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When I got the e-mail asking me to review this movie, a song started going through my head, and that song was Pet Shop Boys’ “What Have I Done To Deserve This?” I don’t want to make too big a deal of this here—or belabor the obvious, for that matter—but to deal with a Woody Allen picture these days is a nettlesome task. Some say that there are no authors, only works. Others swear that there are no works, only authors. But given that Allen as a filmmaker has frequently been the star of his own pictures, and that he constructed over the years a comic persona that became practically archetypal, neither tack really gives the nettled observer much of an out. Still. Relative to the scandals attached to his name, some still willing to contend with the films have pointed out that, for instance, 2013’s “Blue Jasmine” and 2017’s “Wonder Wheel” could be interpreted as spiteful rejoinders to Allen’s ex-partner Mia Farrow. I found “Blue Jasmine” intermittently effective and “Wonder Wheel” absolutel

  Fans of cheap thrills and cheesy B-movies are sure to be frustrated by “The Requin,” a new shark pic that waits about an hour before introducing major carnivorous fish action. That alone might turn off viewers since “The Requin” only lasts about 89 minutes, and most of the movie plays out like a soapy two-hander about survivor’s guilt. A grieving married couple (Alicia Silverstone and James Tupper) are marooned at sea after a monsoon knocks loose their above-water Vietnamese villa. His leg is broken, her cell phone doesn’t work, and nobody knows where they are, not even the native sharks. Spider-Man: No Way Home Streaming Scream 5 Streaming Adieu Monsieur Haffmann Streaming En attendant Bojangles Streaming Shot with a few green-screens in Universal Studios Orlando, “The Requin” looks like it was recorded live during a particularly harrowing Zoom meeting. Some bad image-compositing makes the movie look cheap and some lame dialogue doesn’t help matters much, especially whenever tension