Adrien Brody stars in Roman Polanski’s film of the true story of Holocaust survivor Wladyslaw Szpilman, which won three Academy Awards.
Category: Last chance
Steven Spielberg directs ‘The Adventures of Tintin’
Steven Spielberg’s first foray into motion capture filmmaking turns the legendary boy journalist and globe-trotting adventurer of the early graphic novels of Herge into a big screen hero.
Last chance: ‘Star Trek’ – A new beginning on Netflix
J.J. Abrams dares to rewrite Trek lore with an origin story that chronicles the first voyage of the Enterprise crew with a mission that sends them into a whole new chapter of Federation history.
Last chance: ‘Take Shelter’ – Madness and the end of the world on Hulu
Jeff Nichols builds an an apocalyptic thriller around a touching family drama of a troubled father (Michael Shannon) determined to protect his family from the impending Armageddon he sees in his visions.
Last chance: ‘The Right Stuff’ on HBO Max
Philip Kaufman story of the original NASA astronauts is *the* American epic of the last great frontier and a genuinely romantic take on the first generation of space cowboys.
Last chance: ‘The Bird with the Crystal Plumage’ – Dario Argento begins on Criterion Channel
The directorial debut of Dario Argento sets the tone and style for his baroque horror films and the genre he helped define: giallo.
Wong Kar-Wai’s ‘The Grandmaster’ on Starz
Tony Leung stars as martial arts master Ip Man in this lush, romantic take on the martial arts action genre.
‘Amores Perros’ – A dog-eat-dog world on Criterion Channel
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s trilogy of stories connected by a crippling car wreck is quite literally a portrait of a violent dog-eat-dog world in the margins of Mexico City.
Last chance: ‘Kick-Ass’ – wicked superhero fun on Hulu
This darkly satirical superhero movie, based on the uber-violent comic by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., tosses a high school teenager into a crime-fighting culture he isn’t the least bit prepared for.
Last chance: ‘Stranger than Fiction’ – Will Ferrell takes on his author on Netflix
This offbeat, warm-hearted comedy puts a fantastical twist on a time-worn premise, with Ferrell as a man who discovers he’s actually a character in a novel who is doomed to die.