What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend: May 14-16
Including reviews of The Underground Railroad, The Killing Of Two Lovers, In The Earth and more By Norman Wilner and Radheyan Simonpillai
May 14, 2021
OW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of May 14. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
The Killing Of Two Lovers
(Robert Machoian)
Machoian’s solo debut as a writer/director after more than a decade of collaborations and documentaries is a spare, aching and almost unbearably sad drama about thirtysomething David (Clayne Crawford), a husband and father in rural Utah mired in a domestic crisis. He’s separated from his wife Nikki (Sepideh Moafi) and their children. Nikki appears to be moving on. David has a gun. He badly wants to use it. But The Killing Of Two Lovers isn’t that simple. Machoian immediately complicates his story by showing us who David is when he’s not blinded by rage, and then complicates things fur
Review: The Underground Railroad searches for beauty amidst horror
Review: The Underground Railroad searches for beauty amidst horror
Barry Jenkins s adaptation of Colson Whitehead s novel is cognizant of how Black suffering is turned into spectacle By Radheyan Simonpillai
William Jackson Harper and Thusu Mbedu share a quiet moment in The Underground Railroad.
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (Barry Jenkins). All 10 episodes available to stream Friday (May 14) on Amazon Prime Video Canada. Rating:
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As breathtakingly beautiful as it is, The Underground Railroad can also be a traumatizing watch. The 10-part limited series is directed by Barry Jenkins. He brings the romantic aesthetic and focus on Black love we see in his films like Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk to this adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.