This Week in Streaming (October 15th)

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MaXXXine (Max) Just in time for Halloween, the conclusion to the horror trilogy Ti West began in 2022 with X and Pearl makes its streaming debut. Final girl Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) treks to 80s Los Angeles as she sets her sights on Hollywood stardom while evading a serial killer who might just be the infamous Night Stalker. As we said this summer, the best horror film of 2024 is a bombastic and often hilarious interrogation of stardom and ideological fundamentalism that features the performance of Kevin Bacon’s career.  

Disclaimer (Apple TV+) For his first foray into television, Gravity and Children of Men director Alfonso Cuarón enlists Cate Blanchett as a lifelong muckraker who receives a package containing a novel by an anonymous writer that exposes her own list of serial transgressions. With a top-shelf cast, including Kevin Kline, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Lesley Manville, it’s the fall’s unmissable prestige drama. 

Only Lovers Left Alive (Prime) Indie film legend Jim Jarmusch’s languid character study of two vampires (Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston) at the margins of Detroit met indifference upon its release back in 2014. But, few films have maintained their effervescent cool–much less their allegorical warnings of our Rust Belt decline–this well a decade after their release.