Indie Fresh List: One Night in Miami, MLK/FBI, and Promising Young Woman
Join us weekly as Rotten Tomatoes reports on what’s indie features are streaming. From promising releases by new voices to experimental efforts from storied filmmakers – or perhaps the next indie darling to go the distance for end-of-year accolades – we will break it all down for you here each week.
This week in our inaugural 2021 installment of Indie Fresh List, we have a theater adaptation about a famed night in history, a historical political documentary about MLK and the FBI, and newly available on VOD, a tale about a young woman going to extreme lengths to handle grief — and get vengeance. In our Spotlight Section, we have a recent drama starring The Crown’s Vanessa Kirby and a fantastical documentary about people with autism who are non-verbal. Catching up on some trailers that dropped while we were on hiatus, we have new clips featuring Zendaya, Daniel Kaluuya, Rosamund Pike, Trevante Rhoades, and Tilda Swinton.
Along with…
94%
Alone
(2020)
, a thriller about a woman on the run who is stalked by a violent predator.
100%
All In: The Fight for Democracy
(2020)
, a documentary that examines the fight against voter disenfranchisement.
98%
David Byrne’s American Utopia
(2020)
, a Spike Lee-directed concert documentary of Talking Heads frontman David Byrne’s live stage show.
64%
Bad Hair
(2020)
, a horror film about a young woman who gets a killer weave.
97%
Billie
(2020)
, a documentary biopic on famed jazz singer Billie Holiday.
, a writer struggling to find story heads to a remote cabin to meet married friends and make potentially inspirational mischief between the couple.
73%
Black Box
(2020)
, a thriller about a widower recovering from a traumatic brain injury who undergoes experimental treatment.
78%
The Broken Hearts Gallery
(2020)
, a rom-com about an aimless twenty-something who creates an art exhibit to showcase items from past relationships as a means to find closure.
81%
Charm City Kings
(2020)
, a drama about a young man who is seduced by the Baltimore street bike community.
89%
The Climb
(2020)
, a comedy about a pair of best friends whose relationship is tested when one of them gets involved with a woman.
90%
The Dark and the Wicked
(2020)
, a horror film about a pair of siblings who discover something sinister when they return to their childhood home to care for their dying father.
93%
Another Round (Druk)
(2020)
, ANOTHER ROUND.
92%
Dear Santa
(2020)
, a documentary about the long tradition of the United States Postal Service’s Dear Santa program.
98%
Disclosure
(2020)
, an in-depth documentary about trans performers on screen.
98%
The Forty-Year-Old Version
(2020)
, about a middle-aged playwright who looks to re-invent herself by returning to her hip hop roots.
79%
I Am Greta
(2020)
, a powerful documentary on climate activist Greta Thunberg.
69%
Kindred
(2020)
– A young pregnant woman suspects the family caring for her has nefarious intentions for her unborn child.
76%
Radium Girls
(2020)
, about a group of female dial painters who take on the system after they discover their employer has been knowingly infecting them with deadly radium.
93%
Residue
(2020)
, about an Ethiopian filmmaker who heads home from school to find his community is unrecognizable.
96%
Shithouse
(2020)
, a coming-of-age romantic comedy about a wild night on a college campus.
81%
Synchronic
(2020)
, a sci-fi thriller about a pair of best friend EMTs who get caught up in a series of strange events while on duty.
98%
Time
(2020)
, a documentary about a woman’s fight to free her husband from prison.
89%
Unpregnant
(2020)
, a comedy about two former best friends who cross state lines to terminate an unwanted pregnancy.
89%
The Wolf of Snow Hollow
(2020)
, a dark comedy-thriller about a Sheriff who appears to be the only person not convinced the town is being terrorized by a werewolf.
Rosamund Pike plays a nefarious assisted living CEO who tries to con the wrong person (Dianne Wiest) and gets in over her head.
The Human Voice
Tilda Swinton stars in Pedro Almodóvar’s (Pain & Glory) first English-language film — and clocking in at 30 minutes, it’s a short one — inspired by the play of the same name by Jean Cocteau about a woman dealing with some personal issues in dramatic fashion.
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Recording artist-turned-actress Audra Day and Trevante Rhodes appear in this clip from the long-awaited biopic about Jazz legend Billie Holiday and her frequent legal troubles.
More than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story
An examination and celebration of the unseen life of actor Pat Morita, who the world knew as the sage Karate sensei Mr. Miyagi.
A second trailer from the upcoming historical thriller Judas and the Black Messiah goes in-depth on the figures from the dramatized take on the assassination of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton; starring Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield.
Zendaya and Tenet’s John David Washington give us more on their characters in the soulful second trailer from Euphoria creator Sam Levinson’s shot-in-quarantine feature Malcolm & Marie.
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