Watch to watch May 10, 2024: Movie awards contenders

Rock fans are in luck: This week’s digital releases involve Sonic Youth, Indigo Girls, and The Beatles. Get ready for a toe-tapping triple feature. 

The contender to watch this week: “Uncropped”

A perfect companion piece to “The Freaks Came Out to Write,” Tricia Romano‘s new book about the history of The Village Voice, “Uncropped” profiles one of the iconoclastic newspaper’s signature photographers. James Hamilton captured the streets of New York, musicians like Patti Smith and the Beastie Boys, wartime conflicts in China and the Philippines, and production stills for the likes of Francis Ford Coppola and Wes Anderson. His juicy career is detailed in this unconventional documentary directed by D.W. Young (“The Booksellers”), who stages a handful of intimate conversations between Hamilton and his collaborators, including Anderson and Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore. Following a limited theatrical release in April, “Uncropped” is available on VOD. 

Other contenders:

• “Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All”: The spirited documentary about the folk-rock duo premiered at Sundance last year and got a one-night theatrical release in April. Now it’s on VOD. If you watch it, you’ll be closer to fine. 
• “The Beatles: Let It Be”: Michael Lindsay-Hogg‘s 1970 documentary, which chronicles the recording of The Beatles’ final studio album, won the group an Oscar for what was then called Best Original Song Score. The movie has been out of print since the early ’80s, but Peter Jackson used Lindsay-Hogg’s footage to make 2021’s “The Beatles: Get Back.” Now, Jackson’s production team has restored “Let It Be” for Disney+, where the documentary is streaming. 
• “The Last Stop in Yuma County”: Not to be confused with the Tate Taylor comedy “Breaking News in Yuba County,” this crime thriller stars Jim Cummings (“Thunder Road”) as a traveling knife salesman who runs into some trouble at an Arizona rest stop. Catch it on VOD. 
• “Eileen”: William Oldroyd‘s seductive adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh‘s career-making novel didn’t get the fanfare it deserved last year, but it did make off with three Independent Spirit Award nominations, including recognitions for Anne Hathaway and Marin Ireland. They star alongside Thomasin McKenzie in a twisty ’60s-set psychodrama about women working at a corrections facility. If you missed it, fire up Hulu, where the movie is newly streaming.
• “The Iron Claw“: Another awards-season also-ran, Sean Durkin‘s fact-based drama about a troubled Texas wrestling clan received National Board of Review citations but couldn’t crack the Oscar race. It’s on Max.

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