| Kyle Buchanan Pop Culture Reporter | | Hey, movie fans! It's your faithful Carpetbagger. | | This week's major releases include "Men In Black: International" and "Shaft," two long-dead franchises that have been wanly resurrected, as well as Jim Jarmusch's zombie comedy "The Dead Don't Die," which has different matters of reanimation on its mind. Critics have been mostly indifferent to this trio, so you may have to go hunting for a good new film this weekend. | | Fortunately, there are several Critics' Picks to seek out, including "Our Time" from the dependably surreal director Carlos Reygadas, "Hampstead," a love story with Diane Keaton and Brendan Gleeson, and the music documentaries "Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes" and "Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese," the latter of which you can catch on Netflix. Or you could skip them all and watch HBO's weekly Meryl Streep variety hour, "Big Little Lies." What I'm saying is, you've always got options. | | Speaking of options, Amazon just announced a September 27 release date for one of the year's best films, the fact-based Adam Driver/Annette Bening drama "The Report," but the really interesting thing is that the company will bring it to Prime two weeks later on October 11. This is a new approach for the streamer, which had formerly released films like "Manchester by the Sea" and "The Big Sick" into theaters months before they showed up at home, but it's not dissimilar to the brief window Netflix is currently using for its prestige films. Expect a lot more of this as new streamers get into the awards game, and keep an eye out next weekend for a big feature I wrote where the Amazon Studios chief Jennifer Salke and two dozen other Hollywood figures talk about all these big changes to the movie industry. | | |
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