What to Watch on TV and at the Movies This Week

Your Netflix Watch of the Week is here!

Nobody Wants This, Season 2

Remember the one about adorable rabbi Noah (Adam Brody) and über-gentile podcaster Joanne (Kristen Bell) who fall for each other, rom-com style? The Netflix hit is back for a second season, and fans of TV’s cutest couple can look forward to witnessing them falling deeper in love while seeing whether admittedly agnostic Joanne will or won’t convert to Judaism for her boyfriend. Keep an eye peeled for a guest appearance from The Studio’s Emmy-decorated showrunner and star, Seth Rogen.

Watch it: Nobody Wants This, Oct. 23 on Netflix

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Your Prime Video Watch of the Week is here!

Play Dirty (2025, R)

In Prime Video’s No. 1 film this month, Mark Wahlberg, 54, stars as a master thief who’s as quick with a quip as he is with his ever-handy pistol. In this gritty thriller from action auteur Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), he teams up with some other heist experts (including Rosa Salazar and LaKeith Stanfield) in pursuit of a treasure worth $1 billion. The only problem is they’ll have to outwit (and outshoot) the New York Mafia, a ruthless billionaire and a South American dictator’s army. 

Watch it: Play Dirty on Prime Video

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New at the movies this week

⭐⭐⭐☆ ☆ 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

⭐⭐⭐⭐ ☆ Hedda, R

Tessa Thompson slays in the title role in this sophisticated update of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play Hedda Gabler, with the Norwegian setting transported to 1950s England. Thompson’s Hedda is as unhappy as she is powerful. She’s a woman with outsized desires and limited agency, struggling against the straps 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. Hedda flirts with the brilliant alcoholic Eileen Lövborg (that force of nature, German actress Nina Hoss, 50), her husband’s rival for a prestigious professorship, pushing Lövborg to irreparably shame herself. Hedda also leads on a judge (Nicholas Pinnock, 52) with his own cruel agenda.

Director Nia DaCosta’s movie blows 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 first penned. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Hedda, in select theaters and Oct. 29 on Prime Video

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⭐⭐⭐⭐ ☆ After the Hunt, R

Julia Roberts, 57, excels when her character has a dark, damaged streak that contrasts with her megawatt smile. In this psychological drama, she leaps into an academic snake pit as Alma, a swaggering tenure-track professor in Yale’s philosophy department. While some may find the setting obscure (mentions of French philosopher Michel Foucault, for example), this is essentially a survivor story. To get the brass ring of tenure, the ambitious Alma has to suppress her murky secrets. This becomes increasingly challenging when her mini-me — her devoted mentee, Maggie (Ayo Edebiri) — lobs accusations of sexual misconduct at Alma’s closest colleague, Hank (Andrew Garfield). Add in Alma’s deliciously passive-aggressive psychoanalyst husband, Frederik (a scene-stealing Michael Stuhlbarg, 57), with his color commentary from outside the ivory tower, and there’s no shortage of tension. Will Alma be derailed on the tenure track? Or will she sacrifice everything, everybody around her and her soul for the win? —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: After the Hunt, in theaters

⭐⭐⭐⭐ ☆ Blue Moon, R

Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon is a portrait of a great American alcoholic artist circling the drain. Lyricist Lorenz Hart –– 5 feet tall, balding and gay –– was a lion of American musical theater. Playing against type, Ethan Hawke, 54, pours himself into a role bound for Oscar buzz. Hawke’s Hart embodies a genius confronting his career self-sabotage with wit and bile. Set largely at New York City’s restaurant Sardi’s following the 1943 Broadway premiere of Oklahoma!, the dramedy finds Hart an unwelcome guest at the celebration of the first collaboration between his longtime creative partner Richard Rodgers (a brilliant Andrew Scott) and the composer’s new lyricist, Oscar Hammerstein II (Simon Delaney, 55). The tense, bittersweet exchange between Rodgers and Hart played out in a stairwell with the joyous after-party is a counterpoint that devastates, as it should. Meanwhile, Hart’s scenes of kibitzing with the bartender (an anchoring Bobby Cannavale, 55) and chatting with erudite author E. B. White (a wry Patrick Kennedy) delight. Less savory is Hart’s flirtation with younger protégé Elizabeth Weiland (Margaret Qualley). Perhaps being cringey is the point. Free of sentimentality, dipped in regret, Blue Moon is a sophisticated love song to a bygone era. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Blue Moon, in theaters

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