Martha Marcy May Marlene
(20th Century Fox, $30)
Sean Durkin’s directorial debut “has a marvelous unease about it that never leaves,” said the Orlando Sentinel. Elizabeth Olsen delivers a “career-making performance” as a young woman trying to readjust after escaping a cult. The “journey through all her moods” is a “chilling experience.”
The Week
Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.
Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
All Quiet on the Western Front
(Universal, $40)
“Hollywood has produced hundreds of war films,” but few match this 1931 Oscar winner in portraying the brutality of war, said USA Today. After a group of German schoolboys enthusiastically join the army, their dreams of glory are “shattered by combat’s grim realities.”
Anatomy of a Murder
(Criterion, $30)
Otto Preminger’s “provocative 1959 courtroom drama” is finally available in its original wide-screen format, said the Montreal Gazette. In a film that was “ahead of its time,” James Stewart plays a small-town lawyer defending a young army officer accused of murder. Ben Gazzara and Lee Remick co-star.
-
Bluetoothing: the phenomenon driving HIV spike in FijiUnder the Radar ‘Blood-swapping’ between drug users fuelling growing health crisis on Pacific island
-
Marisa Silver’s 6 favorite books that capture a lifetimeFeature The author recommends works by John Williams, Ian McEwan, and more
-
Book reviews: ‘We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution’ and ‘Will There Ever Be Another You’Feature The many attempts to amend the U.S. Constitution and Patricia Lockwood’s struggle with long Covid
