What to Watch on TV and at the Movies This Week

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The Wrecking Crew (2026, R)

In this island-set action comedy, Dave Bautista, 56, and Jason Momoa play two estranged half brothers who reunite after the mysterious and sudden death of their father. Together, they hit the streets of Hawaii to uncover what really happened to their dad and to work out their own emotional baggage.

Watch it: The Wrecking Crew, Jan. 28 on Prime Video

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⭐⭐⭐☆ ☆ Mercy, PG-13

With the claustrophobic compression of a Twilight Zone episode, the cyber thriller Mercy takes place in a near-future Los Angeles: The police wear riot gear, marginalized inhabitants live in tent cities, riots plague the streets and the judicial system has adapted with a high-speed trial process. That means detective Chris Raven (Chris Pratt) has 90 minutes to prove he’s innocent of his wife’s brutal murder, though the existing evidence points to him. He sits before an AI judge (the face of Rebecca Ferguson), shackled to a seat that will double as an electric chair if he can’t prove himself innocent before time runs out. While the clock ticks, the immobilized Raven investigates, accessing phone records, social media, security cameras and the like. It’s sleuthing by scrolling, with a life hanging in the balance. Pratt handles the role well enough, and it’s a tense ride. You just hope it doesn’t come to this in real life. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Mercy, Jan. 23 in theaters

⭐⭐⭐⭐ ⭐ Sound of Falling, NR

This haunting German drama, short-listed for the best international feature film Oscar, is relatively quiet compared to such front-runners as Brazil’s brash The Secret Agent and Norway’s stunning Sentimental Value. But it’s no less intriguing. Brilliantly directed and cowritten by Mascha Schilinski, the film reveals ties between four generations of German women who inhabit the same rural farmhouse from before WWI to the 21st century, sharing its secrets and traumas. Haunting images layer the past and the present over the course of the film, making quiet connections that transport the audience to other worlds and times and, ultimately, to mortality. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Sound of Falling, Jan. 23 in theaters

⭐⭐⭐⭐ ⭐ Young Mothers, NR

Belgium’s Dardenne brothers (Luc, 71, and Jean-Pierre, 74) have a reputation for making small, closely observed, realistic and immensely compassionate films. Their latest continues in this vein. Young Mothers takes a docudrama approach to five fictional teenage mothers living in a Belgian shelter for what once would have been called “wayward girls.” Through their successes and setbacks, whether bonding with their infants, swapping adolescent selfishness for the urgent responsibilities of premature motherhood, relapsing on drugs or chasing their child’s deadbeat father, these too-young-for-motherhood teens shine as individuals. From an American perspective, one element that stands out is the institutional level of caregiving and economic support they receive from Belgium’s social safety net. Another is the dignity that the filmmakers allow these young women, even when they make the bad choices one would expect from hormonally challenged teenage girls. Never judgmental and deeply moving, this lean Dardenne drama wields a big impact. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Young Mothers, Jan. 23 in theaters

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Private Life, R

Two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster, 63, delivers one of her best performances, layered and accessible, as a psychiatrist in the Hitchcockian A Private Life. Bilingual Dr. Lilian Steiner (and, yes, Foster speaks fluent French IRL) is an American living in Paris. The divorcée and new grandmother is on edge even before one of her pet patients, Paula (Virginie Efira), commits suicide. The doctor, whose very presence at Paula’s shiva sends Paula’s husband (Mathieu Amalric, 60) into a dramatic swoon, begins to suspect murder most foul. Her amateur pursuit of the mystery leads her to a hypnotist, a past-life regression into the Nazi era, a visit with her skeptical mentor (played by famed documentarian Frederick Wiseman, a spry 96), and a rapprochement with her ex-husband (acclaimed French leading man Daniel Auteuil, 75). Auteuil and Foster have mad exes-turned-lovers chemistry as, together, they pursue the murderer while producing a delicious and cerebral mystery that doesn’t need big explosions to have a big emotional impact. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: A Private Life, in theaters 

⭐⭐⭐⭐ ☆ 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, R

Is part two of last year’s 28 Years Later — where a rage virus infects and torments the world — gross? You betcha. It’s also witty and propulsive. Returning to a postapocalyptic British landscape where the few remaining humans struggle to survive despite roving gangs of cannibalistic zombies, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple doesn’t stint on gore. And, yet, what stands out is a bravura, articulate performance from an intentionally scrawny (and sometimes full-frontal naked) Ralph Fiennes, 63. His returning character, Dr. Ian Kelson, has built a bone temple, a grisly memorial made of skulls, while attempting to cure the virus using an infected survivor (Chi Lewis-Perry) as his guinea pig. Meanwhile, the previous film’s preteen protagonist Spike (an endearing Alfie Williams) finds himself drafted into a satanic cult led by the flamboyant Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell, slaying a role that recalls A Clockwork Orange). They all come together in a fiery climactic face-off choreographed to heavy metal that sticks the landing. Stir in a final Cillian Murphy cameo and this recharged series leaves the audience hungry for more. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, in theaters