What to Watch on TV and at the Movies This Week

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How to Get to Heaven From Belfast, Season 1

Lisa McGee, the creator of Derry Girls, is back with this eight-episode import from across the Atlantic. The comedy-thriller series follows three lifelong friends (played by Roisin Gallagher, Sinéad Keenan and Caoilfhionn Dunne) who reunite after the death of an old classmate and set off on an adventure across Ireland. Come for the messy female friendships, stay for the thick-as-Guinness accents and stunning scenery.

Watch it: How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, Feb. 12 on Netflix

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56 Days, Season 1

In this sexy psychological whodunit, a young man and woman (Avan Jogia and Dove Cameron) meet cute in a supermarket and fall hard for each other — but then an unrecognizable, intentionally decomposed body is discovered in his apartment 56 days later. Did he kill her? Did she kill him? The eight-episode series follows the first day of the police investigation while flashing back to episodes in the couple’s intense and fraught relationship.

Watch it: 56 Days, Feb. 18 on Prime Video

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New at the movies this week

⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ Crime 101, R

Chris Hemsworth is best known for playing the sometimes volatile thunder god Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But as Mike, a lone wolf California jewel thief in Crime 101, his superpower is staying cool, calm and collected. He’s been making a fortune hitting karat emporiums up and down U.S. Route 101, but lately all kinds of characters are horning in on his action. To begin with, his crime sponsor, “Money” (Nick Nolte, 85), tries to push a too-dangerous job on him. Then there’s high-end insurance agent Sharon (Halle Berry, 59) whose own career frustrations are making a life spent outside the law look pretty appealing. Dogged, honest cop Mark Ruffalo, 58, has been putting together a theory that’s going to get him inside Hemsworth’s would-be last score.

Adapted from Don Winslow’s 2020 novella, this expansive movie does have some echoes of the 1995 film Heat — in good ways. The twisty plot doesn’t show off, and writer-director Bart Layton handles the largely veteran cast beautifully; it’s a kick to see Jennifer Jason Leigh, 64, and Tate Donovan, 62, in supporting roles. Finally, the action is pleasingly sure-footed: A car-and-motorcycle chase in L.A. by night is a jump-inducing thrill ride. —Glenn Kenny

Watch it: Crime 101, Feb. 13 in theaters

⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, R

Despite its strange title, this antic, propulsive sci-fi action comedy deftly mines our collective AI paranoia. Sam Rockwell, 57, kitted out with explosives, arrives from the future to alter the past and save humanity. And, given a Groundhog Day plot twist, we learn it’s not his first attempt to do so. When he arrives at Los Angeles’s iconic Norms restaurant, he recruits a ragtag group of disaffected diners (Michael Peña, 50, Juno Temple, Zazie Beetz, Hailey Lu Richardson) to join him on his nearly impossible quest to rescue the future from the past. The result is an eye-popping, nonstop Rube Goldberg motion picture, led by a zany, manic Rockwell. The film provokes and entertains, refusing to take itself (or the human race) too seriously. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, Feb. 13 in theaters

⭐⭐⭐☆☆ “Wuthering Heights,” R

Meet Emily Brontë’s Euphoria. That’s how director Emerald (Saltburn) Fennell’s swoony reimagining of the author's transgressive, thorny 1837 novel struck me. (The film's title employs quotation marks lest audiences begin tallying the many missing complexities of the original text.) Margot Robbie, here in sex-bomb mode, plays the complex motherless heroine, Cathy, cleavage heaving above a corset pulled too tight. She sizzles opposite the dark romantic hero, Heathcliff, played with moody brio (and a gold tooth) by Euphoria’s Jacob Elordi. Their chemistry is off the charts: In one downpour after another they seem to be cosplaying Mathew Macfadyen, 51, and Keira Knightley in 2005’s much tamer Pride and Prejudice. The film entirely omits the novel’s inclusion of the next generation, but its biggest deviation from Brontë’s cerebral, spiritual and platonic masterpiece is that once matured, the pair consummate, and consummate again (inside, outside, in the soaking rain). Lord save me from the scene when Cathy leans against a rocky outcropping and pleasures herself on the Moors. Artistic license? Yes. Ridiculous? That, too. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: “Wuthering Heights,” Feb. 13 in theaters

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⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ 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, 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, in theaters