June 20, 2025

WIFF’S WEEKEND WATCH LIST — 6/20

Check out our recommendations of what to watch this weekend.

iF you want to be roused

dolores

Vincent Georgie: An excellent true story about a woman we feel lucky to have met. Discover Dolores Huerta. She’s a marvel, and so is this film. An easy recommendation.

Synopsis: Raising 11 children while wrestling with gender bias, union defeat and victory, and nearly dying after a San Francisco Police beating, Dolores Huerta bucks 1950s gender conventions to co-found the country’s first farmworkers’ union.

Available on Apple TV.

if you want something bad ass

corsage

Vincent Georgie: There is a defiant, pugnacious quality to Marie Kreuzer’s period piece, from her contemporary musical choices to the costume design. However, driving the car on the subversive edge of this film is a brazen Vicki Krieps in the lead role. She’s tremendous and only makes me more excited about the many more films in her future. The final scene is breathtakingly cinematic.

Synopsis: Faced with a future of strict ceremonies and royal duties, Empress Elisabeth of Austria rebels against her public image and comes up with a plan to protect her legacy.

Available on Apple TV and Amazon Prime.

if you want a tense thriller

zero dark thirty

Vincent Georgie: Filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow followed up her Oscar-winning masterpiece The Hurt Locker with an equally excellent and more entertaining political thriller. Jessica Chastain carries this whole film on her shoulders. I also appreciate how the film insists that the audience pay attention. It assumes the audience is smart and is keeping up. A quality, dense, and entertaining film.

Synopsis: Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden became one of the most-wanted men on the planet. The worldwide manhunt for the terrorist leader occupies the resources and attention of two U.S. presidential administrations. Ultimately, it is the work of a dedicated female operative (Jessica Chastain) that proves instrumental in finally locating bin Laden. In May 2011, Navy SEALs launched a nighttime strike, killing bin Laden in his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Available on Apple TV and Amazon Prime.

DOUBLE FEATURE

funny friendships

Vincent Georgie: The first film was not only an enormous box office success, but gave a wonderful opportunity for Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, and Goldie Hawn to dive into juicy lead performances as friends in unexpected circumstances. The second film was a decent hit upon release but continued to grow in popularity in the years after, thanks to a very funny script and fun chemistry between Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow. Both films celebrate unconventional and hilarious female friendships.

the first wives club

Despondent over the marriage of her ex-husband to a younger woman, a middle-aged divorcée plunges to her death from her penthouse. At the woman’s funeral, her former college friends (Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton) reunite for the first time in nearly 30 years. When the three discover the reason for their friend’s suicide, they realize that all of their ex-husbands have taken them for granted — and deciding it’s time for revenge, they make a pact to get back at their exes.

Available on Apple TV.

romy and michelle’s high school reunion

Ten years after their high school graduation, Romy (Mira Sorvino) and Michele (Lisa Kudrow) haven’t exactly accomplished everything that they set out to do. Despite their strong friendship, their personal and professional lives are still lacking. When they hear of their upcoming high school reunion, they take it as an opportunity to show their classmates how much they’ve changed — first by trying to reform themselves, then by creating a lie that eventually spins out of control.