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Finest TV Exhibits
Nathan Fielder, the Canadian actor recognized for his deadpan supply, is again with a darkish comedy known as “The Curse.” Right here’s a trailer. It’s streaming on Paramount+ Canada. (Mr. Fielder was an government producer on “How To With John Wilson,” one other present that critics say is price your time.)
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Finest Motion pictures
“Previous Lives,” the debut movie by the South Korean-Canadian director Celine Music, is “an examination of future, likelihood, love and the invisible thread that binds one soul to the subsequent,” writes Alissa Wilkinson, a film critic at The Occasions. (I loved watching this movie on the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto, which has made it out there for hire. It’s also possible to catch it on streaming platforms in Canada.)
An honorable point out on the checklist goes to “BlackBerry,” by the Toronto-born director Matt Johnson. The film is tailored from the 2015 e-book by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff, two Canadian enterprise writers, and tells the story of the rise and fall of the Waterloo, Ontario, firm behind the wildly common smartphone. In the event you’re enthusiastic about an prolonged lower of the movie, you’ll be able to try the three-part miniseries of “BlackBerry” on CBC Gem.
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Finest Songs
Three pop music critics at The Occasions supply their picks of finest songs of the 12 months. A couple of Canadians made the checklist of 77.
Allison Russell, “Eve Was Black”
“The tune might be a toe-tapping Appalachian hoedown. However the title’s blunt, irrefutable assertion carries Allison Russell towards harsh ideas about racism, slavery, exploitation, lynching and sin — after which to an sudden coda.” — Jon Pareles
Mustafa, “Title of God”
“Few artists conjure a richness of sorrow the way in which the Canadian folks singer Mustafa does. Right here, his singing is gorgeous and a bit of distant, as if flinching ever so barely from a ache that may by no means be something however uncooked.” — Jon Caramanica
Ken (Ryan Gosling), “I’m Simply Ken”
“When this stridently unhappy track from the ‘Barbie’ film hits its apogee, it’s channeling Dashboard Confessional, Meat Loaf, the Phantom (of the Opera) and perhaps even Scott Stapp. Slash performs guitar, salting the melodrama exhausting.” — Jon Caramanica
Drake that includes Sexyy Crimson and SZA, “Wealthy Child Daddy”
“Exhibit Z that Drake is at his finest not when he tsk-tsks grown girls, however when he dangers being outshone by inviting them on the monitor.” — Lindsay Zoladz
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