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Recreating an Archaeological Discovery From the Ground Down “The Dig,” on Netflix, revisits the astonishing find made by two amateurs in Britain as World War II was dawning. Carey Mulligan as a landowner and Ralph Fiennes as a laborer in a scene from “The Dig.”Credit...Larry Horricks/Netflix Published Jan. 22, 2021Updated Jan. 26, 2021 GODALMING, England — Entirely covered by earth, only his face visible, Ralph Fiennes lay patiently in the ground. Simon Stone, the director of the new Netflix drama, “The Dig,” peered at a monitor, then nodded. “Let’s go,” he said. Fiennes s...

Netflix will release a movie every week in 2021. Here are the most exciting ones. 'Outside the Wire,' 'Don't Look Up,' 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' and more FacebookTwitterEmail Zendaya and John David Washington in "Malcolm & Marie."DOMINIC MILLER/NETFLIX © 2021 If there’s one overarching frustration of the streaming age, it’s the glut of stale films that clog up the menus of services like Netflix. Despite the flood of new TV shows, it still feels like the roster of movies is stuck in time — you absolutely do not need to be a critic to have seen every movie in the questionable ...

Just before the outbreak of the World War II, a small-time archeologist was hired by a...

Photo: Netflix Imagine a faded photograph of a bouquet of flowers. Blushing rose has mellowed into apricot and radiant gold into the color of wheat, as what was once a tangible object with weight and scent is reduced to a scrap of paper brittled by time. Someday soon, that paper will also disintegrate, a melancholy idea that’s expressed rather poetically in director Simon Stone’s otherwise stuffy adaptation of The Dig. The subjects of this period drama are buried treasure and repressed longing, ephemeral things that—much like flowers or photographs—crumble when they’re exposed to o...

Not an entirely smooth disinterment but satisfying all the same. TWITTER 1/15/2021 Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes head the cast of Simon Stone's period drama about the excavation of an ancient burial site on an English estate as World War II looms, also featuring Lily James and Johnny Flynn. Class as much as gender constraints obscured the achievements of 19th century English paleontologist Mary Anning, magnificently played by Kate Winslet in Francis Lee's slow-burn elemental love story Ammonite. And class barriers continue to marginalize the work of Ralph Fiennes' self-taught archeologist...