With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’re highlighting the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle Heller)
Do you have a Lee Israel work on your shelf? What should be a matter of owning one of her books or not since she was a notable author of biographies who hit the New York Times Best Sellers list, things get much more complicated when you look closer to see she wrote more than just about the likes of Dorothy Kilgallen and Estée Lauder. Israel also wrote as some of her subjects too. During the early 1990s when she was down on her luck professionally, financially, and personally, a fateful discovery occurred that would ultimately ensure her name would...
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle Heller)
Do you have a Lee Israel work on your shelf? What should be a matter of owning one of her books or not since she was a notable author of biographies who hit the New York Times Best Sellers list, things get much more complicated when you look closer to see she wrote more than just about the likes of Dorothy Kilgallen and Estée Lauder. Israel also wrote as some of her subjects too. During the early 1990s when she was down on her luck professionally, financially, and personally, a fateful discovery occurred that would ultimately ensure her name would...
- 2/8/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
‘Ladies in Black.’
While children’s and family titles understandably are dominating ticket sales during the school vacation, Bruce Beresford’s Ladies in Black looked smart in its second weekend.
Universal’s comedy Night School opened reasonably well considering the African-American cast led by Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish aren’t big stars here, while Sony’s Ice Age adventure Alpha was frozen out by the competition despite glowing reviews.
Palace’s French drama Custody fared best among the limited releases while Transmission’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot and Icon’s feature doc McKellen: Playing the Part had modest debuts.
Benjamin Gilmour’s Jirga began a platform release at nine screens, posting solid figures at the Cinema Nova, Hayden Orpheum and Luna Leederville. (See separate story).
The top 20 titles raked in $15.8 million from Thursday through Monday, up 16 per cent on the same frame last week,...
While children’s and family titles understandably are dominating ticket sales during the school vacation, Bruce Beresford’s Ladies in Black looked smart in its second weekend.
Universal’s comedy Night School opened reasonably well considering the African-American cast led by Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish aren’t big stars here, while Sony’s Ice Age adventure Alpha was frozen out by the competition despite glowing reviews.
Palace’s French drama Custody fared best among the limited releases while Transmission’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot and Icon’s feature doc McKellen: Playing the Part had modest debuts.
Benjamin Gilmour’s Jirga began a platform release at nine screens, posting solid figures at the Cinema Nova, Hayden Orpheum and Luna Leederville. (See separate story).
The top 20 titles raked in $15.8 million from Thursday through Monday, up 16 per cent on the same frame last week,...
- 10/2/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’re highlighting the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
Movies about making movies often get a bad rap; there’s just a presumed pretentiousness that goes along with watching filmmakers and actors defending their craft. So when it turns out that Clouds of Sils Maria is actually a beautifully directed and acted defense of the timelessness and universal value of storytelling in all forms, what could have been a European Birdman actually becomes something so much more. – Brian R.
Where to Stream: FilmStruck
Custody (Xavier Legrand)
It didn’t win the Oscar for best live action short in 2014, but Xavier Legrand’s Just Before Losing Everything was by far my favorite nominee.
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
Movies about making movies often get a bad rap; there’s just a presumed pretentiousness that goes along with watching filmmakers and actors defending their craft. So when it turns out that Clouds of Sils Maria is actually a beautifully directed and acted defense of the timelessness and universal value of storytelling in all forms, what could have been a European Birdman actually becomes something so much more. – Brian R.
Where to Stream: FilmStruck
Custody (Xavier Legrand)
It didn’t win the Oscar for best live action short in 2014, but Xavier Legrand’s Just Before Losing Everything was by far my favorite nominee.
- 9/21/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Custody, opening in L.A. on July 13th, in New York on June 29th and going wide in August, is a heartbreakingly sad story of a boy caught between two at-war-getting-divorced parents.
On a par with Loveless, the Russian Cannes Competition film in 2017 and Oscar nominated for Best Foreigh Language Film, each of the boys, sentient but powerless, is used as a pawn. This film almost exceeds the threshold of bearable pain, so painful is to watch the father take his rages out on his son.
The boy’s (Thomas Gioria) acting is superlative. This is his first film but next year you will be able to see him in Adoration.
Denis Ménochet playing the father is also outstanding and is 100% hateful. I moaned in agony for the boy in every other scene. The father cajoles his child, blackmails his child, threatens him with force, is mecurial, cruel and unresponsive,...
On a par with Loveless, the Russian Cannes Competition film in 2017 and Oscar nominated for Best Foreigh Language Film, each of the boys, sentient but powerless, is used as a pawn. This film almost exceeds the threshold of bearable pain, so painful is to watch the father take his rages out on his son.
The boy’s (Thomas Gioria) acting is superlative. This is his first film but next year you will be able to see him in Adoration.
Denis Ménochet playing the father is also outstanding and is 100% hateful. I moaned in agony for the boy in every other scene. The father cajoles his child, blackmails his child, threatens him with force, is mecurial, cruel and unresponsive,...
- 7/16/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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Dark River
Clio Barnard writes and directs this mystery drama about a woman (Ruth Wilson) who returns home to claim her family farm.
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Summer of ’67 [pictured]
Sharon Wilharm writes and directs this historical romantic drama about three women coping with the social upheaval of Vietnam-era America.
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Leave No Trace
Debra Granik writes and directs this drama about a teenage girl (Thomasin McKenzie) who lives off the grid with her Ptsd-afflicted veteran father.
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Larger Than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story
Tiffany Bartok directs this documentary about the legendary makeup artist.
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Love, Cecil
Lisa Immordino Vreeland directs this documentary about Oscar-winning Hollywood costume designer Cecil Beaton.
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Woman Walks Ahead
Susanna White directs this historical docudrama about portrait painter Catherine Weldon (Jessica Chastain). (male writer)
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Hover
Cleopatra Coleman writes and stars in this sci-fi thriller about a woman investigating mysterious deaths in an ecologically ravaged future.
Dark River
Clio Barnard writes and directs this mystery drama about a woman (Ruth Wilson) who returns home to claim her family farm.
find cinemas
Summer of ’67 [pictured]
Sharon Wilharm writes and directs this historical romantic drama about three women coping with the social upheaval of Vietnam-era America.
find cinemas
Leave No Trace
Debra Granik writes and directs this drama about a teenage girl (Thomasin McKenzie) who lives off the grid with her Ptsd-afflicted veteran father.
find cinemas
Larger Than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story
Tiffany Bartok directs this documentary about the legendary makeup artist.
find cinemas
Love, Cecil
Lisa Immordino Vreeland directs this documentary about Oscar-winning Hollywood costume designer Cecil Beaton.
find cinemas
Woman Walks Ahead
Susanna White directs this historical docudrama about portrait painter Catherine Weldon (Jessica Chastain). (male writer)
find cinemas
Hover
Cleopatra Coleman writes and stars in this sci-fi thriller about a woman investigating mysterious deaths in an ecologically ravaged future.
- 6/30/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
“Joint custody blows.” That poignant declaration, made by one of the kiddos being fought over in Noah Baumbach’s “The Squid and the Whale,” succinctly summarizes the entire custody-battle genre to which it belongs. Seven years after reaching its high-water mark with Asghar Farhadi’s “A Separation,” that genre continues with Xavier LeGrand’s “Custody.” Less nuanced than some of its predecessors but far more stressful, it isn’t an easy watch — nor is it meant to be.
It’s also Legrand’s debut feature, arriving four years after his Oscar-nominated short “Just Before Losing Everything.” The first-timer won the Silver Lion for Best Director at last year’s Venice Film Festival, and his control over the material is on clear display throughout all 93 nail-biting minutes: “Custody” begins with an air of documentary reality before evolving into a thriller so claustrophobic its climax fits inside the bathroom of a modest apartment.
It’s also Legrand’s debut feature, arriving four years after his Oscar-nominated short “Just Before Losing Everything.” The first-timer won the Silver Lion for Best Director at last year’s Venice Film Festival, and his control over the material is on clear display throughout all 93 nail-biting minutes: “Custody” begins with an air of documentary reality before evolving into a thriller so claustrophobic its climax fits inside the bathroom of a modest apartment.
- 6/29/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Custody (Jusqu´à la garde) Kino Lorber Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Director: Xavier Legrand Screenwriter: Xavier Legrand Cast: Léa Drucker Denis Ménochet, Thomas Gioria, Mathilde Auneveux, Mathieu Saikaly Screened at: Dolby88, NYC, 6/12/18 Opens: June 29, 2018 In his philosophic book “The Human Predicament” author David Benatar suggests the bringing new lives into the world is […]
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- 6/25/2018
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
"Your children have turned against you." Kino Lorber has debuted the new Us trailer for French domestic drama Custody, about parents fighting over the custody of their children. This trailer follows the UK trailer and is a bit different, with an unsettling ticking clock noise in the background making the tension even more unbearable. Written & directed by Xavier Legrand, it's about a bitter custody battle over an embattled son in the middle of a broken marriage. Custody stars Denis Ménochet, Léa Drucker, Thomas Gioria, Mathilde Auneveux, and Florence Janas. The film received rave reviews out of Venice, described as a "steady crescendo of suspense" by The Film Stage. This plays in Us theaters starting June 29th, be on the lookout for it - it's one of the most highly rated French films arriving this year, worth seeing when it opens. Here's the official Us trailer (+ new Us poster) for Xavier Legrand's Custody,...
- 5/23/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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Truth or Dare [my review]
Lucy Hale, Violett Beane, and Sophia Taylor Ali costar in this horror movie about a college drinking game that goes wrong. Cowritten by Jillian Jacobs. (male director)
Rampage [my review]
Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, and Marley Shelton costar in this sci-fi action movie about genetically engineered monsters. (male writers and director)
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Even When I Fall [my review]
Kate McLarnon and Sky Neal direct this documentary about two young Nepalese women rescued from slavery in Indian circuses who establish and perform in their own ethical circus.
Western [IMDb]
Valeska Grisebach writes and directs this German drama about (male) construction workers.
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts [IMDb]
Mouly Surya cowrites and directs this Indonesian dramatic thriller about a woman (Marsha Timothy) who takes revenge against a gang that attacks her.
October [IMDb]
Juhi Chaturvedi writes this Indian romance, costarring Banita Sandhu. (male director)
A Gentle Creature [IMDb] pictured
Vasilina Makovtseva stars in this...
Truth or Dare [my review]
Lucy Hale, Violett Beane, and Sophia Taylor Ali costar in this horror movie about a college drinking game that goes wrong. Cowritten by Jillian Jacobs. (male director)
Rampage [my review]
Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, and Marley Shelton costar in this sci-fi action movie about genetically engineered monsters. (male writers and director)
limited
Even When I Fall [my review]
Kate McLarnon and Sky Neal direct this documentary about two young Nepalese women rescued from slavery in Indian circuses who establish and perform in their own ethical circus.
Western [IMDb]
Valeska Grisebach writes and directs this German drama about (male) construction workers.
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts [IMDb]
Mouly Surya cowrites and directs this Indonesian dramatic thriller about a woman (Marsha Timothy) who takes revenge against a gang that attacks her.
October [IMDb]
Juhi Chaturvedi writes this Indian romance, costarring Banita Sandhu. (male director)
A Gentle Creature [IMDb] pictured
Vasilina Makovtseva stars in this...
- 4/13/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
MaryAnn’s quick take… Transforms a straightforward story of domestic violence into something like a horror movie, and it’s so harrowing and so incredibly tense that I’m not sure that it’s not exploitive. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film
(learn more about this)
Idon’t know if I can take this, I wrote at one point in my notes while enduring Custody, the debut feature of French writer-director Xavier Legrand, which transforms a straightforward depiction of domestic violence into something like a horror movie. Not that what many women and children are subjected to at the hands of violent, possessive husbands and fathers isn’t horrible — it is. But what Legrand is offering us here is simply the everyday family life of too many people, and...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film
(learn more about this)
Idon’t know if I can take this, I wrote at one point in my notes while enduring Custody, the debut feature of French writer-director Xavier Legrand, which transforms a straightforward depiction of domestic violence into something like a horror movie. Not that what many women and children are subjected to at the hands of violent, possessive husbands and fathers isn’t horrible — it is. But what Legrand is offering us here is simply the everyday family life of too many people, and...
- 4/12/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Xavier Legrand’s intense, pressure-cooker drama on a son’s coercion by his angry, macho father certainly builds tension
There’s a unidirectional agony to this psychological drama from actor turned director Xavier Legrand – this is the much-talked-about festival prizewinner which Legrand developed from his 2013 short Avant Que De Tout Perdre, or Just Before Losing Everything. Legrand could have kept that title for his full-length feature version. It’s almost a story without a story, in that there is hardly any narrative progression as such, no phased revelation of character, no twist and counter-twist, and no point-of-view switches designed to raise queries about the truth. No: the focus is on one single horrible situation, getting steadily and unwatchably worse: a simmering pot of rage and toxic masculinity under which the gas-ring gets turned up and up. It concerns a divorce, and a legal hearing about custody.
Denis Ménochet plays Antoine,...
There’s a unidirectional agony to this psychological drama from actor turned director Xavier Legrand – this is the much-talked-about festival prizewinner which Legrand developed from his 2013 short Avant Que De Tout Perdre, or Just Before Losing Everything. Legrand could have kept that title for his full-length feature version. It’s almost a story without a story, in that there is hardly any narrative progression as such, no phased revelation of character, no twist and counter-twist, and no point-of-view switches designed to raise queries about the truth. No: the focus is on one single horrible situation, getting steadily and unwatchably worse: a simmering pot of rage and toxic masculinity under which the gas-ring gets turned up and up. It concerns a divorce, and a legal hearing about custody.
Denis Ménochet plays Antoine,...
- 4/12/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Xavier Legrand’s harrowing family drama about a bitter custody battle between a recently separated couple offers a raw, visceral and gut-wrenching account centring around themes of domestic violence and coercive abuse at the hands of a mentally unstable father of two. Staring Denis Ménochet (Mary Magdalene, Entebbe), Léa Drucker and Thomas Giori, Custody (Jusqu’à la garde) is the first feature-length film from the actor turned director who earned an Oscar nomination for his brilliantly received short-film debut Before Losing Everything in 2013.
After being granted joint custody of their 11-year-old son Julien (Giori), despite protestations from the boy and his 18-year-old sister Joséphine (Mathilde Auneveux), Antoine (Ménochet) and Miriam (Drucker) Besson find themselves locked in a bitter dispute which is exasperated by Antoine’s incessant demands and abusive behaviour towards his terrified estranged wife and their two children.
It soon transpires that there is far more to the separation than meets the eye,...
After being granted joint custody of their 11-year-old son Julien (Giori), despite protestations from the boy and his 18-year-old sister Joséphine (Mathilde Auneveux), Antoine (Ménochet) and Miriam (Drucker) Besson find themselves locked in a bitter dispute which is exasperated by Antoine’s incessant demands and abusive behaviour towards his terrified estranged wife and their two children.
It soon transpires that there is far more to the separation than meets the eye,...
- 4/9/2018
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"Which of you is the bigger liar?" Picturehouse UK has unveiled a trailer for the French domestic drama titled Custody, which won Best Director at last year's Venice Film Festival. Written & directed by Xavier Legrand, the film is about a bitter custody battle over an embattled son in the middle of a broken marriage. Custody stars Denis Ménochet, Léa Drucker, Thomas Gioria, Mathilde Auneveux, and Florence Janas. The film received rave reviews out of Venice, described as a "steady crescendo of suspense" by The Film Stage, and "a scintillating separation drama" by the BFI. This trailer promises an impressive, powerful film that shows just how manipulative and destructive custody battles can be, especially on the child(ren). With this and Zvyagintsev's Loveless, some of the best new films are about feuding parents and their kids. Here's the official UK trailer (+ the French poster) for Xavier Legrand's Custody, direct from YouTube: After a bitter divorce,...
- 2/5/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
When a few hundred films stop by the Toronto International Film Festival, it’s certainly impossible to cover everything, but we were able to catch around 100 features — and, with that, it’s time to conclude our experience, following the festival’s own award winners. We’ve rounded up our favorite films seen during the festival, followed by a list of the complete coverage.
Stay tuned over the next months (or years) as we bring updates on films as they make their way to screens. One can also click here for a link to all of our coverage, including news, trailers, reviews, and much more. As always, thanks for reading, and let us know what you’re most looking forward to in the comments below.
The Breadwinner (Nora Twomey)
In the Taliban-controlled Afghan city of Kabul, Nora Twomey’s debut film as sole director (she co-helmed Oscar nominee The Secret of Kells...
Stay tuned over the next months (or years) as we bring updates on films as they make their way to screens. One can also click here for a link to all of our coverage, including news, trailers, reviews, and much more. As always, thanks for reading, and let us know what you’re most looking forward to in the comments below.
The Breadwinner (Nora Twomey)
In the Taliban-controlled Afghan city of Kabul, Nora Twomey’s debut film as sole director (she co-helmed Oscar nominee The Secret of Kells...
- 9/18/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
It didn’t win the Oscar for best live action short in 2014, but Xavier Legrand’s Just Before Losing Everything was by far my favorite nominee. Discovering his debut feature Custody was constructed as an expansion of that story therefore made it a must-see. The short is soon revealed as a prequel, its look at the fallout of domestic abuse hopefully in the rearview considering Miriam Besson (Léa Drucker) readies to plead her case as to why her now ex-husband (Denis Ménochet’s Antoine) shouldn’t retain custody of their son Julien (Thomas Gioria)—his sister Joséphine (Mathilde Auneveux) recently turned eighteen and is free regardless. But while the evidence seems to prove Miriam’s case, a father’s love trumps a lack of concrete proof of his terror. The threat he poses, however, remains very real.
It’s a tense scene—lengthy and dialogue heavy as both parents sit alongside their lawyers.
It’s a tense scene—lengthy and dialogue heavy as both parents sit alongside their lawyers.
- 9/12/2017
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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