What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Crip Camp’ and ‘Dark Phoenix’ - The New York Times

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CRIP CAMP: A DISABILITY REVOLUTION (2020) Stream on Netflix. This documentary, the latest offering from Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company, draws a direct line between a Catskills summer camp and the American disability rights movement of the 1970s. Directed by Jim LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham, the film begins by focusing on Camp Jened, which was founded in the early 1950s and served as a community for campers with disabilities. But it eventually shifts focus to look at the adult lives of some of the camp’s alumni, several of whom became prominent activists. In his review for The New York Times, Ben Kenigsberg wrote that the film “unfolds from a perspective of lived experience.” Newnham and LeBrecht, he added, “deftly juggle a large cast of characters past and present, accomplishing the not-so-easy task of making all the personalities distinct.”

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DARK PHOENIX (2019) 9 p.m. on HBO. In an interview with The Times last year, the actress Sophie Turner discussed the moment when Simon Kinberg, the writer and director of “Dark Phoenix,” made clear how much the movie would rely on Turner’s performance. “I just [expletive] my pants right there and then,” Turner said. But she made it through. This most recent “X-Men” movie casts Turner, a star best known for “Game of Thrones,” as Jean Grey, a young mutant whose abnormally potent powers threaten to get the better of her. Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy reprise their roles as Magneto and Professor X, alongside Jessica Chastain as an alien modeled partly on Tilda Swinton. For the most part, Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The Times, Kinberg “just moves characters from point A to B, pausing for face-to-face heart to hearts before the next blowout.” But, she added, “the mayhem is generally coherent and executed with clean, crisp special effects, even if Kinberg settles for slo-mo clichés.”

BLACKHAT (2015) 5:20 p.m. on FXM. Cybercrime has incendiary results in “Blackhat,” a thriller directed by Michael Mann. The story begins with an explosion at a Hong Kong nuclear facility. Enter Chris Hemsworth and Tang Wei, who play unlikely heroes tasked with tracking down the mysterious hacker responsible for the attack. The result is “by turns brutal and sentimental, lovely and lurid, as serious as the grave and blissfully preposterous,” Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The Times. She called the film “a spectacular work of unhinged moviemaking.”

EARTH’S SACRED WONDERS 10 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). A team of gardeners takes on a dangerous plant-trimming job on the towers of Angkor Wat, the sprawling Cambodian temple complex, in the first episode of this new series. The show profiles people who have been drawn to religious landmarks around the world. Also featured in the first episode: A paramedic in Jerusalem who helps those who are fasting in during Ramadan, and a monk-in-training at the Shaolin Temple in China.

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