Although mermaids are a well-known folklore creature, there aren’t many TV shows that cover the topic, which gives Siren an advantage because this is entirely like nothing we’ve seen before.

A solid hangout movie as well as a band-of-buddies film genres that tend to revolve around young men. It’s also a movie that deliberately blurs the line between documentary and fiction: the main characters are all real New York skaters who are playing characters who are very close to themselves in real life.

It doesn’t take itself too seriously, but it also holds whatever irreverent, anarchic impulses it might possess in careful check.

Mr. Riley isn’t constructing yet another postmodern playhouse out of borrowings and allusions. He’s building a raft, and steering it straight into the foaming rapids of racism, economic injustice and cultural conflict.

Spider-Verse is a dreamy, funny, self-aware, visually explosive delight, with a sharper sense of humor than the sophomoric, wearying Deadpool, a keener, more kinetic sense of action than most of the live-action Avengers films (save maybe Ant-Man), and richer ideas than most of the visually muddy, self-serious DC films we’ve gotten to date.

To see a black female over 40 holding the center of a story about ordinary, unsung lives makes Support a low-key pleasure; one that transcends its own shaggy narrative.