If you have 40 minutes
When We Were Bullies — Showmax
Director Jay Rosenblatt’s Oscar-nominated short documentary is an interesting experiment that demonstrates the ways in which memories diverge and converge to help shape the course of our lives.
A coincidence leads the filmmaker to reconnect with his fifth-grade teacher and fifth-grade classmates to piece together a shameful school-bullying incident 50 years later, with surprising results.
If you have 100 minutes
Scoop — Netflix
Phillip Martin directs this black dramedy about the behind-the-scenes negotiations that led to the notorious 2019 BBC interview with Prince Andrew about his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Gillian Anderson stars as Newsnight host Emily Maitlis and Rufus Sewell takes the role of the royal in a film written by Geoff Bussetti and Peter Moffat.
If you have 3 hours
Steve Martin: A Documentary in 2 pieces — Apple TV +
His comedy isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, especially after his decision in the 1970s to use it as conscious vehicle for the expression of philosophical ideas around the absurd.
As Morgan Neville’s lovingly crafted two-part documentary demonstrates — with lots of help from Martin and his many admiring fans — Steve Martin’s career from standup to beloved popular comedy film star, has been the result of a long and tortured personal journey that, in his golden years, seems to finally be making him happy.
If you have 5 hours
Curb Your Enthusiasm S12 — Showmax
Larry David returns for what he’s promised is the final season of the cursed adventures of his grumpy, socially inept alter-ego. Given an extra dose of poignance by the final appearances of beloved comedian and lifelong friend, Richard Lewis, it’s a curmudgeonly farewell to one of recent television’s most consistently hilarious creations.
If you have 8 hours
Ripley — Netflix
Andrew Scott takes the role of 20th century literature’s most notorious shape shifting, murderous identity thief — Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley — in this noirish eight-episode adaptation written and directed by Oscar-winning screenwriter Steve Zaillan.
