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What’s on this week? Whether it’s what’s on cable, streaming on Prime Video or Netflix, or opening at your local movie theater, we’ve got your must-watch list. Start with TV and scroll down for movies. It’s all right here.
On TV this week …
The Acolyte (Disney+)
Squid Game’s Lee Jung-jae, 51, learned English to play Jedi master Sol, investigating crime in this massively trending Star Wars spin-off, with Carrie-Anne Moss, 56, as martial arts Jedi master Indara — who’s so much like the character she played in The Matrix that she calls Indara “Trinity with a lightsaber.”
Watch it: The Acolyte, on Disney+
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Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial (Netflix)
Joe Berlinger, 62 (Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes), created a riveting six-part documentary about Hitler’s murder of 6 million Jews (which 63 percent of Americans under 43 do not know about, according to a 2020 survey conducted by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany). Using historic footage, actors reenacting events, plus the eyewitness testimony of William L. Shirer, the journalist who covered Nazism from the start to the Nuremberg Trials, Berlinger makes history feel like breaking news.
Watch it: Hitler and the Nazis, June 7 on Netflix
Presumed Innocent (Apple TV+)
If you liked Big Little Lies, try the latest twisty mystery miniseries from producer David E. Kelley, 68, about prosecutor Rusty Sabich (Jake Gyllenhaal), whose office is upended when one of its own is accused of a lurid murder. “The new Presumed Innocent will be just that — new,” Scott Turow, 75, author of the 1986 bestseller that spawned a 1990 Harrison Ford film and now this show, tells AARP. “There are many thoughtful changes. DNA was not commonly used in the courtroom when I wrote the novel. These days, Rusty would have been slabbed by DNA testing. Kelley came up with a new approach that borders on genius — which is revealed in the first episode.”
Watch it: Presumed Innocent, June 12 on Apple TV+
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Hit Man
Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick) wrote and stars in the latest from Richard Linklater, 63, a film loosely inspired by Gary Johnson, a nerdy professor who actually moonlighted as a fake hit man to help Houston police nab over 60 would-be killers. When a woman asked him to kill her abusive boyfriend, he got her into a shelter instead. Powell’s Gary falls in love with such a woman (Adria Arjona), and trouble ensues. It’s a screwball comedy, a rom-com, a thriller and Linklater’s biggest critical hit in almost a decade. Some call it his most entertaining film ever.
Watch it: Hit Man, June 7 on Netflix
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Marlon Wayans: Good Grief
Marlon is the youngest of the 10 Wayans siblings, best known for his collaborations with older brother Shawn on the ’90s sitcom The Wayans Bros. and big-screen parodies like Scary Movie and Fifty Shades of Black. In his new stand-up special, recorded at Harlem’s Apollo Theater, the 51-year-old New York City native explores his life after losing his beloved parents and the challenges of caring for them in their later years.
Watch it: Marlon Wayans: Good Grief on Prime Video
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What’s new at the movies …
⭐⭐⭐☆☆ Bad Boys: Ride or Die, R
Bad boys! Well, actually, immature middle-aged men. Detectives Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence, 59) and Mike Lowrey (Will Smith, 55) rev up the old Porsche and take their Miami Vice-meets-The-Fugitive vehicle out for a very bumpy ride. There are super-tan villains, an illegitimate son, cops heroic and dirty, and one jumbo albino alligator in a complicated Florida-set plot about political corruption. Implicated in past bad acts, Burnett and Lowrey generate some buddy bromance while trying to clear their names. Notorious Oscar-slapper Smith gets slapped at least three times as Lowrey in a sloppy stew of action sequences punctuated by chuckles. But in a summer movie schedule short on combustive comic action, there’s a place for Bad Boys: Ride or Die. And if this one pushes the franchise over the billion-dollar mark, Hollywood might show a smack of forgiveness for Smith. —Thelma M. Adams (T.M.A.)
Watch it: Bad Boys: Ride or Die, in theaters June 5
⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ The Commandant’s Shadow, PG-13
What makes an ideal childhood? A doting mother? A good provider dad? Dogs? A garden? All these comforts were formative parts of the secure home life of Hans Jurgen Hoss, now 87, a boyhood fictionalized in The Zone of Interest. That chilling Oscar winner, set in the commandant’s villa adjacent to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz, is a companion piece to this moving, difficult documentary. It charts how the son of the war criminal and Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoss, encouraged by his own son Kai, returns to Germany, gradually assimilating the enormity, the dark shadow, of his father’s “achievements.” Accompanying the father and son on their journey is Maya, the daughter of Holocaust survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, retracing the journey of her dead kin. They meet together, Jews and gentiles, parents and children, at the crossroads of generational trauma in a film that is both fraught and elevated by the slim hope of reconciliation, through facing the past with clear eyes and the present with compassion. —T.M.A.
Watch it: The Commandant’s Shadow, in theaters
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