{"id":23673,"date":"2024-07-30T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/?p=23673"},"modified":"2024-07-31T10:48:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T17:48:03","slug":"the-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-the-fall-guy-anselm-the-zone-of-interest-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/the-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-the-fall-guy-anselm-the-zone-of-interest-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: The Fall Guy<\/i>, Anselm<\/i>, The Zone of Interest<\/i>, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalogue titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This twice-monthly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you\u2019re watching.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PICK OF THE WEEK: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Risky Business<\/em><\/strong><\/a>: <\/strong>Though lumped in with the giggly losing-it sex comedies of the time, Paul Brickman\u2019s 1983 smash was no ordinary teen movie<\/a>, in spite of its logline (high school kid turns his house into a brothel while his folks are away) and most iconographic imagery<\/a>. The complicated morality of Brickman\u2019s script, the dreamy vibe of his direction, and the moody score by Tangerine Dream combine to give it the feel of an \u201880s arthouse picture, and its approach to the material is thankfully even-keeled\u2014you never get a sense that the filmmaker is snickering or sneering, or taking the easy route through any of his thorny scenes. It\u2019s one of the best movies of its moment, and in retrospect, one of the most scathing indictments of the ethos of the era. (Includes audio commentary, interviews, screen tests, trailer, and essay by Dave Kehr.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ON MUBI:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Closeness<\/em><\/strong><\/a>: <\/strong>Writer\/director\/star Kit Zauhar\u2019s follow-up to her expertly crafted, minutely detailed 2021 feature Actual People <\/em><\/strong><\/a>feels like the right kind of step forward from that picture, which was a bit of a one-woman show; every character here is written and played with complexities that belie your initial impressions. Zauhar is easy to put into a kind of nu-mumblecore box \u2013 she\u2019s a Brooklynite, making brutally honest relationship movies on low budgets \u2013 but she reminds me more of Cassavetes, putting her thorny characters into long and sometimes genuinely uncomfortable scenes of social situations gone awry, and refusing to let the viewer out of them. It\u2019s a picture that zigs when you expect it to zag, and confirms that Zauhar is one of our most exciting young filmmakers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ON NETFLIX:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Inspection<\/em><\/strong><\/a>: <\/strong>It sounds like Oscar bait, an inspired-by-true-events story of a young gay man, tossed from his evangelical Christian home at 16, who goes into the Marines for the structure, camaraderie, and skills (and, y\u2019know, steady room and board) promised by their ads \u2013 only to find that he\u2019s still an outcast due to his sexual orientation. But there\u2019s real blood and life in this one, thanks primarily to the intensity of the performances; Jeremy Pope is both fierce and vulnerable in the leading role, Bokeem Woodbine is downright upsetting as his sadistic drill sergeant, and Gabrielle Union all but disappears into the role of his hard-edged, unforgiving mother; there\u2019s a whole life lived in the way she holds her omnipresent cigarette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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