The Deputy Review: Tiffany Haddish Brings Authority to a Faltering Investigation
Toby Sawyer leaves a corpse unattended because he would rather visit his mistress. Until then, his assignment in The Deputy...
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Plankton can spoil a shot while sustaining almost everything worth filming. Its blooms feed the North Sea’s marine life and help cloud the water through which Peter van Rodijnen must photograph it. Cold, currents, and rough seas impose further restrictions; clear images are hard-won exceptions to difficult conditions. Mark Verkerk’s North Sea, Nature Untamed, filmed over seven years, makes this difficulty part of its ecological explanation. The water’s opacity has a function. What looks unpromising from the shore contains the food on which the film’s most spectacular subjects depend. Van Rodijnen’s photography grants particular attention to a male shorthorn sculpin...

Toby Sawyer leaves a corpse unattended because he would rather visit his mistress. Until then, his assignment in The Deputy has required very little: stay beside Luke Jordan’s body and wait for someone to collect it. The sheriff has gone to notify the family, and Toby has arrived with his badge attached to a torn shirt. When he returns from seeing Molly, the body is gone. Matt Sukkar’s debut feature gives its investigator a mystery created by his own negligence, with an awkward personal stake in finding the answer. Toby’s next act of disobedience complicates that introduction. Ordered to remain...

Takemichi tells Mikey about the futures he has witnessed, the lives he has tried to save, and the deaths he could not prevent. In “Break Up,” the premiere of Tokyo Revengers: War of the Three Titans Arc, that confession briefly makes their friendship less unequal. Mikey can finally understand the history behind Takemichi’s desperate interventions. He listens, refuses to blame him for Baji and Emma, and explains the faith he placed in him from their first meeting. The conversation gives Takemichi something his ability to revisit the past has failed to provide: permission to stop treating every loss as his...

The Ramjet’s warning alarm arrives while you still want the speed. Star Wars: Galactic Racer gives you a perfectly serviceable Afterburner, with a reserve that replenishes after use, then tempts you into engaging a faster engine that can destroy your vehicle if you leave it running too long. Switching over has an audible mechanical force, making the extra acceleration feel like something the craft must physically endure. Hearing it approach its limit puts an awkward responsibility in your hands: the machine is asking you to stop, and the race is giving you reasons to refuse. That temptation changes shape on...

Shuko has left a marriage of roughly fifty years and found a Korean pop star worth getting excited about. Across the restaurant table, her daughter Satomi listens with the reserve of someone whose pleasures rarely demand an audience. Eri Watanabe gives the mother’s talk an expansive, unapologetic energy: she has reasons for leaving, interests to pursue, and little inclination to make her freedom sound respectable. Maha Harada’s In My Father’s Room places this noisy appetite beside the quieter pursuits of Shuko’s late husband, Yuichi, a poet devoted to pottery and tea ceremony. These attachments map a contemporary Japanese household through...

Alison Hammond hears Nigella Lawson ask for a “sumptuous” cake and immediately spots an opportunity. Noel Fielding follows with a pregnancy joke. The hosts are enthusiastically supplying the sort of response they seem to expect from their new colleague, while Nigella participates without turning the exchange into a performance of Nigella. It is a small comic adjustment, and a useful one. The Great British Bake Off’s seventeenth season has acquired a judge whose reputation arrives ahead of her, but whose conversational pace is rather less excitable than the welcoming committee’s. That difference becomes funnier when hairdresser Tom returns a compliment...
Toby Sawyer leaves a corpse unattended because he would rather visit his mistress. Until then, his assignment in The Deputy...
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Read moreDetailsJohn Cena has traded the wrestling ring for a toy-car franchise, and "Matchbox: The Movie" arrives Friday on Apple TV with the 49-year-old carrying a studio action comedy for the first time since he left WWE. Cena retired from professional wrestling last year and has leaned hard into film. The...
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Toby Sawyer leaves a corpse unattended because he would rather visit his mistress. Until then, his assignment in The Deputy has required very little: stay beside Luke Jordan’s body and...
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Shuko has left a marriage of roughly fifty years and found a Korean pop star worth getting excited about. Across the restaurant table, her daughter Satomi listens with the reserve...
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