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BLACK IS KING (2020) Stream on Disney+. This time last year, Beyoncé released “The Lion King: The Gift,” a companion album to Disney’s high-tech remake of “The Lion King” that brought together an international roster of artists including Pharrell Williams, the South African musician Moonchild Sanelly, Jay-Z, the Nigerian singer-songwriter Tiwa Savage and the Cameroonian songwriter Salatiel. Artists from that album appear alongside stars like Naomi Campbell and Lupita Nyong’o in this new visual album based on “The Gift” — a rare film based on an album that was itself based on a film.
BULL (2019) Stream on Hulu; rent on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube. The filmmaker Annie Silverstein casts her gaze on a physically and emotionally scarred rodeo rider and his young unlikely protégé in this slow-burn drama. They don’t start out as friends: Kris (Amber Havard), a teenager with an incarcerated mother and a sick grandmother, breaks into the home of a worn rodeo wrangler, Abe (Rob Morgan), and uses the house to party with her friends. Abe calls the police when he gets home. But rather than having Kris sent to juvenile detention, Abe agrees to have her work for him to offset the offense. The story of the bond that grows between them touches on issues of racism, poverty and addiction. The film “handles hot-button issues with a cool eye and a calming tone” Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in her review for The New York Times. “There’s a matter-of-fact quality to the filmmaking,” she added, “a rejection of melodrama and embrace of naturalism that slows the movie’s pulse and softens its edges.”
THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY Stream on Netflix. The superheroes of this comic book adaptation — a group of foster siblings with supernatural abilities — spent the show’s first season trying to stop an apocalypse. They’re plucked from the present day and dropped into the early 1960s in the second season, which begins with a bout of time travel and again tasks them with saving the world.
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LITTLE WOMEN (2019) 8 p.m. on Starz. “I always knew who the Marches were,” the actress and filmmaker Greta Gerwig told The New York Times last year. “It got absorbed into the fabric of who I was.” She was referring to the family at the heart of Louisa May Alcott’s novel “Little Women.” Gerwig got a chance to create her own spin on the classic story in this film adaptation, the latest take on the Civil War-era tale of the four March sisters — Jo (Saoirse Ronan), Meg (Emma Watson), Beth (Eliza Scanlen) and Amy (Florence Pugh) — coming of age in Massachusetts. Gerwig scrambles the timeline of Alcott’s plot, locking the old story to a fresh rhythm. But the movie stays “faithful enough to satisfy the book’s passionate devotees,” A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The Times. “It’s as if the book has been carefully cut apart and reassembled,” he added, “its signatures sewn back together in an order that produces sparks of surprise and occasional bouts of pleasurable dizziness.”
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