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.

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It is a loaded week on the disc and streaming front, with three big titles on three big streamers, a wonderful new music documentary, and a boatload of first-rate catalog titles.

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Normally, when a person has to make the decision to transition their aging loved one into a nursing home, the conclusion is reached after a ton of discussion and emotional conversations. That’s not the case in the upcoming film, “I Care A Lot.”

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As seen in the trailer for the film, “I Care A Lot” stars Rosamund Pike as Marla Grayson, a professional guardian of older people that turns a profit from shipping off folks to nursing homes and cashing out with their other possessions.

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Rosamund Pike clearly relishes the opportunity to play characters with a bit of a nasty streak. Whether it’s earning critical acclaim as the conniving Amy in David Fincher’s “Gone Girl” or as a surgeon on a mission of revenge in the little-seen B-movie “Return to Sender.” Her latest film, “I Care A Lot,” is screening at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival and, once again, finds her going full throttle as an unexpected anti-hero.

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Fans of “Gone Girl” who have been patiently waiting for star Rosamund Pike to sink her teeth into another delectably devious role, rejoice. J Blakeson’s “I Care a Lot” provides the best showcase of Pike’s darkly ambitious drive since her Academy Award-nominated breakthrough in 2014. None of this is intended as a slight to her work in the interim, to be clear. But there’s just something joyous in seeing that devilish twinkle return to Pike’s eye as she charges forward to fulfill her objectives, regardless of the pain it causes others or the lies she must tell along the way.

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Not to overstate the obvious, but yes, it’s been a weird, horrible year as the pandemic not only upended our lives but the entire film and television industry. This year, that meant, so far, no SXSW, no Cannes, and no Telluride since the geniuses in the White House and their poor response meant the United States was hit the hardest (two of those three festivals being American, obviously).

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