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AARP critic Tim Appelo picks upcoming movies and shows to watch
CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD
In theaters February 14
In 2025’s most anticipated movie, Captain America (Anthony Mackie) battles President Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross (Harrison Ford, 82), who transforms into the wicked Red Hulk.
LOVE HURTS
In theaters February 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan, 54, makes his action-hero debut as a hitman-turned-Realtor forced to fight his crime lord brother Knuckles (Daniel Wu, 50). John Wick stunt coordinator JoJo Eusebio, 51, directs.
BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY
On Peacock February 13
Bridget (Renee Zellweger, 55), now a widowed mom, plunges back into the dating pool, pursued by a dreamy young hunk (The White Lotus’ Leo Woodall) while getting close with her son’s teacher (Chiwetel Ejiofor)—and encouraged by her ex (Hugh Grant, 64).
ZERO DAY
On Netflix February 20
In his first TV series, Robert De Niro, 81, plays an ex-president who comes out of retirement to investigate a catastrophic cyberattack—but he may be losing his grip on reality.
MY DEAD FRIEND ZOE
In theaters February 28
Bronze Star-winning U.S. Army paratrooper Kyle Hausmann-Stokes directs a ghost story about an Afghanistan War vet (Sonequa Martin-Green) haunted by the wisecracking shade of a fellow soldier (Natalie Morales). Air Force vet Morgan Freeman, 87, plays her VA therapy counselor and Ed Harris, 74, her Vietnam vet granddad, afflicted with incipient Alzheimer’s.
LAST BREATH
In theaters February 28
Woody Harrelson, 63, stars in a thriller about the race to rescue a diver trapped at the bottom of the North Sea. (If you can’t wait to see it, watch Last Breath (2019), the documentary that inspired it—it’s got actual footage of the event.)
SNL50 PRIMETIME SPECIAL
On NBC and Peacock February 16
You can count on a parade of past SNL cast members and guest hosts. “We’ll bring everyone back,” producer Lorne Michaels, 80, told The New York Times. “It will be ... very emotional.”