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  Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma Is a Masterpiece of Memory

  December 6 at 6 a.m.

  The writer-director shot Roma in chronological order, without showing the cast the script, unveiling it to the actors the same way it is for the audience, piece by piece, a chance to marinate in each moment as it plays out

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  With Mowgli, Netflix Has Its First Blockbuster

  December 6 at 6 a.m.

  This time, though, the lessons are urgent, the jungle threatened by man, the wicked tiger Shere Khan (Benedict Cumberbatch) a true terror vowing to one day taste that boy’s blood

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  Into the Spider-Verse Is the Best Superhero Movie Since The Dark Knight

  December 6 at 5:30 a.m.

  It sets a host of alternative Spider-folk running amok in the New York City of Brooklyn teen Miles Morales, the mixed-race Spider-Man (his father is black and his mother Latinx) invented for the comics in 2011 by Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli

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  Savory Chef Flynn Reveals the Promise and Price of Being a Teen Wonder

  December 5 at 6 a.m.

  ... It’s a mother’s story, with Yates following not just Flynn but also Meg McGarry, a filmmaker herself, who has been documenting for years her son’s culinary blossoming — and her encouragement

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  Netflix’s Exquisite Happy as Lazzaro Asks: What’s to Live for After a Life of Toil?

  November 30 at 6 a.m.

  This time, we meet the sharecropping peasants of the remote village of Inviolata, living lives of seasonal toil, lives that look — except for the occasional radio or lightbulb — like they might have a century or so ago

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  HBO’s United Skates Takes a Thrilling Spin Through Roller-Skate Culture

  November 29 at 8:14 a.m.

  And much of the present-day free-skate footage, shot at what have come to be known as “Adult Nights” at skating rinks, also proves invigorating, an invitation to relish the momentum, the joy and the peacocking pride of grown-up skaters