Art imitates life, and so it is with cinema that depitcs the mundanity of everyday life. Slip away from your to-do-list and inhabit another character’s everyday universe with our roun-dup of the best slice of life movies to stream.
Director Crystal Moselle based Skate Kitchen on NYC’s eponymous crew of young female skateboarders, who actually play fictionalized versions of…
Hurt people hurt people, the saying goes, and nowhere is that more evident than in Hard Truths. Directed by Mike…
For public toilet cleaner Hirayama, “enjoy the little things in life” is more than just an adage: it’s a philosophy.…
Aptly for a film partly set in a fortune cookie factory, Fremont deals with luck — specifically, the other side…
This bittersweet comedy centers on Sam Fox (Pamela Adlon), a single mother and working actress doing her best to get…
Only a few people in Dita’s house are related by blood, but you wouldn’t know that by how they move.…
With the internet able to connect people from miles away, the concept of the one that got away has become…
Mars One is a tender, wholesome drama that centers on The Martins, a family of four living on the fringes…
Renowned British director Ken Loach’s signature traits are present in The Old Oak: simple, humanistic, and unapologetically hopeful. But this…
On the one hand, American Fiction is a razor-sharp satire that pokes fun at the hypocrisy of the literary and…
Since we live in a society, interacting with authority is inescapable. Terrestrial Verses depict fairly mundane day-to-day interactions– getting a…
At two hours and nearly 30 minutes, Stonewalling is quite long. The third film from spouses Ryuji Otsuka and Huang…
Nakedness has been demonized or at least, has been considered inappropriate outside of certain situations. One such situation is the…
Small Things Like These is the kind of film that doesn’t have a grand resolution, a dramatic climax, or a…
The concept of The New Years is simple: It’s the multi-year glimpses of a relationship like One Day, except on…
This stagelike historical drama is about a meeting between Malcolm X, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke, and Muhammad Ali, the night…
By remaining totally committed to its quiet, drama-free, observational style of documentary filmmaking, Mr. Bachmann and His Class ends up…
While named as a “how-to”, How to Have Sex is less of an instruction manual, and more of a collection…
Places evoke certain emotions, but even the most rundown, cramped projects feel special when they’re home. We Grown Now is…
On one level, Alcarràs is a story about land, about how inextricable it is to livelihood, about how ownership of…
Belfast stars Outlander’s Caitríona Balfe as the mother of a working-class Northern Irish family during The Troubles. Religious tension and…
Given the genre being centered on a child protagonist, many coming-of-age stories sideline parents in the narrative, sometimes to the…
Minari is a film written and directed by Lee Isaac Chung, about a Korean-American family in search of the so-called…
Herself tells the story of Sandra (Clare Dunne), a single mother who runs away from her abusive husband to start…
Like people, places have things that change and things that remain the same. Most of us keep our thoughts about…
This beautiful drama is set over a summer in New York State. Kathy and her son Cody drive to her…
Following his sophomore feature Cha Cha Real Smooth, writer-director Cooper Raiff made his way to television with family dramedy Hal…
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