With cinemas still closed, we highlight the best new streaming releases, from this year's big Oscar winner to a Japanese swan song
While cinemas in the UK remain closed, we'll have to wait a bit 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
Nomadland
Where to watch it: Disney+
Winner of three Oscars, including Best Picture, Chloé Zhao’s beautiful ode to life on the American road arrives on Disney+ right on time, and features yet another landmark turn from the great Frances McDormand, who claimed her third Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as the nomadic Fern (read our full review).
The Mitchells vs. The Machines
Where to watch it: Netflix
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller put their unique and witty stamp on this brilliantly funny animated yarn about a family battling evil androids (read our full review).
Labyrinth of Cinema
Where to watch it: MUBI
The final film from visionary Japanese director Nobuhiko Ôbayashi is a frantic, operatic three-hour love letter to this thing we call cinema (read our full review).
The Disciple
Where to watch it: Netflix
Chaitanya Tamhane helms this quiet drama about a musician whose attempt to master his instrument is upended by a rapidly changing world (read our full review).
Here Are the Young Men
Where to watch it: Various streaming services
Anya Taylor-Joy co-stars in an intensely drawn drama of toxic masculinity about three Irish friends, based on the acclaimed novel by Rob Doyle (read our full review).
Beast Beast
Where to watch it: Various streaming services
Danny Madden’s feature debut offers a disconcerting look at American adolescence, featuring a star-making performance from newcomer Shirely Chen (read our full review).
Still Streaming…
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).
