Streaming this week: Lost Daughter, Dickinson series finale, Boba Fett
Here’s a collection curated by the Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.
Movies
• Maggie Gyllenhaal’s feature directing debut, The Lost Daughter, scintillatingly adapts the 2008 Elena Ferrante novel about maternal ambivalence and a holiday in Greece. The film, which begins streaming Friday on Netflix, stars Olivia Colman as a vacationing professor whose interactions with a boisterous, clan (including a young mother in their midst played by Dakota Johnson), recall her own parenting history, seen in flashbacks with Jessie Buckley. The Lost Daughter cleaned up last month at the Gotham Awards, which honour independent film, and topped AP film writer Lindsey Bahr’s best-of list for 2021.
• In the year-end rush of new movies, it’s been easy to miss Mike Mills’ tender, shaggy indie gem C’mon C’mon. The film, which became available Dec. 23 for digital rental and video-ondemand, stars Joaquin Phoenix as a radio journalist who temporarily takes care of his nineyear-old nephew (Woody Norman). Shot in black-and-white and featuring interviews with real kids peppered throughout, C’mon C’mon is an open-hearted movie about parenting with personal resonances for Mills, Phoenix and Norman.
• Holiday festivity might call for a favourite cocktail or a warm fire, but it can, and should, also mean a Technicolor movie. Thankfully, the Criterion Channel collects titles made with this lush colour process so you can run through a glittering array of options to fill some of the darkest days of winter. Drink in Vertigo, bathe in The River or sink into The Red Shoes. Your eyes will thank you. — Jake Coyle
Television
• The book is closing on Dickinson, the Peabody Award-winning series starring Hailee Steinfeld in a reimagination of Emily Dickinson’s youth. In the series finale streaming now on Apple TV+, the poet’s work is flourishing, but there’s strife in her family and across Civil War-torn America. For viewers playing catch-up on the concluding 10-episode third season, its new and returning guest stars include Ziwe as Sojourner Truth; Billy Eichner as Walt Whitman; Chloe Fineman as Sylvia Plath; Zosia Mamet as Louisa May Alcott and, as Death, Wiz Khalifa.
• A looming figure in the Star Wars canon is coming into his own. The Book of Boba Fett, starting Wednesday on Disney+, tracks the bounty hunter and mercenary Fennec Shand as they attempt to claim Tatooine land once controlled by Jabba the Hutt and his criminal syndicate. Temuera Morrison stars as Fett opposite Ming-Na Wen’s Shand, with Jon Favreau and Robert Rodriguez among the seven-episode series’ producers and directors. A trailer offers insight into Fett’s viewpoint: Declaring he will rule with respect, he makes an offer to Jabba’s former captains that has a The Godfather ring to it. Episodes are out weekly on Wednesday.