Blowing Up—A Perspective on Grief and a Lesson in Compassion
We are constantly being pushed to move on from mishaps and negative feelings. What happens if we're not ready to do so?

Luísa and her lover are late to the movie session.
We are constantly being pushed to move on from mishaps and negative feelings. What happens if we're not ready to do so?
The highly anticipated Marvel superhero movie of the year displays important themes of loss, loneliness, and change.
In Deaf, the Spanish director Eva Libertad explores pregnancy and motherhood from the perspective of a deaf woman. Her movie examines how the world imposes the notion of disability on her main character while she actually does not feel disabled herself.
America is the crux of the storyline: she is the only person in existence with the power to jump between universes. As central as America is to the Multiverse of Madness story, she somehow didn’t get that much to do.
Despite the film’s efforts to reframe its heroine with modern complexity, a certain emotional distance lingers.