David Byrne’s American Utopia.” Spike Lee's concert film of Byrne's acclaimed stage show debuts Saturday at 8 p.m. on HBO and HBO Max, and it may be one of the best films of the year.
Lee's energetic direction combined with Byrne's exuberant staging of Talking Heads classics and other songs makes for a concert film that stands on par with Jonathan Demme's Talking Heads classic “Stop Making Sense.” — The timing of Aaron Sorkin's “The Trial of the Chicago 7” is remarkably good for a film set in 1969 and 1970.
Sorkin's drama, debuting Friday on Netflix after a brief run in theaters, is first and foremost a portrait of protest, in all its messiness, idealism and potential.