, Gorier, Goofier ‘TÁR’ - and Fringe Netflix at Its Finest ![]()
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