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Tuesday 9 June 2020
The 10 best movies released since theaters were shuttered

By JAKE COYLE and Feldstein) from a down-
LINDSEY BAHR trodden U.K. town invents
AP Film Writers a larger-than-life persona
Believe it or not, a lot of new to help get a foot in the
films have been released door in the male-dominat-
since movie theaters were ed world of music writing.
shuttered by the coronavi- (Available for digital rental)
rus pandemic — and a lot — Bahr
of good films. — "Crip Camp: A Disability
They have arrived by Revolution": The decades-
streaming service, cable long struggle for the equity
television, on-demand, of people with disabilities
drive-in and even Insta- is the central and most
gram. But the movies have important part of Nicole
kept coming. Here are 10 Newnham and Jim LeBre-
favorites of AP Film Writers cht's Netflix documentary.
Jake Coyle and Lindsey But for a film that tells a vital
Bahr: and under-told history, it's
— "Driveways": A grace- also uncommonly loving,
fully understated film about celebratory and spirited. In
about next-door neighbors "Crip Camp" we see a so-
— one an eight-year-old cial movement fueled by
boy (Lucas Jaye), the other the passion of remarkable
a retired Korean veteran This image released by IFC Films shows Rob Brydon, right, and Steve Coogan in a scene from "The individuals. — Coyle
( Brian Dennehy, in one Trip to Greece." — "The Trip to Greece":
of his last performances) Associated Press There is a poignant mel-
— who become unlikely be sentimental, but Ahn's are all tenderly human. The writer-director Alice Wu ancholy to "The Trip to
friends, Andrew Ahn's ex- touch is true, and the per- beautiful final shot is ach- ("Saving Face") in her first Greece." It's partly because
quisitely gentle little movie formances of the three ingly sweet. (Available for film in 15 years, "The Half of it might just be the last time
has felt blessedly nourishing leads (including Hong digital rental.) — Coyle It" follows a whip-smart Chi- Steve Coogan and Rob
this spring. The tale might Chau, as the boy's mother) — "Never Rarely Sometimes nese-American student El- Brydon take their semi-fic-
Always": Eliza Hittman's lie (played by the wonder- tionalized versions of them-
Review: Identical twins "Never Rarely Sometimes ful Leah Lewis) who reluc- selves out for an impres-
Always" will break your tantly helps a romantically sion-soaked spin around a
veer apart in moving heart, and you'll be glad challenged football player picturesque locale. But it's
it did. This quiet, sharp and woo the beautiful and soul-
also a beautiful reminder of
‘Thin Girls’ deeply felt drama about a ful Aster (the girl of both of everything that we're miss-
teenage girl in rural Penn-
their dreams). It's an origi-
ing, and the little and big
sylvania who must travel to nal gem that didn't get half luxuries that we can't even
New York to get an abor- the buzz it would have had afford to dream about right
gerous path of extreme tion is the kind of film that the Tribeca Film Festival not now: Travel, food, wine,
dieting. Meanwhile, as if burrows deep into your be- been canceled because friends. (Available for digi-
to compensate for Rose’s ing and stays with you long of the pandemic. — Bahr tal rental.) — Bahr
weight loss, Lily begins eat- after. Newcomers Sidney — "The Vast of Night": An- — "Bad Education": This
ing and eating and eating. Flanigan and Talia Ryder drew Patterson's stunning true-life suburban crime
Both girls struggle with body capture the unease of sim- directorial debut (stream- drama, which premiered
and mental health issues ply existing in their teenage ing on Amazon) is a low- last fall at the Toronto In-
well into adulthood. When girl bodies when the world budget sci-fi thriller set in ternational Film Festival,
we meet them, Rose is liv- sees them only as objects a small town in 1950s New might very well have been
ing in an anorexia rehabili- to be possessed and con- Mexico. With sound and destined for Oscar buzz.
tation facility and Lily has trolled. (Available for digital shadow it summons a fully Instead, it went straight
found herself in an abusive rental) — Bahr realized vision of mid-cen- to HBO and very likely the
relationship, addicted to a — "New York, New York": tury paranoia with more Emmys, should they hap-
new and dangerous fad Spike Lee has an ambi- contemporary filmmaking pen. In Cory Finley's film, a
diet, and in complete de- tious Vietnam War veteran flare, including a memo- Long Island school district
nial that anything in her life film, "Da 5 Bloods," coming rable long-take prowl becomes enmeshed in an
This image released by Harper needs to change. to Netflix, but he's already through town. Rarely do embezzlement scandal
shows "Thin Girls" by Diana Alternating between flash- made possibly the most in- new directorial talents an- that has its prim superinten-
Clarke. backs and the present day, delible and moving film of nounce themselves this dent (Hugh Jackman) and
Associated Press “Thin Girls” is a captivating the pandemic. Set to Frank clearly. — Coyle assistant superintendent
By MOLLY SPRAYREGEN story of the Winters twins’ Sinatra, the three-minute — "How to Build a Girl": (Allison Janney) fighting for
Dark, poignant and grip- road to recovery as they short "New York, New York" A portrait of a writer as a their jobs. Jackman and
ping, Diana Clarke’s “Thin work to help each other simply and straightforward- young, talented and messy Janney, both, make grand
Girls” is sure to be unlike through issues of body im- ly captures lockdown in woman, "How to Build a bamboozlers. — Coyle
anything else you’ve read. age, love, identity and sex- Lee's home city. A galva- Girl," based on Caitlin Mo- — "Shirley": Josephine
Identical twins Rose and uality. Clarke succeeds at nizing tribute to New York ran's semi-autobiograph- Decker's prickly, unnerving
Lily Winters are deeply con- creating a story that feels when it needed it most. — ical novel, is the fanciful, "Shirley," about the reclu-
nected, but in high school wholly unique while at the Coyle empowering and funny sive author Shirley Jackson,
their relationship begins to same time wholly relatable — "The Half of It": This Netflix opposite side of the "Never is set a '50s Vermont college
grow complicated. Rose’s for young women who en- sleeper is smarter than your Rarely Sometimes Always" town but also takes place
desperation to be cool dure so many of the chal- average Cyrano-inspired coin, in which a teenage in the gothic realm of one
leads her down a dan- lenges Rose and Lily face.q high school dramedy. From girl (a delightful Beanie of Jackson's own stories.q