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 ...

Unlike most historical epics and biopics, “Magellan” never glorifies its protagonist. Any sense of the “epic” or grandiose is inspired by the historical recreation and the photography that captures it ...

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 ...