5 Things to Do This Weekend

Nine years after “Mad Max: Fury Road,” the origin story of its renegade imperator is revealed in “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” starring Anya Taylor-Joy.

Here’s more on that film and other entertainment highlights this weekend →

“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” the fifth film in George Miller’s “Mad Max” cycle, “is very much a complement to ‘Fury Road,’” and though it “never fully pops the way the earlier one does,” it shows Miller to be “a kickass prophet of doom,” Manohla Dargis writes. The film, which also stars Chris Hemsworth, is in theaters now.

At DanceAfrica in 1983, Chuck Davis, its founder and “a force of nature,” Gia Kourlas writes, officiated the wedding ceremony of his friends and colleagues N’Goma and Normadien Woolbright. The couple (shown here) still work for the festival, which is at the Brooklyn Academy of Music through Monday.

A mid-career survey that spans two decades, “LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity” turns the work of the photographer and activist into sculptural installations that are “monuments to the living, to social and political realities in progress,” Holland Cotter writes. The show is on view at MoMA through Sept. 7.

The answers that “Atlas” provides to the questions it poses about artificial intelligence are surprising, “and not in a good way,” Alissa Wilkinson writes. The film, which stars Jennifer Lopez as a scientist in pursuit of a villainous sentient robot, arrives on Netflix today.

Guy Daniel Tremblay (shown here) uses narrative, props and miniatures to tell “Waves, All That Glows Sees,” a theatrical experience that “powerfully enchants,” our critic writes. The show, at Flushing Town Hall in Queens on Saturday and Sunday, is among our picks for entertainment in New York City.

Read our weekend roundup for more things to do in New York, or go to the Arts home page for the stories mentioned here and more.

• ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ Review: A Lonely Avenger
  
• At DanceAfrica, the Enduring Power of Love