What to Watch on TV and at the Movies This Week

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Untold: Chess Mates

The world of competitive chess isn’t what anyone would describe as “sexy.” So when a juicy scandal comes along, you’ve got to make the most of it. Which brings us to the latest installment of Netflix’s dependable Untold documentary series. This episode follows the 2022 cheating scandal that unfolded when American grandmaster Hans Niemann defeated long-standing world champion Magnus Carlsen. The result was so unexpected that it led to allegations of cheating and a $100 million lawsuit. Was Niemann receiving signals from a third party during the match, or did he just knock off the best player on the planet fair and square? Trust me, you’ll want to tune in and listen to all the wild theories.

Watch it: Untold: Chess Mates, April 7 on Netflix

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Your Prime Video Watch of the Week is here!

Young Sherlock, Season 1

Director Guy Ritchie’s fresh look at the iconic detective’s origin story has remained one of Prime Video’s top five most-streamed shows since it debuted at the beginning of March, so perhaps now’s the time to hop on the Sherlock train (if you’re not on already). Actor Hero Fiennes Tiffin stars as the rebellious Oxford University student en route to becoming England’s most famous crime solver, with Zine Tseng as a knife-wielding princess and Dónal Finn as Sherlock’s future archnemesis, James Moriarty. Adding star power to the cast are Colin Firth, 65, Natascha McElhone, 54, and Hero’s real-life uncle Joseph Fiennes, 55.

Watch it: Young Sherlock on Amazon Prime Video

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New at the movies this week

⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ The Blue Trail , NR

Brazilian movies are on an uptick with The Secret Agent and I’m Still Here gaining Oscar recognition. Unlike those films, The Blue Trail (which received the coveted Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2025) doesn’t look back to the Latin American country’s turbulent history. Instead, it anticipates its dystopian future where a repressive government rounds up seniors and dispatches them, diapered, to camps for the nation’s alleged economic good. Chilling. At the movie’s center is the stubborn septuagenarian Tereza (a compelling Denise Weinberg, 69), who, after a lifetime of toil and mothering, wants finally to retire and achieve her dream of flying in a plane. The sci-fi drama’s title comes from the slime of a mystical slug that secretes blue goo that when dropped into the tripper’s eyes (including Tereza’s) allows them to envision their true path. That vision convinces Tereza to liberate herself and navigate a watery path on the Amazon River toward, she hopes, the chance at airborne bliss. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: The Blue Trail, April 3 in theaters

⭐⭐⭐☆☆ A Great Awakening , PG-13

Spotlighting the unlikely relationship between Benjamin Franklin (John Paul Sneed, 64) and Anglican priest and preacher George Whitefield (Jonathan Blair) against the backdrop of the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, this costume drama arrives just in time for Easter weekend. Flashbacks chart Whitefield’s rise in England and voyage to the colonies, then linger on his friendship with the Founding Father and possible influence on his spirituality. For fans of faith-based films, A Great Awakening provides an ideal way to celebrate a treasured holiday and the pending 250th anniversary of the United States with one theater ticket. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: A Great Awakening, April 3 in theaters

⭐⭐⭐☆☆ Marc by Sofia , NR

A good friend listens. And, so, in this intimate portrait of the fashion designer Marc Jacobs by his longtime friend and collaborator Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation), the director gets close to the designer and his creative process — but doesn’t want to harsh the mellow by asking tough questions. The result is a pleasing, colorful, fashion-loving movie that chronicles the decades of the designer’s rise to the heights of his career. But like with the beautiful fabrics painstakingly curated and draped by Jacobs, the audience's gaze stops at the beguiling surface. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Marc by Sofia, April 3 in theaters nationwide

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⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ Fantasy Life, R

Sometimes a great cast overflowing with character actors can elevate an otherwise modest comedy. That’s true of this charmingly offbeat rom-com. Bob Balaban, 80, Jessica Harper, 76, Judd Hirsch, 91, and Andrea Martin, 79, are a Greek chorus of nosy in-laws to arrested-development rocker David (Alessandro Nivola, 53) and depressed actor Dianne (Amanda Peet, 54), whose marriage is floundering under the couple’s mutual narcissism. Enter Sam (Matthew Shear, who also wrote and directed), an unemployable law-school dropout with a tendency toward panic attacks, whom the couple hires as their new “manny.” The hapless Sam falls in love with the irresistible Dianne, turning the existing multigenerational, codependent dynamic upside down and putting the family of New Yorkers on a path to a new normal. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Fantasy Life, in theaters nationwide Apr. 3

⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ Holy Days, NR

Many, many Sundays have passed since the era of the nun story, which included TV’s The Flying Nun and 1968’s Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (a personal favorite). Now from New Zealand comes Holy Days, a delightful but never saccharine comedy about three veteran nuns nearing retirement (the great Judy Davis, 70, Jacki Weaver, 78, and Miriam Margolyes, 84) who learn their local bishop wants to sell the convent out from under their sensible shoes and put them out to pasture. That news gets their wimples in a twist, so they embark on a bumpy road trip — with a brokenhearted Indigenous boy (Elijah Tamati) who has lost his mother — not just to save their roof and way of life, but also to comfort the bereft child along the way. The result is a recipe for miraculous mischief. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Holy Days, in theaters

⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ She Dances, PG-13

I’ll never underestimate actor Steve Zahn, 58, again. In this softhearted father-daughter dramedy that he cowrote and in which he stars, the journeyman actor demonstrates a range of quiet, conflicted emotion that grabs the audience by the heart. Zahn plays the relatable Jason, a father mourning the loss of his son — a tragedy that has split his surviving family in two. When his ex-wife, Deb (Rosemarie DeWitt, 54), gets called away, it’s up to him to chaperone their teen daughter (Zahn’s real-life daughter, Audrey) to her last big dance competition before she graduates high school. Suddenly, they have to navigate repressed emotions in close quarters. Actual Zahn home movies add a surprising poignance to the film, and the interactions between actor father and actor daughter feel utterly truthful. There are more emotional moments between Jason and his best friend and business partner (a terrific Ethan Hawke, 55), and here too a classic relationship dynamic feels fresh in these actors’ hands. Eschewing wrapping anything in a tidy bow, the film is a rewarding look at the actual, often complex dance between fathers and daughters. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: She Dances, in theaters