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Netflix What Derry Girls Knows About Adulthood
Unlike a lot of recent TV, the show understands that growing up isn’t a choice.
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AJ Pics / Alamy Watching Spirited Away Again, and Again
Each viewing of Hayao Miyazaki’s animated masterpiece is a gift.
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Getty; The Atlantic Don’t Judge I’m Glad My Mom Died by Its Title
The actor Jennette McCurdy’s memoir is a confessional feat that asks what, if anything, adult children owe an abusive parent.
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Janus Drive My Car Pushes the Limit of Language
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s beautiful Oscar-nominated film builds a nonverbal vocabulary for its audience out of sound and soundlessness.
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Takashi Aoyama / Getty If Silence Is the Cost of Great Ramen, So Be It
Japan’s restaurants are taking COVID precautions to a whole new level.
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Ed Araquel / AMC The Uneven Historical Horror of The Terror: Infamy
AMC’s anthology series wants to disturb viewers with its depiction of the Japanese American internment. For some, that past will be too familiar to be shocking.
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Gkids The Oscar-Nominated Mirai Is More Than a Moving Tale of Childhood
The animated film from Mamoru Hosoda is also a timely reflection on how societal expectations for Japanese fathers are slowly evolving.
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Fox The Favourite and the Chaotic Ways That Women Move
In the Oscar-nominated film, the three female leads rage against expectations of courtly decorum—stomping, sprawling, storming, and flailing as they navigate the halls of power.
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Fox Searchlight Unpacking the Fictional Japan of Isle of Dogs
Wes Anderson’s film uses elements of the country’s language and culture to create a fraught sense of unfamiliarity.
