What to watch this weekend August 30, 2024: Movie awards contenders

Liam Mathews
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Our top pick this week is five-time Academy Award nominee Yorgos Lanthimos’ black comedy “Kinds of Kindness,” which is now streaming on Hulu. It’s Lanthimos’ third collaboration with Emma Stone, after “The Favourite” and “Poor Things.” It’s unlikely to make as strong a showing at the Academy Awards as those two, but that’s pretty much by design, as the film’s anthology structure and darkly absurdist tone make it not the kind of thing that wins Oscars. Jesse Plemons did win Best Actor at Cannes, though, so he could be a longshot contender in that category, especially at the Golden Globes.

The film consists of three loosely connected stories about people experiencing various forms of severe distress. In addition to Stone and Plemons, the cast includes Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, and Mamadou Athie. 

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Here are some other movies to stream this weekend:

“The Deliverance”: You don’t see a lot of demonic possession movies with predominantly Black casts, so this inspired-by-true-events horror flick from director Lee Daniels is pretty unique just for that. On top of that, you don’t see a lot of horror movies that feature three Academy Award nominees — Andra Day, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, and Glenn Close — and one Academy Award winner (Mo’Nique, working with Daniels for the first time since “Precious”). And you’ve never seen a movie where Glenn Close looks like this. It’s now streaming on Netflix.

“The Fall Guy”: Director David Leitch’s feature-length tribute to stunt performers would be a contender for Best Stunt Coordination if that category existed (which it should). It doesn’t yet, so for now this is just a charming action comedy starring Academy Award nominees Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. Gosling plays a stuntman who has to find the movie star he doubles when the actor goes missing, while Blunt plays the director of the film/Gosling’s character’s resentful ex he’s trying to win back. “The Fall Guy” is streaming on Peacock. 

“A Quiet Place: Day One”: This prequel to the “Quiet Place” films is now on Paramount+ after overperforming at the box office earlier this summer. Lupita Nyong’o stars as a terminally ill New Yorker trying to hold on as aliens with super-sensitive hearing take over the world. The cast also includes Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff, Djimon Hounsou, and Nico and Schnitzel as Frodo the cat. It’s the second film from rising writer-director Michael Sarnoski, who previously made the acclaimed drama “Pig.” 

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