The Best Movies New To Every Stream In October 2021
As the leaves begin to turn and the chill of autumn settles in, October 2021 brings a host of cinematic delights to your favorite streaming platforms. This month, film enthusiasts can look forward to an eclectic mix of genres and styles, from spine-tingling horror flicks perfect for Halloween to heartwarming dramas and high-octane action films.
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Whether you’re a fan of classic cinema, looking for the latest blockbusters, or in search of hidden gems, the streaming services have something special lined up for you. Dive into our curated list of the best movies new to every stream this October, and get ready to update your watchlist with must-see films that will keep you entertained all month long.
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The Velvet Underground” (dir. Todd Haynes, 2021)
Hypnotically vibrating in the fuzzy black space between a very special episode of “Behind the Music” and the longest film that Stan Brakhage never made, Todd Haynes’ “The Velvet Underground” is a documentary (his first) by a man whose previous musical tributes include a glam-rock fantasia that gave David Bowie the “Citizen Kane” treatment, a “Mishima”-esque kaleidoscope that refracted Bob Dylan through the infinity mirror of his own myth, and an underground Karen Carpenter biopic that cast the late singer as a literal Barbie doll.
“Jennifer’s Body” (dir. Karyn Kusama, 2009)
The Criterion Channel is celebrating Halloween with a can’t-miss series of Universal Horror classics (because it isn’t spooky season until Boris Karloff says it’s spooky season) and a spine-tingling collection of home invasion classics that all seem that much scarier after spending so much of the pandemic with nowhere else to go — picks in that surprisingly varied retro range from obvious go-tos like “Funny Games” and “Black Christmas” to out-of-the-box selections like Nagisa Oshima’s “Violence at Noon.”
“Rookie of the Year” (dir. Daniel Stern, 1993)
Disney+’s October lineup of library titles is predictably light, but I have some good news for anyone who pines for the days when major studios made live-action family movies about little league pitchers whose broken arms allow them to throw supersonic fastballs and lead the Cubs to the World Series: “Rookie of the Year” will be available to stream just in time for the end of the MLB postseason. Did anyone else not realize that this masterpiece was directed by Daniel Stern!? The Wet Bandits did well for themselves, after all.
“My Little Sister” (dirs. Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond, 2020)
The great German actress Nina Hoss is naturally associated with Christian Petzold (who’s directed her in the fantastic likes of “Phoenix” and “Barbara”), but too closely associating her with only one filmmaker risks overlooking so much of her best work. For proof, look no further than Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond’s sharp yet tender “My Little Sister,” in which Hoss plays a woman tasked with caring for her twin brother Sven — a high-profile stage actor — in the aftermath of his leukemia diagnosis.
“Dune” (dir. Denis Villeneuve, 2021)
While this column ostensibly exists to highlight the best movies new to various platforms each month, one of its main functions is to underscore what differentiates them all from each other; when a movie as immense as “Dune” is streaming exclusively on HBO Max, for example, overlooking the arrival of Denis Villeneuve’s spice opera just because the author of this column was disappointed by it would seem a disservice to our readers.
“Force Majeure” (Ruben Östlund, 2014)
Ruben Östlund’s withering “Force Majeure” is still as potent and cringe-worthy as ever — and for some married men of a certain age, it might even be the scariest thing you could watch this Halloween. Here’s what IndieWire’s Chris O’Falt had to say about the film when it ranked on our list of the last decade’s best films:
SOURCE: INDIE WIRE
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