What to Watch on TV and at the Movies This Week

83rd Annual Golden Globes (CBS, Paramount+)

Hollywood traditionally lets its collective hair down a bit more at this awards show honoring achievement in film, TV and now also podcasting. Oscar and Emmy handicappers look to it for guidance, particularly when it comes to best picture and TV show contenders: Will the statuette go to One Battle After Another, Sinners or Sentimental Value? Will White Lotus or Adolescence dominate? Above all, though, it’s just fun to watch your favorite grownup stars of screens big and small mix it up in one ballroom (and check out who’s best dressed). The show’s first-ever solo female host, comic Nikki Glaser, is back in charge for a second year. 

Watch it: 83rd Annual Golden Globes, live on CBS, live-streaming and on demand on Paramount+, Jan. 11 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.

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His & Hers

This limited series stars Creed’s Tessa Thompson and The Walking Dead’s Jon Bernthal as a husband and wife working opposite sides of a grisly murder in Georgia. She’s an ambitious reporter covering the case who smells a cover-up; he’s the lead investigator trying to solve it, who also happened to know the victim. Needless to say, this all makes their home life tense. Especially when they begin to suspect each other. 

Watch it: His & Hers, Jan. 8 on Netflix

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The Night Manager , Season 2

Tom Hiddleston returns as former British intelligence operative Jonathan Pine, along with Olivia Colman, 51, as a top official in the U.K. Foreign Office. While 2016’s award-winning first season was a faithful adaptation of the late John le Carré’s 1993 novel, the new season begins where the last left off: Hiddleston’s Pine living a quiet life in exile, until a chance sighting of an old nemesis draws him back into the world of international intrigue.

Watch it: The Night Manager, Season 2, Jan. 11 on Prime Video

Don’t miss this: The Best Things Coming to Prime Video this Month

New at the movies this week

⭐⭐⭐☆ ☆ The Chronology of Water , R

When Twilight star Kristen Stewart made her feature directorial debut at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, her sexual assault drama received a 6½-minute standing ovation. Note to self: Take those ovations with a grain of salt. To her credit, Stewart has artfully adapted Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir of incestuous abuse, addiction and writing oneself into recovery with a few relapses on the way. And as Lidia, Imogen Poots (The Father) creates a stunning portrayal of the swimming prodigy who front-crawls her way out of the gutter and into marriage, motherhood and academics. Told from the victim’s kaleidoscopic point of view, The Chronology of Water is explicit and unflinching, calling out how a grown man’s inappropriate attention to a girl can warp her entire being, sense of self and place in the world. The film’s central flaw, not unlike that of some swimmers, is that it slows to a bit of a slog, weighted down in this case by a droning voiceover. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: The Chronology of Water, Jan. 9 in theaters

⭐⭐⭐☆ ☆ Magellan , R

The next time I get antsy at an airport delay, remind me of Magellan and his 16th-century effort to circle the globe. Perhaps it’s fitting that this historical epic from Filipino director Lav Diaz, 67, applies a notion of slow cinema (analogous to the slow food movement) to a bold, wind-fueled journey. Funded by the Spanish crown, Magellan was the first European explorer to cross the Pacific Ocean, but, as we learn from beautiful images with grim detail, that voyage navigated the shoals of mutiny, despair, sodomy, scurvy, torrential rains and the edge of madness until someone finally spied land. Gael García Bernal fully inhabits the titular conquistador in a performance both present and potent, on a quest that began with optimism but ended in dire straits.  —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Magellan, Jan. 9 in theaters

⭐⭐⭐☆ ☆ The Testament of Ann Lee , R

Ann Lee was the founder, some posit a female Christ, of the American Shaker movement — not a story most of us learned in social studies class. In this historical biopic (and musical!) we discover her emigration to America in search of religious freedom for her ecstatic brand of evangelical Christianity. Mamma Mia! and Les Misérables star Amanda Seyfried has the integrity, charisma and pipes to carry the central role of messiah. Plus the costumes and production design are impeccable, as clean and sharp as the influential Shaker design the community would create to fund its utopia. But for those who admire the sect’s spare, spiritual music, composer Daniel Blumberg’s score is way too busy, and the choreography feels more like a liberal arts college senior recital than the 18th-century ecstatic “shaking” that gave the believers their name. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: The Testament of Ann Lee, Jan. 9 in theaters

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Father Mother Sister Brother, R

The influential granddaddy of East Coast independent cinema, Jim Jarmusch, 72, won a Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival for this family-themed movie reimagined as a quirky anthology of awkward encounters in three different countries. My favorite section (“Father”) pairs neurotic odd couple Mayim Bialik, 50, and Adam Driver as siblings driving through an American winterscape to visit their dad, a wily and delightful Tom Waits, 76. Another reunion of estranged offspring and an emotionally withholding parent (“Mother”) features a trifecta of great actors: Vicky Krieps and Cate Blanchett, 56, enduring tea in Dublin with their chilly mother, played by Charlotte Rampling, 79. The final section (“Sister Brother”) reunites siblings Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat, who bid goodbye to the family’s Paris apartment following their parents’ fiery death, sifting through past memories and making new ones. Wry, emotional and off-kilter, Father Mother Sister Brother is the antithesis of a Hallmark Christmas movie, and so much the better for it. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Father Mother Sister Brother, in theaters

⭐⭐⭐⭐ ☆ No Other Choice, R

Parasite fans should flock to this Korean black-comedy thriller detailing the extremes an honorable man will go when pink-slipped. At the film’s start, Man-su (a gripping Lee Byung-hun, 55), a supervisor at a paper factory, hugs his wife and children in their idyllic backyard in a statement of domestic bliss that harbingers imminent disaster. And it comes when new factory owners axe Man-su and he gradually loses his grip. When a job opportunity arises at another factory, the formerly gentle man ruthlessly analyzes his potential rivals and begins to attack them one by one to become the top candidate. Too many Americans can relate to the crippling gut-punch of a job loss, with the ripple effects that threaten the bonds of family and shatter their social position. No Other Choice pushes the trauma one step further: what happens when that destabilization goads an otherwise hardworking, loving father to murder. And murder again. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: No Other Choice in theaters