David Bianculli

Coming up, Justin Chang reviews Surat, the new Spanish film he says is one of the best he's seen all year.

This is Fresh Air.

Our film critic, Justin Chang, says that Sirat is the best new movie he's seen this year.

It's about a man searching for his lost daughter at a rave in the desert of southern Morocco.

Sirat won a jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival this year and will represent Spain in the Oscar race for Best International Feature.

Here is Justin's review.

Justin Chang is a film critic at The New Yorker.

He reviewed Sirat, now playing in select theaters.

On Monday's show, actress and singer Cynthia Erivo.

She returns on screen as Elphaba in Wicked for Good, who claims her own power, even as the world deems her the Wicked Witch.

In Erivo's new memoir, Simply More, she explores similar themes, shedding other people's definitions of who she should be as a woman and an artist.

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