This week’s best two new releases are films available to watch in your home, as long as you have the online streaming service Netflix. One is The Meyerowitz Stories, written and directed by Noah Bambauch and with a stellar cast including Dustin Hoffman, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Emma Thompson, Candice Bergen, Rebecca Miller and Adam Driver. With original music by Randy Newman, just to add some gold to the tin lid.
It is about a large, dysfunctional family, its narrative driven by quickfire, neurotic, New York Jewish wit. The film is divided into titled chapters, most of them notionally concentrating on a different character, beginning with talkative, tightly-wound Danny (Sandler) Meyerowitz, a full-time house-husband who is about to wave his daughter off to college.
