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What to Watch on TV and at the Movies This Week

Four new movies have us itching to head to the theater, while ‘Palm Royale,’ ’Manhunt’ and another season of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ have us thrilled to stay home


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Kristen Wiig stars in "Palm Royale."
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What’s on this week? Whether it’s what’s on cable, streaming on Prime Video or Netflix, or opening at your local movie theater, we’ve got your must-watch list. Start with TV and scroll down for movies. It’s all right here.

On TV this week …

Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)

In the 20th season of the steamy hospital drama, we’ll see the aftermath of multiple cliff-hangers featuring two crucial smooches and two near-death experiences, by a patient (Sam Page) and his surgeon (Kim Raver, 54). The titular Dr. Grey (Ellen Pompeo, 54), won’t be a regular anymore, but she’ll do voice-overs and maybe even appear on screen. “It’s not a complete goodbye,” Pompeo says.

Watch it: Grey’s Anatomy, March 14, 9 p.m. ET on ABC

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​​9-1-1 (ABC)

Fox canceled this action procedural, its number 1 hit, so ABC scooped it up. In Season 7, LAPD first responder Athena Grant (Angela Bassett, 65) and fire Capt. Bobby Nash (Six Feet Under’s Peter Krause, 58) take a secret honeymoon cruise — and there’s an explosion on a cruise ship. Are they toast?

Watch it: 9-1-1, March 14, 8 p.m. ET on ABC

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Apples Never Fall (Peacock)

In a twist-filled mystery based on the book by the author of Big Little Lies, Annette Bening, 65, and Sam Neill, 76, play an all-American family whose scary secrets erupt.

Watch it: Apples Never Fall, March 14 on Peacock

​​Manhunt (Apple TV+)

In the ultimate American true-crime miniseries — if a bit fictionalized at points — Game of Thrones’ Tobias Menzies, 49, is Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of war, and Lili Taylor, 57, is Mrs. Lincoln, both driven to the brink of madness on the 12-day hunt for the president’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth (Anthony Boyle). Two-fisted, disreputable detective Lafayette Baker (Patton Oswalt, 55), who shared in the $100,000 reward for nabbing Booth before he could get a hero’s welcome in the South, is on the case, too.

Watch it: Manhunt, March 15 on Apple TV+

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​​Nolly (PBS)

Helena Bonham Carter, 57 (The CrownHarry Potter), plays the real-life 1960s-’70s Brit celebrity Noele “Nolly” Gordon, who refused to play by the industry’s antiwoman rules and got sacked from her hit TV show. Created by Doctor Who auteur Russell T. Davies, it got rave reviews in the U.K.

Watch it: Nolly, March 20 on PBS

Palm Royale (Apple TV+)

Kristen Wiig, 50, plays a divorcée trying to break into 1969 Palm Beach high society in a highly promising miniseries with the most illustrious comedy cast of the year: Carol Burnett, 90, Laura Dern, 57, Allison Janney, 64, Julia Duffy, 72, Josh Lucas, 52, and Ricky Martin, 52.

Watch it: Palm Royale, March 20 on Apple TV+

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Damsel (PG-13)

Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things) plays a distressed damsel in a cave with a dragon, and nobody to save her but herself. With Angela Bassett, 65, as her (wicked?) stepmother, and Robin Wright, 57 (star of 1987’s The Princess Bride), as Queen Isabelle.

Watch it: Damsel on Netflix

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Your Amazon Watch of the Week is here!

Ricky Stanicky

Want to see the naked guy from the Oscars with his clothes on? Try this number 1 Prime Video hit. It’s always fun to see scheming guys get their comeuppance – and that’s the central thrust of a raunchy new comedy about three now-grown childhood buds (Zac Efron, Andrew Santino and Jermaine Fowler) who hire a washed-up actor (John Cena, who presented the best costume Oscar wearing only a codpiece) to play the imaginary pal they’ve used for decades as an alibi for their secret boys-weekend getaways and bad behavior. But they’re not prepared for the mayhem created by the suddenly real Ricky Stanicky – or how easily Cena seems to meddle into their personal and professional lives.

Watch it: Ricky Stanicky on Amazon’s Prime Video

Don’t miss this: The 10 Best Things Coming to Amazon’s Prime Video in March

​​What’s new at the movies …

⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ One Life, PG

“Whoever saves one life saves the world entire,” to paraphrase the Talmud. In One Life, a fact-based Holocaust drama, modest English stockbroker Nicholas Winton ferries Jewish children to London from Czechoslovakia at great risk. Nazi forces hover at, then cross, the border as WWII looms. In the movie’s most suspenseful sequences, bespectacled young Winton (Johnny Flynn) sweats and worries, scrambling to do the right thing by the endangered children. Decades later, a retired Winton (Anthony Hopkins, 86, shuffling meaningfully) remains obsessed with his guilt over the lost and unsaved. He channels his obsession by trying to raise attention for this forgotten effort that preserved over 600 kids. Then, in 1988, the BBC’s That’s Life program reunites Winton with some of the survivors and their 6,000 heirs. In a karmic kiss, their reconnection enriches Winton’s life. Hanky, please, for the humanitarian the U.K. press dubbed the “British Schindler.” —Thelma M. Adams (T.M.A.)

Watch it: One Life, in theaters March 15

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⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ Remembering Gene Wilder, NR

If Young Frankenstein and The Producers rank high among your favorite comedies, have we got a documentary for you! Remembering Gene Wilder juggles hilarious movie clips with talking heads (Mel Brooks, 97, Carol Kane, 71) and TV interviews with the likes of Dick Cavett, 87. The comic, born Jerome Silberman in 1933 in Milwaukee, found inspiration in Danny Kaye and his wild side onstage. Wilder’s Broadway debut fell flat, but the show’s star, Anne Bancroft, introduced the wide-blue-eyed actor to her future husband, Brooks. Beginning with The Producers (1967), Brooks and Wilder launched a comedy collaboration to rival Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro’s dramatic partnership. Wilder’s life wasn’t all laughs, including his short marriage to SNL darling and ovarian cancer victim Gilda Radner; a challenging but fruitful partnership with Richard Pryor; and the Alzheimer’s that led to his 2016 death at 83. If the engaging documentary inspires a Wilder streaming marathon, so much the better. —T.M.A.

Watch it: Remembering Gene Wilder, in theaters March 15

⭐⭐⭐☆☆ Knox Goes Away, R

How’s this for a high-concept premise: An assassin has rapid onset dementia? When the hitman’s estranged son (James Marsden, 50) gets into a violent pickle that requires dad’s special skills, John Knox (Michael Keaton, 72) is up against a ticking clock. He must cover up the crime and outfox the police before he loses the meticulous mental tools of his trade – and his only chance at family reconciliation. Oscar-winner Keaton, making his directorial debut, gives a realistic feel to his far-fetched fiction. From Batman to Beetlejuice and beyond, Keaton has proven himself to be as adept at action seriousness as antic comedy. In Knox, his hand is steady, his unflashy performance grounded and his humor sly as Keaton surrounds himself with actors he clearly loves: a tender Marcia Gay Harden, 64, as his ex-wife, and a relaxed and relatively low key Al Pacino, 83. —T.M.A.

Watch it: Knox Goes Away, in theaters March 15

⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ Arthur the King, PG-13

Spoiler alert: The dog lives! If you’re like me, the prospect of a movie costarring a heroic animal can invoke PTSD from childhood classics like Old Yeller, Bambi or Marley & Me. You still might still need some Kleenex for Arthur the King, but they’ll be happy tears. Scrappy Arthur, the wounded street dog that endurance athlete Michael Light (Mark Wahlberg, 52) meets on the streets of the Dominican Republic and feeds a meatball, winds up tailing Light’s team of adventure racers through a brutal 10-day, 435-mile trek, kayak and climb through the jungle. Arthur becomes part of the squad in its last-ditch bid to win the Adventure Racing World Championship. The setup can be formulaic and heartwarming with a capital H at times. But Wahlberg is so unaffected and authentic as the obsessive racer who wants to win at any cost – until he meets Arthur – that many of his scenes with the dog ring remarkably true. (The film is based on the true story of Swedish adventure racer Mikael Lindnord, who met the real-life Arthur in an Ecuador race and brought him back to Sweden to live with his family.) A modest film that says a lot about what winning really means. —Dana Kennedy (D.K.)

Watch it: Arthur the King, March 15 in theaters

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The Gentlemen, Season 1 (Netflix)

Guy Ritchie, 55, gives us another high-style gangster classic in this series about law-abiding British duke Eddie Halstead (Theo James, The White Lotus) who inherits a 15,000-acre estate and discovers it’s got a vast cannabis plantation underground. Multiple colorful thugs try to take it over, including natty Stanley Johnston (Giancarlo Esposito, 65) and East End tough Bobby Glass (Ray Winstone, 67). Kaya Scodelario is marvelous as Bobby’s daughter and Halstead’s deadly gangster frenemy Susie Glass, who dresses even more impeccably than the Duke does. The plot twists are as exquisite as her taste.

Watch it: The Gentlemen on Netflix

Boat Story

Fans of quirky British thrillers should dock with this six-part series about two cash-strapped strangers (Daisy Haggard and Paterson Joseph, 59) who stumble on a shipwrecked boat full of cocaine, then decide to sell it themselves and split the proceeds. But can they outmaneuver the cops, masked gunmen and a well-dressed mobster dubbed the Tailor? (The show streams on Amazon’s free ad-supported Freevee service.)

Watch it: Boat Story on Amazon Freevee

⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ Dune: Part Two, PG-13

Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan compares this incredibly epic film of Frank Herbert’s SF classic to The Empire Strikes Back, which outdid the original Star Wars. He’s got a point. It’s an eye-popping, sonically stunning, highly original story with massively more action, character and plot than the 2021 Dune: Part One. Timothée Chalamet is more vibrant as Paul, the hero battling the Nazi-esque Harkonnens, and the grownups are great: Javier Bardem, 54, and Josh Brolin, 56, as his friends and mentors, Christopher Walken, 80, as the evil Emperor and Stellan Skarsgård, 72, as the Jabba the Hutt-like Baron Harkonnen. The amazingly confusing plot mostly holds your interest, but it’s the images that stick with you: Paul riding the giant sand worm, warriors erupting from the ground like skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts, rallies straight out of Triumph of the Will, fabulous battles. It’s like a trip to other planets. —Tim Appelo (T.A.)

Watch it: Dune: Part Two, in theaters

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Io Capitano, NR

The engaging and insightful International Oscar nominee Io Capitano (“I, Captain”), presents an immigrant odyssey that puts a human face on disaster-trumpeting headlines. Seydou and Massa (Seydou Sarr, Moustapha Fall), teen cousins with stars in their eyes, leave their teeming Senegalese village for the alluringly moneyed land of milk and Chianti across the desert and over the Mediterranean: Italy. Their odyssey via Libya leads to near-death in the sand dunes, brutal labor, heartless human traffickers and unexpected allies. It climaxes with a dangerous voyage on a rickety, marginally seaworthy boat brimming with passengers. Io Capitano combines magic realism and ultrarealism to give audiences insight into the emotional journey of two lovely and loving young men who share a dream that threatens to tip over into nightmare. Harrowing and uplifting. —T.M.A.

Watch it: Io Capitano, in theaters

⭐⭐⭐☆☆ Bob Marley: One Love, PG-13

Kingsley Ben-Adir, who played Malcolm X in the Oscar-nominated 2020 One Night in Miami ..., delivers a smartly focused performance as reggae legend Bob Marley. He nails the late star’s Jamaican patois (you sometimes wish the film had subtitles), but what’s missing is the Soul Rebel who brought stadiums of fans to their feet. You can feel director Reinaldo Marcus Green straining against the family-approved biopic format, in which less attractive episodes such as infidelities and arrests get only a glancing mention. When the focus stays on Marley’s singular talent — for example, a lingering scene in which he and the band piece together the classic tune “Exodus” — One Love succeeds in getting things together so you can feel all right. —Thom Geier (T.G.)

Watch it: Bob Marley: One Love, in theaters

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⭐⭐⭐☆☆ This Is Me … Now: A Love Story, PG-13 (Prime Video)

Jennifer Lopez, 54, spent $20 million of her own dough on this genre-bending special timed to drop with her first studio album in a decade. It’s a full-on cinematic experience — with an autobiographical look at the pop diva’s life, including her tabloid-fodder romances. Yes, new hubby Ben Affleck, 51, appears, along with such stars as Fat Joe, 53, Post Malone, Keke Palmer, Sofia Vergara, 51, Derek Hough and Neil deGrasse Tyson, 65. The musical production numbers, with over-the-top sets, costumes and choreography, look epic. 

Watch it: This Is Me … Now: A Love Story on Prime Video

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⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ Oppenheimer, R (Peacock)

Yes, it was better on Imax, but the Oscar front-runner biopic about the father of the A-bomb also packs a punch on the small screen — and now it’s streaming! The story ricochets through time and space fast as a photon, plotting the arc of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy). The left-leaning, womanizing physicist passionately pursues pioneering atomic science. But he can’t live with his baby, the bomb that decimated Hiroshima, ending World War II. The sprawling drama is a dazzling cinematic achievement boosted by muscular performances from Robert Downey Jr., 58, Matt Damon, 53, and Jason Clarke, 54, and a huge cast of characters with complicated collisions. —T.M.A.

Watch it: Oppenheimer on Peacock (also in theaters and on demand)​​

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Taste of Things, PG-13

Not since Babette’s Feast has there been a culinary movie so delicious. In this sensual French period entry for the Oscar, which was overshadowed by the more serious contemporary best picture nominee Anatomy of a Fall, Juliette Binoche, 59, leads the way around a large, rustic kitchen in 1889 France. The actress is graceful, passionate and mysterious as Eugenie, a chef whose culinary talent and skills border on the mystical. Employed for two decades by the famed gourmet Dodin Bouffant (Binoche’s ex-partner Benoît Magimel, 49), the magnificent first act finds her cooking with mouthwatering detail, her hands never still or unsure, her concentration absolute. From this emerge the delicate flavors of her collaboration and consensual no-strings sexual relationship with Bouffant, the nurturing of an apprentice and an appreciation for food preparation as its own genius. The Taste of Things is a yummy version of a life well lived, where dinner isn’t a meal between dusk and dark, but a daily celebration of life for as long as it lasts. —T.M.A.

Watch it: The Taste of Things, in theaters

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Godzilla Minus One, PG-13

The latest Japanese-produced Godzilla movie from Japan's Toho Studio takes the character back to his roots even as it reinvents him. Set in the late 1940s, it focuses on a group of ordinary citizens, including an ex-navy pilot who rejected a kamikaze mission, and a young woman who takes in an orphaned girl. They embark on a people's crusade against Godzilla, a dinosaur-like creature made gigantic by atomic testing, because the government refuses to take responsibility for dealing with him. Borrowing from an array of classic movies, including the original Jaws, this is a rare giant monster movie where the human relationships are as compelling as the scenes where the big guy stomps and incinerates cities. —Matt Zoller Seitz (M.Z.S.)

Watch it: Godzilla Minus One, in theaters

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ American Fiction, PG-13

Jeffrey Wright, 58, owns 2023. The brilliant actor delivered a mighty profile as Rustin’s Rep. Adam Clayton Powell and now carries Cord Jefferson’s brainy, acerbic comedy as the enraged Thelonius “Monk” Ellison, an academic whose latest erudite novel is a least-seller. When he encounters a Black woman novelist whose breakout debut employs young urban speech, the writer confronts market realities. As Monk attempts to prove that he, too, can write pandering fiction, he gets drawn back into his affluent family’s orbit. Mother Leslie Uggams, 80, and siblings Tracee Ellis Ross, 51, and Sterling K. Brown form a formidable family unit (with their New England beach house, the Ellisons are more seaside lane than city street). Both a family dramedy and a sharp take on publishing’s failures, American Fiction also reflects the concerns of a microcosm of Black artists working in Hollywood, navigating systemic racism while expected to deliver stories with “street cred,” whatever that means — and to whom — on any particular day. —T.M.A.

Watch it: American Fiction, in theaters and on demand

⭐⭐⭐☆☆ Wonka, PG

Timothée Chalamet exudes wide-eyed charm as chocolatier Willy Wonka struggling to set up his first shop as a 20-something orphan. (Curiously, he flashes no hint of the menace or cynicism that Gene Wilder famously brought to the role in the original 1971 film.) This sunshiny Wonka is surrounded by an overstuffed cast that includes a plumped-up Keegan-Michael Key, 52, Olivia Colman (in full camp mode) and Hugh Grant, 63 (who goes all in as a diminutive Oompa Loompa). Paul King, the filmmaker behind the two justly praised live-action Paddington movies, brings a visual flair to the enterprise, which boasts several well-choreographed production numbers and new songs that mesh nicely with classics such as “Pure Imagination.” The candy-colored visuals go a long way to compensate for a script that can be a muddle, stretched taffy-thin by too many villains, subplots and characters who are not given much to do. —T.G.

Watch it: Wonka, in theaters

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Zone of Interest, PG-13

Among the most chilling photographs displayed at Berlin’s Topography of Terror museum is this image: smiling female Auschwitz guards enjoying their day off, steins raised, at a beer garden. Jonathan Glazer, 58, sets his Oscar-bound Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest nearby, at the compound of Camp Commandant Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel, Babylon Berlin) and his wife, Hedwig (Sandra Huller, also in the much-buzzed Anatomy of a Fall). Their happy home, with its lush garden (fertilized with suspicious ash) and playful children, shelters a family striving for a bourgeois life within sniffing distance of the spewing chimneys at the infamous concentration camp. Like the photo at the Topography of Terror, the movie shows the banality of wickedness. For the Höss family, life goes on amid the scurrying, starving prisoner-servants underfoot as the patriarch rises due to his genocidal efficiency. Their prosperous garden of evil, fueled by denial, is an atrocity of complicity, and a timely remembrance. —T.M.A.

Watch it: The Zone of Interest, in theaters and on demand

⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ Poor Things, R

Emma Stone goes far out on a limb — and then leaps without a net — in her second outrageous collaboration with Yorgos Lanthimos, 50 (The Favourite). Stone delivers a sexy, physically demanding and outlandish performance that exists in an artistic universe far, far away from the mainstream gloss of Spiderman’s saucy girlfriend Gwen. She plays Bella Baxter, a young suicide given an electric shock at a second life by the compassionate but cray-cray scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (a sublimely ridiculous Willem Dafoe, 68). His bumpy, scarred visage reflects his predilection for self-experimentation, while Bella is his beauty. Mark Ruffalo, 56, flexes his comic chops as a Bella-obsessed gent who has no idea what she’s capable of — or of his own limitations. Part Frankenstein, part Galatea, Bella has a learning curve that’s swift, unexpected and driven by unrestrained appetites. Although Poor Things occasionally careens into extreme whimsy, it’s a gorgeously shot, designed and costumed portrait of an incomparable woman on the verge of a fantastical breakthrough. —T.M.A.

Watch it: Poor Things, in theaters

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Boy and the Heron, PG-13

Long ago, when my two grown kids were little, I adored animation. Then it became something like eating too many hot dogs — I never again craved wieners or hyper cartoons. The major exception is the creations of Japanese genius Hayao Miyazaki, 82. His latest movie is true to form: unhurried, tender and wise. Nearly every frame of this artistic masterpiece inspires awe. His visions of undulating waters, flickering flames and sunlight cracking cloud cover have sublime detail, composition and color. The story itself offers wonder, humor and life lessons that don’t reduce to “Eat your broccoli.” The hero of this feature, which Miyazaki claims to be his last, is a motherless boy. Mahito encounters a heron, a magical creature symbolizing good luck, a fowl capable of moving among three elements: earth, water and air. Together, bird and orphan cross the thin membrane between life and death, encountering strange and marvelous creatures, and inhabiting a visually thrilling story that represents the very best in bold contemporary animation and popular art. —T.M.A.

Watch it: The Boy and The Heron, in theaters​​

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Holdovers, R

Director Alexander Payne, 62, made actor Paul Giamatti, 56, famous in his 2004 wine-country comedy Sideways. They reunite in an Oscar-touted, record-setting Toronto Film Festival hit about a curmudgeon (Giamatti’s specialty) who teaches at a New England prep school and is stuck on campus to babysit a few students over Christmas break in the early 1970s. He bonds with one chronic misfit kid (Dominic Sessa) and the school’s cook (Da’Vine Joy Randolph), who’s mourning her son, a former student at the school who was accepted at Swarthmore but, cash-poor, was sent to die in Vietnam. It’s a hilarious, poignant movie in a beautiful, character-rich retro-1970s style. It’s a Christmas movie as uplifting as the saddest of Christmas songs, and as full of hope against all odds. —T.A.

Watch it: The Holdovers, in theaters and on demand

⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ Killers of the Flower Moon, R (Apple TV+)

Lily Gladstone is the beating heart of Martin Scorsese’s historical true-crime drama about the reign of terror in 1920s Osage County, Oklahoma. The wealthy diabetic Mollie Burkhart comes to represent the Osage Nation, who are living in frontier luxury after oil was discovered beneath their communal land. Scorsese, 80, lushly re-creates the oil-rush backwater, with its muddy streets, fancy motorcars and tribal pageantry. However, the director miscasts 48-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio as 28-year-old Ernest Burkhart, Mollie’s white seducer. They wed but the seemingly dutiful husband has divided loyalties, remaining obligated to his uncle, rancher William Hale (quietly terrifying Robert De Niro, 80). Hale architects a murderous conspiracy to profit from the Osage birthright. As the body count rises, including Mollie’s two sisters, coincidence turns to conviction — and the greedy culprits must be brought to justice. The juicy period piece based on the nonfiction bestseller by David Grann gets the Hollywood star treatment, but a multipart series with age-appropriate male stars might have better-served the grim chapter’s complexities. —T.M.A.

Watch it: Killers of the Flower Moon, in theaters, on Apple TV+ and on demand

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Anatomy of a Fall, R

Writers Sandra (standout Sandra Hüller) and Vincent (Swann Arlaud) share a remote alpine chalet with their 11-year-old son, Daniel, but their marriage is strained. What makes this elegant, gripping crime thriller (and Cannes Film Festival winner) unusual is that the pot never boils. When an attractive journalist comes to interview the more successful Sandra, an unseen Vincent blasts music to disrupt their conversation. How passive-aggressive — or is his behavior something angrier? Later, he tumbles from the third-floor window, bloodying the snow below. The narrative pivots, becoming a courtroom drama with Sandra in the dock, accused of suspicious death. Her vision-impaired son is the sole material witness. Daniel has knowledge of what occurred in the house — but how reliable is he? Is he loyal to his surviving mother, or to his late father? Did Sandra or didn’t she? If only those chalet walls could talk. —T.M.A.

Watch it: Anatomy of a Fall on demand

⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ Barbie, PG-13

Hot pink in the summertime: That’s the new Barbie. And, whoopsie, she’s having an existential crisis. When the Mattel doll (a perfectly cast Margot Robbie) leaves her platonic pal Ken (hunky Ryan Gosling) for the real world, she gets a big surprise. Unlike her native Barbieland, a girl-power utopia where plastic playthings are presidents and Supreme Court justices, she confronts the patriarchy. Over at Mattel, the CEO (Will Ferrell, 56) presides over an all-male board that won’t play nice and wants to put her in a box. Throughout, the tone is playfully ironic with a side of preach. The biggest joy is in the endless runway of familiar doll costumes and the cotton candy sets. Robbie makes a genial ringmaster, with a terrific cast that includes Rhea Perlman, 75, America Ferrera and a slew of starry Barbies and Kens. Is Barbie a feminist? The movie replies with a chorus of “yes!” —T.M.A.

Watch it: Barbie, in theaters and on demand

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