Black Box Review: Flight 298 Loses Contact With Reason
The passengers on Vero Airlines Flight 298 trust the aircraft because civilization has trained them to. The seats are numbered,...
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Television loves a disabled protagonist it can polish into virtue. Santita rolls in from the opposite direction, usually with a debt, a drink, a bad decision, or an excellent insult close behind. The seven-episode Mexican Netflix series, created by Luis Cámara and Gabrielle Galanter and directed by Rodrigo García, gives María José Cano a nickname loaded with irony. Played by Paulina Dávila, she is a Tijuana gynecologist known as Santita, a “little saint” whose work often earns the title and whose private life keeps trying to get it revoked. She helps a Haitian woman give birth on the side of...

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The passengers on Vero Airlines Flight 298 trust the aircraft because civilization has trained them to. The seats are numbered, the attendants smile, the pilots speak in controlled voices from some sealed administrative heaven, and the snacks arrive with the tiny ceremonial poverty of modern air travel. Then an old man coughs too long in the lavatory, the sky begins flashing in impossible colors, and Black Box starts asking a simple, nasty question: what if the machine was never safe, and politeness was only the first stage of denial? Steven Quale’s sci-fi horror thriller, written by Stephen Susco, is at...

Broadcast archives do much of the prosecuting here. Rolf Harris: Primetime Predator, directed by Nick Sweeney, understands that its most disturbing material is often the footage Harris left behind in plain sight: the wobble board, the novelty songs, the clownish stage routines, the art demonstrations, the children gathered near him while adults smiled from the margins. The two-part documentary follows the Australian entertainer from light-entertainment fixture to convicted abuser, tracing the persona that made him famous and the protections that made him dangerous. Harris was arrested in 2013 during Operation Yewtree, the investigation launched after the Jimmy Savile scandal, and...

Hallmark romances often save their loudest conflict for the final twenty minutes; here, the relief is that nobody panics on schedule. Two for Tee gives Tee and Will the kind of relationship that could be mistaken for low drama, until the small choices start doing the emotional work. Directed by Michael Robison, the film stars Janel Parrish as Tee, a Chinese American pottery artist who teaches classes at The Learning Tree community center and co-owns a second-hand store, The Retro Metro, with her cousin Theo. Chris McNally plays Will, a single father who arrives at the center looking for handyman...
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Television loves a disabled protagonist it can polish into virtue. Santita rolls in from the opposite direction, usually with a debt, a drink, a bad decision, or an excellent insult...
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