The Best Movies To Buy Or Stream This Week: ‘Worth,’ ‘Mona Lisa’ &More

Since Daniel Craig nearly left the iconic 007 role, following the disaster of “Spectre,” the title of his final Bond film, director Cary Joji Fukunaga’s “No Time To Die,” has carried a cruelly ironic tone. Craig has had nothing but time: days, months, and now years added to his sentence as the man who orders his martini best shaken, not stirred.

Since Daniel Craig nearly left the iconic 007 role, following the disaster “Spectre,” the title to his final Bond film, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, titled “No Time to Die,” has carried a cruelly ironic tone. Craig has had nothing but time: days, months, and now years were added to his sentence as the man who orders his martini best shaken, not stirred.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

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One wild night! The 2021 MTV Video Music Awards was a nonstop party from start to finish — giving fans a bunch of memorable moments to talk about.

MTV’s 2021 Video Music Awards scored high marks for bringing eye-popping performances and show-stopping surprises back to Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Sunday, after the show was displaced by the pandemic last year. From Madonna’s bootylicious opener to wild outfits to unexpected snubs, shade and actual brawls, here’s a recap of the best and worst moments of the night.The Material Girl left some of her material at home.

BTS and Olivia Rodrigo, the long-awaited return of concerts, and a season-ending showdown between Kanye West and Drake, there is much more music to be pumped about this fall. Here, the must-hear albums and must-see shows that are getting ready to rock your world.“star-crossed,” Sept.

Real psychiatric hospitals haven’t used straitjackets for decades, but no self-respecting genre filmmaker is going to let that get in her way. From the moment Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon provides a ceiling’s-eye view of Jeon Jong-seo writhing on the white floor of her white hospital room, buckled up inside a canvas wrap, we know exactly where we are. Man, that chick is crazy, blip city! That’s what that straitjacket is telling you.

Kate Hudson crouches down on the red carpet to play with director Ana Lily Amirpour‘s dog at the premiere of Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon during the 2021 Venice International Film Festival on Sunday (September 5) in Venice, Italy.

Like finding a grubby, balled-up bill in your spangly g-string and uncrumpling it to discover doughy old Ben Franklin staring benignly back at you, Ana Lily Amirpour‘s third feature is a sweet, scuzzy surprise made all the sweeter/scuzzier because you don’t know quite what you did to deserve it.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic“Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon” opens where any good stylishly ironic demon-out-of-water fairy-tale thriller should: in an insane asylum. That’s where Mona Lisa (Jeon Jong-seo), a catatonic waif, is seated on her knees in a straitjacket.

A pop-culture pastiche artist, filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour has anchored her now three-strong filmography less around a shared a visual aesthetic or thematic concern than around a very singular vibe: It’s as if the girl walked home alone one night, music in her ear buds, perspective chemically altered, imagination running wild and decided, in that moment, to spend the rest of her career exploring it in film. Which is a noble project, don’t get me wrong, especially given the ways Amirpour takes

Panelists at the press conference for Ana Lily Amirpour’s Venice Film Festival competition title Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon today said they have experienced feeling like an outsider, a theme that runs through the story.