Thanks to her Oscar-winning performance in “West Side Story,” Ariana DeBose‘s star is on the rise. And the actress’s plate for upcoming movies is already full, with roles in “Kraven The Hunter,” “I.S.S.,” and Matthew Vaughn‘s “Argylle” up ahead. Add another one to the list as DeBose will team up with female filmmaking duo Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy, the team behind 2019’s “Blow The Man Down,” for a new psychological thriller.

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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 weekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching. 

Leading this week, we have the movie that seemed like a shoo-in for the Best Picture Oscar clear back in (checks notes) February is out this week on disc and demand, along with a pair of grisly little indies on your subscription streaming platforms.

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Each year, countless films premiere at festivals across the world. Filmmakers are celebrated for their artistic vision. Projects are praised for their ability to push the boundaries of what we expect from national cinemas. Then, just as quickly as these films burst on the scene, many disappear from the public eye. Some fall through the cracks of distribution. Others are snapped up by discriminating studios but languish in the vault as executives work to puzzle out the perfect date and platform for their release.

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Siblings are great for a number of things. They provide love and support throughout your life, especially in times of need. And in the new film “Blow the Man Down,” two sisters test that bond when one gets put in a terrible situation.

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Making its Canadian premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, it premiered at Tribeca earlier this year, “Blow the Man Down” is a mystery thriller about two sisters from a small Maine town that have to join forces to help dispose of a dead body and try to cover up a killing that was committed as an act of self-defense.

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The region of New England, Maine might just be the inverted Florida of the North. While Florida is the obvious hot, sweaty mess we want to ditch into the sea, Maine’s quirks are much more subtle, ambiguous and even deceptive. Secrets, history, baggage, people that keep their cards close to the chest, all of these inscrutable dynamics cleverly come into play with murder, grief, and crime in the inventive and original “Blow The Man Down.”

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Aiming for the off-kilter black comedy of “Fargo,” writer/director team Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy craft a film that’s as initially as cold as the area their characters inhabit.

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