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TIMMY FAILURE: MISTAKES WERE MADE (2020) Stream on Disney Plus. The filmmaker Tom McCarthy’s 2015 investigative journalism nail-biter, “Spotlight,” won an Academy Award for best picture. “Timmy Failure,” his first movie since, is also about professional investigators. One of them is an 11-year-old. The other is a polar bear. Based on a series of children’s books by Stephan Pastis (who wrote the screenplay with McCarthy), “Timmy Failure” centers on a boy (Winslow Fegley) who runs a detective business in Portland, Ore., with the help of a big, hairy Arctic escapee. While the movie is skipping theaters in favor of being released directly on Disney’s streaming service, “it owes more to independent cinema than anything,” McCarthy told The New York Times last year. It is both family-oriented and proudly weird.

HONEY BOY (2019) Stream on Amazon. Shia LaBeouf plays a version of his own father in this intense drama, which was written by LaBeouf and directed by Alma Har’el. Telling a fictionalized account of LaBeouf’s early stardom, more recent erratic behavior and rehabilitation, “Honey Boy” splits its story between two time periods: The 1990s, where it focuses on a young child actor, Otis (Noah Jupe), being bullied by his father (LaBeouf), and the 2000s, where it turns to an older Otis (Lucas Hedges), a blockbuster star with an explosive offscreen life. LaBeouf’s “drawling evocation of his own father is a bravura incarnation of resentment,” Glenn Kenny wrote in his review for The Times. But the film at large, Kenny wrote, is “a flex: an assertion of the clout LaBeouf claims, in interviews, to no longer have.”