Arts & Life

Photo Donté Clark in the documentary “Romeo Is Bleeding.” Credit Rajiv Smith-Mahabir/The Film Collaborative “This ain’t got nothing to do with my life,” Donté Clark recalled thinking when, at 15, he picked up “Romeo and Juliet.” At 22, after years of seeing gang warfare and murder on the streets of …

Photo Jason Bateman in “Ozark.” Credit Jackson Davis/Netflix Have you been missing Walter White? Are nine-year-old “Breaking Bad” episodes not satisfying your hunger for angry, middle-aged, white male antiheroes? The people behind “Ozark,” a new Netflix series that starts streaming on Friday, appear to think so. Their antihero, Marty Byrde, …

Photo Catherine Deneuve, left, and Catherine Frot in “The Midwife.” Credit Michaal Crotto/Music Box Films Catherine Deneuve has played a wide variety of roles over the course of a career now spanning seven decades. But despite her exemplary range, many American viewers maintain an image of her as an aloof, …

Photo The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, in “The Pulitzer at 100.” Credit First Run Features Although the Pulitzer Prizes go to literature and drama, they still don’t recognize cinema. But adding movies to the list might only raise questions. Who would judge? Should fiction and documentary receive separate …

Photo Andrew Garfield in “Hacksaw Ridge.” Credit Mark Rogers/Lionsgate “Hacksaw Ridge,” Mel Gibson’s Oscar-nominated tale of wartime resistance, comes to HBO. And Joe Berlinger investigates an unsolved case of vanishing Ohio women. What’s on TV HACKSAW RIDGE (2016) 8 p.m. on HBO. Andrew Garfield earned an Oscar nod as Desmond …

Photo Mart Avandi and Liisa Koppel in “The Fencer,” directed by Klaus Haro. Credit CFI Releasing Inspirational teachers aren’t limited to any one time or place. “The Fencer,” a Finnish-Estonian-German coproduction drawn from a true story, may be set in Estonia in the early 1950s, when the Soviet Union occupied …

Photo Tairo Caroli in “Mister Universo.” Credit Vento Film The filmmaking team of Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel concoct fictional narratives around the real lives and professions of the nonactors with whom they work. This is an unusual formula but not an entirely novel one. While other examples of this …

But when he died on July 16 in Los Angeles at 90, he had never quite equaled the fame and commercial success achieved in the United States by other stars in his literary constellation — none of whom burned more blisteringly. Mr. Sigal was a prolific essayist for The Guardian …

Photo China Anne McClain as Uma, daughter of Ursula the sea witch, in “Descendants 2,” a big-budget follow-up to a 2015 television movie. Credit David Bukach/Disney Channel The kids are largely on their own in “Descendants 2,” a sequel to the 2015 television movie about the children of Disney villains. …

The result, somewhat anticlimactic, encapsulated how much the art and antiques trade — and interiors themselves — have changed in recent years. “More and more people want funky postwar design, pictures and decorative objects — and maybe one signature antique,” said William Rouse, managing director of Chiswick Auctions, a suburban …