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MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM: 4 STARS It’s hard not to watch “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” the vibrant adaptation of August Wilson’s play of the same name, now streaming on Netflix, without feeling a sense of loss. It’s Chadwick Boseman’s last performance and the life he brings to the role of ambitious trumpet player Levee acts as a poignant reminder of a career cut tragically short. Set in the roaring 1920’s Chicago, Viola Davis plays the titular character, a real-life musical trailblazer known as "Mother of the Blues." On a sweltering day in a dank basement recording studio, ...

Linguistic scholars will not be happy with the English translation for the title of this Danish film. When it was released in Denmark, it was called “Druk,” a Danish term for binge drinking. American audiences are getting it as “Another Round,” a happier-sounding, more celebratory version of the term. There are funny moments, but this is also a dark drama. Suggesting that a relationship with alcohol is an everyday kind of thing in Denmark, and that it starts early on, the film opens with high school seniors taking part in beer-drinking and foot race competitions. Teachers ...

His cinematic return to Denmark is about four 40-something pals, all teachers, who get together for one of their birthdays. They seem to be doing well, but for Martin (Mads Mikkelsen). He teaches high school history, but not with much enthusiasm. One of his three buddies (Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe, and Magnus Millang) hatches a crackpot idea, inspired by something he read; the average person has a deficit of alcohol in their blood — that a 0.5% blood alcohol level gives people added confidence. Martin points out many great men enjoyed a good tipple. And right in the middle of this we ge...

Mads Mikkelsen (centre) will drink to anything in Another Round. NOW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of December 18. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms. Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg) Director/co-writer Vinterberg’s latest reunites him with Mads Mikkelsen for a film slightly looser but no less unforgiving than their last collaboration, 2012’s The Hunt. Another Round casts Mikkelsen, Lars Ranthe, Magnus Millang and Vinterberg mainstay Thomas Bo Larsen as high-school teachers who embark on a radical experiment: would their careers and relat...

actually intoxicated, Mikkelsen and his three co-stars spent time stumbling around and destroying the inside of a supermarket while filming—what he called a "terrible day" for some behind the scenes. "Once you kind of wind each other up, and we get more and more inspired by crazy stuff, we start behaving like little children and there's no way they can control us." he says, reflecting on the four men "drunkenly" stumbling through a grocery store. "So that was a very busy day for the cameraman." Another Round, a dramedy re-teaming Mikkelsen with director Thomas Vinterberg (the two previ...