What to Watch on TV and at the Movies This Week

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​Leanne Morgan: Unspeakable Things

The veteran comedian, 60, is a pro when it comes to serving up the perfect sidesplitting punch line, thanks to her chewy Tennessee twang, deadpan delivery and stinging sense of humor. Married life, midlife crises, making ends meet — they're all fair game when it comes to Morgan’s cockeyed observations. If you’re looking to kick the month off with a laugh, this is the ticket.

Watch it: Leanne Morgan: Unspeakable Things on Netflix

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Your Prime Video Watch of the Week is here!

Hedda (2025, R)

Tessa Thompson slays in the title role of this sophisticated update of Henrik Ibsen’s 1890 play Hedda Gabler — with the Norwegian setting changed to 1950s England. Thompson’s Hedda is a woman with outsized desires and limited agency struggling against the confines of social convention. When Hedda and her weak-chinned academic husband, George (Tom Bateman), invite an assortment of intellectual society members — including his potential boss — to a country house they cannot afford, the result is a night of fine wine and poisonous interaction. Director Nia DaCosta’s movie injects new life into the Ibsen classic, creating a drama that is as sexy and beguiling as its tragic antiheroine and as relevant today as it was in the Victorian era, when the controversial work was written.

Watch it: Hedda on Prime Video

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New at the movies this week

⭐⭐⭐⭐ ☆ Bugonia , R

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you. In the latest absurdist adventure from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things), 52, his Oscar-winning muse Emma Stone proves that she can throw herself off any dramatic cliff he creates for her — and soar. In their latest collaboration, Stone’s a high-heeled, self-assured dynamo CEO named Michelle. She may or may not be an alien. That’s certainly what obsessed worker Teddy (Jesse Plemons) and his neurodivergent cousin, Don (Aidan Delbis), believe. The raggedy duo kidnap Michelle, shave her head (out of fear her hair can communicate with the mother ship) and try to force her to admit her alien roots and her plans to subjugate Earth. She resists and is more powerful when shackled than her “free” captors. The antic, bloody battle of wits that follows is proof that not every new movie is a cookie-cutter audience pleaser. Expect the unexpected in a sublimely ridiculous corporate kidnap caper with a side of science fiction. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Bugonia, Oct. 31 in theaters nationwide

⭐⭐⭐⭐ ☆ Nouvelle Vague, R

Richard Linklater, 65, reinvents himself with a black-and-white movie about filmmaking — in French! The Texas-born director re-creates the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s New Wave classic Breathless (1960), giving voice to the principles of that critical filmmaking movement while creating a movie that’s as alive, and visually satisfying, as anything he’s ever done. Guillaume Marbeck stars as Godard, a famed film critic turned auteur, and Zoey Deutch dances into the role of the corn-fed American star Jean Seberg beside Aubry Dullin’s devilishly charming Jean-Paul Belmondo. With a perfectly cast group of boldfaced names in films of that era, the movie is delightful and vibrant, rekindling a love of cinema without reducing the past to a bug in amber. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Nouvelle Vague in theaters

⭐⭐☆☆ ☆ Anniversary, R

Diane Lane, 60, and Kyle Chandler, 60, star as Ellen and Paul, a left-leaning couple (she’s a Georgetown University professor) with four mostly grown children and a nice home in a leafy suburb of Washington, D.C. But that all unravels when their son (Dylan O’Brien, Caddo Lake) turns up at their 25th wedding anniversary with a new girlfriend (Phoebe Dynevor, Bridgerton) who happens to be a former student of Ellen’s. To her horror, this newcomer becomes the face of a political movement that sweeps the country and quickly establishes a police state with one party, no free speech and rigorously enforced loyalty oaths. The dystopian thriller elements remain fuzzy, while the scenes of family conflict are often overwrought despite Lane’s and Chandler’s palpable displays of anguish. Anniversary has the feel of a multi-episode (perhaps even multi-season) TV series that’s been chopped to feature-film length, drained of both subtlety and coherence. —Thom Geier

Watch it: Anniversary in theaters

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⭐⭐⭐☆ ☆ Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, PG-13

The challenge of making a music biopic — whether it’s Elvis, Bohemian Rhapsody or A Complete Unknown — is satisfying the keenest fans while bringing the general moviegoing audience along for the ride. Bruce Springsteen, 76, gave his blessing to this meticulous project, but perhaps because of that, it feels overly earnest.

The movie re-creates a dark slice of the Boss’ life in the early 1980s: creating his folksy album Nebraska while facing his traumatic New Jersey childhood (depicted in contrasting black and white), Springsteen was at a tipping point between a very public stardom and a very private emotional crisis. Strapping on the guitar is hot stuff Jeremy Allen White (TV’s The Bear), who does his own (adequate) singing, mining the mopey-ness he perfected as that show’s conflicted chef.

While bolstered by the casting of an authentic-feeling Stephen Graham (Adolescence), 52, and Gaby Hoffmann (Transparent) as Springsteen’s parents, the biopic never finds its groove, lacking the raw, percussive drive and deep connection of Springsteen’s best songs. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Oct. 24 in theaters