What to Watch on TV and at the Movies This Week

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​Groundswell (2026)

Demi Moore, 63, and Woody Harrelson, 64, narrate this documentary that goes to five continents to explore how people are confronting climate change, species extinction and the loss of soil. The film, which premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, sidesteps the doom and gloom to focus on how some pioneering folks are confronting the problem head-on to reverse the damage we’ve inflicted on the planet.

Watch it: Groundswell, June 6 on Prime Video

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New at the movies this week

⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ The Breadwinner, PG

Silly, sincere and safe for the entire family, The Breadwinner is Mr. Mom for the smartphone generation. The dad jokes keep coming from writer and two-time Saturday Night Live host Nick Bargatze, who plays Nashville car salesman Nate Wilcox. The setup is that his uber-competent wife Katie (a perky Mandy Moore) appears on Shark Tank and pitches a company based on her homemade organizer gadget. She gets a backer, but there’s a catch. The seed money is contingent on Nate leaving his job to parent their three adorable daughters. Over a series of loony set pieces involving a pony, a klutzy roofer and a spelling bee, the stay-at-home dad discovers it’s not so easy being Mom. Never taking itself seriously, the comedy folds in laughs from supporting players with SNL connections, including a weird Will Forte, 55, a zany Colin Jost and a kooky Kumail Nanjiani. While Nate may start off downplaying the demands of 24-hour fatherhood — “it’s not surgery,” he says — by film’s end he sees that “it takes a real man to ask for help.” Amen. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: The Breadwinner, in theaters 

⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ Power Ballad, R

There’s a certain type of hell for the legions of talented musicians who end up as wedding singers covering other people’s songs. And that’s the situation Rick (Paul Rudd, 57) is in when he meets Danny (Nick Jonas), a refugee from a mammoth boy band who’s struggling to find his voice as a solo musician. In the capable hands of Once director John Carney, 54, their meeting at a posh wedding sparks a connection and the opposites end up playing music and partying together through the night. But the spell’s broken when the original song they noodle with becomes Danny’s first monster solo hit — and he doesn’t credit Rick. Rudd’s wedding singer goes berserk, hearing his original song everywhere; it’s a kind of validation mixed with the torture of no acknowledgment. In Carney’s audience-pleasing dramedy with tunes, we feel Rick’s pain, frustration and arrested development (in a way that Rudd has patented) colliding with Danny’s talent, entitlement and loneliness (a role tailor-made for the youngest of the Jonas Brothers). Together, Rick and Danny can make beautiful music; Power Ballad finds the harmony, heartbreak and ultimate rocking redemption in their collaboration. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Power Ballad, June 5 in theaters

⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ Carolina Caroline, NR

In the spirit of Bonnie and Clyde and that classic of doomed, larcenous lovers, The Getaway, this taut, sexy film takes its name from a simmering small-town Texas hottie played by Australian actor Samara Weaving. When she picks up a mustached traveling grifter (Kyle Gallner) at the local saloon, they start a dance that transforms them both. Smitten, he teaches her cons small and large, gradually moving up from grand theft auto to bank robbery. But the bigger the mark, the more dangerous the game. Kyra Sedgwick, 60, nails one juicy scene as a ballsy boozer, toying with Caroline like a spider with a fly. This caper is relatively small in its ambitions, but it gets the overheated chemistry between the two leads right: It’s a near-perfect drive-in movie for a humid summer date night. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Carolina Caroline, June 5 in theaters

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⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ Backrooms, R

Not for the claustrophobic, this psychological horror film stars two top-flight actors — Oscar nominees Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve — who trade prestige drama for summer-movie terrain. In this thriller, Ejiofor plays Clark, an underemployed architect now running a cheesy furniture showroom, who tells his reserved therapist, Mary (Reinsve), about a creepy recurring dream. In it, he passes through a mysterious portal in his shop basement, where he finds an M.C. Escher world of rooms piled high with third-rate furniture, stairways to nowhere and muffled yet disturbing sounds. Is he lost in the chambers of his mind and memory, or has he found an adjacent world of horrors inhabiting a soulless office building? When Clark disappears, Mary goes looking for him and finds herself pulled into the mirror world and confronted with her own uncomfortable memories. Feelings of dread, anxiety and confinement infuse this well-crafted, well-acted movie that’s terrifying despite (or because of) the generic nature of evil lurking just beyond a simple basement door. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Backrooms, in theaters

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pressure , PG-13

The unforgettable Omaha Beach scene launching Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan consumed just 24 minutes. But what if the notoriously mercurial British weather had taken a bad turn during that critical seaborne attack? That’s the question behind this war thriller starring a stalwart Brendan Fraser, 57, cast against type as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. A brisk 100 minutes total, the movie charts the 72-hour period before D-Day — and makes a hero out of stubborn British chief meteorological officer James Stagg (a compelling Andrew Scott, who’s already acted in the war drama 1917 and briefly appeared in Spielberg’s Oscar-winner noted above). Based on real-life events, Stagg’s forecast for the assault’s appointed day and hour looks grim. His suggestion of attacking between waves of turbulent storms puts him at odds with the American forecaster and, potentially, Ike himself. We all know how it turned out, but Pressure cranks up the dramatic stress in a character-driven saga that retells a lesser-known side of a monumental moment in military history. Smashing! —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Pressure, in theaters

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⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ Tuner, R

“Creating harmony out of chaos” is, according to this charming caper, a piano tuner’s role. Niki White (a disarming Leo Woodall) has perfect pitch, but his Achilles’ heel is that he’s painfully susceptible to loud noises like airplanes and fire alarms. In this era of side gigs, White’s virtuoso ears lead to a dicey but profitable one: cracking safes. This comes in handy although it attracts danger when his mentor, Harry Horowitz (Dustin Hoffman, 88, playing a kibitzer pianist in a small but poignant part), is hospitalized. As the bills mount, White decides to use his illegal skills to support his good friend. But, as the adventure ramps up and one safe leads to another, the apprentice tuner becomes indispensable to a violent and sticky-fingered crew. After that, his life gets way too loud. Treacherous, too. When theft and tunes inevitably collide, the situation threatens White’s burgeoning relationship with a sensitive composer (Havana Rose Liu). Warmhearted, genre-mixing and romantic, Tuner is wonderfully harmonious. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Tuner, in theaters