From Netflix to Prime Video, and Shudder to the Criterion Channel, here are the best movies coming to each streaming platform this month.
By David Ehrlich
“Nocturnes” (dirs. Anirban Dutta & Anupama Srinivasan, 2024)
Metrograph at Home’s April lineup is slim compared to the platform’s usual slates, but its tribute to the documentaries of Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan is unmissable. Here’s IndieWire’s own Kate Erbland on the hypnotic “Nocturnes”:
“At first, you will likely think you’re hearing steady raindrops falling on the large, lit-up tarp that ecologist Mansi Mungee and her Bugun assistant Bicki carefully spread out each night in the far reaches of the Eastern Himalayan forest. It’s a gentle, constant patter, soothing and a little strange. But as filmmakers Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan pull out from the tarp, into the clear and dark evening air, you’ll realize: it’s not rain, it’s moths.
In ‘Nocturnes,’ Dutta and Srinivasan’s alluring, immersive documentary, such discoveries are commonplace, an unfolding stream of curious observations that build to a deeply satisfying conclusion. But that doesn’t mean that the film‘s end in any way signifies, well, an end, as it seems more likely to inspire a desire for continued engagement and education on the winged creatures that populate it. Put it this way: If audiences don’t walk out of “Nocturnes” immediately googling ‘hawk moths,’ they’ve simply been too temporarily dazzled to re-enter a world of fast-paced technology. That’s a good thing.”
Available to stream April 1.
Other highlights:
– “Film About a Father Who” (4/1)
– “Joonam” (4/1)
– “Flickering Lights” (4/1)