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Feeling safe at your local film theater? Then grab your mask and a ticket to this smart, stylish (literally) thriller packed to the seams with superb acting. Read on for why our critics loved it, plus get the best new movies dropping on Netflix and a whole lot more. And pass the popcorn!

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The Outfit, R

Mark Rylance, who stoleDon't Look Upfrom Leo DiCaprio andBridge of Spies from Tom Hanks, plays a self-deprecating, London-trained tailor in 1956 Chicago who matches wits with his customers, dumb young gangsters who underestimate him (excellent Dylan O'Brien and Johnny Flynn) and i smart sometime gangster (Rylance'southward young man British stage nifty Simon Russell Beale). They use his shop to stash stuff they don't want cops or rivals to find, and when one mafioso gets shot, the tailor stitches him upwards. The FBI has bugged the tailor shop (which really happened in 1950s Chicago), the mob is hunting whoever ratted on them, and the tailor tries to protect his receptionist, who's like a girl to him (Zoey Deutch, a ringer for her female parent, Lea Thompson). Writer/director Graham Moore, who wrote the Oscar-winningThe Imitation Game, crafts a tense thriller that's like a cross betweenSleuth andReservoir Dogs — he keeps you guessing. Y'all won't likely observe better acting in any film this twelvemonth. —Tim Appelo (T.A.)

Watch information technology: The Outfit, coming March xviii to theaters

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

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Spring is coming, and that means one thing…

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

​It's our annual spring movie preview! Get our critics' within look at the blockbusters, dramas, comedies and documentaries that are coming this season. Spoiler alarm: I of them is the new Downton Abbey film (be still our hearts)!

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Whodunit? Wedunit!​

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

Agatha Christie fans, rejoice: With Kenneth Branagh'sExpiry on the Nile now in theaters, our critics wanted to double down on enjoying those twisty-turny, star-studded flick adaptations of Dame Agatha'south whodunits. Ready to cozy in with a mystery double feature this weekend? We thought so.

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

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

​Since and so many people are scared to go back to moving-picture show theaters, films contending for this year's shiny gilt dolls are increasingly available to watch from your couch in accelerate of the Academy Awards on March 27. Become prepare for the big nighttime (and win your Oscar pool) by communicable up on 21 stunning films streaming at present (or well-nigh to be) on Netflix, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Disney+, Hulu and Paramount+.​

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​​Anyone noticing a revival of peachy black-and-white films this yr?​​​

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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 year's high-profile films (and top Oscar contenders) are in black and white. You may be surprised at how many movies set color aside this year. Get our critics' listing and stream them all!​

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

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​With the biggest film award noms dropping this week, we've combed the lists to highlight the grownup stars vying for golden. Meet who's in contention, including AARP'southward Movies for Grownups nominee list! ​

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

Your guide to 2022 movie awards shows

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Jon Batiste (lesser left) attends the 93rd Almanac Academy Awards at Marriage Station on April 25, 2021 in Los Angeles, California.

It's awards season! The traditional string of awards shows, from the Golden Globes to the Oscars (and everyone'due south favorite, AARP's Movies for Grownups Awards!), used to kicking off in Jan, merely this year it's different (like everything else in life, it seems). Confused about which awards are airing when, and ready to get the within track on our critics' predictions? It'due south all right here. ​

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Demand some (more) cozy in your life right effectually now? These Netflix movies are here for you​​

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Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn (right) in "My Off-white Lady."

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

Winter just seems like the perfect time to ringlet up on the sofa with a pulse-pounding picture show, which is what inspired our critics to assemble up the 13 very best thrillers currently streaming on platform powerhouse Netflix. From 1982's Blade Runner (never a bad idea to revisit that classic) to the 2020 Netflix original Tyler Perry's A Fall From Grace, nosotros're here to pull you into the rabbit pigsty of suspense and sweaty palms.​

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Do yous get a little dizzy from all those "recommendations" the streaming giant proposes for you? Our critic took a close await behind the browsing pall at Netflix and has some uncomfortable truths about how Netflix is manipulating your browsing feel. Get the whole scoop and find out how to take command of your account (and see amend stuff).

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21 swell movies you didn't even know were on Netflix!

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

Sure, you know the big-proper noun shows and original series that the streaming giant wants you to scan … only did yous know that Netflix has almost iii,700 movies yous can stream? Our critics sifted through the whole list to uncover 21 fantastic gems that are ready to watch. So what are you lot waiting for?

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

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Nosotros hear you. Which is why our critics found the 13 all-time romantic comedies that characteristic older actors! From an all-grown-up Spencer and Tracy in 1957's Desk Set to Angela Bassett in How Stella Got Her Groove Back in the late '90s to Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland in 2017's The Leisure Seeker, these are love stories for folks who know a affair or two about love. Grab your favorite rom-com date and get streaming here: Grown-ups In (and Out) of Love: thirteen Cracking Rom-Coms Starring Older Actors

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Other movies to watch

Family unit Squares, R

​At present that Covid has united states all seeing each other in piffling boxes on Zoom instead of in person, it struck writer/director Stephanie Laing (Irreplaceable You lot,Veep) that our gatherings resemble The Hollywood Squares. And so she recruited an amazing cast to enact the drama of a family afterward Grandma Mabel (June Squibb,Nebraska) dies, and has everyone assemble on Zoom to lookout her last video testament: "If you're seeing this, I'm non with you lot anymore. You've all been acting similar jackasses and keeping and then many secrets." She reveals them — one of her progeny is a thief, some other isn't the child of the parent they think — and everybody starts acting like ... an entertainingly dysfunctional family. Margo Martindale and Henry Winkler are terrific as Mabel's secretive kids, Ann Dowd as Mabel's widow, and Judy Greer as her stressed-out granddaughter living in an RV with a pothead teenage son. It'due south a messy movie only original and arresting.—Tim Appelo (T.A.)

Watch it:Family Squares, in theaters and on need​​

CODA, PG-13

Yeah, it's formulaic, with foreseeable TV-similar beats, merely at that place's a reason this winsome indie film broke all Sundance Festival sales records. The most feel-good Sundance striking since Little Miss Sunshine, information technology's an irresistible coming-of-age tale of a CODA, a Kid Of Deaf Adults (Emilia Jones). Ruby helps her irascible hearing-impaired folks (Marlee Matlin, 55, and The Mandalorian's Troy Kotsur) and brother (Daniel Durant) with the family unit line-fishing concern in a salty Massachusetts town. She joins the school choir — there's a cute boy — and proves to be a Glee-level singer with a shot at Berklee College of Music. When Ruby sings "Both Sides At present," her parents can't hear it, only they tin feel information technology, bridging the gaps of both generation and hearing. Unsurprisingly, Matlin's acting is just equally good when she's signing (with subtitles), not speaking. —T.A.

Lookout man it: CODA, on Apple Television receiver+

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The Batman, PG-xiii

Twilight'southward twinkly vampire, Robert Pattinson, is up at bat in Gotham City, a torrentially rainy cesspool of corruption, civic disappointment and habit. Beneath the safety ears, he's all granite-chinned and haunted eyes. Off duty, he's a tragic, wan, raccoon-eyed Bruce Wayne. He hurts. He suffers. And that's OK, because his Batman is the tense center 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 savage mob kingpin. The peachy Jeffrey Wright, 56, as Lt. James Gordon, attempts to keep the craziness in bank check as the Riddler assassinates the mayor and Batman uncovers nighttime secrets from the Wayne family unit archives. With Pattinson above the title, this big-bucks comic volume actioner volition reignite the box role and describe crowds around the world.—Thelma M. Adams (T.M.A.)​

Picket information technology: The Batman, in theaters​​

 Mothering Sunday, R​

LikeDownton Abbeywith actress naughty bits, Eva Husson'due south sensual flow piece features sexy maid Jane (dewy Odessa Young). She passes her special twenty-four hour period off romping with her posh neighbour Paul (The Crown'south dashing Josh O'Connor) earlier he weds a suitable match. Based on the 2016 novel by Graham Swift, 72, it's a gauzy, sexy between-the-wars British reverie that too pairs Colin Firth, 61, and Olivia Colman as Jane's stolid, grieving employers, the Nivens. Mothering Dominicus, celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent in parts of Europe, devastates Mrs. Niven, who lost both children in Earth State of war I. Colman spends about 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 tin can hardly compete with Jane's Pre-Raphaelite silky skin gorgeously lit past honour-winning cinematographer Jamie Ramsay.—T.M.A.​

Lookout man it: Mothering Sunday, in theaters

Cyrano, PG-13​

Cyrano is a groovy, big whirligig of a musical. Directed by Joe Wright (Amende,The Darkest Hr), 49, with luscious costumes and exuberant production blueprint, information technology stars Peter Dinklage, 52. TheGame of Thrones standout embodies the championship grapheme, Cyrano de Bergerac, a human with concrete disabilities leavened by a silver tongue. (Sound familiar, Tyrion Lannister fans?) Cyrano lends his song gifts to a lovestruck but tongue-tied soldier, Christian (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), to woo the beautiful Roxanne (Haley Bennett), the blushing object of Cyrano's unrequited amore. This awkward 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 All-time Actor nomination. —T.M.A.​

Picket it:Cyrano, in theaters

Marry Me, PG-xiii​​

When her flirty, fast-talking fiancé Bastian (Colombian vocaliser Maluma) cheats with her assistant — the nerve! — popular star Kat Valdez (a charismatic Jennifer Lopez, 52) crosses that marriage thing off her to-practice listing fast. Only since she's all dressed up with no honeymoon, she impulsively weds a random audition member, Charlie (Owen Wilson, 53, in total, shambling Midnight in Paris style). It turns out, sometimes a rando divorced math teacher beats a randy groom, and Kat finds her soul mate after the ultimate meet-beautiful. This vocal-filled Valentine is a littleNotting Colina, a littleRunaway Bride, from a self-aware entertainer famed for the many superstars who've shared her life.—T.One thousand.A.​​

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

Blacklight, PG-xiii​​

"Granddaddy, are you a good guy?" precocious Natalie (Gabriella Sengos) asks Travis Block (Liam Neeson, 69). His respond? "I desire to be." In terms of longevity, the star is a very good guy, embracing his inner action hero at almost 70, and squeezing it for all its juice. Here, he's an off-the-books fixer for FBI Director Gabriel Robinson (an adequate Aidan Quinn, 62) with a specialty in recovering hole-and-corner G-men who've gone off the reservation. Between bouts of violence and vengeance, he tries to viscid-record his estranged family unit together, repeatedly endangering them despite his best intentions. This melancholy actioner with a cliché-ridden script highlights a moral homo contemplating retirement every bit his past catches upward with him — along with his achy knee joints and feet. Only Neeson's notwithstanding got game.—T.One thousand.A.​​

Lookout information technology: Blacklight, in theaters​​​

Moonfall,PG-13

We'll follow Halle Drupe (55) anywhere, including a let's-blow-stuff-upwards-in-space spectacular by Roland Emmerich (66). When the misbehaving moon'southward orbit threatens World (cue the tsunamis and towering infernos), astronaut and single female parent Jocinda Fowl (Berry) enlists disgraced space jock Brian Harper (Patrick Wilson, 48) to aid park the moon and salvage the world — and their corresponding 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 y'all have a disaster motion picture to add to the manager's bombastic body of work (Independence Mean solar day,White Firm Down). Given the current pileup of fires, floods and blizzards, nosotros're not finding much escape in apocalyptic images — simply Berry excels at humanizing the sci-fi shenanigans.

Watch It: Moonfall, in theaters​

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Munich: The Edge of War, PG-xiii​

Neville Chamberlain is usually portrayed as the British prime minister Hitler suckered by promising in 1938 not to invade Europe. In this good old-fashioned movie byThe Crowndirector Christian Schwochow, Chamberlain knows he's playing poker with a gangster but wants to prevent the war that was to kill three percent of the people on Earth, or buy time to beefiness upwards Uk's armed forces (he did). Jeremy Irons (73) is marvelous as this revisionist Chamberlain, but the film's heroes are fictional: his secretary Hugh (George MacKay) and Hugh's best friend from Oxford (Jannis Niewöhner), at present a German diplomat plotting to get war-balky German generals to end Hitler. It'due south a smart, uneven spy drama with oodles of historical atmosphere, expert tense moments, and foregone-conclusion problems. But it holds your involvement, and it's original. Even Hitler (Ulrich Matthes, Goebbels inDownfall) is a novel accept — not a stale cliché but a canny operator.—T.A.​

Watch information technology:Munich: The Edge of State of war, on Netflix​​​​

Nightmare Alley, R

​Guillermo del Toro's spectacularly nasty carnival pic is like a bitter reply to his blast 2017 romanceThe Shape of Water— as gorgeous, dreamy and visually inventive, only infinitely bleak. 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 drunk, broken mentalist husband (David Strathairn, 72). Volition he find true magic with a circus girl (Rooney Mara) who's as radiant as the heroine in Fellini'due southLa Strada? Or go bad, helping a terrifying psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett, 52) fleece a sinister plutocrat (Richard Jenkins, 74)? The tale is propulsive still shapeless, just i darkly dazzling scene afterwards another. But it holds your attention as the killer bandage messes with your mind. Blanchett's sharp, arch looks and darting emotions are a natural for noir, and Strathairn is great equally the carnies' shattered moral conscience.—T.A.​

Watch it: Nightmare Aisle, intheaters​​​, and on Hulu and HBO Max

The Lost Daughter, R​

Maggie Gyllenhaal makes a bold author-director debut unpacking Elena Ferrante'southward slim, scorching novel. Among 2021's best, the vibrant drama centers on Leda (a glorious Olivia Colman, 47), an academic pushing 50. She travels solo to a Greek island for summer sun and self-care just, curious, can't resist getting entangled in the traumas of glistening young mother Nina (Dakota Johnson). As Leda becomes obsessed with Nina, her clingy young girl and the extended family swirling around them, the encounter triggers sharp, undigested personal memories — and reveals the past pick that, even now, defines Leda. Enter the brilliant Jessie Buckley in flashback every bit the younger Leda, raising daughters while pursuing an ambitious intellectual career, struggling with domesticity'southward crushing demands and seduced at an academic conference by Professor Hardy (Gyllenhaal'due south hubby, Peter Sarsgaard, 50). An original graphic symbol study that spirals similar a thriller, The Lost Daughter is an exhilarating, unsparing examination of modern motherhood — its joys and discontents.—T.Chiliad.A.

Lookout man it: The Lost Daughter, on Netflix

 The Tender Bar, R​

Former immature hunk Ben Affleck, 49, plays an avuncular grownup in a sweetness, gentle adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner J.R. Moehringer's memoir nigh his childhood in a Long Island bar in the '70s. J.R.'due south dad (Max Martini, 52), a DJ and a wiggle, left his mom (Lily Rabe), then she and J.R. move in with her kind but flatulent father (Christopher Lloyd, 83). J.R. poignantly listens to his AWOL dad's radio prove. But who needs him, anyway? J.R.'s Uncle Charlie (Affleck) is improve 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 person sciences": drinking, respecting women, forging a professional identity. Manager George Clooney, 60, gets an A in the male person sciences merely flubs the subplot virtually J.R.'southward college romance with a richer girl (Brianna Middleton). The plot ambles and wanders. But Affleck's warm intelligence rescues information technology, as Charlie does J.R.—T.A.​

Lookout man it: The Tender Bar, on Amazon Prime

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 Swan Song, R​

I can never go enough of double Oscar winner Mahershala Ali, 47 (Moonlight,The Greenish Volume) — and hither in that location are two of him: the original and his clone. In writer-director Benjamin Cleary's existential sci-fi romance prepare in a virtually time to come 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 Close, 74) recommends he take a radical new course: bid his beloved Poppy (Naomie Harris, 45) and son goodbye, transfer his memories to the clone, and enter an idyllic hospice for his final days while another flesh-and-blood being blimp with Cameron'south personal memories takes over. That's going to have 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 forward bulldoze of passive vocalism. —T.M.A.​

Picket it: Swan Song, on Apple Tv+

Westward Side Story, PG-xiii

​Steven Spielberg, 74, directs a thundering adaptation of Leonard Bernstein's classic musical by Tony Kushner, 65. Similar the 1961 original, it's fix in 1957. As the wrecking brawl levels a Manhattan slum, rival ethnic gangs the Jets and the Sharks rumble. Meanwhile, Jet Tony (Ansel Elgort) and Shark little sister Maria (Rachel Zegler) fall in dearest at commencement sight, catalyzing the turf wars. Elgort hits the correct notes but doesn't sizzle. Shiny newcomer Zegler sings angelically. Rita Moreno, 89, who won an Oscar for playing the spunky Anita in 1962, even so twinkles.

Watch it: West Side Story, in theaters​​

Being the Ricardos, R​

Nicole Kidman, 54, grows on the audition every bit a brittle version of Lucille Ball, the flame-haired comedienne whose prove I Dearest Lucy ruled 1950s Tv. Author-director Aaron Sorkin, 60 (The Social Network,The Westward Wing), makes the love-and-loathe story between Ball and her onscreen-and-actual Cuban American husband Desi Arnaz (a loose and engaged Javier Bardem, 52) a workplace dramedy unfolding in a single crunch-plagued calendar week. Public accusations that the controlling leading lady has a communist past — and individual indications of Arnaz'southward sexual adultery — threaten both the sitcom and their marriage. The dialog'south pungent, the pace fast, and J.K. Simmons, 66, steals the show as William Frawley, delivering some of Sorkin'south sharpest lines as the sardonic, hard-drinking thespian who played the Ricardos' neighbor Fred.

​Watch it: Being the Ricardos, on Amazon Prime

The Ability of the Dog, R​​

​Jane Campion's glorious, sweeping and intimate Oscar-bound Western is set at the volatile crossroads of horse civilization and the horseless carriage in 1925 Montana, on the ranch of the bachelor Burbank brothers, menacing Phil (Bridegroom Cumberbatch) and temperate George (rock-solid Jesse Plemons). Phil, rangy of build and cunning of heart, is a charismatic and cutting alpha dog. Below his bullying hide, 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 Power of the Domestic dog, on Netflix

House of Gucci, R

Directed by maestro Ridley Scott (Alien, Gladiator), 83, this long, bouncy tale of the Italian luxury designers' autumn never met a fast car it didn't slow 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 corrupt popes. Here, with a John Waters mustache, he's a deliciously toothless lion in wintertime. Equally his craftier sibling Aldo, Al Pacino, 81, roars and roars. And the sons! Adam Driver excels equally Rodolfo'south socially awkward, intellectual Maurizio. As Aldo'south Paolo, Jared Leto's smothered in prosthetics still emotionally present. OK: Then where'due south Lady Gaga? She's Patrizia Reggiani, the outrageous outsider who weds Maurizio and eventually Jengas the entire clan. —T.G.A.​

Sentinel information technology:House of Gucci, in theaters​

Rex Richard, R​

In the real story of lawn 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. But the grownups steal the evidence. Volition Smith (53) outdoes himself equally their dad/charabanc Richard, who survived KKK thugs in youth, protects them from Compton thugs, vows they won't always have to share a bedroom with three other extremely talented sisters in poverty and shamelessly promotes them to the rich, lily-white tennis institution. Smith conveys the bizarre drive that made his preposterous programme come truthful in a performance every bit impressive as annihilation he'southward done, perchance more, and entirely new. Remarkably, Aunjanue Ellis (52) is fifty-fifty amend in the smaller function of Richard'south wife, Oracene, who stands upwards to his fe will and coaches just as well. A total experience-good motion-picture show.—T.A.​

Picket it: King Richard, on HBO Max​

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C'monday C'mon, R​

Joaquin Phoenix is superb as Johnny, a charming, disheveled radio journalist who interviews (apparently bodily) kids about how they see the future. Suddenly, his estranged L.A. sister (an excellent Gaby Hoffmann) asks him to wait after her 8-twelvemonth-old, Jesse (Woody Norman). She's got to tend to her bipolar hubby (Scoot McNairy). And then Jesse joins Johnny in New York and on the road. He's a whirlwind of cute-free, extreme eccentricity, and peppers him with questions — "Why aren't you married?" and "Volition I wind upward like my dad?" — and scares him witless past wandering off in crowds. Their bond grows, equally does Johnny, a bit like Hugh Grant inAbout a Boy merely with space naturalism. Some will loathe the movie's looseness, and the real-kid interview scenes make information technology like two movies. Just become with its shagginess — information technology will warm you lot. Norman is one fine child actor, on par with Phoenix at his best. And the black-and-white cinematography is as proficient asBelfast'south.—T.A.​

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

Belfast, PG-13

Not since John Boorman's 1987 WWII masterpieceHope and Celebrity has there been such an inspiring motion-picture show about a director's babyhood in a state of war zone — in this case, Kenneth Branagh, now lx, growing up amid the 1969 Protestant-Catholic riots in Republic of ireland. Jude Colina is vivid as a sensitive kid troubled past the Troubles, playing war with a wooden sword and a trash-can-lid shield as grownups battle for real. Not just a coming-of-age film, it'south an absorbing family portrait: Caitriona Balfe and Jamie Dornan are wonderful as his film-star-beautiful parents, and Ciarán Hinds, 68, and Judi Dench, 86, still better as the warmly waggish grandparents they live with. Information technology evokes a time and place through a child's optics, and makes you feel office of the torn town and the unbreakable family. Information technology'southward shot in luminous black and white, except for the colour that lights upwards their lives when they're at the cinema gasping at fur-bikini'd Raquel Welch in1 Million Years B.C. orChitty Chitty Bang Bang'due south flying auto. You experience their urgent need to escape the drama erupting in the streets outside, and why they can't bear to leave, and the way Belfast volition ever be with them wherever they roam. Expect Branagh to roam downward that Oscar red carpet soon.—T.A.

Sentry it:Belfast, in theaters

Spencer, R​

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

Watch information technology:Spencer, bachelor on demand

The Harder They Fall, R​

Like a Tarantino romp simply faster-paced, Jeymes Samuel'due south Black Western is a sort-of historical hoot and a holler. It actually is history-inspired: Blacks were a quarter of America's cowboys, and the picture'due south stampede of stars play wildly fictionalized actual people: Bass Reeves (Delroy Lindo, 68), the West'southward starting time Black deputy U.S. marshal; outlaws Rufus Buck (Idris Elba) and Nat Love (Jonathan Majors); and Stagecoach Mary (Zazie Beetz), the start Black U.S. mail carrier. Treacherous Trudy Smith (Regina King, 50) is a gas simply not real. The shaggy-dog plot involves the Love gang's vendetta confronting Buck'south, but it's just an excuse for tongue-in-cheek genre pastiche, high-noon showdowns and saloon shootouts, shot with brassy style and a killer soundtrack by anybody from Fela Kuti to Jay-Z (a coproducer). It'south overstuffed with terrific actors having a blast, and the fun's infectious.—T.A.​

Watch information technology:The Harder They Fall, on Netflix

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Dune, PG-13​

Few movies justify the give-and-take spectacular equally amply every bit this float-challenging 155-minute sci-fi epic assault Arrakis, a more impressive desert globe than Luke Skywalker ever saw. Its massive dunes look like Lawrence of Arabia'southward, only patrolled by giant, lamprey-similar sandworms, with eight-winged dragonfly-like helicopters buzzing overhead. In that location's a nice intergenerational vibe between the planet'south steward, Duke Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac), and his son Paul (Timothée Chalamet), ambiguously blessed with supernatural gifts. The fat-equally-Jabba-the-Hutt bad guy Baron Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård, lxx) gets an entrance resembling Brando's in Apocalypse At present. As the ruthless truthsayer Reverend Mother Mohiam, who tests Paul's mystical mettle, Charlotte Rampling, 75, is icy coolness itself. The brooding tale takes its own sweet time, and you sometimes wish it would cut to the chase and have Paul atomic number 82 the desert tribe of Stigar (Javier Bardem, 52) confronting the bad guy, already. Only it'south brooding, somber, deliberate as a funeral march, haunting. You wonder if it'll ever end, then get peeved you can't see the sequel immediately.—T.A.​

Watch it:Dune, on HBO Max

No Fourth dimension to Dice, PG-13​​

Merely when he idea he was out, James Bond (leathery only lethally sexy Daniel Craig, 53) gets pulled back into his old mess of international intrigue and MI6 role politics. Assuredly directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga (Beasts of No Nation), the flick dashes from Italy to Republic of cuba to London in ane switchback after some other with stunning scenes of escalating danger, stolen kisses, and fast cars. The action sequences, particularly in the thriller's first two thirds, are seamless and light-headed. The plot? Information technology has something to practise 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 dorsum together – Lea Seydoux as the love interest; CIA pal Jeffrey Wright, 55; Ralph Fiennes, 58; Ben Whishaw and Naomie Harris as Bond's role pod; and Lashana Lynch as his 007 replacement. On a stealth mission to Cuba, Bond joins newcomer Paloma (Ana de Armas), who kicks barrel in a plunging evening gown. —T.1000.A.​

Sentinel it: No Time to Dice, on need on DirecTV, Xfinity, Spectrum, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+ and Google Play

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

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