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Skip to main content Currently Reading New movies to stream this week: 'Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art,' 'Test Pattern' and more Michael O'Sullivan and Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post Feb. 25, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 11 1of11Ann Freedman, the former director of Knoedler Gallery, in the documentary "Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art."Melbar Entertainment GroupShow MoreShow Less 3of11 5of11Kalbinur Rahmati in "A First Farewell."Cheng Cheng FilmsShow MoreShow Less 6of11 7of11"Everything - The Real Thing Story" follows the career of an all-Black soul band in ...

Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune By contrasting two different nights out in Austin, writer-director Shatara Michelle Ford is doing something so canny in her debut indie feature "Test Pattern." Drinks and dancing one night lead to a sweetly awkward meeting between the film's main character, Renesha, and the man who will eventually become her live-in boyfriend. Much later — it could be months, it could be years, it's never specified — a similar night of drinks and dancing will result in Renesha being drugged and sexually assaulted by a stranger. That these two vastly different outcomes can stem f...

New Movies to Watch This Week: 'Nomadland,' 'I Care a Lot,' 'Test Pattern' Peter Debruge, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The treasures of an extended Oscar season just keep on giving, as Venice Film Festival winner and award season favorite “Nomadland” finds its way to theaters — and Hulu subscribers. It’s a special film, about a woman (played by two-time Oscar winner Frances McDormand) who pulls up stakes and travels the country by van, hitting theaters at a time when many people have been reexamining their own lives. So if there’s a safe way to see it, you’d be hard-pressed t...

A dazzling, devastating feature debut. TWITTER Shatara Michelle Ford's film follows a Black woman and her white boyfriend in the aftermath of her rape. In Shatara Michelle Ford’s experimental thriller Test Pattern, light and dark are intertwined. The film is a staggeringly impressive debut, blending color, sound and story to create an intricate emotional tapestry. It begins in the moment before a sexual assault occurs. We meet our main character as she is barely conscious, the glass of water in her hands tipping toward the floor. The screen glows red, letting us know that we are in for s...

You can stream Test Pattern via The Grand Illusion’s virtual screening room starting Feb. 19.