If “Gael Garcia Bernal as Magellan” sounds to you like a pretty cool Netflix series, you have never seen a film by Filipino auteur and slow-cinema master Lav Diaz. Known on the international festival ...

Which is to say that while “Magellan” reps Diaz’s best shot at general arthouse distribution in some time, it’s no artistic compromise. The spirit of slow cinema is alive and languid in this ...

“Magellan” opens with a young girl looking through a dense thicket of foliage and spotting something alarming. “I saw a white man,” she tells the residents of her remote island village in the ...

This review features some spoilers. Just when you reckon that it might not be possible for Filipino auteur and arthouse giant Lav Diaz to release another movie shot in color since 2013’s Norte, ...