This Week in Streaming (March 18th)

Anora (Hulu) This year’s Oscar darling finally makes its streaming debut nearly five months after it hit theaters. Mikey Madison plays a stripper who goes Pretty Woman when she meets the succubi son of a Russian oligarch and makes a madcap journey through New York City to keep her dreams from falling into shambles. As we said last fall, “Though Anora works largely due to the impeccable casting of Madison and Yuriy Borisov as a put-upon pseudo-hood, [director Sean] Baker’s choice to anchor his world within the realm of Russian-American strivers and smalltime oligarchs gunning for global respect allows him to rewrite romcom and indie conventions without ever descending into the most obvious strains of white liberal guilt.”

Perry Mason (Peacock and Paramount+) Nearly sixty years on, Raymond Burr’s stint as the legendary primetime defense attorney remains one of the medium’s all-time great performances. A show that begs for a rewatch and a legion of fans to take it into the next generation.

Buffalo 66 (Prime) Indie provocateur Vincent Gallo triple threats in his firecracker of a debut as an ex-convict who kidnaps Christina Ricci from her tap-dancing class and asks her to impersonate his wife when he is forced to go back home and deal with his Bills-obsessed parents (Anjelica Huston and Ben Gazzara). There’re a lot of reasons Gallo never became the next Paul Thomas Anderson. None of them is talent.