Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix KIMBERLEY FRENCH/NETFLIX © 2021īased on Sally Wainwright’s 2009 British miniseries Unforgiven, Sandra Bullock stars in The Unforgivable as Ruth Slater, a former convict who attempts to rebuild her life in the aftermath of a brutal crime. As Evan searches for hints of beauty in his school’s everyday drabness - Chbosky’s aesthetic could be fairly described as “the ‘before’ part of a commercial for mood-altering medication” - the film gets stuck in the banality he’s trying to escape. At his corniest, he illustrates that Evan has gone viral by flinging a flurry of smartphone video responses through a black vacuum until they coalesce and form an Instagram photo. Director Stephen Chbosky ( The Perks of Being a Wallflower) similarly struggles to create a scale sufficient to fill the silver screen.
His veiny, strangulated delivery while singing is the only way he can convey his inner turmoil, working against the wooden inertia of his posture and blocking. Platt’s technically accomplished, otherwise disastrous performance starts to make more sense as an act of compensation. Is this a “so bad it’s good” kind of musical, or just plain bad? From our review, There’s been a lot of chatter about the film since it first came out, not the least of which directed at Platt’s, uh, questionable portrayal of an adolescent youth.
Where to watch: Available to stream for $5.99 on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu Photo: Erika Doss/Universal PicturesĪdapted from the Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical of the same name, Stephen Chbosky’s coming-of-age musical film Dear Evan Hansen stars Ben Platt as a high school senior with Social Anxiety disorder who embarks on a journey of self-discovery in the wake of the death of a classmate. To help you get a handle on what’s new and available, here are the new movies you can watch with the click of a button this weekend. Not to mention Encounter, the new sci-fi family drama starring Riz Ahmed on Amazon Prime! If you’re feeling up to going out to the theater this weekend to get your musical fix, not to worry - there’s plenty of new and exciting releases to watch from home on VOD and streaming.ĭear Evan Hansen, the divisive theatrical adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical, is finally available to rent on VOD, while the 2021 drama The Unforgivable starring Sandra Bullock is finally streaming on Netflix following its limited theatrical premiere. Today marks the premiere of West Side Story, Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the iconic 1957 musical written by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim.
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