THREE TO SEE
Missed it at the cinema or on TV? We round up the best streaming and DVD releases of the week
CLEMENCY (15) ★★★★☆
WARDEN Bernadine Williams (Alfre Woodard) is haunted by the bungled execution of a prisoner. As she prepares for the execution of inmate Anthony Woods (Aldis Hodge), who has served 15 years for the murder of a police officer but has always asserted that his accomplice pulled the trigger, Lawyer Marty Lumetta (Richard Schiff) hopes the governor might weigh up the evidence and grant Woods clemency. “I am going to fight for him right up to the moment you stick that needle in his arm,” Marty snarls at Bernadine, “Just so you know.” Clemency is a quietly devastating drama.
■ Download/stream from tomorrow
THE HIGH NOTE (12) ★★★☆☆
FOR the past three years, Maggie Sherwoode (Dakota Johnson) has worked as a personal assistant to music superstar Grace Davis (Tracee Ellis Ross). Grace hasn’t released any new music for years and her manager Jack Robertson (Ice Cube) insists they agree to a swansong 10-year residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. During the day, Maggie is at Grace’s beck and call, but at night, she produces an album for singer-songwriter David Cliff (Kelvin Harrison Jr). Sparks of attraction fly and Maggie tries to keep a divide between business and pleasure. The High Note is a tale of trouble and strife in the music industry.
■ Streaming now and on DVD from August 31.
FANNY LYE DELIVER’D (18) ★★★☆☆
JOHN LYE (Charles Dance), a former captain in the English Civil War, presides over his remote Shropshire farm with an iron fist. He upholds Puritan strictures and admonishes young son Arthur (Zak Adams) for submitting to his wife, Fanny (Maxine Peake). Order is thrown into disarray by the arrival of two naked, bloodied strangers (Freddie Fox, Tanya Reynolds) who claim to be victims of a robbery. Next morning, the high sheriff (Peter McDonald) arrives, searching for “a pair of licentious heretics”. Fanny Lye Deliver’d is an engrossing chamber piece about a common woman, forcibly blinkered to her power and potential.
■ Streaming now and on DVD from tomorrow.