Farewell: Our Cancer Lies
Lulu Wang based The Farewell on her own experiences with her Chinese family, which she detailed in an episode of This American Life for...
Dora: Inca Dinka Doo
Early on, Dora and the Lost City of Gold signals that it’s not going to be a straight-up live-action version of Dora the Explorer,...
Rafiki: Love Is Upendo
You probably know that Rafiki is the name of the mandrill / high priest in The Lion King, but if you have a passing...
Wild Rose: Another Country
Round the middle of this decade, when it became clear that Saoirse Ronan was here to stay awhile, some observers remarked on a curious...
Art of Self-Defense: Komical Karatekas
There have been comedies about martial arts, but I can’t recall a previous one about how a master’s demand for loyalty and discipline, abetted...
The Lion Bores
OK, I’m trying here. I’m trying really, really hard to see the point of the Lion King remake (beyond the obvious point, which is...
Stubefying
I suppose when I beat the drum for more films with lead actors of Asian descent, I mean something like Stuber, a generic action-comedy...
Far From Home: Swing and a Miss
Spider-Man: Far From Home has a big problem: It cannot let Iron Man go. Before I come out swinging, I love Spider-Man: Homecoming so...
Midsommar: Day Scare
The superbly creepy Midsommar starts, ironically enough, on a bleak winter night. Florence Pugh stars as Dani, an American psych grad student who becomes...
Ophelia: Too Much of Water
Remember Hamlet 2? In that flawed and awesome comedy, an Arizona drama teacher wants so badly for the characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to survive...
