Lulu Wang’s family didn’t want to tell its matriarch that she was dying of cancer – and the resulting efforts to get everyone to say their goodbyes, without letting her in on the reason, turned into The Farewell, an indie movie starring Crazy Rich Asians‘ Awkwafina that, over its opening weekend, did the best per-screen business of any 2019 film (and that’s with the Manhattan blackout that took one of its few screens dark). – The Atlantic