What to watch this weekend October 11, 2024: Movie awards contenders
This week’s top pick, “The Last of the Sea Women,” isn’t a top-tier Best Documentary contender, but it’s in the conversation, thanks to its moving subject matter, beautiful cinematography, and NETPAC Prize win at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The A24-produced doc tells the story of the haenyeo divers of South Korea’s Jeju Island. For centuries, women have been diving — without oxygen — to the ocean floor to harvest seafood for their livelihood. But most of the current haenyeo are senior citizens, and their traditional way of life is threatened by modernity and climate change. But the haenyeo are feisty old scrappers, and they fight back against polluters using social media as a messaging and recruitment tool. You’ll want to join them after you see their camaraderie and resilience. It’s now streaming on Apple TV+.
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Here are some other movies to stream this weekend:
“Tuesday”: Eleven-time Emmy winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus will not be receiving her first Oscar nomination for this offbeat A24 film, but she nevertheless gives arguably her finest dramatic performance to date as a mother who helps process her terminally ill teenage daughter’s (Lola Petticrew) impending passing with the help of a size-shifting, bass-voiced parrot that’s actually the embodiment of Death. It’s the debut of promising filmmaker Daina O. Pusi?, and it’s now on Max.
“Bad Boys: Ride or Die”: The fourth film in the “Bad Boys” franchise is a big, loud, dumb, fun time like the rest of them, if you’re into its particular brand of excess. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return as Miami cops Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett, who are trying to expose a conspiracy and clear their late boss Joey Pants’ unjustly besmirched reputation. Adil & Bilal, who took over for Michael Bay on the franchise-restarting “Bad Boys for Life,” return for this one. It’s likely to be the #1 movie on Netflix for the next two weeks.
“Lonely Planet”: Netflix’s latest romance film stars Oscar winner Laura Dern as a novelist with writer’s block who goes to a retreat in Morocco and meets a younger man (Liam Hemsworth) who helps her get her groove back. It’s a conventional change of pace for Dern, who gets a much-deserved vacation from being in emotional peril in every movie. “Unbelievable” creator Susannah Grant directs.
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