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What to Watch: Movies and TV Shows Our Critic Recommends

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Film critic Chris Nashawaty recommends this winter’s top movies and shows for grownups

Ballroom scene from Bridgerton Season 4

BRIDGERTON — SEASON 4, PART 2

On Netflix February 26

Quickly following the January rollout of Season 4, Part 1, Netflix’s sumptuous period-piece sensation returns, promising to take fans further into the romances, relationships and rivalries of Mayfair: Will the artistic and commitment-phobic Benedict (Luke Thompson) meet his match and finally settle down? Will there be a star-crossed case of mistaken identity at a lavish ball straight out of “Cinderella”? Tune in to find out!


Scene from Cross Season 2

CROSS — SEASON 2

On Prime Video February 11

The acclaimed, fast-paced procedural based on a James Patterson character returns, with Aldis Hodge, above left, as Alex Cross, a brilliant homicide detective at D.C. Metro. The new season has Cross racing to stop a vigilante targeting corrupt billionaires.


Image of Paul McCartney from his documentary Man On The Run 

PAUL McCARTNEY: MAN ON THE RUN

On Prime Video February 25

This eagerly awaited documentary about McCartney, 83, chronicles his second act in the 1970s with follow-up band Wings as well as his storybook marriage to Linda McCartney.


Margo Robbie and Jacob Elordi from Wuthering heights 

WUTHERING HEIGHTS

In theaters February 13

Timed to Valentine’s Day, this smoldering big-screen adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic romance stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Catherine Earnshaw and the strapping Heathcliff, set loose upon each other on the stunning and swoon-worthy Yorkshire moors.


Conan O’Brien standing in front of a life size model for The 98th Academy Awards 

THE 98TH ACADEMY AWARDS

On ABC March 15

Who will take home the gold? One Battle After Another? Hamnet? Sinners? Unclear, but we do know that Conan O’Brien, 62, will host and that all the nominees who don’t win will say it’s an honor just to be nominated. Now that’s acting! (The AARP Movies for Grownups Awards are a bellwether for the Oscars, so for a look at some of the contenders, check out this year’s Movies for Grownups Awards ceremony, which premieres on PBS’s Great Performances Sunday, February 22.)


Scene from the movie The Bride

THE BRIDE!

In theaters March 6

Director Maggie Gyllenhaal follows up Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein with her update of The Bride of Frankenstein, set in 1930s Chicago. It has eye-candy visuals and a heavyweight cast: Jessie Buckley, Jake Gyllenhaal, Penelope Cruz, 51—and Christian Bale, 52, as the Monster.

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