Apple has some huge, buzzy, and star-packed movies coming to its Apple TV Plus streamer between now and the tip of the 12 months, with the streaming debut for some of the anticipated film releases approaching Friday, November 4. Causeway is a somber, atmospheric drama starring Jennifer Lawrence as a soldier again dwelling in New Orleans grappling with PTSD, and it’s already garnered a ton of buzz forward of its launch on Apple’s streamer.
The film, from Apple Original Films and A24, can even get a restricted theatrical screening beginning tomorrow, on November 4. And it can achieve this on the power of sturdy reward from each critics and followers — the latter of whom have already given Causeway a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes as of the time of this writing.
Causeway on Apple TV Plus
From director Lila Neugebauer, Causeway stars Lawrence as Lynsey, a army engineer who returns to the US from Afghanistan with a debilitating mind damage following an IED explosion.
Jennifer Lawrence is unquestionably coming for that fifth Oscar nomination (2nd win?) for Causeway.
— Cody Landman (@cody_landman) October 6, 2022
“It’s a painful and slow recovery,” Apple says in regards to the movie, “as (Lynsey) relearns to walk and retrains her memory, aided by a chatty but tender caretaker (Jayne Houdyshell). But when she returns home to New Orleans she has to face memories even more aching and formative than those she had in service — a reckoning with her childhood.”
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Lawrence’s character stays along with her mom (Linda Emond), with whom she has a tense relationship. Meanwhile, she’s determined to get again to work as an engineer. Her physician (Stephen McKinley Henderson) isn’t positive she’s prepared, so she takes a job cleansing swimming pools. “When her truck breaks down,” Apple continues, “she meets James Aucoin (Brian Tyree Henry), who works on the auto restore store and gives her a trip dwelling. Slowly they begin to depend on one another for firm and solace. James, it seems, can also be suppressing his personal previous trauma.
“These two damaged souls’ budding friendship forms the center and the heart of Neugebauer’s debut feature — a quiet but devastating, and ultimately uplifting, story about coming to terms and moving forward.”
‘Two lonely people needing each other’
Filmed in New Orleans, Causeway was written by Ottessa Moshfegh, Luke Goebel, and Elizabeth Sanders. The film held its international premiere in September, on the Toronto International Film Festival.
“This is indeed a gem of a character study, a quiet study of two damaged people as played by a pair of exceptional actors who never let us see them acting.” – Pete Hammond, @DEADLINE on the performing in #Causeway pic.twitter.com/7ysMsHeSOa
— Apple TV+ (@AppleTVPlus) November 3, 2022
Ahead of its streaming debut and theatrical run within the US, Causeway at the moment enjoys a 100% viewers rating on Rotten Tomatoes, in addition to an 84% critics’ rating. “Director Lila Neugebauer has made a strong character study about two lonely people needing each other,” one of many official Rotten Tomatoes critics evaluations opines.
Movies like this one, by the best way, actually underscore that Apple’s 3-year-old streaming service is making extra of a play for movie business awards and recognition, following on the heels of Apple’s Best Picture Oscar win earlier this 12 months (the primary streaming service to nab that award, to Netflix’s chagrin).
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