Director Behn Zeitlin set a very high bar with his acclaimed debut feature Beasts of the Southern Wild. While his long-awaited follow-up, Wendy, bears some of the same elements—rambunctious kids, magical realism, unknown actors, climate awareness—it feels like an even stronger picture thanks to its filmmaker’s growing ambition. Peter Pan has been done to death with varying levels of success, but Zeitlin’s adaptation overflows with imagination as it manages to deconstruct the myth while never losing its timeless energy. Wendy retains the melancholy coming-of-age story of Peter Pan, but also reframes aspects …

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If you thought Season 1 of Netflix's The OA was a mind-bending banger, brace yourselves. Series creators Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij double down on the insanity and invention of their expansive story in Season 2, and the result is a show that's bigger, bolder, and ultimately better. The OA's first season was a surprise sensation from the filmmakers behind Sound of My Voice and The East, and it sparked quite the debate over its final episode -- a piece of cinema-meets-performance art that was at once gorgeous, emotional, silly, strange and well, a bit …