Arci Muñoz showed her fondness for the hit 2016 Japanese animated film “Kimi no Na wa” by creating an artwork of its main characters. July 10, 2022. News. Global Nation. Business.

Kimi packs a lot of ideas into its brisk 89-minute running time about the pervasiveness of digital technologies, especially at a moment when COVID has made us more reliant on them than ever.

Steven Soderbergh’s new film for HBO Max, starring Zoë Kravitz, is about social isolation, start-ups, and a contractor worker who hears a crime on someone else’s smart-home device.

Zoë Kravitz in a scene from “Kimi.” (Claudette Barius/Warner Bros. Pictures/AP) This essay discusses plot points from “Kimi,” streaming now on HBO Max. Of all the pandemic-inflected media ...