While his unnerving 1993 debut, “Clean, Shaven,” really floored audiences who saw it back in the day, when director Lodge Kerrigan’s belated third film “Keane” first made the rounds on the festival circuit in the fall of 2004, it reintroduced the filmmaker to the forefront of a then-flourishing American independent cinema. In the nervy, visceral portrait of a paranoid father searching for his abducted daughter and finding a surrogate in a pre-fame Abigail Breslin, he proved how much can be done with a modest budget under one mil and a spirit of resourcefulness.

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When Steven Soderbergh takes a filmmaker under his wing and aegis and tries to give him a little lift, that’s bound to mean that the filmmaker is exciting and worth the watch. Before they broke out big, Soderbergh shouted out filmmakers like pre- “Moonlight” Barry Jenkins and Amy Seimetz. Another filmmaker Soderbergh was an early champion of was Lodge Kerrigan, the filmmaker behind the excellent debut “Clean, Shaven,” and more recently “The Girlfriend Experience” on Starz.

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Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

This week’s selection of new disc and streaming movies includes two horror classics on 4K, four noteworthy 2021 releases, and the usual (as in, excellent) selection of catalog titles from Criterion, KL Studio Classics, and Warner Archives.

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It’s been a rocky four-plus years in American foreign policy, and nowhere is this more apparent than in “Stillwater,” the new thriller-slash-family drama from “Spotlight” director Tom McCarthy, which premiered out-of-competition at Cannes. Partially inspired by the Amanda Knox trial, but mostly a strangely affecting family drama concocted by screenwriting team Thomas Bidegain, Noé Debré, and Marcus Hinchey, the film totters uneasily between the two modes over the course of 140 minutes, never quite finding its footing.

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It’s a loose riff on the Amanda Knox story, basically. A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn’t commit. That’s the story of “Stillwater” starring Matt Damon and Abigail Breslin, from Tom McCarthy, the director behind the Oscar-winning Best Picture “Spotlight” (2015). McCarthy really directed the hell out of that lean, no-nonsense procedural, and one presumes he’ll do the same with “Stillwater,” his first feature since 2020’s “Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made.” (yes, he’s been busy).

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It’s been a long time since we’ve heard anything from Academy Award winner Tom McCarthy, the director of “Spotlight,” and his dramatic thriller, “Stillwater,” which was seemingly shot a long time ago but delayed by the pandemic. Starring Matt Damon, Abigail Breslin, and Camille Cottin, “Stilwater” centers on a father who travels from Oklahoma to France to help his daughter, who has been arrested for murder.

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The world has greatly changed over the last ten years. Technology has greatly advanced, smartphones and social media are ubiquitous, filmmaking has changed, and the advent of streaming services has transformed the movie industry while giving rise to new voices. Society has evolved too, the political landscape completely altered in the age of Trump. But like death and taxes, you can always count on some studio to deliver a belated sequel that arrives way past its sell-by date and adds nothing, let alone cultural value from when it last left off.

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After a decade, the wait is almost over. “Zombieland: Double Tap” is back with another trailer before it drops in theaters later this month. The zombie comedy sees the return of its core group of survivors, played by Emma Stone, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, and Abigail Breslin continuing to face the challenges of life after the apocalypse. The sequel to the 2009 smash hit seems to continue on with the original’s survival road trip motif.

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2009’s surprise zombie comedy hit “Zombieland” settled into a joyful niche in the aughts comedy scene. It escaped the overexposure its ’09 genre peer “The Hangover” suffered from while being just about as funny and paved the way for talents like Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick to break out in the screenwriting world.

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Memories of the infamous Bill Murray extended cameo and endless quotable lines still linger to this day, and if you had to poll folks on which films from the last 10 years were deserving for sequels, “Zombieland” would probably come up.

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3-Hour TV Remake Of 'Dirty Dancing' Starring Abigail Breslin On The Way

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Review: 'Maggie' With Arnold Schwarzenegger Doesn't Play Into The Usual Expectations Of The Zombie Movie

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Watch: Arnold Schwarzenegger Tries To Survive Being Terminated By His Zombie Daughter In 3 Clips From 'Maggie'

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Tribeca Review: Arnold Schwarzenegger's Zombie Movie 'Maggie'

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Watch: First Trailer For Arnold Schwarzenegger's Zombie Pic 'Maggie' With Abigail Breslin

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TIFF First Look: Arnold Schwarzenegger & Abigail Breslin In The Zombie Flick 'Maggie'

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Watch: Abigail Breslin Gets Hunted In Trailer For 'Final Girl'

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Exclusive: Join The Murder Club In Clip From 'Perfect Sisters' Starring Abigail Breslin

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Review: Sprawling, Sneering 'August: Osage County' Starring Meryl Streep & Julia Roberts

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Review: 'Ender's Game' Starring Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Hailee Steinfeld & Abigail Breslin

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Review: Vincenzo Natali's 'Haunter' Starring Abigail Breslin

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TIFF Review: 'August: Osage County' Starring Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts & More

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Watch: Final Trailer For Sci-Fi 'Ender's Game' Lifts Off

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Watch: Abigail Breslin Faces A 'Haunter' In Trailer For New Film From 'Splice' Director Vincenzo Natali

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SXSW Review: Frighteningly Dull 'Haunter' Missing Vincenzo Natali's Usual Edge & Inventiveness

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Watch: New Trailer For 'The Call' In Which Halle Berry Answers 911

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