Richard Linklater’s films

If the radiant “Apollo 10 ½,” recently released on Netflix, reminded you of the warm and wistful pleasures of Richard Linklater’s deceptively modest films, a new Criterion Channel series will be a welcome sight. As of May 1, the Criterion Channel is hosting a 15-film series devoted to the Austin,

Texas, auteur, streaming films from Linklater’s Gen X-defining breakthrough “Slacker” to his years-inthe-making Oscar-nominated hit “Boyhood.” If you haven’t seen them, keep an eye out for some less-heralded gems like the well-observed backstage drama “Me and Orson Welles” and the black comedy “Bernie,” with a tour-de-force Jack Black.

‘Along for the Ride’

Sofia Alvarez penned two well-received Netflix teen rom-coms adapted from Jenny Han’s novels: 2018’s “To All the Boys

I’ve Ever Loved” and its 2020 sequel, “To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You.” In “Along for the Ride,” debuting Friday on Netflix, Alvarez makes her directorial debut. Adapted from Sarah Dessen’s 2009 novel, set in a seaside town over summer, it stars Emma Pasarow and Belmont

Cameli as two insomniac teens who connect on moonlight walks.

‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’

“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” offers another twist in the space saga that keeps on giving. The Paramount+ series is set during the pre-Capt. Kirk years of the U.S.S. Enterprise, when Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) commands the ship on its search for new worlds. Also in the cast: Rebecca Romijn as Number One, Ethan Peck as Science Officer Spock, Jess Bush as Nurse Christine Chapel and Celia Rose Gooding as Cadet Nyota Uhura. Akiva Goldsman (“Star Trek: Picard”) wrote and directed the series premiere of the 10-episode season debuting weekly beginning Thursday.

AP writers Lynn Elber and Jake Coyle contributed to this report