With cinemas still closed, we highlight the best new streaming releases, from an Aubrey Plaza mind-bender to a MeToo satire
While cinemas in the UK remain closed, we'll have to wait a while longer for the proper big screen experience. Fear not: we’ve rounded up the best of the latest streaming releases to keep you entertained until the capital's dream palaces return. Whatever you're in the mood for, from bold dramas to enlightening documentaries, WeLoveCinema has you well and truly covered…
New Releases
Black Bear
Where to watch it: Various digital platforms
Aubrey Plaza gives her best performance yet in this twisty meta movie about trauma and filmmaking from writer-director Lawrence Michael Levine (read our full review).
Red Moon Tide
Where to watch it: MUBI
A village in the Spanish region of Galicia finds itself frozen in time in a strange but fascinating portrait of a community that’s dripping with ominous mood (read our full review).
I Blame Society
Where to watch it: Various digital platforms
Gillian Wallace Horvat stars as a filmmaker-turned-serial killer in a self-referential mockumentary send-up of post-MeToo Hollywood (read our full review).
Homeward
Where to watch it: Curzon Home Cinema
This drama of cultural displacement and family reconciliation finds an estranged father and son transporting a body through the Ukrainian countryside (read our full review).
Spring Blossom
Where to watch it: Curzon Home Cinema
This breezy romance about a young woman's relationship with an older man was written and directed, remarkably, by its star Suzanne Lindon when she was just twenty-years-old (read our full review).
Still Streaming…
Promising Young Woman
Where to watch it: NOW
Oscar-nominated director Emerald Fennell helms this disorienting and electric exploration of grief, featuring a devastating lead turn from Carey Mulligan (read our full review).
Sound of Metal
Where to watch it: Prime Video
Riz Ahmed gives his best performance to date as a drummer who finds his world turned upside down after learning he has degenerative hearing condition (read our full review).
Love and Monsters
Where to watch it: Netflix
This balls to the wall blend of sci-fi and comedy, set during the aftermath of a global monster apocalypse, stars Dylan O’Brien and Jessica Henwick.
True Mothers
Where to watch it: Curzon Home Cinema
Sweet Bean director Naomi Kawase returns with a strange and idiosyncratic drama about a difficult adoption, based on a novel by mystery writer Mizuki Tsujimura (read our full review).
Valley of Souls
Where to watch it: MUBI
This slow and mystical drama, set in divided Columbia, chronicles a father’s obsessive quest down river to reclaim the bodies of his dead sons (read our full review).
