What to Watch on TV and at the Movies This Week

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The Beast in Me

Let’s face it, the past few years without new episodes of Homeland and The Americans haven’t been easy for TV junkies. Fortunately, the stars of those hit shows — Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys, 50 — are not only back but teaming up for this twisty cat-and-mouse thriller series about a grieving, shut-in author (Danes) and her sketchy new neighbor (Rhys), who may or may not have murdered his wife. Will this new mystery man be the cure for her writer’s block? And has he found his next victim?

Watch it: The Beast in Me, Nov. 13 on Netflix

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Malice, Season 1

In this six-episode series, David Duchovny, 65, and Game of Thrones alum Carice van Houten play a wealthy couple, vacationing in Greece with their three young children, who make the fateful mistake of hiring a darkly charming British tutor (Jack Whitehall, Jungle Cruise). Turns out he’s hell-bent on destroying the family for reasons that will doubtless take all six episodes to fully reveal

Watch it: Malice, Nov. 14 on Prime Video

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New at the movies this week

⭐⭐⭐⭐ ☆ If You See Something, R

If You See Something has the gritty feel of a Manhattan-set indie romance — with a twist. Ambitious art gallerist Katie (Jess Jacobs) is on the rise. Iraqi émigré Ali (Adam Bakri), a doctor forbidden to practice in the States, is trying to obtain citizenship. Although the live-in lovers have a deep connection, Katie’s overprotective father (Reed Birney, 71) sees potential complications in their relationship. When Iraqi kidnappers abduct the couple’s dear friend Dawod (Hadi Tabbal) in Baghdad, Ali works to raise the ransom, a covert effort that endangers his fragile citizenship status and Katie’s secure metropolitan life. How far would you go for love? Despite being somewhat slow and rough, If You See Something boldly raises that question in a contemporary political drama about star-crossed lovers navigating a dangerous world. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: If You See Something in theaters

⭐⭐⭐ ☆  ☆ Jay Kelly, R

Loneliness and the long-distance A-lister — Jay Kelly is a star vehicle built to further burnish the legacy of George Clooney, 64, as a serious actor. The dramedy by director Noah Baumbach, 56, investigates the authenticity, and lack thereof, of a big movie star crossing 60. With a life achievement tribute scheduled in his honor in Tuscany, Kelly begins to look back at the sum of his life on-screen and off. Played by Clooney in an “I’m sorry I’m so charismatic” vein that also recalls the melancholy land baron and father of two daughters that won him a 2012 Oscar nomination for The Descendants, Kelly suddenly realizes that what he’s missed in terms of family and friends while pursuing his acting ambitions may be greater than his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. AARP Movies for Grownups Career Achievement winner Adam Sandler, 59, plays his dutifully stressed manager with admirable naturalism. The ensemble cast also includes Stacy Keach, 84, as Kelly’s father, and Baumbach’s partner, writer-director Greta Gerwig (Barbie), as Sandler’s spouse. There’s a crush of talent here but less wisdom than a trip to the corner guru. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Jay Kelly, Nov. 14 in theaters

⭐⭐⭐⭐ ☆ Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, PG-13

This crowd-pleasing, magician-filled caper — the third in a franchise that's been dormant for nearly a decade — goes down easy, a nonstop puzzle movie with plenty of action and a side of humor. This time, three rising Brooklyn magicians (Justice Smith, Dominic Sessa and Ariana Greenblatt) add young chops to the semiretired Horsemen illusionists led by Jesse Eisenberg, still snarky after all these years. Among those returning are Morgan Freeman, 88, Woody Harrelson, 64, and Isla Fisher. After the gaggle overcome their generational antagonisms, the magicians must recover the big-as-a-rock Heard Diamond and expose an international money-laundering scheme. Absolutely delightful as a villainous diamond heiress is Rosamund Pike with a wicked South African accent and a twinkle in her jaded eye. It's fun. It’s inventive. It's star-packed. And the good guys win, unmistakably pointing to a franchise revival. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Now Your See Me: Now You Don’t, Nov. 14 in theaters

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⭐⭐⭐⭐ ☆ Christy , R

Rising star Sydney Sweeney (Anyone But You) punches her way out of the rom-com swamp with a canny career move. With a bad perm and boxing gloves, she plays Christy Martin, the groundbreaking female fighter who rose from obscurity to boxing stardom in the 1990s. Martin, now 57, was the Caitlin Clark of her day, the so-called Coal Miner’s Daughter with a knock-out punch who broke open the men’s-only sport to women. Complications? A closeted lesbian from a homophobic family with few prospects, she marries her manager Jim Martin (an unrecognizable and suitably feral Ben Foster) and discovers that domestic violence behind closed doors is the dark side of her chosen path. The sports drama, while a little saggy and repetitive, ends on a triumphant and inclusive note. Martin survives because she is a fighter in the ring and, ultimately, with a little help from her friends, a champion in her own life. Taking her cue from Martin’s pugilistic spirit, Sweeney has dared to take control of her career and reframed how audiences see her. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Christy, in theaters

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⭐⭐⭐⭐ ☆ Nuremberg , PG-13

Never again. How many times do we have to say that, hear that, and make movies about that, in order to make it so? The gripping yet starchy WWII courtroom drama Nuremberg lays out the central conflicts of the 1945-46 war crime trial of Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe, 61) and about 20 codefendants. Crowe’s impeccable German accent and hauteur are Oscar-wattage, complemented by restrained and resonant performances by Rami Malek as an American psychiatrist with his own agenda and Michael Shannon, 51, as chief U.S. prosecutor Robert H. Jackson. If only we had advanced so far that we didn’t need, yet again, such a vivid reminder of the evil men do in the name of flag and country. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Nuremberg, in theaters

⭐⭐⭐⭐ ⭐ Sentimental Value , R

My favorite movie of 2025 so far is a rich, bold, brilliantly acted contemporary Norwegian family drama. Sentimental Value gives the audience a sense of living an entire life in the span of a single movie. When their mother dies, Nora (a deeply moving Renate Reinsve) and Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) cope with the return of their once-famous film director father Gustav (a slyly complex Stellan Skarsgård, 74). The sisters discover that the big, beautiful house that harbors all their memories remains in the name of the father who abandoned them as children. In a volcanic early scene that sets the tone, Nora – an actress – has a full-on panic attack before making a stage entrance. Brilliant but damaged, she rebuffs her father who wants her for the lead in his late-life autobiographical masterpiece. Instead, he casts Hollywood star Rachel (Elle Fanning), but it’s clear that this is the role Nora was meant to play, and must do so to reconcile past and present, daughters and father – and accept herself in all her contradictions. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Sentimental Value, in theaters