With two of the best Netflix Original Films already under his belt in Marriage Story and The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), Noah Baumbach cashed in all his equity & goodwill to adapt what many said was an unadaptable novel in Don DeLillo’s 1985 critical success White Noise, a novel that follows a year in the life of a death-obsessed Hitler Studies professor and his family as they traverse through the challenges of a chemical spill turned airborne toxic event, an illegal prescription drug trial, & a seedy motel confrontation at gunpoint. A surprise hit for Netflix.Ĭast: Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Madison Daughan However, I felt that this film spends more time with a reasonable & laudable plot for Lady Chatterley that made you feel her pain, as well as her release and it pays off.Įmma Corrin and Jack O’Connell have real chemistry that makes you grin, giggle, & blush throughout their courtship. It’s a story that shows an aristocratic woman suffering through a level of suffocation & discontent that feels a piece with what Pablo Larrain tried to display in Princess Diana’s arc in Spencer or what Marie Kreutzer put forward for the Empress Elisabeth of Austria in this year’s Corsage. My admiration stems from what it wasn’t as much as what it accomplished. But, in the end, the film was too engrossing to deny. Lawrence’s enduring 1928 novel ended up on this list. I share this only to emphasize how remarkable it is that Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s adaptation of D.H. While that probably says more about me than the films themselves, it is, nonetheless, the truth. Redmayne was recently nominated for a Golden Globe for his supporting performance.Ĭast: Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, David Thewlis, Louis Partridge, Helena Bonham Carter, Susan Wokoma, Adeel Akhtar, Sharon Duncan-Brewsterįull disclosure: Period pieces centered on romantic entanglements are typically not the type of films that make my “Best of” lists at the end of the year. The film is driven by the ensemble cast led by Chastain and Eddie Redmayne as Charlie. However, when patients start to die off in a mysterious fashion, the police start to question whether Amy’s Godsend is actually working on a darker level.īased on the book by Charles Graeber, The Good Nurse is a solid thriller that combines the skills of director Tobias Lindholm’s previous work on Mindhunter and HBO’s The Investigation with the writing prowess of scribe Krysty Wilson-Cairns (1917, Last Night In Soho). Enter Charlie Cullen: a new hire on the overnight nursing staff that appears almost as an angel for Amy when he takes over caseloads, watches her children, and covers for her when her illness sidelines her during her shifts. With a year that saw Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story become a massive success on the TV side, it should come as no shock that the same appetite (not sorry) for that show would spill over into the success of another serial killer story.īilled as “based on the unthinkable true story,” The Good Nurse centers around Amy Loughren (performed admirably by newly crowned Oscar Winner Jessica Chastain), who is struggling to keep afloat after a life-threatening heart condition and a demanding position as an overnight nurse constantly wear this single mother down. The next evolutionary step would be to bring back the true crime docudrama. Over the years, Netflix has been the epicenter for the resurgence of the true crime documentary. After Les Miserables was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature, Athena followed suit with a Gotham Awards nomination for the same category.Ĭast: Eddie Redmayne, Jessica Chastain, Nnamdi Asomugha, Noah Emmerich, Kim Dickens, Malik Yoba, Alix West Lefler Produced & co-written by Les Miserables director Ladj Ly, there is no question that he has a type that seems to be working. One of those swings came in the form of Roman Gavras’ French thriller Athena, a chaotic and gripping fireball of a film centered around three siblings’ reaction to the tragic death of their youngest brother.Ī non-stop riot for almost its entire duration, Athena brings you front and center for the mayhem with cleverly stitched together tracking shots and relentless violence typically reserved for big-budget crime dramas like Heat or The Dark Knight. Particularly following Alfonso Cuaron’s Oscar-winning drama Roma, Netflix seems to take larger swings with their international selections with hopes of more awards contention. As Netflix becomes increasingly global, its film studio seems to follow suit.
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