What to Watch on TV and at the Movies This Week

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Wednesday, Season 2

The second season of this wry series is Netflix’s No. 1 hit. Wednesday of the Addams family (Jenna Ortega) is back at Nevermore Academy, with Steve Buscemi, 67, as principal. AbFab’s Joanna Lumley, 79, joins as Grandmama Hester Frump, and Fred Armisen, 58, returns as Uncle Fester. And has there ever been a better Morticia than Catherine Zeta-Jones, 55?

Watch it: Wednesday, on Netflix

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The Pickup, R

It’s been decades since Eddie Murphy, 64, made classic action comedies like Beverly Hills Cop. But the star returns to the genre, paired with another SNL alum, Pete Davidson. The duo play armored-truck drivers whose rig is ambushed by a criminal gang led by Keke Palmer. Soon they find themselves forced into an even more elaborate heist to survive.

Watch it: The Pickup, on Amazon Prime Video

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New at the movies this week

⭐⭐⭐☆ ☆ Highest 2 Lowest, R

Spike Lee’s latest joint is a stylishly slick remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 crime drama High and Low starring Denzel Washington, 70, as an aging, financially over-leveraged music mogul who’s thrust into a moral dilemma when he learns his teenage son has been kidnapped for a $17 million ransom. When it turns out that the son of his chauffeur and childhood buddy (Jeffrey Wright, 59) was the one snatched by mistake, he debates whether to still pay the ransom. The fascinating ethical questions are marred by an overintrusively melodramatic score, and the nuanced storytelling retreats for some conventional and implausible chase scenes in the third act. But Washington is electric, as is rapper and novice actor A$AP Rocky as the shrewd kidnapper. —Thom Geier

Watch it: Highest 2 Lowest, in theaters August 15

Nobody 2, R

In the sequel to the 2021 surprise action-comedy hit Nobody, all that retired CIA assassin Hutch Mansell (Better Call Saul’s Bob Odenkirk, 62) wants is to take his wife (Gladiator’s Connie Nielsen, 60), kids and dad (Back to the Future’s Christopher Lloyd, 86) on a quiet theme-park vacation. But a knife-hurling crime boss (incredibly age-proof beauty Sharon Stone, 67) is out to kill him. The Hollywood Reporter critic Frank Scheck says, “Imagine National Lampoon’s Vacation crossed with First Blood.” —Tim Appelo

Watch it: Nobody 2, August 15 in theaters