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Another slick, round-the-world spy action-comedy, this one aiming for broad, PG-13, Family Movie Night appeal for fans of its all-star cast. Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz take the lead as two married former CIA agents who get pulled back in after their cover is blown.  Andrew Scott, Kyle Chandler, Gle  …

Set in the 1850s American West, a clash of Mormons, indigenous communities, a burgeoning military and fur trappers battle each other as they try and survive the harsh conditions of the frontier in this high octane six-episode miniseries written by The Revenant’s Mark L. Smith and directed by Peter B  …

The long-awaited follow-up to the The Wrong Trousers, the endearing British franchise returns with its eccentric inventor Wallace introducing his latest tech invention — a gnome-like robot — to the skepticism of his loyal pooch Gromit.  Clever-fun, fast-paced, and warmhearted, it’s a rare all-ages  …

British mockumentarian Philomena Cunk is back with a one-off hour-long follow-up to her tongue-in-cheek Cunk on Earth Netflix series, this time on a quest to get the meaning of life. Ish.  AI, art, the big bang, death, and morality all come up in variously absurd ways.

A well-known tech entrepreneur’s preoccupation with “biohacking” and extreme anti-aging regimens is captured in this documentary, from diet and exercise to hundreds of pills to the latest experimental treatments – like transferring blood plasma from younger generations to penis shockwave therapy. Wh  …

Based on the true story of the sole all-Black Women’s Army Corps battalion that served overseas during WWII, Kerry Washington takes the lead in this sweeping historical drama that marks a first for producer Tyler Perry.  From Lisa Kennedy at The New York Times:  “The drama lands many of the beats of  …

Up the excitement of your own holiday airport hell by teeing up this action-thriller before you head to the gates. Taron Egerton takes the lead as a TSA agent who’s up against an evil Jason Bateman and a Russian-inspired nerve agent in a carry-on in this pulse-pounder that will feel familiar to fans  …

Try and resist this ensemble comedy with an edge. Lisa Kudrow and Ray Romano play empty nesters ready to sell their dreamy home in Los Angeles when they come up against three families fiercely competing to buy the place and an unexplained mystery surrounded the house.  Coming from Dead to Me’s Liz F  …

Angelina Jolie plays the legendary opera singer Maria Callas during the legendary performer’s final days in Paris in the mid-1970s in this biopic that has landed Jolie on the short list for a Best Actress Oscar nomination. Directed by Pablo Larraín, the man behind Jackie — who was the romantic riva  …

Gabriel García Márquez’s Nobel prize-winning novel gets a stunning series adaptation on Netflix, unspooling the sweeping saga of four generations of the Buendía family across 18 episodes while capturing the book’s magical realism and timeless tale of love and longing, power and corruption, destiny a  …

A teenage girl with a rare form of autism that left her nonverbal, Makayla’s world changes when her parents set out to understand the true depth of their daughter’s inner world in this inspiring and enlightening documentary that won Best Documentary Short at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival.

A surefire holiday streaming hit that combines the twinkly London Christmas backdrop and star of Love Actually (Keira Knightley) with a bloody spy thriller, woven together with quick-witted dialogue and heapings of dark humor.  Ben Whishaw and Sarah Lancashire co-star in the story from Joe Barton (G  …

A political consultant turned TV pundit (Colman Domingo) finds himself in a deepening conspiracy when he ends up framed for the murder of a white supremacist in the Poconos in this taut thriller series that is sure to trend on Netflix as a Thanksgiving binge watch.  All eight episodes stream today.

A legend among Japanese anime fans, the original Mononoke series is about a mysterious detective named Medicine Seller who investigates the motives of vengeful ghosts from 14th century Japan. Inspired by classic Japanese theater, the world is brought to psychedelic life through its highly imaginativ  …

Falling somewhere between a filmed play and a movie, Denzel Washington is the producer behind this adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play directed by Malcolm Washington and starring John David Washington, Danielle Deadwyler, and Samuel Jackson. Set in 1936 Pittsburgh, it’s the sto  …

Ted Danson stars in this deeper-than-a-sitcom mystery comedy about a widower who goes undercover as a spy in a senior home to investigate some missing heirlooms, which opens a whole new chapter in his life.  It comes from The Good Place creator, Mike Schur and its based on the Oscar-nominated docume  …

France’s official submission to next year’s Academy Awards is this bold, chaotic musical drama about a lawyer (Zoe Saldana) who helps a cartel leader (Karla Sofía Gascón) leave the business and his wife (Selena Gomez) and kids to become the woman he has always imagined himself to be. One of the buzz  …

Keri Russell returns as the US Ambassador to the UK in the long-awaited Season 2 of the hit Netflix drama, which picks up immediately after a bombing in Season 1’s cliffhanger and finds the former boots-on-the-ground intelligence officer thrust into several new high-level geopolitical crises…with  …

An Aussie version of Yellowstone with a twist of Succession, Territory follows the drama around the world’s largest fictional cattle station in Northern Australia in the wake of the heir apparent’s shocking death. If it sounds a little too cow pasture for your tastes, there are billionaire miners, c  …

The dramatized true story about an aspiring actress in 1970s Los Angeles who becomes a contestant on The Dating Game — paired up with a man who turns out to be a serial killer. Directed by and starring Anna Kendrick, it’s an original take on a chilling story told in a taut and captivating way, and  …