‘The Order,’ ‘The Outrun’ and More Streaming Gems
A handful of last year’s best (yet overlooked) indies are among this month’s hidden treasures on your subscription streamers.‘The Order’ (2024)Stream it on Hulu.This tightly-wound mixture of political thriller and police procedural from the director Justin Kurzel was sadly lost in the shuffle of the year-end prestige pictures. It dramatizes the true story of the title organization, a more-extreme splinter group of the Aryan Nation that was linked to multiple crimes, motivated both by money and by hate, in the early 1980s, including the killing of the Denver talk radio host Alan Berg. Jude Law, working in the gruff, lived-in manner of a middle-aged Gene Hackman, stars as an F.B.I. agent who is tracking the Order’s activities, while Tye Sheridan as a local deputy, and Jurnee Smollett as an F.B.I. colleague, lend ample support. (Marc Maron also impresses in a brief but powerful turn as Berg.) And as Robert Jay Mathews, the leader of the Order, Nicholas Hoult deftly conveys the surface appeal of such a horrific figure — and the emptiness at his center.‘The Outrun’ (2024)Stream it on Netflix.You may think you’ve seen this story of a young woman, recently out of rehabilitation for drugs and alcohol, more than once before, and for good reason; the recovery narrative is certainly a durable one in contemporary memoir and fiction. But you haven’t seen this story brought to life by Saoirse Ronan. The staggeringly gifted Irish actress occupies every frame of the director Nora Fingscheidt’s adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s 2016 memoir (Fingscheidt and Liptrot wrote the script), and she never fails to hold your attention. Even when the beats of her character’s journey are familiar, individual moments are so honestly inhabited, so vivid and electric, that they feel fresh. And the filmmakers impose a bracingly unconventional structure on the story, intercutting various phases of their protagonist’s fall and rise via stream-of-consciousness triggers and unexpected connections. Fingscheidt deploys vivid audio and visual depictions of how it looks and sounds (and therefore feels) to be inebriated, but ultimately, “The Outrun” isn’t about filmmaking flash. It’s the story of a woman’s journey to sanity and self-preservation, and it’s a richly rewarding one.‘Lost River’ (2015)Stream it on Max.Ryan Gosling narrates a sequence from his film “Lost River.”Warner Brothers PicturesWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More
