What to watch October 13, 2023: Movie awards contenders

Matthew Jacobs
·3 min read

It’s a modest week for streaming releases. Is everyone afraid to go up against Taylor Swift? But there’s one must-watch title that will ignite the right kind of movie nostalgia. 

The contender to watch this week: “The Burial“

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Hollywood studios used to love a spicy courtroom drama, so it’s nice to spend two hours with a genre that’s often such a rousing actorly showcase. Here, it’s Jamie Foxx who struts and speechifies his way through a real case involving a Mississippi funeral-home owner (Tommy Lee Jones) caught up in a corporate contract dispute that winds up implicating far more than his business. Directed and co-written by Maggie Betts (“Novitiate”), “The Burial” is refreshingly old-fashioned and often quite funny, with Foxx delivering a performance that in a less-crowded year would make him an easy Best Actor candidate. Watch it on Prime Video. 

Other contenders:

  • “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One”: The industry was flummoxed in July when Tom Cruise‘s seventh “Mission” installment saw tepid box-office returns. The once-indomitable franchise, and seemingly always-indomitable star, were suddenly vulnerable. Still, director Christoper McQuarrie continues to up the ante on the, ahem, impossible set pieces that Cruise daringly takes on. If the SAG Awards happen next year, “Dead Reckoning” could show up in Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble. The film is available for purchase on VOD platforms ahead of an expected Paramount+ debut later in the year. 

  • “Sound of Freedom”: Dare we even get into it? This highly controversial, highly lucrative sleeper hit about child sex trafficking is available on an app called — *checks notes* — Angel Studios, which is run by the distributor that backed the movie. It also arrives on regular VOD platforms on November 3, if you can wait that long to watch Jim Caviezel raise the world’s consciousness. 

  • “Fremont”: A festival favorite that blends slice-of-life humor with weighty geopolitical drama, “Fremont” stars newcomer Anaita Wali Zada as an Afghan refugee ambling through her staid new life in California. The film, which also features Jeremy Allen White and Gregg Turkington, is now on VOD. 

“It Follows”: If you want something scary for Friday the 13th, David Robert Mitchell‘s stellar debut — a key token of the 2010s’ indie horror boom, and a three-time Indie Spirit Award nominee — is newly streaming on Netflix.

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