The Cat in the Hat Review: Clever Comedy Inside an Overcrowded Adventure
During the fish’s circus routine, the wait for a laugh becomes part of the entertainment. The scene stretches its quiet...
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Disney+ has taken the Korean web novel and webtoon The Remarried Empress to palaces in Germany and the Czech Republic, giving its invented monarchy the architectural credentials of an established European dynasty. The grand interiors lend physical scale to ceremonies and court appearances; the Korean cast inhabits these spaces without the story assuming the obligations of historical reconstruction. This is royalty assembled for romantic consumption. Across the first four episodes, the production makes inherited privilege look comfortable, beautiful, and exceptionally difficult to leave. The costumes begin sorting the women within that arrangement. Empress Navier’s formal gowns give Shin Min-a an...

During the fish’s circus routine, the wait for a laugh becomes part of the entertainment. The scene stretches its quiet interval far enough that you start noticing your own expectation: surely something has to happen now. Then it keeps waiting. For an animated family feature filled with magical gadgets and unruly creatures, The Cat in the Hat shows surprising confidence in that pause. Writers and directors Erica Rivinoja and Alessandro Carloni trust children to enjoy anticipation, including the delicious awkwardness of a joke withholding its reward. A dynamite gag works through a different kind of delay. The Cat produces an...

At the end of a delivery round, Tom blows a horn. Her boss brings her another batch of parcels, and she moves on to the next part of the mountain village. The arrangement is simple enough for a girl on her first day at the post office. Take a parcel from the bag, knock or ring, carry on. The horn measures a successful day’s work. It sounds just the same if Tom has spent the time between deliveries peering through windows. A girl in a red hood carrying something to somebody’s house is a familiar figure across many versions of...

Colonel Terrill asks James Stewart to give the men a speech. They need heartening, and he has an actor on hand who knows how to get a room to listen. KJ Apa gives Stewart the familiar, slightly uneven cadence and the posture of a man who has never quite settled into his own height. There is something companionable in the way the words come out of him. The men respond. For the duration of the address, Stewart can make the prospect of climbing back into a bomber feel like a thing they can face together. The condolence letters have to...

Kai books an appointment to find himself. He sees a poster in the woods, follows up on its promise of self-discovery, and arrives at a clinic where Asumi’s assistant slips him a drug. Soon he and Asumi are sharing a dream. It’s an efficient appointment, if you leave out the part where the patient gets to decide what happens to him. Kai has agreed to be curious about himself. The clinic takes that as permission to satisfy somebody else’s curiosity. Kyo tries a different shortcut. With the drug that gives Kefi its title, she switches bodies with her sexual partners....

The men on the committee in David Balda’s Manipulation keep coming back to the same word, “enemies.” They give it the weight you’d expect from people discussing a threat they take seriously. For anyone outside that room, though, the word could point almost anywhere. Matteo (Radoslav Gavlas), a young recruit to the secret society his father belongs to, is given a name to work with. His assignment puts him in contact with Father Vitus (Heino Ferch), a priest who matters to the order’s plans for the Catholic Church. Having a name gives us somebody to watch. What we could use...
During the fish’s circus routine, the wait for a laugh becomes part of the entertainment. The scene stretches its quiet...
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Read moreDisney+ has taken the Korean web novel and webtoon The Remarried Empress to palaces in Germany and the Czech Republic, giving its invented monarchy the architectural credentials of an established...
During the fish’s circus routine, the wait for a laugh becomes part of the entertainment. The scene stretches its quiet interval far enough that you start noticing your own expectation:...
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At the end of a delivery round, Tom blows a horn. Her boss brings her another batch of parcels, and...
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