To help you navigate choppy digital waves, here are the globe’s best bets for the weekend streaming, with this week’s special edition focusing on a specific type of adult-minded thriller that we’ll call the confidentiality agreement Cinema.
Disney + With Stars
Russell Cro8be and Al Pacino in Insider, directed by Michael Mann.Leaflet
Not sure exactly how it started, but the other night my family started what I came to call our Thriller film Festival confidentiality agreement. For several nights in a row, we watched a very special kind of adult-minded movie – the kind of mid-budget, star-driven movie, not franchise that Hollywood just doesn’t seem interested in doing anymore-and then kept the momentum going. The first title was michael Mann’s classic journalism / legal potboiler Insajderiwhich goes just as hard as I remember from my first look at the hot days of 1999. Al Pacino, a few years from Mann’s Epic theft classic Heating, is as intense as ever as a producer with 60 Minutes, while a young Russell Croflix stuns as the paranoid former tobacco executive who has a lot of secrets to spill.
Michael Clayton (on demand, including Apple TV, Google Play, Prime Video)
George Clooney and Sydney Pollack in Michael Clayton.Myles Aronoantanitz / Associated Press
No one plays a great operator better than George Clooney, and in Tony Gilroy’s 2007 legal thriller, The actor is in the best-suited format. Si Insajderi, Michael Clayton it spins into seemingly benign legal maneuvering that masks all sorts of chilling villainy, with Gilroy (who is today reinventing the universe of Starsibars with Andorpainting a quiet and disturbing portrait of corporate greed. The film also boasts another hallmark of the confidentiality agreement genre: a killer roster of character actors, including Sydney Pollack, Michael O’keefe, Denis O’hare, Ken Hoopardi, and Tomsiblkinson (whose character’s obsession with fresh baguettes would have spawned a million memes if the film had been released in the post-Tantanitter era).
Dark waters (on demand, including Apple TV, Google Play, Prime Video)
Bill Camp and Mark Ruffalo in director Todd Haynes ‘ Darkanthropaters.Mary Cybulski / Focus Features
There are two mysteries in the heart The Dark Waters. The first is how the underrated 2019 film reveals the misdeeds of chemical giant DuPont, who got away with poisoning a West Virginia town for decades. Following the 15-year battle of Cincinnati attorney Robert Bilott (Mark Ruffalo) and tracing his careful and measured approach to uncovering the truth, the film tells a deeply disturbing horror story about corporate wrongdoing. But it’s the second mystery that makes The Dark Waters such a fascinating perspective: what is art favorite Todd Haynes doing by directing a seemingly straightforward legal thriller? The answer is that the director finds his idiosyncratic manner in a genre that can wither to the bone in smaller hands. Many before The Dark Watersthe scenes are shot from a claustrophobic and disturbing perspective: a high pile of DuPont recordings captured from a single angle of flight on the wall, or a long uncomfortable view in the center of Parkersburg, vancomycin. Go. where DuPont’s name is inscribed on every part of the public space. Haynes uses a cinematic language here that speaks, loud and clear, about the suffocating forces Bilott finds himself up against.
It said (On Demand, including Apple TV, Google Play, Prime Video)
Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan in she said, directed by Maria Schrader.Jojosibilden / Universal Pictures
Remember a few paragraphs above when I said that Hollywood doesn’t make movies like this anymore? Well, the reason may be the explosion of the ark of She Said, Director Maria Schrader’s 2022 dramatization of the New York Times ‘ struggle to expose The Crimes of Harvey. Perhaps the release of the film was just an example of too much too soon, but its collapse in the market almost seals the agreement against confidentiality agreement films of decent size for the time being. Which is a shame, because Schrader’s film-while not as cleverly structured as Insajderi or as much pressure as Michael Clayton it is a thoroughly engaging, detail-oriented look at the mechanics of Investigative Journalism.
Syriana (On Demand, including Apple TV, Google Play, Cineplex Store)
George Clooney and Tragilliam are injured in Syria.Associated Press
For every great movie of confidentiality agreement, there must be one that breaks down. At least that’s what I discovered when I was thrown out of a Clooney movie in this 2005 thriller by director Stephen Gaghan (who wrote Trafficit’s another narrative-driven story. There are many-many, indeed-ideas explored here in the landscape of global oil supply, but ultimately it’s the dumb person’s idea of a smart movie, with half a dozen plot threads that go nowhere particular. Honestly, I couldn’t even bother to finish the film before my On-Demand rental period expired, but maybe you’ll feel differently, especially if you’re a superfan of its stranded cast, which includes not only Clooney (in a role that somehow earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor), but Christopher Plummer, Jeffrey Pornbright, Alexander Siddig, Tom McCarthy, Chris Cooper, Mark Strong and Amanda Peet.
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