What a joy and a relief it is to be drawn into a mysteries–the mysteries of character, the mysteries of gender, the mysteries of family love–that is so far beyond the provenance and the expertise of the crime-scene squad and the forensic pathologists.

UnREAL, the series determined to wring the romance out of reality dating shows, may spoil the hedonistic pleasure one gets from watching The Bachelorette. It’s worth the risk.

Quick, easy, filthy, stupid, funny. You don’t need to know anything more.

You’ll need a strong stomach for some of the scenes in A Girl Like Her, one of the most moving and intelligent of the recent glut of films and TV specials about teenage bullying.

Amy Winehouse’s story is a tragic one, as with Kurt Cobain, who also died at 27, her potential as a singer and songwriter was only just beginning to be realized. Yet the prevailing mood of this documentary is joy. Kapadia captures what was irreplaceable about this unique performer, and in the process gives her the opportunity to do what she was made to do, the only thing she ever really wanted: to sing.

Age of Ultron, then, shows what happens when an unstoppable force (Joss Whedon’s imagination) meets an immovable object (the Disney/Marvel behemoth). And the result is, indeed, paradoxical: a crashy, overlong, FX-driven blockbuster that’s capable of morphing, Hulk-to-Banner style, into a loose-limbed ensemble comedy about collaboration, flirtation, and friendship.