What to Watch on TV and at the Movies This Week

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The Lincoln Lawyer, Season 4

For fans, it’s been a long wait since Season 3’s 2024 cliff-hanger finale, but Manuel Garcia-Rulfo is finally back as author Michael Connelly’s beloved back seat attorney, Mickey Haller. In this new 10-episode season, Mickey finds himself in big trouble: He’s not just a lawyer, he’s the client. Expect plenty of delirious twists and turns, as well as one very sweet classic car. Keep an eye out for appearances by Neve Campbell, 52, Constance Zimmer, 55, and Elliott Gould, 87.

Watch it: The Lincoln Lawyer, Feb. 5 on Netflix

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Cross, Season 2

Aldis Hodge returns as James Patterson’s famed homicide detective Alex Cross, who uses his knowledge of forensic psychology to track down a ruthless former-judge-turned-vigilante killer (Jeanine Mason) targeting corrupt billionaires. They include a supposedly do-good plutocrat (Matthew Lillard, 55) who made his fortune through shady business dealings.

Watch it: Cross, Feb. 11 on Prime Video

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New at the movies this week

⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ Dracula, R

The Dracula story, like its undead protagonist, persists: in literature, TV and movies. Whether the title vampire is played by Christopher Lee, Willem Dafoe, 70, or, most recently, Bill Skarsgård in Nosferatu, the narrative beats are familiar: Insatiable blood-sucking foreigner craves virgin blood, and the forces of good try to foil the demonic charmer.

Here, Caleb Landry Jones turns the creepy up to 11 as the blaspheming bloodsucker, Prince Vladimir, who has been wandering the world and in residence in his Transylvania castle since the murder of his 15th-century lady love. After centuries in search of his late wife’s reincarnated spirit, he discovers Mina (Zoë Bleu) in 19th-century Paris, but his search also attracts a Catholic priest (the ever-delightful Christoph Waltz, 69) armed with a stake and an unflinching faith. In the hands of French screenwriter/director Luc Besson, 66, this Dracula doesn’t take itself deadly seriously. Instead, it mines the legend’s touchstones while giving the saga new life with a dash of humor, a sense of spectacle and a generous serving of horror. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Dracula, Feb. 6 in theaters

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pillion, R

One man’s torture is another man’s tea, which brings us to Pillion. The kinky love-and-lust story pairs hot British biker Ray (the ubiquitous and dead-sexy Alexander Skarsgård) with timid meter reader Colin (Harry Potter’s Dudley Dursley, Harry Melling). The men become top and bottom in a BDSM relationship, as knockout Ray initiates nerdy Colin into a new way of life. After a few kinks, the men settle into a domestic routine where Ray dominates and Colin submits.

Unselfconsciously explicit, this funny yet transgressive movie conveys real emotion while exploring a sexual relationship that has its own strict rules (and rewards). With screenwriter/director Harry Lighton’s keen awareness of power dynamics within a couple, the script’s choice to celebrate rather than judge, and Skarsgård’s magnetic performance and Melling’s sensitive one, Pillion is a racy but compassionate romance ripe for an alternative Valentine’s Day viewing. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Pillion, Feb. 6 in theaters

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⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ Moses the Black, NR

Omar Epps, 52, is the still strength at the center of this atypical gangster movie. The Love and Basketball star plays Malik, who faces the hardest choice of his life as he exits prison: Does he return to the violence of the Chicago streets where he’s a leader? Or does he take a radically different, less traveled path? A family member puts him on the road to transformation when she hands him a prayer card bearing the Coptic Saint Moses. In short flashbacks, the movie identifies this Moses (Chukwudi Iwuji, 50) as the fourth-century thief who found a righteous path and was ultimately martyred in keeping with the biblical phrase “all who take the sword will perish by the sword.” Malik evolves, coming to see himself in a new light. He can’t wash the blood from his hands but he can redeem himself. This gives Moses the Black a level of spirituality, this one rooted in biblical history, that's often missing in gangster sagas. It elevates the crime drama without blunting the inherent violence of Malik and his world. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Moses the Black, in theaters

⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ The Love That Remains, NR

This comedy-drama from Iceland is an immersive voyage into a remote island landscape that feels wholly universal as it examines the sticky dissolution of a marriage and its impact on a family. Visual artist Anna (Saga Garðarsdóttir), who takes her inspiration from her natural surroundings, has split from the fisherman father of their three children, Magnús (Sverrir Guðnason). The aftermath — the children’s confusion amid lingering conflict but enduring warmth — is treated impressionistically and with flights of inexplicable fantasy. We feel the essentials of the household’s daily life — catching fish, preparing large canvases, foraging mushrooms, disciplining a rooster run amok in the henhouse — set against the vastness of an unpredictable sea and hovering mountains abstractly represented in Anna’s art. Well-acted with stunning cinematography, The Love That Remains is both emotionally astute and stubbornly mysterious, a complete original to be experienced rather than consumed. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: The Love That Remains, in theaters

⭐⭐⭐☆ ☆ Shelter, R

There’s no place to hide, no shelter, for former MI6 triggerman Mason (the reliable Jason Statham, 58). A decade after refusing illegal orders delivered by the secret service’s head (the versatile Bill Nighy, 76), Mason is a recluse living with his beloved dog on a tiny lighthouse-bearing island in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. He’s not happy, but it’s home. That is, until he rescues Jesse (Bodhi Rae Breathnach, who played Hamnet’s eldest sister in Hamnet) from a deadly storm and inadvertently brings the MI6 hounds down on his head — and hers. This is a serious, moody, muscular Statham, playing out the classic motif of a former killing machine who must kill, and kill again, to save an innocent girl thrust in his care. It’s a tale at least as old as Liam Neeson, and while this tidy version doesn’t break new ground, it succeeds because the tension never cracks from brawling beginning to bitter end. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Shelter, in theaters