Your Weekend: A Selective Guide

Movies: “Emma,” the new Jane Austen adaptation, manages the marvelous feat of respecting the story while making it click for the Internet age…The Harrison Ford “Call of the Wild” has been Doberman-mauled by critics…TV/Streaming: More Jane Austen: “Sanditon” has its finale on PBS this Sunday…I keep trying to watch “The Pharmacist” on Netflix: so far, I can’t get into it. Music: When Billie Eilish said this week that she’d blown her Oscar performance, I thought: when does she never NOT blow it? At least live. Books: I’ve long been fascinated by Sargent’s portrait of Dr. Pozzi, and now Julian Barnes has written a novel about him: “The Man in the Red Coat.” Sports: Liverpool may be supreme in their home country — but not when they cross the English Channel. Finally: At this time of February, I start to notice the days getting longer — cue Percy Bysshe Shelley: “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”

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