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  Directed by Barry Jenkins Starring: Thuso Mbedu, Joel Edgerton, Chase W Dillon, Aaron Pierre Barry Jenkin's The Underground Railroad, a ten-episode miniseries available to stream on Amazon Prime, is the latest example of what I call the chaptered movie. With its union of auteur-driven vision and episodic storytelling, it’s a form that sits right on the line between film and television and is a big reason those two media are becoming difficult to distinguish. I see it as the natural (and welcome) result of the streaming revolution, the viewer can now stop and start a movie as easily as they pick up and put down a book, and we want our movies to change accordingly. We prefer stories divided up into pieces, not because of a shortened attention span well I guess not all because of it, but out of a desire for built-in stopping points. It’s unclear if the industry at large has grasped this distinction, But Jenkins the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind Moonlight and If Beale Street Could T...