Movies Update: Watching From Home

Plus, pushing the envelope with “Top Gun”

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By Mekado Murphy Movies Editor

Hi, movie fans!

So, have you made it all the way through Netflix yet? As Hollywood reassesses amid the pandemic, we’re thinking about what you can watch at home. Maybe you’d like to try out a genre that’s gotten a bad rap? Pack in a few movies with short running times? Or look at what happens when presidents in the movies are faced with a crisis?

Check out these and other ideas for keeping yourself entertained at home. Happy viewing!

Paramount Pictures   Your Weekend Watch With Tony And Manohla Who’s Your Wingman Now? Pushing the Envelope With ‘Top Gun’ You all stayed home with Maverick, Iceman, Goose and two critics who still feel the need for speed. Here’s what happened. By Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott

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STREAMING RECOMMENDATIONS Netflix   Short Attention Span? All These Movies Are Under 90 Minutes These 12 films, all streaming on Netflix, will satisfy your itch for fresh content without demanding much of your time. By Jason Bailey Sony Pictures   Gateway Movies Don’t Get What’s So Great About Westerns? Start Here The films of Budd Boetticher and Randolph Scott are short but complex and suspenseful. And the wide-open vistas are sure nice, right now. By Ben Kenigsberg

MOVIE REVIEWS Steve Honigsbaum/Netflix   Critic’s Pick ‘Crip Camp’ Review: After Those Summers, Nothing Was the Same This feel-good documentary recounts the ties of a Catskills summer camp to American disability rights activism in the 1970s. By Ben Kenigsberg IFC Films   ‘Resistance’ Review: Save the Children In this disjointed Holocaust drama starring Jesse Eisenberg, a French actor leads Jewish orphans to safety. By Jeannette Catsoulis Saban Films   ‘Vivarium’ Review: This Is Not Your Beautiful House Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots play a young couple trapped in a housing project and given an onerous task: child rearing. By Glenn Kenny Netflix   Streaming Movie Review ‘The Platform’ Review: An Accidentally Timely Political Allegory Netflix’s gnarly class commentary certainly isn’t subtle. But it gets the job done. By Jason Bailey Nina Robinson/Netflix   Streaming Movie Review ‘Uncorked’ Review: A Fresh Take on the Father-Son Drama A young man seeks to become a master sommelier in this drama from Prentice Penny. By Lovia Gyarkye Quim Vives/Netflix   Streaming Movie Review ‘The Occupant’ Review: Knock First A once-successful man becomes a stalker in this Netflix thriller. By Amy Nicholson Full Moon Films   ‘Tape’ Review: That’s (Not) Entertainment Two aspiring actresses face the same abuser in Deborah Kampmeier’s over-sauced revenge story. By Jeannette Catsoulis Vertical Entertainment   ‘Banana Split’ Review: Preparing for the Worst and Finding a Bestie Rivals Hannah Marks and Liana Liberato bond behind a boyfriend’s back in this familiar but engaging teenage comedy. By Ben Kenigsberg

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NEWS & FEATURES Fine Line Features   More Movies Need an Oscar-Winning Actress Reacting Emotionally to Opera Right now, we may need that, too. By Kyle Buchanan HolLynn D'Lil/Netflix   The Activist Star of ‘Crip Camp’ Looks Back at a Life on the Barricades Judy Heumann, a galvanizing force for disability rights in the new Netflix documentary, explains how summer camp set her path. By Deborah Leiderman Paramount Pictures, via Getty Images   When Our (Fictional) Presidents Are Tested by Their Moments Sometimes these leaders of the free world rose to the challenge, and sometimes they sunk as low as you can get. By Joshua Rothkopf Vincent Tullo for The New York Times   Select Film Festivals and Indie Movies Figure Out Online Access They were canceled or postponed amid the coronavirus outbreak, but these ad hoc efforts let you support filmmakers and art houses without going to a theater. By Ben Kenigsberg Claudette Barius/DC Comics and Warner Bros.   Cathy Yan on the Rerelease of ‘Birds of Prey,’ the Harley Quinn Movie The director reflects on her experience making the spinoff, which is getting an accelerated on-demand release amid the coronavirus outbreak. By Dave Itzkoff Eli Durst for The New York Times   For Drive-In Theaters, an Unexpected Revival A retro tradition get a (temporary) boost from social-distancing edicts. By Alyson Krueger

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