Rian Johnson’s Knives Out is, on the face of it, a delightful piece of entertainment. Not only is it a fast-paced whodunnit that never quite loses steam, it also implicates…
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Earlier this year, Mati Diop took home the Cannes Grand Prix with her Senegalese Wolof-language film Atlantics, which is now available on U.S. Netflix. Diop is the first black woman…
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In the first episode of Dollface, Jules (Kat Dennings) is rudely dumped by her boyfriend, Jeremy (Connor Hines), and left emotionally flailing. The show seems to want us to think…
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This past week, I watched both the Charlie’s Angels reboot and the 2000 movie for comparison. The latter, starring Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Liu, is slick and snappy.…
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The Stranded, a new teen horror-adventure show that has evoked comparisons to Lost, is the first Netflix original series from Thailand. The project is an international collaboration bearing creative touches…
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Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s dark comedy thriller Parasite made international news when it took the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, becoming the first Korean movie…
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Since its debut, BoJack Horseman has wowed us with its singular vision and oddball animated universe, where upright-walking animals share their lives with humans and Olympic-level wordplay shares priority with…
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David Chang’s new Netflix series Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner (BLD) expands on his show Ugly Delicious with four episodes that each pair the Momofuku founder with a different setting and…