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What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend: April 30-May 2 Including The Mitchells Vs. The Machines, Tom Clancy's Without Remorse and Catching A Serial Killer: Bruce McArthur By Norman Wilner and Kevin Ritchie Apr 30, 2021 N OW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of April 30. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms. About Endlessness (Roy Andersson) The arrival of a new Andersson movie every few years should be heralded as an event, even if the idiosyncratic Swedish auteur seems to be running out of things to say. Where 2014’s A Pigeon Sat...

  Short Synopsis: This doc about a son who takes his 75-year-old mother on a bucket-list adventure to reclaim her life also explores the issue of economic insecurity her generation is experiencing. Long Synopsis: Duty Free is a feature-length documentary about an immigrant mother, who, after working every day of her life to support her two kids on one paycheck, is abruptly fired from her job at the age of 75. As she struggles to find new work to support herself, her son decides to repay her sacrifices by taking her on a bucket-list journey to do all of the things she was never able to do whi...

Listen • 5:35 About Endlessness opens with the visual of a couple (Jan-Eje Ferling and Tatiana Delaunay) floating through gray, cloudy skies. About Endlessness is a fitting title for a movie about the futility of the human condition, but happily, the movie itself is anything but a slog. For one thing, it's only 76 minutes long. And in every one of those minutes, it strikes an exquisite balance between deadpan humor and acute despair, offset by the faintest glimmer of hope. It's the latest film from the great Swedish writer-director Roy Andersson, who isn't as well known...

Print The Times is committed to reviewing theatrical film releases during the COVID-19 pandemic. Because moviegoing carries risks during this time, we remind readers to follow health and safety guidelines as outlined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local health officials. Something funny happened the other day while I was working on a radio review of “About Endlessness,” the latest film from the Swedish writer-director Roy Andersson. At least, it would have been funny to someone watching me; it certainly wasn’t funny to me at the time, which is what makes it seem, ...

Although it begins with a shot of a couple in each other’s arms, floating over beds of gray clouds, “About Endlessness” is one of the least fanciful of Roy Andersson’s films. There’s less of the deadpan surrealism that tinged his prior, singular movies—which include a trilogy made between 2000 and 2014 comprising “Songs from the Second Floor,” “You, the Living,” and “A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence"—which may be seen as a good thing. Given that one of the fruits of that deadpan surrealism was a grievously ill-advised bit concerning African slaves in �...