The Return of Stranger Things

As you may have heard, Netflix could use a hit right about now. Luckily, it seems there’s one coming just around the corner: the fourth season of Stranger Things, set to premiere Memorial Day weekend. So how does the show stack up, especially after the lengthy gap between these new episodes and season three? Well enough, writes Joy Press, though the bloom is off the rose a bit. “Like the tentacles on the monster they’re fighting, the cast is stretching in so many different directions that the connection between them sometimes grows fuzzy,” she says. “Stranger Things always likes to keep a lot of balls in the air, but this time the sheer profusion of parallel plotlines gets dizzying.” 

Elsewhere in HWD, Rebecca Ford gives a first look at inspirational aviation tale Devotion; Hillary Busis chats Barrywith season three standout Anthony Carrigan; and Ford and Richard Lawson contribute a few more dispatches about the buzziest films at Cannes, from George Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Longing to Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness.

Back to the Upside Down

Stranger Things returns—but is Netflix’s Scooby gang stuck on a treadmill of trauma?

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Flying High

For Devotion, J.D. Dillard dug into his own family history to chronicle the unlikely bond between pioneering Navy airman Jesse Brown (played by Jonathan Majors) and Tom Hudner (Glen Powell) during the Korean War.

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Hanks for the Memories

Anthony Carrigan on a pivotal Barry episode that popped Hank and Cristobal’s love bubble—and set up darker things to come.

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The Rich Get Sicker

Palme d’Or winner Ruben Östlund returns with Triangle of Sadness,a social satire—featuring Woody Harrelson and Harris Dickinson—that has maybe too many targets.

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By George

Three Thousand Years of Longing director George Miller and stars Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba dive into avoiding tropes, creating a new language, and the tales from their childhoods that still stick with them today.

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