This week on The Movie Gourmet:, new reviews of The Tale of King Crab and Mau.
CURRENT FILMS
- Compartment No. 6 is the best new film in theaters now, but hard to find. It’s an insightful and unpredictable dual character study set on a train ride to Murmansk. In theaters.
- Everything Everywhere All at Once: often indecipherable and mostly dazzling. In theaters.
- The Automat: nickels in, memories out. In theaters.
- Mau: fact-based optimism and thinking big. In theaters.
ON VIDEO
The most eclectic watch-at-home recommendations you’ll find ANYWHERE:
- Strawberry Mansion very trippy and ultimately sweet fable. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- Oscar Micheaux: Superhero of Black Filmmaking: a pioneer worth knowing about. HBO Max.
- Erotic Fire of the Unattainable: captivating docufiction. Amazon (included with Prime), YouTube.
- Buy Me a Gun: children in the narcolypse. Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube.