What to Watch on TV and at the Movies This Week

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Spider-Noir, Season 1

The latest spin-off of the Spider-Man franchise centers on Ben Reilly, a.k.a. the Spider, a sad-sack private investigator in 1930s New York City who also happens to be the city’s only superhero. He’s played by Oscar winner Nicolas Cage, 62, returning to series TV for the first time since the 1970s. And in keeping with the noir aesthetic of the comic books that inspired the show, episodes come in both black-and-white and color.

Watch it: Spider-Noir, May 27 on Prime Video

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New at the movies this week

⭐⭐⭐☆☆ I Love Boosters, R

Frantic and frenetic, I Love Boosters is a candy-colored comedic romp. It follows a crew of professional shoplifters, a.k.a. boosters. These fashion-forward women, led by risk-taking Corvette (a rollicking Keke Palmer), are making money the Robin Hood way. They steal clothes from high-end boutiques and sell them at bottom dollar to the swap-meet crowd, calling it “fashion-forward philanthropy.” But once the boosters encounter snotty couturier Christie Smith (an unhinged Demi Moore, 63, continuing her comeback), their ambitions expand. Now, in addition to stealing piles of clothes, they want to topple Smith and show the diva what authentic style is all about. LaKeith Stanfield is along for the wild ride as a demon with a crush on Corvette, while Oscar-nominee Viggo Mortensen, 67, can be heard on the soundtrack as a mocumentary narrator. While I Love Boosters frays by the end, it does succeed as an antidote to Met Gala pretentiousness (and a knowing summer companion to The Devil Wears Prada 2). —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: I Love Boosters, May 22 in theaters

⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, PG-13

The latest Star Wars franchise hyperspaces from the small screen to IMAX, a big-budget film bursting with sci-fi adventure. In it, helmeted bounty hunter the Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal, 51) and his humorous “Baby Yoda” sidekick, Grogu, are on a dangerous, if not impossible, mission. They must liberate the son of Jabba the Hutt, Rotta (voiced by The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White), at the request of the New Republic’s bossy Colonel Ward (Sigourney Weaver, 76). Along the way, the film is gladiatorial — one battle after another — featuring familiar species such as the supersize, sluglike Hutts, and strange new aliens like a poisonous water snake the size of Godzilla. It’s disappointing that we see the handsome Pascal’s face for only 10 minutes, over an hour into the movie, when he’s rudely unmasked, and the spin-off lacks the political heft of my favorite contemporary chip off the Star Wars franchise, TV’s Andor. Still, arriving nearly 50 years after the original 1977 movie, it’s a must-see for Star Wars fans from every galaxy. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: The Mandalorian and Grogu, May 22 in theaters

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Is God Is, R

There’s nothing even remotely stagy about writer-director Aleshea Harris’ film debut, based on her award-winning off-Broadway play. Kara Young and Mallori Johnson pulsate with Black female rage as twin sisters who are commissioned by their long-presumed-dead mother (Vivica A. Fox, 61) to seek vengeance on their monster of a father (Sterling K. Brown, 50) for deliberately setting a fire that badly scarred all three of them. The sisters hit the road like latter-day Hamlets turned avenging angels, pausing only occasionally to ponder the ethics of their pursuit and the possibility of forgiveness. Harris creates a kinetic, well-crafted mix of Quentin Tarantino, the Old Testament and Clint Eastwood Westerns that’s a bloody good time, with a humanist heart beating just beneath the wounded skin.  —Thom Geier

Watch it: Is God Is, in theaters

⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ The Wizard of the Kremlin, R

When I wonder whom I’d cast to play Vladimir Putin, 73, my first thought isn’t British charmer Jude Law, 53. And yet, in this accomplished literary adaptation of Giuliano da Empoli’s 2022 novel of the same name, Law plays the Russian president with a smooth surface, a double helping of self-possession and a ruthlessness that only increases as time passes. He’s the sun around which fictional apparatchik Vadim Baranov (an understated and compelling Paul Dano) revolves as the merciless Putin rises to power in the post-Soviet era. As hopes for a republic dissolve into chaos and corruption, Kremlin spin doctor Baranov is among the inner circle that rises with the leader. They do his bidding until being pushed out the metaphorical window when they know too much or cease to be useful. This shrewd political-espionage drama further benefits from a classy ensemble, including Alicia Vikander, Tom Sturridge and Jeffrey Wright, 60, and will appeal to lovers of John LeCarré and TV’s Slow Horses. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: The Wizard of the Kremlin, in theaters

⭐⭐⭐☆☆ In the Grey, R

Big stars! Sassy dialog! Exotic locales! Writer-director Guy Ritchie, 57, stuffs them all into his latest explosive, irreverent entertainment. In what is essentially a high-body-count buddy caper, Ritchie pairs muscled leading men Henry Cavill and Jake Gyllenhaal as high-end mercenaries hired by steely fixer Rachel (Elza González), a smooth operator who in turn reports to corporate power-player Bobby Sheen (Rosamund Pike). The mission: to reclaim $1 billion from a deadbeat mogul (Carlos Bardem, 63, brother of Oscar-winner Javier, 57). To achieve her goals, freelancer Rachel operates “in the grey,” the zone between good and bad, moral and immoral, legal and illegal. This lethal ensemble thriller is fun without slipping into slapstick, going where so many movies have gone before with bravado: After the first-hour of largely stylish set-up, the movie bursts into life in the final half-hour, ending on a breathless and satisfying note. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: In the Grey, in theaters