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It’s a gorgeous film, mourning the impossibility of being alive as it celebrates that which binds us, a conscious-rattling, viscera-stirring piece of art. It works in obvious metaphors not for their own sakes, but as seamless extensions of theme. Not only does First Reformed directly butt heads with Dog Eat Dog, but it indulges melodrama without losing its calm. Playing Father Ernst Toller-a minister who in a former life had a wife and a son and a military career, an end brought to all three by that son’s death in Iraq-Hawke has spent the past 20 or so years sublimating the radical tendencies of his iconic slackerdom into a fiercely simmering anxiety, as if the purposelessness of his past malaise has left him stewing on how little he can or could do to change anything in this world. With First Reformed, Schrader’s 20th feature as director, that question absorbs the whole film-not through cries of nihilism, as in his previous, garbage Dog Eat Dog, but as a sustained act of faith: What must the devout do for a world God has abandoned? The question lingers wetly in Ethan Hawke’s eyes as he carries every frame of Schrader’s film. What makes a man start fires? What if that person were a man of God? Paul Schrader, now 71, has perhaps spent his entire career as a filmmaker attempting to ask that question, to breach the impenetrable truth of whatever that question’s answer could be, beginning with Blue Collar, a story of auto workers and union members in Detroit compromising their values to survive in the shadow of forces too large and too immovable to compromise themselves. Stars: Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, and Cedric the Entertainer (It may sound strange to praise a film in those terms, but “viewer immersion” is one quality to which all great art-from brows low to high-aspires.) As a result, if you give 1917 an inch of attention, it will drag you along for miles. In this case, the approach meshes perfectly with the setting and story, pulling the viewer into the tension of trench warfare and the overall horror of a prolonged stay in a place where the enemy is always trying to kill you, while also achieving a certain character-centric intensity that may feel familiar to anyone who has logged many hours in videogames. The “continuous shot” approach, so often a gimmick in lesser films, is executed here with such deftness that it’s fascinating to observe in and of itself-it’s like watching a juggler or tightrope walker pull off a routine …for two straight hours. Nonetheless, 1917 is one of the most technically challenging and visually satisfying movies of the year.
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Like most cinematic sub-genres that have experienced robust popularity and saturation during a decade or two, the war movie benefits from “lying fallow.” (Someday, the same will be true for superhero films, as well.) With Dunkirk, another artfully shot and presented war film-albeit a different World War-still “fresh” in movie-goers’ minds, and another type of Wars movies dominating discussion, it seems unlikely many from those most sought-after demographics are going to say, “Hey, you know what I want to see? A film set during World War I!” No matter that both its director and cinematographer have Oscar statuettes, or that the latter is the Roger Deakins (no slight to Mendes-but just check out Deakins’ resumé). One suspects that Sam Mendes’ latest film might have made a bigger splash at the box office with slightly different timing. Stars: George McKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, Richard Madden, Claire Duburcq, Colin Firth, Benedict Cumberbatch Here are the 30 best movies streaming on Showtime now: Visit the Paste Movie Guides for all our recommendations. You can also check out our guides, some more updated than others, to what’s on other platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO and Redbox, as well as The Best Movies in Theaters.
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A few movies left this list this month, but newcomers like Zola and Minari more than make up for it.Īnd Showtime’s not just a cable add-on anymore: You can add a subscription to your Amazon, Hulu or PlayStation accounts or access it via Apple, Android or Roku devices via Showtime Anytime. We’ve gone through its extensive catalog and collected the best movies available now. The channel not only has a massive library of films, but has a ton of exclusive movies that you just won’t find anywhere else. Showtime boasts one of the largest offerings of streaming movies of any premium cable channel with more than 500 movies available on demand.