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The new films that need to be added to your spring watchlist ASAP
April 15, 2021 7:11 pm
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Still trying to get a booking at the best rooftop bars for a post-lockdown pint? Worry not, because we’ve rounded up the best new films to watch this spring to keep you entertained in the meantime.
From Kate Winslet’s incredible portrayal of groundbreaking palaeontologist Mary Anning in Ammonite, to Carey Mulligan’s turn as a revenge-seeking college dropout in the much-anticipated Promising Young Woman (directed by none other than The Crown’s very own Camilla Parker-Bowles), here are the best films spring 2021 has to offer.
Historical drama “The World to Come” has so much going for it — atmosphere, locations, situational tensions and performances — that its lingering diffuseness is puzzling, like a promised but undelivered rain for a well-laid seedbed.
The weight of seasons is a time marker of sorts for this 19th-century lesbian romance between neighboring pioneer wives played by Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby, and in director Mona Fastvold’s stark, attentive movie, the interior weather is as fully expressed as the exterior kind. But in adapting short story maestro Jim Shepard’s tale of intense attraction bred in unforgiving isolation, the movie mistakes wordiness for worthiness and telling for showing.