What to watch March 29, 2024: Movie awards contenders

Matthew Jacobs
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Prepare to feast. Or dance. This week’s streaming debuts include two visually sumptuous films that will whet your Easter-weekend appetite.

The contender to watch this week: “The Taste of Things“

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France lost out on an Oscar nomination when the country’s selection committee chose Trần Anh Hùng‘s savory romance about a venerable chef (Benoît Magimel) and a gifted cook (Juliette Binoche) instead of eventual Best Picture nominee “Anatomy of a Fall.” But even if the movie didn’t make the Best International Feature Film category, it earned an immediate spot in the culinary canon. Like the documentary “Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros,” last year’s other great food movie, “The Taste of Things” is kitchen porn. In the warmly lit countryside, the gourmands prepare veal loins, roasted vegetables, baked Alaska, and the creamiest omelet you’ve ever seen. Select theaters are still showing the film, but it’s newly available on VOD.

Other contenders:

  • “Stop Making Sense”: A24’s restoration of Jonathan Demme’s celebrated Talking Heads documentary grossed $6.9 million worldwide, an impressive figure for a 40-year-old concert film. Now you can copy David Byrne‘s “Burning Down the House” moves from the comfort of your living room. “Stop Making Sense” is on VOD. 

  • “Lousy Carter”: Fresh off “Oppenheimer,” David Krumholtz plays a narcissistic literature professor given six months to live in the latest dark comedy from Bob Byington (“Infinity Baby”). It’s opening in select theaters and debuting on VOD simultaneously. 

  • “Ordinary Angels“: Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank headlines this inspirational drama written by Meg Tilly and Kelly Fremon Craig. Based on the true story of a Kentucky hairdresser who helps to save the life of a terminally ill girl, “Ordinary Angels” has grossed a decent $19.1 million and counting. Catch its tear-jerking ways on VOD. 

  • “Lisa Frankenstein“: The teen comedy written by Diablo Cody and starring Kathryn Newton fizzled in theaters, but maybe it can rise from the dead on Peacock. Newton plays an outcast who romances a reanimated Victorian zombie (Cole Sprouse). 

  • “When You Finish Saving the World“: Jesse Eisenberg‘s second directorial effort, “A Real Pain,” which Searchlight Pictures bought at Sundance for a reported $10 million, is being positioned as one of this year’s potential awards darlings. His directorial debut, a mother-son dramedy starring Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard, is streaming on Netflix. 

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