‘A Little Prayer,’ ‘Splitsville’ and More Streaming Gems
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Two of last year’s best indies — a family drama and a no-holds-barred sex comedy — are among the many treasures on your subscription streaming services this month.
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Of all the movies relegated to home consumption and quickly forgotten during the Covid lockdown, few have lost more of their impact, or been as unjustly memory-holed as this modest Western drama, which reunited Tom Hanks with his “Captain Phillips” director Paul Greengrass. Set in Texas in the 1870s, it features Hanks as a Civil War vet who makes his living traveling from place to place with a stack of newspapers, sharing the events of the outside world. It’s a meager but easy living, complicated when he takes it upon himself to deliver an orphaned girl (Helena Zengel, excellent) to faraway relatives. Greengrass’s frontier photography is gorgeous, but the real journey here is an emotional one, and at its best, “News” recalls the psychological prickliness of classic Westerns by Anthony Mann and Budd Boetticher.
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