


In his review, the AP's Mark Kennedy said the movie “thinks it’s being subversive when it's really being very corporate.” While all the other kids have sleeker, high-functioning computerized sidekicks, Barney Pudowski (Jack Dylan Grazer) has a damaged, malfunctioning bot that can't connect to the Internet (voiced by Zach Galifianakis). But for now you have the choice of either platform for streaming this comic animated adventure about technology addiction and human companionship. The unusual arrangement is because of a soon-to-be-phased-out output deal between 20th Century Fox (which Disney acquired) and Warner Bros. release “Ron's Gone Wrong” will land on both Disney+ and HBO Max on Wednesday after its theatrical run. In an unusual twist, the recent Walt Disney Co. In my review, I wrote that “Sorrentino, a melancholy but ecstatic filmmaker with an eager, energetic camera, is in much the same mood here, finding divine splendor in the everyday and the profane.” “The Hand of God,” which begins streaming Wednesday on Netflix, was the Golden Lion winner at the Venice Film Festival, and a pick for The Associated Press' best films of 2021. In “The Hand of God," Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino, who directed the luminous Oscar-winning Roman odyssey “The Great Beauty” turns southward to his hometown of Naples for an autobiographical film based on his 1980s childhood. It debuts Wednesday on Apple TV+ and in theaters. It's a somber and emotional sci-fi drama, full of existential quandary as Ali's dying man struggles with his decision and the difficulty of letting go. The duplication process is total, right down to his most subconscious memories. What's better than a Mahershala Ali performance? How about two? In Benjamin Cleary’s “Swan Song," Ali plays a terminally ill family man who turns to an experimental cloning lab (Glenn Close plays its lead doctor) in order to spare his pregnant wife (Naomie Harris) and young son (Dax Rey) the pain of losing him.
