Olivia Ruiz aux Bouffes du Nord 

American Fiction is a genuinely entertaining film with a few lessons.

CODA' is about a child of deaf adults torn between staying with her parents and her dreams of pursuing music. This film is a step forward for deaf representation and disability in movies despite negative messages about the burden of actors deaf deafness.

White audiences saw Peola’s mixed-race passing as a Black woman’s struggle to be white. Black audiences saw it as the rebellion of a Black woman trying to gain privileges only given to white people.

The director's latest is a dreamlike exploration of a consciousness torn between two homelands, and the implications of history and memory suspended in limbo.

The three themes of lessons learned from HBO Max's Station Eleven are the same as the pandemic: love, regret, and art.