Watch List Weekly Recap 6/9/23
French Westerns, Facebook nerds, film classics for feckless teens, and a fiery two-character drama in theaters.
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A gently weird neo-Western with a tremendous four-cornered cast to start the week.
A new Watchcast and one of my favorites to date: Odie Henderson, The Boston Globe’s new film critic, brings his background as an IT guy to illuminate “The Social Network,” David Fincher’s 2010 Facebook drama and a movie that’s even scarier than when it came out.
On a whim Thursday, I posed a chat prompt: Which five classic movies would you show a teenager to hook them, and hook them good? 100+ replies and counting — feel free to dive in.
The Friday What to Watch wanders all over the place, from a 1987 line-up of Hollywood stars, to a three-star two-actor hothouse drama to Sir Ben Kingsley as Salvador Dali to a career retrospective of the greatest director who ever lived. (Says me.) Should be something for everyone here.
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