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“When a movie is really watchable — engaging enough to captivate generations of people — that’s true cultural power,” says Glen Powell, who not only is the star of “Hit Man” but also was a producer and writer. The film is available to stream on Netflix today.

In “Lyle Ashton Harris: Our First and Last Love,” Harris has turned decades of “loosely curated personal accumulation into one of the most remarkable bodies of American art around,” Holland Cotter writes. The show is at the Queens Museum through Sept. 22.

You may find “Fantasmas,” Julio Torres’s new show, “tickling or twee,” but there is also “substance at its heart: the precariousness of living undocumented; the stresses of the hustle-culture economy; the experience of being nonconforming,” James Poniewozik writes. The series debuts on HBO tonight.

Oona Doherty’s “Navy Blue,” which had its New York premiere on Tuesday, is one of the few pieces to come from the pandemic that have “made something of the emotions of lockdown,” Brian Seibert writes. Performances of the work are at the Joyce Theater through Sunday.

With “Inside Light,” Kathinka Pasveer takes parts of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s epic opera cycle on the Book of Genesis, “Licht,” to create an immersive sound-and-light experience. The shows at the Park Avenue Armory are among our picks for entertainment in New York City.