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Holy caped avenger, Batman! The moody crime fighter is back in a large-star, big-budget flick that makes us experience like it's summer blockbuster season already (and we'll take it). See what our critics have to say, bank check out our Netflix picks and our brand-new spring movies preview, and laissez passer the popcorn!

Batman is back!​

The Batman, PG-13

Twilight's twinkly vampire, Robert Pattinson, is upwardly at bat in Gotham City, a torrentially rainy cesspool of corruption, civic thwarting and addiction. Beneath the safe ears, he'due south all granite-chinned and haunted eyes. Off duty, he'due south a tragic, wan, raccoon-eyed Bruce Wayne. He hurts. He suffers. And that's OK, considering his Batman is the tense eye of a whirl of well-cast characters: Colin Farrell is unrecognizable as Oswald Cobblepot, the Penguin; Zoë "the cat" Kravitz is a spin-off-ready Selina Kyle; Paul Dano is the Riddler, unhinged; and John Turturro, 65, channels Al Pacino as a vicious mob kingpin. The great Jeffrey Wright, 56, as Lt. James Gordon, attempts to continue the craziness in check as the Riddler assassinates the mayor and Batman uncovers dark secrets from the Wayne family unit athenaeum. With Pattinson to a higher place the title, this large-bucks comic volume actioner will reignite the box function and draw crowds around the globe.—Thelma Thousand. Adams (T.1000.A.)​

Spotter it: The Batman, coming March iv to theaters​​

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Our Netflix watch of the week could not be more important​

Winter on Fire: Ukraine'south Fight for Freedom (2015)​

Russian émigré Evgeny Afineevsky's Oscar-nominated documentary vividly shows how Ukrainians rose up and cast out Putin's puppet government in 2022 (prompting him to seize Crimea right after the Olympics, subvert Ukraine'due south eastern provinces and now invade, right after the most recent Olympics). "These people will non be slaves," Afineevsky recently said. "Ukrainians stood against Nazis during the 2nd Earth War, and they will be standing against the aggression today. And I'yard 100 percent sure that it's not going to be a brusk-term state of war." Netflix is now available in Ukraine, so when you witness their victorious 2022 heroism, they'll be watching, too.​

Picket information technology: Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Liberty, on Netflix​

Don't miss this:The Best Things Coming to (and Leaving) Netflix in March​

Bound is coming, and that means i matter…

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Tom Cruise as Pete 'Bohemian' Mitchell in "Top Gun: Maverick"; Penelope Wilton as Isobel Merton and Maggie Smith as Violet Grantham in "Downton Abbey: A New Era."

​It's our almanac spring movie preview! Become our critics' inside expect at the blockbusters, dramas, comedies and documentaries that are coming this flavour. Spoiler alert: One of them is the new Downton Abbey film (exist nevertheless our hearts)!

Get the listing:2022 Spring Movie Preview: 15 Films Not to Miss​

Whodunit? Wedunit!​

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Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot in "Death on the Nile."

Agatha Christie fans, rejoice: With Kenneth Branagh'sDeath on the Nile now in theaters, our critics wanted to double downward on enjoying those twisty-turny, star-studded moving picture adaptations of Dame Agatha'due south whodunits. Fix to cozy in with a mystery double feature this weekend? We idea so.

​Get the list:The Ultimate Agatha Christie Movie Watch List to Get You Through the Winter​​​

​​Here's where to stream this year's Oscar nominees​

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(Left to correct) Volition Smith in "King Richard," Oscar Isaac in "Dune" and Meryl Streep in "Don't Wait Up."

​Since so many people are scared to go dorsum to film theaters, films contending for this year's shiny aureate dolls are increasingly available to picket from your couch in accelerate of the Academy Awards on March 27. Get ready for the big dark (and win your Oscar pool) past catching up on 21 stunning films streaming now (or about to be) on Netflix, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, Apple Boob tube+, Disney+, Hulu and Paramount+.​

Get the list:Where to Watch This Twelvemonth's Oscar-Nominated Movies Online​

​​Anyone noticing a revival of great black-and-white films this year?​​​

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(Left to right) Caitriona Balfe, Jamie Dornan, Judi Dench, Jude Loma and Lewis McAskie in "Belfast."

FromThe Tragedy of Macbeth toBelfast, some of the yr'due south high-profile films (and top Oscar contenders) are in black and white. You may be surprised at how many movies set color aside this twelvemonth. Get our critics' list and stream them all!​

Go the list:​Black-and-White Films Are Having a Moment This Year. Here Are the Ones to Watch​​​​

​The Oscar nominations are in! How'd your favorite grownup stars do?​

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​With the biggest film accolade noms dropping this week, we've combed the lists to highlight the grownup stars vying for gold. Encounter who's in contention, including AARP's Movies for Grownups nominee listing! ​

Get the scoop: How the Real Grownups Fared in 2022's Oscar Nominations​​​

Your guide to 2022 moving-picture show awards shows

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Jon Batiste (bottom left) attends the 93rd Annual Academy Awards at Union Station on April 25, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.

It's awards flavour! The traditional string of awards shows, from the Golden Globes to the Oscars (and everyone's favorite, AARP's Movies for Grownups Awards!), used to kick off in January, just this year it'southward dissimilar (like everything else in life, it seems). Confused about which awards are airing when, and ready to get the inside track on our critics' predictions? Information technology's all correct hither. ​

Get the scoop: Everything y'all demand to know about 2022's crazy awards season​

Need some (more) cozy in your life correct around now? These Netflix movies are here for y'all​​

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Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn (right) in "My Fair Lady."

Baby, it is cold outside, and our critics are here to help you get through the winter with a dozen cozy gems (nine films and iii bingeable Goggle box series) streaming on Netflix right at present. All you need to practice is provide the PJs, the throw blanket and the cocoa!​

Go the list:The Coziest Netflix Movies and Shows to Curl Up With Right Now​​

The AARP 2022 Movies for Grownups nominees are in! Who are your favorites?

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Did anyone notice the Golden Globes? Well, they came and went, but y'all know what's here? AARP's 2022 Movies for Grownups nominees list, hot off the presses! Get the scoop on who's on the brusk list for our top moving picture awards and catch up on your sentinel listing earlier our awards evidence March 18!​

Get the list:Announcing AARP's Movies for Grownups Awards Nominees​​​

What are the best thrillers on Netflix right now? We're here with the goods

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(Left to correct) Jake Gyllenhaal in "The Guilty," Tyler Perry in "A Autumn From Grace" and Sandra Bullock in "Bird Box."

Wintertime just seems like the perfect time to gyre up on the sofa with a pulse-pounding flick, which is what inspired our critics to gather up the 13 very best thrillers currently streaming on platform powerhouse Netflix. From 1982'due south Blade Runner (never a bad idea to revisit that classic) to the 2022 Netflix original Tyler Perry's A Autumn From Grace, nosotros're here to pull you into the rabbit hole of suspense and sweaty palms.​

Get the list:The All-time Thrillers Playing on Netflix Right Now​​​

Don't open Netflix again until you've read this

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Do you lot get a piffling dizzy from all those "recommendations" the streaming giant proposes for you? Our critic took a shut look behind the browsing curtain at Netflix and has some uncomfortable truths most how Netflix is manipulating your browsing experience. Get the whole scoop and detect out how to take command of your account (and encounter better stuff).

Read it: The Surprising Secrets Behind How Netflix Recommends Shows and Movies You Watch

21 great movies you didn't fifty-fifty know were on Netflix!

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Idris Elba and Caleb McLaughlin in "Concrete Cowboy" (left) and Carey Mulligan in "The Dig."

Sure, yous know the big-name shows and original serial that the streaming giant wants you to scan … but did you know that Netflix has virtually 3,700 movies yous tin stream? Our critics sifted through the whole listing to uncover 21 fantastic gems that are ready to watch. And then what are you waiting for?

Get streaming: 21 Cached Movie Treasures You lot Didn't Know Were on Netflix Now

Get fix to bookmark this ultimate picture show watchlist

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(Left to right) Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh on the set of "A Streetcar Named Desire," Judy Garland in "The Magician of Oz" and Uma Thurman in "Pulp Fiction."

Our critics scanned the unabridged motion picture catalog from the 1930s to at present to handpick just thirty films that you must ­— must — come across. We're not talking about the all-time films (everyone does that list) only rather the films that are essential. You lot want to accept seen these movies not but because they're great (they are), just considering they ensure yous're tuned into their cultural moments, the ability of their time. So when someone makes a Philadelphia Story reference or deadpans, "the Dude abides," you know exactly what they mean.

Get the list here: The 30 Movies Every Grownup Should Know

Dearest rom-coms but tired of watching millennials have all the fun?

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We hear you. Which is why our critics plant the 13 all-time romantic comedies that feature older actors! From an all-grown-upwards Spencer and Tracy in 1957's Desk-bound Gear up to Angela Bassett in How Stella Got Her Groove Dorsum in the late '90s to Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland in 2017'south The Leisure Seeker, these are love stories for folks who know a thing or two well-nigh dear. Take hold of your favorite rom-com date and get streaming here: Grown-ups In (and Out) of Dear: thirteen Great Rom-Coms Starring Older Actors

Feeling overwhelmed with all the streaming services on your Television receiver?

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Disney, HBO, Peacock … it seems like every time you turn around (or turn on the Television receiver), another streaming service is vying for your attention (and subscription dollars). Which streaming services out at that place are actually worth the money? How do y'all decide what to choice? Here's what y'all demand to know about your options on Apple tree, BET, CBS, Disney, HBO and NBC: As well Many Goggle box Streaming Service Choices? Hither's What You Demand to Know

Other movies to watch

 Mothering Sunday, R​

SimilarDownton Abbeywith extra naughty bits, Eva Husson's sensual flow slice features sexy maid Jane (dewy Odessa Young). She passes her special mean solar day off romping with her posh neighbour Paul (The Crown's dashing Josh O'Connor) before he weds a suitable match. Based on the 2022 novel past Graham Swift, 72, information technology'due south a gauzy, sexy between-the-wars British reverie that also pairs Colin Firth, 61, and Olivia Colman equally Jane'due south stolid, grieving employers, the Nivens. Mothering Sunday, celebrated on the fourth Lord's day of Lent in parts of Europe, devastates Mrs. Niven, who lost both children in World War I. Colman spends almost of the film traumatized beneath a stunning hat, while Firth stiffens his upper lip and soldiers on. The costumes from Oscar winner Sandy Powell, 61, are gorgeous — but can hardly compete with Jane's Pre-Raphaelite silky peel gorgeously lit past honour-winning cinematographer Jamie Ramsay.—Thelma M. Adams (T.M.A.)​

Watch information technology: Mothering Sunday, in theaters

Cyrano, PG-xiii​

Cyrano is a great, big whirligig of a musical. Directed by Joe Wright (Atonement,The Darkest 60 minutes), 49, with luscious costumes and exuberant production pattern, it stars Peter Dinklage, 52. TheGame of Thrones standout embodies the title grapheme, Cyrano de Bergerac, a human with physical disabilities leavened by a silverish tongue. (Sound familiar, Tyrion Lannister fans?) Cyrano lends his vocal gifts to a lovestruck but natural language-tied soldier, Christian (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), to woo the cute Roxanne (Haley Bennett), the blushing object of Cyrano'due south unrequited affection. This bad-mannered triangle propels an energetic if overlong songfest with an original score from twins Aaron and Bryce Dessner of the band The National. The production provides Dinklage with a showcase for his mad acting and singing skills — and a platform for a Best Actor nomination. —T.M.A.​

Watch it:Cyrano, in theaters

Uncharted, PG-13​

The PlayStation-video-basedUncharted is very much previously charted: RecallRaiders of the Lost Ark, orNational Treasure. Tom Kingdom of the netherlands plays Nathan Drake, a mucilaginous-fingered orphan seeking his missing blood brother, and the lost treasure of explorer Ferdinand Magellan's sail around the globe. The boyishSpider-Man star has bulked up so much for the office, it's practically similar risking an eating disorder. As Victor "Sully" Sullivan, the shadowy gold hunter who recruits Drake to hunt for the $v billion bounty, Mark Wahlberg, fifty, is on cruise control. Meanwhile, Antonio Banderas, 61, represents the last member of the wealthy family that once funded Magellan'southward voyage of plunder. All roads lead to a CGI duel between 2 helicopters, each carrying a vintage sailing vessel — while Nathan and Sully discover whether they can achieve mutual trust. Because, yes, trust is its own treasure — and their golden-earthworks partnership promises a sequel.—T.One thousand.A.​

Watch it: Uncharted, in theaters​

Marry Me, PG-xiii​​

When her flirty, fast-talking fiancé Bastian (Colombian singer Maluma) cheats with her assistant — the nerve! — pop star Kat Valdez (a charismatic Jennifer Lopez, 52) crosses that marriage matter off her to-practise list fast. But since she's all dressed up with no honeymoon, she impulsively weds a random audience member, Charlie (Owen Wilson, 53, in full, shambling Midnight in Paris manner). It turns out, sometimes a rando divorced math teacher beats a randy groom, and Kat finds her soul mate subsequently the ultimate run across-cute. This song-filled Valentine is a picayuneNotting Hill, a piddlingRunaway Bride, from a self-aware entertainer famed for the many superstars who've shared her life.—T.M.A.​​

Watch it: Ally Me, in theaters and streaming on Peacock​​​

Blacklight, PG-13​​

"Granddaddy, are you a practiced guy?" precocious Natalie (Gabriella Sengos) asks Travis Block (Liam Neeson, 69). His answer? "I want to be." In terms of longevity, the star is a very skilful guy, embracing his inner action hero at almost 70, and squeezing information technology for all its juice. Here, he'due south an off-the-books logroller for FBI Director Gabriel Robinson (an acceptable Aidan Quinn, 62) with a specialty in recovering undercover G-men who've gone off the reservation. Between bouts of violence and vengeance, he tries to sticky-tape his estranged family together, repeatedly endangering them despite his best intentions. This melancholy actioner with a cliché-ridden script highlights a moral homo contemplating retirement as his past catches upward with him — along with his achy knee joints and feet. Only Neeson's however got game.—T.K.A.​​

Picket it: Blacklight, in theaters​​​

Moonfall,PG-13

We'll follow Halle Berry (55) anywhere, including a let's-blow-stuff-upwards-in-space spectacular by Roland Emmerich (66). When the misbehaving moon's orbit threatens Globe (cue the tsunamis and towering infernos), astronaut and unmarried female parent Jocinda Fowl (Drupe) enlists disgraced space jock Brian Harper (Patrick Wilson, 48) to help park the moon and relieve the world — and their respective cleaved families. Add together in a geeky genius played byGame of Throne's Samwell Tarly (John Bradley), who tin can manipulate a slide rule and provide comic relief, and you accept a disaster movie to add together to the director's bombastic torso of piece of work (Independence Day,White Firm Down). Given the current pileup of fires, floods and blizzards, we're not finding much escape in apocalyptic images — merely Berry excels at humanizing the sci-fi shenanigans.

Watch It: Moonfall, in theaters​

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Munich: The Edge of War, PG-13​

Neville Chamberlain is normally portrayed as the British prime number minister Hitler suckered past promising in 1938 not to invade Europe. In this skillful onetime-fashioned film pastThe Crowndirector Christian Schwochow, Chamberlain knows he's playing poker with a gangster but wants to prevent the war that was to kill 3 percent of the people on Earth, or purchase fourth dimension to beef upwards Britain'due south war machine (he did). Jeremy Irons (73) is marvelous as this revisionist Chamberlain, only the film'south heroes are fictional: his secretary Hugh (George MacKay) and Hugh'southward best friend from Oxford (Jannis Niewöhner), at present a German diplomat plotting to go state of war-balky German generals to stop Hitler. It's a smart, uneven spy drama with oodles of historical temper, expert tense moments, and foregone-determination problems. Only it holds your interest, and it'southward original. Fifty-fifty Hitler (Ulrich Matthes, Goebbels inDownfall) is a novel take — not a dried cliche but a canny operator.—Tim Appelo (T.A.)​

Lookout it:Munich: The Edge of War, on Netflix​​​​

A Hero, PG-thirteen

​Asghar Farhadi, 49, wrote and directed 2011'sA Separation, Iran's first winner of the foreign motion picture Oscar, and then the 2022 Oscar winner,The Salesman. Iran is hoping for some other Oscar with this heartrending tale nearly Rahim (Amir Jadidi), who's in debtors' prison for $35 — yes, Iran nonetheless has debtors' prisons — and finds a handbag of gold in the street! He decides to render it to its possessor, gets a big reward and becomes a media hero — until his little white lies and personal secrets emerge, and gild turns against him. Farhadi is vivid at depicting stories that seem like cinema verité documentaries but whose hero turns out to be caught in a circuitous web of fate and the mysteries of his own graphic symbol.—T.A.​

Lookout it: A Hero, on Amazon Prime

Parallel Mothers, R​

​Pedro Almódovar, 71, has created some other vibrant, passionate Spanish-language masterpiece, dancing back and along in time to manifest the power and mystery of motherhood and memory. In contemporary Madrid, a significant heart-aged lensman, Janis (an incandescent Penelope Cruz), shares a maternity hospital room with anxious adolescent Ana (rise star Milena Smit). The unmarried mothers bond over their newborns and provide mutual back up — until they united nations-swaddle a shattering betrayal that threatens their emotional connectedness. Meanwhile, Janis has enlisted her baby daddy, forensic archaeologist Arturo (Israel Elejalde), to investigate a rural mass grave created during the Spanish Civil War past Franco'south soldiers, which likely holds the corpse of her Republican swell-grandfather and neighboring fathers, sons and brothers. The remainder of light and dark, birth and death, and the power of women to create life, and to preserve memory over generations in the face of injustice, melds in a warm, humanistic and politically outspoken drama from the unflinching master.—T.Grand.A.​

Watch it: Parallel Mothers, in theaters

Nightmare Alley, R

​Guillermo del Toro'south spectacularly nasty carnival movie is like a bitter reply to his smash 2022 romanceThe Shape of Water— equally gorgeous, dreamy and visually inventive, merely infinitely dour. A grifter (Bradley Cooper) flees his fiery past into a lurid circus and learns the fine art of the con from a clairvoyant (Toni Collette) and her drunkard, broken mentalist husband (David Strathairn, 72). Will he notice truthful magic with a circus girl (Rooney Mara) who's as radiant every bit the heroine in Fellini'southLa Strada? Or become bad, helping a terrifying psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett, 52) fleece a sinister plutocrat (Richard Jenkins, 74)? The tale is propulsive yet shapeless, just one darkly dazzling scene after another. But information technology holds your attention as the killer cast messes with your mind. Blanchett's abrupt, arch looks and darting emotions are a natural for noir, and Strathairn is great as the carnies' shattered moral conscience.—T.A.​

Watch information technology: Nightmare Alley, intheaters​​​, and on Hulu and HBO Max

The Lost Girl, R​

Maggie Gyllenhaal makes a bold writer-director debut unpacking Elena Ferrante's slim, scorching novel. Among 2021's best, the vibrant drama centers on Leda (a glorious Olivia Colman, 47), an bookish pushing 50. She travels solo to a Greek island for summer sun and self-care simply, curious, tin can't resist getting entangled in the traumas of glistening young mother Nina (Dakota Johnson). Equally Leda becomes obsessed with Nina, her clingy young daughter and the extended family swirling around them, the come across triggers abrupt, undigested personal memories — and reveals the by choice that, even now, defines Leda. Enter the bright Jessie Buckley in flashback equally the younger Leda, raising daughters while pursuing an ambitious intellectual career, struggling with domesticity'south crushing demands and seduced at an academic conference by Professor Hardy (Gyllenhaal'south husband, Peter Sarsgaard, 50). An original character study that spirals like a thriller,The Lost Daughteris an exhilarating, unsparing exam of modern motherhood — its joys and discontents.—T.M.A.

Lookout it: The Lost Daughter, on Netflix

 The Tender Bar, R​

Former young hunk Ben Affleck, 49, plays an avuncular grownup in a sweet, gentle accommodation of Pulitzer Prize winner J.R. Moehringer'south memoir near his childhood in a Long Island bar in the '70s. J.R.'southward dad (Max Martini, 52), a DJ and a jerk, left his mom (Lily Rabe), so she and J.R. move in with her kind but flatulent male parent (Christopher Lloyd, 83). J.R. poignantly listens to his AWOL dad's radio testify. But who needs him, anyway? J.R.'s Uncle Charlie (Affleck) is better than a dad, introducing J.R. to the novels that line his bar The Dickens, to the entertaining barflies who become his surrogate family unit, and to "the male sciences": drinking, respecting women, forging a professional identity. Director George Clooney, threescore, gets an A in the male person sciences only flubs the subplot nigh J.R.'s higher romance with a richer girl (Brianna Middleton). The plot ambles and wanders. But Affleck's warm intelligence rescues it, as Charlie does J.R.—T.A.​

Lookout it: The Tender Bar, on Amazon Prime number

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 Swan Song, R​

I tin can never go plenty of double Oscar winner Mahershala Ali, 47 (Moonlight,The Green Book) — and here there are ii of him: the original and his clone. In author-manager Benjamin Cleary's existential sci-fi romance gear up in a near futurity of driverless cars and dramatic AI advances, Ali plays Cameron. The terminally ill father and husband confronts extinction and the end of his love before his time. His doctor (Glenn Shut, 74) recommends he take a radical new course: bid his beloved Poppy (Naomie Harris, 45) and son good day, transfer his memories to the clone, and enter an idyllic hospice for his final days while some other flesh-and-blood existence stuffed with Cameron's personal memories takes over. That's going to take some serious adjusting. Ali excels at delivering a human undergoing all five stages of grief until he achieves acceptance, and Harris connects as his wife, but the overall narrative unfolds with all the forrard drive of passive voice. —T.M.A.​

Watch it: Swan Song, on Apple TV+

W Side Story, PG-thirteen

​Steven Spielberg, 74, directs a thundering accommodation of Leonard Bernstein'south classic musical by Tony Kushner, 65. Like the 1961 original, it'southward set in 1957. Equally the wrecking ball levels a Manhattan slum, rival ethnic gangs the Jets and the Sharks rumble. Meanwhile, Jet Tony (Ansel Elgort) and Shark niggling sister Maria (Rachel Zegler) fall in love at first sight, catalyzing the turf wars. Elgort hits the right notes but doesn't sizzle. Shiny newcomer Zegler sings angelically. Rita Moreno, 89, who won an Oscar for playing the spunky Anita in 1962, still twinkles.

Watch it: Westward Side Story, in theaters​​

Beingness the Ricardos, R​

Nicole Kidman, 54, grows on the audience equally a brittle version of Lucille Brawl, the flame-haired comedienne whose show I Dear Lucy ruled 1950s Television. Writer-director Aaron Sorkin, 60 (The Social Network,The Westward Wing), makes the love-and-loathe story between Brawl and her onscreen-and-actual Cuban American husband Desi Arnaz (a loose and engaged Javier Bardem, 52) a workplace dramedy unfolding in a single crisis-plagued week. Public accusations that the controlling leading lady has a communist by — and private indications of Arnaz's sexual infidelity — threaten both the sitcom and their marriage. The dialog's pungent, the footstep fast, and J.K. Simmons, 66, steals the show every bit William Frawley, delivering some of Sorkin'south sharpest lines equally the sardonic, difficult-drinking actor who played the Ricardos' neighbor Fred.

​Watch it: Beingness the Ricardos, on Amazon Prime

The Power of the Domestic dog, R​​

​Jane Campion'south glorious, sweeping and intimate Oscar-jump Western is fix at the volatile crossroads of horse culture and the horseless carriage in 1925 Montana, on the ranch of the bachelor Burbank brothers, menacing Phil (Benedict Cumberbatch) and temperate George (rock-solid Jesse Plemons). Phil, rangy of build and cunning of eye, is a charismatic and cutting alpha domestic dog. Beneath his bullying hibernate, he has repressed his authentic, vulnerable self. His secrets erupt when George weds the widow Rose Gordon (a finely wrought Kirsten Dunst), who triangulates their relationship, threatening Phil's fierce frontier facade. A compelling, visceral tale that sticks its devastating landing. ​​

Watch it:The Ability of the Dog, on Netflix

Firm of Gucci, R

Directed by maestro Ridley Scott (Conflicting, Gladiator), 83, this long, bouncy tale of the Italian luxury designers' fall never met a fast car it didn't tedious down to capture. And information technology loves actors! Jeremy Irons, 73, cast equally Rodolfo Gucci, the more effete of the two founding brothers, has played his share of Borgias and decadent popes. Here, with a John Waters mustache, he's a deliciously toothless lion in winter. Every bit his craftier sibling Aldo, Al Pacino, 81, roars and roars. And the sons! Adam Driver excels equally Rodolfo's socially awkward, intellectual Maurizio. As Aldo'southward Paolo, Jared Leto's smothered in prosthetics withal emotionally present. OK: So where's Lady Gaga? She's Patrizia Reggiani, the outrageous outsider who weds Maurizio and eventually Jengas the entire clan. —T.1000.A.​

Watch it:House of Gucci, in theaters​

King Richard, R​

In the existent story of tennis immortals Venus and Serena Williams, the kids (Saniyya Sidney and Demi Singleton) are all right. They hit all the notes of a sport biopic with a satisfying thwack. Simply the grownups steal the bear witness. Will Smith (53) outdoes himself as their dad/motorcoach Richard, who survived KKK thugs in youth, protects them from Compton thugs, vows they won't always have to share a bedroom with iii other extremely talented sisters in poverty and shamelessly promotes them to the rich, lily-white tennis establishment. Smith conveys the bizarre drive that made his preposterous plan come true in a performance as impressive as anything he'southward done, perhaps more, and entirely new. Remarkably, Aunjanue Ellis (52) is even better in the smaller role of Richard's wife, Oracene, who stands up to his atomic number 26 will and coaches just every bit well. A total feel-good motion-picture show.—T.A.​

Watch it: King Richard, on HBO Max​

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C'mon C'monday, R​

Joaquin Phoenix is superb equally Johnny, a charming, disheveled radio journalist who interviews (apparently actual) kids almost how they see the futurity. Suddenly, his estranged L.A. sis (an fantabulous Gaby Hoffmann) asks him to wait after her 8-year-sometime, Jesse (Woody Norman). She's got to tend to her bipolar hubby (Scoot McNairy). So Jesse joins Johnny in New York and on the route. He's a whirlwind of cute-free, extreme eccentricity, and peppers him with questions — "Why aren't you married?" and "Will I wind upward like my dad?" — and scares him witless by wandering off in crowds. Their bail grows, every bit does Johnny, a bit like Hugh Grant inAbout a Boy simply with infinite naturalism. Some will loathe the movie's looseness, and the real-kid interview scenes make it like ii movies. But go with its shagginess — information technology volition warm you. Norman is one fine child actor, on par with Phoenix at his best. And the black-and-white cinematography is as adept asBelfast's.—T.A.​

Sentinel it: C'mon C'mon, available on demand

Belfast, PG-thirteen

Not since John Boorman's 1987 WWII masterpieceHope and Glory has at that place been such an inspiring film almost a manager's babyhood in a state of war zone — in this case, Kenneth Branagh, now 60, growing upwardly amid the 1969 Protestant-Catholic riots in Republic of ireland. Jude Hill is vivid as a sensitive kid troubled by the Troubles, playing war with a wooden sword and a trash-can-lid shield as grownups boxing for existent. Not just a coming-of-historic period film, it's an absorbing family portrait: Caitriona Balfe and Jamie Dornan are wonderful equally his movie-star-beautiful parents, and Ciarán Hinds, 68, and Judi Dench, 86, still better as the warmly waggish grandparents they live with. It evokes a time and place through a kid's eyes, and makes you experience part of the torn boondocks and the unbreakable family unit. It's shot in luminous black and white, except for the color that lights up their lives when they're at the cinema gasping at fur-bikini'd Raquel Welch in1 Meg Years B.C. orChitty Chitty Bang Bang's flight machine. Y'all experience their urgent demand to escape the drama erupting in the streets outside, and why they tin can't behave to go out, and the way Belfast will ever exist with them wherever they roam. Wait Branagh to roam downward that Oscar red carpet before long.—T.A.

Watch information technology:Belfast, in theaters

Spencer, R​

Bet on Kristen Stewart to win the Oscar as Diana Spencer, better known equally Princess Diana. She captures some of what made Di famous: the downcast optics, shy half-grinning, vulnerability, whimsicality, bulimia, motherly love and ghastly oppression by her faithless husband's old, cold family. She'southward not as smart, lively and effectively rebellious equally the real Di, considering this is billed every bit a fable, not a fact-based tale like The Crown. Captive in a royal mansion at Christmas as she ponders divorce, Di lives in a fugue land, dreading a beheading like Anne Boleyn's — when Anne'due south shade confronts her in a haunted house, it's difficult to say which is the ghostlier girl. Writer Steven Knight (theWho Wants to Exist a Millionaire? creator whoseEastern Promises is a must-come across) turns Di's life into a silly, dumb fairy tale made stylish past director Pablo Larraín. Stewart's moving functioning redeems the caricature, as do Sally Hawkins as Di's dearest dresser and Timothy Spall as her malevolent majestic handler.—T.A.​

Watch it:Spencer, available on need

The Harder They Fall, R​

Like a Tarantino romp only faster-paced, Jeymes Samuel's Black Western is a sort-of historical hoot and a holler. It really is history-inspired: Blacks were a quarter of America's cowboys, and the motion-picture show'due south stampede of stars play wildly fictionalized bodily people: Bass Reeves (Delroy Lindo, 68), the West's first Black deputy U.S. marshal; outlaws Rufus Buck (Idris Elba) and Nat Dear (Jonathan Majors); and Stagecoach Mary (Zazie Beetz), the first Black U.S. postal service carrier. Treacherous Trudy Smith (Regina Rex, 50) is a gas just not real. The shaggy-dog plot involves the Honey gang's vendetta against Buck'due south, merely it's just an excuse for natural language-in-cheek genre pastiche, high-noon showdowns and saloon shootouts, shot with flippant manner and a killer soundtrack by everyone from Fela Kuti to Jay-Z (a coproducer). It'southward overstuffed with terrific actors having a blast, and the fun's infectious.—T.A.​

Spotter information technology:The Harder They Fall, on Netflix

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Dune, PG-13​

Few movies justify the discussion spectacular as amply as this float-challenging 155-minute sci-fi epic assail Arrakis, a more impressive desert world than Luke Skywalker always saw. Its massive dunes look like Lawrence of Arabia's, only patrolled past giant, lamprey-similar sandworms, with eight-winged dragonfly-like helicopters buzzing overhead. There'due south a nice intergenerational vibe between the planet's steward, Duke Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac), and his son Paul (Timothée Chalamet), ambiguously blessed with supernatural gifts. The fatty-every bit-Jabba-the-Hutt bad guy Baron Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård, seventy) gets an entrance resembling Brando's in Apocalypse Now. Equally the ruthless truthsayer Reverend Mother Mohiam, who tests Paul'south mystical mettle, Charlotte Rampling, 75, is icy coolness itself. The brooding tale takes its own sugariness time, and you sometimes wish information technology would cutting to the chase and have Paul pb the desert tribe of Stigar (Javier Bardem, 52) against the bad guy, already. Only it's brooding, somber, deliberate as a funeral march, haunting. You lot wonder if it'll always end, and then go peeved you tin't run into the sequel immediately.—T.A.​

Watch it:Dune, on HBO Max

No Time to Die, PG-xiii​​

Only when he thought he was out, James Bail (leathery but lethally sexy Daniel Craig, 53) gets pulled dorsum into his old mess of international intrigue and MI6 office politics. Assuredly directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga (Beasts of No Nation), the film dashes from Italia to Cuba to London in 1 switchback afterwards some other with stunning scenes of escalating danger, stolen kisses, and fast cars. The action sequences, specially in the thriller'south first two thirds, are seamless and empty-headed. The plot? Information technology has something to do with biting orphan Lyutsifer Safin (Rami Malek veering toward Peter Lorre) and his – mwahaha – scheme to unleash a genocidal Dna-driven bio weapon. Meanwhile, the band's come back together – Lea Seydoux as the love involvement; CIA pal Jeffrey Wright, 55; Ralph Fiennes, 58; Ben Whishaw and Naomie Harris every bit Bond's office pod; and Lashana Lynch as his 007 replacement. On a stealth mission to Cuba, Bail joins newcomer Paloma (Ana de Armas), who kicks butt in a plunging evening gown. —T.M.A.​

Sentinel information technology: No Time to Dice, on demand on DirecTV, Xfinity, Spectrum, Amazon Prime number, Apple Tv+ and Google Play

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CODA, PG-13

Yep, it's formulaic, with foreseeable TV-similar beats, but at that place's a reason this winsome indie film broke all Sundance Festival sales records. The most feel-good Sundance hit since Little Miss Sunshine, it's an irresistible coming-of-age tale of a CODA, a Child Of Deaf Adults (Emilia Jones). Cerise helps her irascible hearing-impaired folks (Marlee Matlin, 55, and The Mandalorian'southward Troy Kotsur) and blood brother (Daniel Durant) with the family fishing business in a salty Massachusetts town. She joins the schoolhouse choir — at that place's a cute male child — and proves to be a Glee-level singer with a shot at Berklee College of Music. When Ruby sings "Both Sides Now," her parents tin't hear it, just they can feel information technology, bridging the gaps of both generation and hearing. Unsurprisingly, Matlin'south interim is just as skillful when she's signing (with subtitles), not speaking. —T.A.

Watch it: CODA, on Apple TV+

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Tim Appelo is AARP's film and Television set critic. Previously, he was Amazon'south amusement editor, Entertainment Weekly'svideo critic, and a writer for The Hollywood Reporter, People, MTV, LA Weeklyand The Village Voice.

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