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You’re going to want to steel yourself for the emotional roller coaster you’re about to embark on this week on VOD. Thanks to streaming services like Amazon Prime Video, iTunes, Google Play, or your cable’s On Demand service, you can catch even more award season fodder like The Father, in which Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman star as a father and daughter coping with the latter’s dementia. Or, for another, different kind of film that deals with the ways that the mind and body exist on different planes, Disney’s Soul, starring Jamie Foxx, Daveed Diggs, and Tina Fey, is now available on iTunes.

We’re also eager to dive into the latest animated film from Studio Ghibli, Earwig And The Witch, which is adapted from a Diana Wynne Jones novel (as was Ghibli’s beautiful adaptation of Howl’s Moving Castle). Decider has rounded up all the best movies that are out this week, and whether you’re looking for animation, documentary, or drama, there’s plenty to choose from. Allow us to advise on what to watch this weekend.

The Father

Nominated for six Academy Awards this year, including one for Best Picture, The Father tells the story of 80-year-old Anthony (Sir Anthony Hopkins), afflicted with Alzheimers. If Alzheimers Disease has touched your life, the film will feel resonate especially hard, as Anthony’s family grapples with the fact that they are slowly becoming strangers to the man they love. Anne (Olivia Colman) is stuck between caring for her father and realizing that his reality is no longer actual reality.

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Soul

Leave it to Pixar to deliver one of the great movies about human existence (actually, that’s kind of all that Pixar does, isn’t it?). In Soul, jazz musician Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx) steps into a manhole and, on the verge of death, his body is separated from his soul. With the help of (among others) Tina Fey as 22, another soul who is determined not to unite with an earthly body, Joe and his soul try to reunite so they can live another day. Soul has been nominated for three Oscars this year including Best Animated Feature and Best Score.

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