John Powers

John Powers reviews The Diary of Lies

A new BritBox series centers on a deaf woman who works in a police station, and whose lip-reading abilities come in handy when the precinct needs help interpreting surveillance footage.

John Powers reviewed "Endling," by Maria Reva.

The new Netflix series "Dept. Q" stars Matthew Goode as a crack Edinburgh police detective who brings together a team of misfits to help search for a woman who vanished several years ago. Our critic-at-large, John Powers, says it's one of those crime series that's less about the solution than watching the byplay of the characters.

The new French film "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life" centers on a Parisian novelist who's having trouble with her writing and her love life. Then she goes to a Jane Austen-themed writers' retreat. Our critic-at-large John Powers says that it got him thinking about the qualities that make Austen so popular.

John Powers reviews Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning.

In the new TV series "Your Friends & Neighbors," Jon Hamm stars as a rich hedge fund guy who loses his job and turns to crime to pay for his exceedingly high bills. The show, which also stars Amanda Peet, has already been renewed for a second season on Apple TV+.

The new crime series "Long Bright River" stars Amanda Seyfried as a police officer whose search for a killer plunges her back into her family's past in a troubled Philadelphia neighborhood. It's based on the best-selling novel by Liz Moore.

"Flow" is an animated movie from Latvia that follows an unlikely collection of animals brought together by a massive flood that overwhelms the countryside. The film, which is now streaming on Max, already won animation prizes from, among others, the Golden Globes, the New York Film Critics and the Los Angeles Film Critics. And it's received Oscar nominations for both best animated feature and best international film.

In the new autobiographical novel "Live Fast," Brigitte Giraud looks back at the accident that killed her husband. She speculates on the many ways that tragedy could have turned out differently. The book won the French equivalent of the Booker Prize.