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“San Diano,” situated somewhere along the Atlantic, belongs to an America assembled from names, signs and threatening wealth. The conspicuously artificial backgrounds in Go for Broke 2 make that construction difficult to ignore. English dialogue offers another uneven point of contact with the imagined country: Isabella Leong sounds considerably more comfortable speaking it than several of the people surrounding her. Director Marc Ma Yuhe creates a foreign setting that is immediately readable as a place of money and danger, yet scarcely convincing as somewhere people live. Its geography serves the revenge plot before it serves any sense of place. The...

Artemis has been carrying supplies around Ithaca one item at a time when Penelope offers to make her a bag. The extra capacity is a welcome convenience, but receiving it from someone she has been helping gives the relief a personal quality. Someone has noticed the work. Someone can make it easier. For a game built around fulfilling requests, Mythmatch understands the pleasure of occasionally letting its useful protagonist receive some assistance herself. That exchange develops through the town’s everyday routines. Residents provide materials for Artemis to merge, and stronger friendships can bring higher-tier supplies. Getting to know people changes...

Martin talks about his screenplay while the camera studies how uncomfortable he is discussing it. At a restaurant full of people fluent in the language of creative importance, David Schwimmer makes this successful television writer look painfully unqualified to explain himself. His face supplies the insecurity that his professional grievances try to conceal. He wants to direct a film drawn from his childhood, after years working on a body-swap sitcom. Before we hear much about that cherished project, we can see how badly he needs it to justify the life around it. Jack Begert, directing his first feature from a...

Leandro’s restaurant bill requires a small theatrical production. Fidel pays discreetly, and the waiter presents the meal as a courtesy, allowing the Marquis of Monsalvos to entertain his prospective buyer without admitting that his employee has financed lunch. The transaction in Fading Grandeur gives aristocratic ease its missing receipt. Leandro gets to appear pleasantly accustomed to generosity; Fidel handles the money and the arrangements. Enric Benavent’s quietly alarmed practicality makes the deception funny while keeping its effort visible. Someone has to work quite hard for this gentleman to seem above financial concerns. Fidel’s pension even helps cover Leandro’s living expenses....

“The Marine Corps is the greatest offensive line in the history of football,” a character declares in Peter Berg’s The Mosquito Bowl. For the college stars exchanging their sporting futures for military service, the comparison offers something reassuringly familiar. They understand coordinated effort. They have trained their bodies to withstand punishment. They know the satisfaction of doing their part while someone beside them does his. The metaphor gives them a way to imagine being good at the thing they have volunteered to do. Some expect to be home by the Fourth of July, 1942. That expectation belongs beside the offensive-line...

Last One Laughing: Halloween asks its contestants to suppress two reactions that operate on different schedules. Laughter can gather slowly enough for someone to notice the danger and attempt a defense. A scream may arrive before its owner has assessed the situation. Prime Video’s seasonal special places both under the surveillance of Jimmy Carr and Róisín Conaty, who monitor seven comedians from an adjoining room. Smiling, laughing, or screaming can earn a yellow card; a second means elimination. A jump scare does produce a card, so the additional restriction has consequences. It also gives the producers an unusually direct way...
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Read more“San Diano,” situated somewhere along the Atlantic, belongs to an America assembled from names, signs and threatening wealth. The conspicuously artificial backgrounds in Go for Broke 2 make that construction...
Artemis has been carrying supplies around Ithaca one item at a time when Penelope offers to make her a bag. The extra capacity is a welcome convenience, but receiving it...
Martin talks about his screenplay while the camera studies how uncomfortable he is discussing it. At a restaurant full of people fluent in the language of creative importance, David Schwimmer...
Leandro’s restaurant bill requires a small theatrical production. Fidel pays discreetly, and the waiter presents the meal as a courtesy, allowing the Marquis of Monsalvos to entertain his prospective buyer...
“The Marine Corps is the greatest offensive line in the history of football,” a character declares in Peter Berg’s The Mosquito Bowl. For the college stars exchanging their sporting futures...
Last One Laughing: Halloween asks its contestants to suppress two reactions that operate on different schedules. Laughter can gather slowly enough for someone to notice the danger and attempt a...
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“Nobody Wants This” creator Erin Foster says the story of Joanne and Noah has room to run, and Netflix has not yet said whether it will let her tell it...
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