Movies

Three years into covering the Tokyo International Film Festival, and this was the first time my slate was filled almost entirely with Japanese films. The festival’s programming didn’t change—it’s featured a similar ratio of domestic and international films as...

In its second season, there is a predictable rise-and-fall structure to the writing on Netflix’s “North of North.” Siaja (Anna Lambe), trying to bring vibrancy to her community during winter, concocts several plans—all well-meaning but a little half-baked—and things...

Apple TV’s “Slow Horses” has received consistent acclaim and annual nominations from the Television Academy, most of them deserved. Netflix has its own six-episode British spy series that deserves to be alongside the Gary Oldman hit on the medal...

It’s impossible to ignore the similarities between the Apple TV series “Ted Lasso” and “Stick,” as both follow the therapeutic sports-comedy playbook.These shows feature tremendously likable actors in the lead role as deeply broken coaches who use the purity...

Director Jordan Firstman’s “Club Kid” hums with the kind of specificity that would make the chronically online (ideally those who are also in the queer nightlife scene in NY) feel seen. But its narrative bones are steeped in the...

Bass Reeves, the man who inspired The Lone Ranger, has had more media appearances in recent memory than that famous fictional lawman. Over the last few years, Reeves has been fictionalized several times: portrayed by Delroy Lindo in Jeymes...

The term icon is being thrown around so casually these days that I consulted the textbook definition of it: “A person or thing widely admired or recognized for having great influence, significance, or style in a specific sphere.” If...