New to Streaming: The Love That Lasts, Magellan, Undertone, The Timeframe of Water & More

      Each week, we spotlight the remarkable titles that have recently arrived on streaming platforms in the United States. Below are this week’s picks, with past collections available here.

      **All You Need Is Kill** (Kenichiro Akimoto)

      The latest adaptation of **All You Need Is Kill**—a project by director Kenichiro Akimoto and Studio 4°C—reinterprets the time-loop novel that inspired Doug Liman’s *Edge of Tomorrow* featuring Tom Cruise. It poses the question: what distinguishes this day from all others? Given its two decades filled with alternate adaptations, it seeks to carve out a unique identity through stunning visual flair and a video-game-like narrative structure, while conventional drama takes on a repetitive, mechanical feeling, akin to something previously lived. – Eli F. (full review)

      **Where to Stream:** VOD

      **Alpha** (Julia Ducournau)

      Julia Ducournau has dramatically shifted from her prior work on *Titane*, the gritty and surreal thriller that Spike Lee’s Cannes jury awarded the Palme d’Or in 2021. There’s certainly heightened attention on her latest film, *Alpha*, that wasn’t present with *Titane* after *Raw*. Her first, and without a doubt her most disturbing film, was a cannibal story about a teenage girl entering veterinary school. In this new work, there are no cannibalistic acts or immolation by a fiery car. However, the lives of nearly all characters are in disarray. – Luke H. (full review)

      **Where to Stream:** VOD

      **Atropia** (Hailey Gates)

      Set in the fictional nation of Atropia, everything is treated as real. Located in the southern California desert, the U.S. military-crafted training zone mimics the look, behavior, and even scent of an Iraqi city, filled with actors impersonating insurgents and vendors. Known informally as “The Box,” one of 200 mock villages across the nation, it is designed as an immersive, role-playing environment, serving as a sophisticated warfare simulation for soldiers before their deployment to the Middle East. Upon entering this simulation, the mission is straightforward for combatants preparing for action: complete assigned tasks, immerse in the culture, and survive. – Jake K-S (full review)

      **Where to Stream:** MUBI

      **The Chronology of Water** (Kristen Stewart)

      As a director, Kristen Stewart literally embodies words, carving them into the fabric of her filmmaking with the precision of scars. Breathing underwater is impossible. The adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir is a smothering ordeal, keeping you submerged even as you feel you might resurface for air. By the midpoint, *Chronology* could induce a sense of detachment. Yet you remain transfixed, unwilling to avert your gaze or leave. You propel forward, stretching ahead until you reach the surface and inhale the air. Stewart’s astonishing directorial debut transcends mere catharsis—it captures and comprehends the entirety of what leads to that moment. — Blake S.

      **Where to Stream:** VOD

      **The Love That Remains** (Hlynur Pálmason)

      Picture an Icelandic Sally Mann early in her career, eager for recognition from the high-art world. She survives in a remote rural area, relying heavily on her five-person family to fuel her art. However, instead of chronicling her life through photography, Anna writes using the prolonged daylight; rather than film prints, she creates metal artworks that develop organically throughout the seasons. Now, with this backdrop, envision a heartrending separation unfolding over a year, centered around three children, accompanied by conflicting viewpoints, and the over a decade of bitterness stemming from a fisherman husband’s negligence regarding shared existential aspirations. Hlynur Pálmason’s most significant work to date deeply explores the enduring love that persists between former partners—in all its fragmented, preserved, bitter, tender, simple, and confounding complexity—and the potential futures that might arise. — Luke H.

      **Where to Stream:** VOD

      **Magellan** (Lav Diaz)

      Featuring a Western star and a relatively brief 163-minute runtime, *Magellan* can easily be labeled Lav Diaz’s most “accessible film.” For dedicated fans, however, it’s clearly the culmination of his career so far. In a body of work aimed at addressing a nation grappling with identity and a history of brutal colonization, he turns his focus to the Philippines’ original sin. Forever a provocateur, Diaz challenges the narrative surrounding Ferdinand Magellan, portraying him as a feeble, pitiful figure who inadvertently caused chaos while criticizing our desire to witness it. It’s no coincidence that *Magellan* opens with an indigenous woman startled by a sound off-screen, staring into the camera, screaming, and fleeing: even the seemingly compassionate gaze is complicit, a reality Diaz makes clear. — Brandon S.

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