![]() ![]() ![]() Saudi Arabia’s first female filmmaker Haifaa al-Mansour returns to her native country, from an excursion in the US, with this powerful and moving portrait of a woman running for local city council. ![]() (iTunes, BFI Player, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Sky Store, Virgin Media, Sony) There are scares, some dark League of Gentlemen-style comedy and brilliant performances from its central pair, all before a doozy of a climax. Spellbinding and brilliantly weird, Vivarium plays like a feature-length Twilight Zone episode, with Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots trapped in an empty and creepily identikit planned community and unable to escape. Togo, meanwhile, is much better – inspired by the real-life story of a team of sled dogs transporting medicine across wintry Alaska in 1925, it features a number of exciting action set pieces and a characteristically magnetic performance from Willem Dafoe. That movie, starring Harrison Ford and a not-particularly-convincing CGI collie, died in cinemas in February. Togo was generally well enough received upon its US streaming debut last December that you wonder if Disney regretted not releasing it in cinemas rather than the similarly doggy Call of the Wild. (iTunes, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Sky Store, Virgin Media) A potentially soapy, even unbelievable, premise is instead rendered incredibly moving by the film’s smart and lived-in storytelling. She’s a single mother with a restless teenage daughter (Sophie Nelisse), who invites the destitute woman who helped break up her marriage to live with her. Heather Graham delivers the best performance of her career in this gentle drama from director Aisling Chin-Lee. (iTunes, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Sky Store, Virgin Media, Sony) Despite surrounding himself with a brilliant ensemble that includes Susan Sarandon, Jon Hamm, Audrey Tautou and Christopher Walken, Turturro struggles to make his film appealing to anyone outside hardcore Lebowski fandom – and even they may be slightly underwhelmed. Access unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows with Amazon Prime Video Sign up now for a 30-day free trial Sign upĪ film nobody particularly asked for, and possibly few will be satisfied by, The Jesus Rolls is John Turturro’s Big Lebowski spin-off movie, as well as a remake of the French farce Going Places. ![]()
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