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The New Look
A biographical drama from Todd A. Kessler that follows Christian Dior (Ben Mendelsohn), Coco Chanel (Juliette Binoche) and their peers as they pioneer modern fashion during World War II.
Where to watch: Apple TV Plus
Life & Beth, Season 2
In the second season of the show written and directed by Amy Schumer, Beth (Schumer) and John’s (Michael Cera) relationship progresses. Beth considers marriage and children while John tries to find a solution to their communication problems.
Where to watch: Hulu
Love Is Blind, Season 6
Watch (more) strangers fall in love and get engaged without ever having seen their paramour. This social experiment/reality show hosted by Nick and Vanessa Lachey is packed with red flags and drama.
Where to watch: Netflix
Players
’Tis the season for romantic comedies, and Netflix is delivering with a Tom Ellis- and Gina Rodriguez-helmed film. Rodriguez stars as a New York sportswriter who has perfected hookup “plays” to score guys, but after falling for one of her marks (Ellis), she has to learn what it takes to maintain a relationship.
Where to watch: Netflix
The Vince Staples Show
Almost famous and almost rich rapper/actor Vince Staples navigates the challenges of everyday life in his hometown of the Beach in this satirical limited-series portrayal of Staples’s real life.
Where to watch: Netflix
This Is Me … Now: A Love Story
A cinematic and musical reimagining of the highly scrutinized love life of actress and singer Jennifer Lopez. Starring Lopez herself as well as Sofía Vergara and Ben Affleck.
Where to watch: Prime Video
Curb Your Enthusiasm, Season 12
Larry David’s comedy series, in which he stars as a dramatized version of himself, comes to an end after more than 20 years and twelve seasons.
Where to watch: Max
One Day
This decades-spanning love story chronicles the romance of Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew, who meet on July 15, 1988. This miniseries checks in on Dex and Em on this day every year as their story progresses.
Where to watch: Netflix
Suncoast
A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age film by Laura Chinn that documents a young woman dealing with her brother’s serious illness. Starring Nico Parker, Laura Linney and Woody Harrelson.
Where to watch: Hulu
Feud: Capote vs. The Swans
The second season of Ryan Murphy, Jaffe Cohen and Michael Zam’s anthology series “Feud” focuses on the breakdown of writer Truman Capote’s (Tom Hollander) relationship with a group of elite women (played by Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Chloë Sevigny and Calista Flockhart) whom he betrayed by writing thinly veiled fiction about their lives.
Where to watch: Hulu
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Based on the 2005 movie that brought together Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, this comedy series chronicles the matrimonial and professional exploits of a deadly couple (Maya Erskine and Donald Glover) who work for a mysterious spy agency.
Where to watch: Prime Video
Orion and the Dark
Werner Herzog narrates this animated DreamWorks film about a chronically frightened young boy (Jacob Tremblay) who goes on an adventure with a giant, smiling creature named Dark (Paul Walter Hauser) and learns that the world around him isn’t as scary as he thought.
Where to watch: Netflix
Masters of the Air
Based on Donald L. Miller’s book of the same name, this series follows the men of the 100th Bomb Group as they conduct bombing raids over Nazi Germany. The star-studded ensemble cast includes Austin Butler, Barry Keoghan and Ncuti Gatwa.
Where to watch: Apple TV Plus
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
A documentary that explores the secrets that are revealed by women in the darkness of a sacred smoke sauna.
Where to watch: Apple TV Plus, Google Play, Prime Video, YouTube
Queer Eye, Season 8
The popular reboot of the self-help series from the early 2000s returns to help people around the country live their best lives. This will be the last season for co-host Bobby Berk, who has announced that he will exit the reality series.
Where to watch: Netflix
Griselda
Sofía Vergara stars as a mother fleeing from Medellín to Miami with her three young sons and a kilo of cocaine in tow to become the head of a drug empire in this drama series.
Where to watch: Netflix
Expats
In this series directed by Lulu Wang (“The Farewell”) and starring Nicole Kidman, a single event causes a domino effect that changes the lives of a group of women in Hong Kong.
Where to watch: Prime Video
Death and Other Details
While on a luxury ocean liner, Imogene Scott (Violett Beane) finds herself as the prime suspect in a locked-room murder. In this thriller series, she must partner up with the world’s greatest detective (Mandy Patinkin) to prove her innocence.
Where to watch: Hulu
True Detective, Season 4
“True Detective: Night Country,” Season 4 of the mystery anthology series, is helmed by Jodie Foster and Kali Reis and set in Ennis, Alaska. After the men who operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace, the detectives (Foster and Reis) must confront their inner darkness before they can confront the horror that is buried in the ice.
Where to watch: Max
The Kitchen
Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe Tavares co-direct this dystopian drama about the residents of an embattled housing complex in a futuristic London.
Where to watch: Netflix
The Woman in the Wall
This six-part drama miniseries centers on a woman who finds a mysterious dead body in her house. The problem? She suffers from sleepwalking, and is clueless about the identity of the dead woman or if she had anything to do with putting her there. As she deals with this mystery, a detective begins to investigate her for an unrelated crime.
Where to watch: Showtime
Hazbin Hotel
Set in the same universe as the online animated series “Helluva Boss,” this animated series produced by A24 follows the princess of Hell as she tries to find a peaceful way to rehabilitate demons and fight overpopulation: a hotel. With the help of a powerful entity called the Radio Demon, her assistant and their first test subject, this hotel is ready to open for business.
Where to watch: Prime Video
Echo
In this “Hawkeye” spinoff series based on the Marvel character of the same name, Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox) must face her past as well as Wilson Fisk’s (Vincent D’Onofrio) criminal empire.
Where to watch: Disney Plus
The Brothers Sun
After the head of a Taiwanese triad is murdered, his eldest son (Justin Chien) goes to Los Angeles to protect his strong-willed mother (Michelle Yeoh) and fill his naive brother (Sam Song Li) in on the family business. The fractured family must work together against their many, many enemies in this action-comedy series.
Where to watch: Netflix
Pete Davidson: Turbo Fonzarelli
“Bubkis” star and “Saturday Night Live” alum Pete Davidson dishes on his childhood obsession with Leonardo DiCaprio and the disturbing present he was given by a stalker in his latest stand-up special.
Where to watch: Netflix
Criminal Record
A mysterious phone call brings together two detectives, a young woman at the start of her career (Cush Jumbo) and a veteran investigator driven to protect his legacy (Peter Capaldi), to look into an old murder case. This thriller miniseries focuses on racism and institutional failure as its characters search for common ground.
Where to watch: Apple TV Plus
Society of the Snow
This Spanish-language thriller is based on the true story of a 1972 plane crash in the Andes after which the survivors — many of them members of a rugby team — resorted to cannibalism.
Where to watch: Netflix
Good Grief
The feature debut of writer-director Daniel Levy revolves around Marc (Levy), shaken by the death of his husband (Luke Evans), and Marc’s two best friends (Ruth Negga and Himesh Patel).
Where to watch: Netflix
Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale
Based on the novel “Sanctuary” by V.V. James, this series is set in the picturesque English town of Sanctuary, which has been peacefully populated by witches for hundreds of years — peaceful, that is, until a teen rugby player’s death.
Where to watch: AMC Plus
Maestro
Director and star Bradley Cooper delivers a messy yet symphonic biopic about conductor Leonard Bernstein and his wife Felicia (Carey Mulligan).
Where to watch: Netflix
Anatomy of a Fall
A husband is discovered dead in this alternately twisty and icily cerebral French sexual-psycho-legal thriller, in which just about every narrator is unreliable. If it sometimes feels a bit contrived, and if its conclusion will leave some viewers unsatisfied, director Justine Triet has nevertheless made a film that succeeds brilliantly.
Where to watch: Apple TV Plus, Google Play, Prime Video, YouTube
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
To fully appreciate “The Eras Tour,” a simultaneously intimate and spectacular documentary of Swift’s record-breaking, earth-quaking, career-spanning victory lap of the past year, it’s best to simply surrender to the whole thing: the impressively immersive chronicle of a concert tour that has every technological gizmo at its disposal but wisely keeps things simple.
Where to watch Apple TV Plus, Google Play, Prime Video, YouTube
Lift
In this heist film, Kevin Hart plays the leader of a team attempting to steal $500 million in gold from a plane in midflight at 40,000 feet. Also starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Vincent D’Onofrio, Úrsula Corberó, Billy Magnussen, Jacob Batalon, Jean Reno and Sam Worthington.
Where to watch: Netflix
Pokémon Concierge
Pokémon need a break too. The cute creatures and their owners chill out at the Pokémon Resort with the help of concierge Haru in this family-friendly stop-motion series.
Where to watch: Netflix
Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Scorsese’s thriller based on David Grann’s nonfiction book about the murders of Osage Indians in 1920s Oklahoma dramatizes a grievous truth — about the depravity, destruction and self-deception that undergird the American idea — that has been buried for too long, especially in movies.
Where to watch: Apple TV Plus, Google Play, Prime Video, YouTube
The Holdovers
In this 1970s-set picaresque by Alexander Payne, Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph play a teacher and cook at a snooty New England prep school who are trapped there over winter break. Hilarity doesn’t ensue as much as simmer under the surface, as a troubled student — played in a fabulous breakout performance by newcomer Dominic Sessa — tests his elders’ boundaries, culminating in a classic Payne road trip of healing and discovery.
Where to watch: Peacock
Fool Me Once
Based on the book of the same name by Harlan Coben, former soldier Maya sees her recently murdered husband on a hidden nanny cam in this thriller series. The sighting leads her to uncover a deadly conspiracy that reaches into her past.
Where to watch: Netflix
Dream Scenario
Nicolas Cage plays an average Joe who begins appearing in strangers’ dreams in a smart, dizzyingly entertaining horror-comedy that morphs into scathing social satire.
Where to watch: Apple TV Plus, Google Play, Prime Video, YouTube
Extended Family
Abigail Spencer, Jon Cryer and Donald Faison star in this modern, blended family comedy about a divorced couple making it work as co-parents and friends.
Where to watch: Peacock
Night Court, Season 2
The “Night Court” reboot, which follows Judge Abby Stone (Melissa Rauch) as she presides over the night shift of a Manhattan arraignment court, returns for a second season.
Where to watch: Peacock
Ricky Gervais: Armageddon
Comic Ricky Gervais jokes about the end of humanity, political correctness, family weddings, funerals and AI in this comedy special.
Where to watch: Netflix
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
This Hunger Games prequel is one of the darker installments in the dystopian sci-fi franchise about children who fight each other to the death.
Where to watch: Apple TV Plus, Google Play, Prime Video, YouTube
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
The long-awaited series adaptation of Rick Riordan’s “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” young-adult books has come at last (and they’re hoping you forgot about the movie adaptations). Tween demigod Percy Jackson comes to terms with the knowledge that Greek gods are real and his father is one of them … just as he’s accused by Zeus of stealing his master lightning bolt.
Where to watch: Disney Plus
Saltburn
Emerald Fennell’s follow-up to “Promising Young Woman” is an aristo-gothic sexual thriller about striving, obsession, class resentment and revenge. It’s fun, but doesn’t have much to say — a drawback that is almost ameliorated by the sheer style of its filmmaking: Fennell, working with cinematographer Linus Sandgren and production designer Suzie Davies, creates a deliriously decadent world of inherited wealth.
Where to watch: Prime Video
May December
In this drama by Todd Haynes loosely based on the ’90s tabloid scandal of Mary Kay Letourneau, Natalie Portman plays an actress researching the role of a sex offender (Julianne Moore) for a biopic.
Where to watch: Netflix
Fargo, Season 5
In the fifth season of this anthology series based on the Coen brothers’ movie of the same name, housewife Dorothy “Dot” Lyon finds herself in the sights of the authorities when her past comes back to haunt her. Sheriff Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm) and his son “Gator” (Joe Keery) rush to track Dot down as her mother-in-law (Jennifer Jason Leigh) simultaneously offers aid and criticism.
Where to watch: Hulu
Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan’s three-hour biopic about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, brings the tragic figure at its center to fascinatingly paradoxical life. In the title role, Cillian Murphy is part machinist, part mystic, ever questioning the apocalyptic implications of what he’s discovering.
Where to watch: Apple TV Plus, Google Play, Prime Video, YouTube
Priscilla
This biopic about Priscilla Presley (Cailee Spaeny) starts off well, but eventually it reverts to dreary biopic formula in which the high and low points of Priscilla’s life with the King (Jacob Elordi) are recounted with rote, episodic familiarity.
Where to watch: Apple TV, Prime Video, Vudu
Barbie
A whipped confection of canonical faithfulness, knowing humor and bitterly pointed irony, Greta Gerwig’s live-action meta-movie based on the iconic doll plays like a TED Talk about the patriarchy covered in glitter. Barbie (Margot Robbie) embarks on a quest from her hot-pink Dreamhouse to the real world, where she discovers that she and her fellow agents of Mattel-approved empowerment have not, despite the marketing hype, solved the problem of sexism.
Where to watch: Max
Bob’s Burgers, Season 14
The Fox animated sitcom about Bob Belcher and his eclectic family running Bob’s Burgers returns for Season 14.
Where to watch: Hulu
Giannis: The Marvelous Journey
A feature-length documentary that explores the career of NBA player Giannis Antetokounmpo, who went from a life of poverty as the son of Nigerian immigrants in Greece to one of the most notable names in basketball today.
Where to watch: Feb. 19 on Prime Video
Constellation
Jo (Noomi Rapace) has just returned to Earth after a disastrous space mission and finds that key parts of her life appear to be missing. The eight-episode series follows the astronaut as she attempts to expose the truth about space travel and recover what she has lost.
Where to watch: Feb. 21 on Apple TV Plus
Messi’s World Cup: The Rise of a Legend
In this docuseries, soccer player Lionel Messi narrates his journey through five World Cup championships, culminating in a 2022 triumph. The Argentine footballer shares personal reflections on his career trajectory and discusses the challenges he’s faced along the way.
Where to watch: Feb. 21 on Apple TV Plus
Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Season 3
Set just after the Clone Wars, this animated series follows a unique squad of clones as they navigate the galaxy. The third and final season brings back favorites from other Star Wars animated shows to wrap up the saga.
Where to watch: Feb. 21 on Disney Plus
Avatar: The Last Airbender
After a disappointing first attempt at a live-action adaptation of the animated children’s show — M. Night Shyamalan’s 2010 film “The Last Airbender” — the Avatar returns in this live-action series. A young boy named Aang must master the four elements to save the world he left behind, but luckily, he’s not alone on his quest.
Where to watch: Feb. 22 on Netflix
Mea Culpa
Things get steamy — and dangerous — when a defense attorney (Kelly Rowland) takes on the case of a seductive artist who is accused of murdering his girl in this Tyler Perry film.
Where to watch: Feb. 23 on Netflix
The Second Best Hospital in The Galaxy
Alien doctors tackle the intricacies of space medicine in the latest star-studded adult animated series; the cast includes Stephanie Hsu, Keke Palmer, Kieran Culkin, Sam Smith, Maya Rudolph and Natasha Lyonne.
Where to watch: Feb. 23 on Prime Video
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
Another “Walking Dead” spinoff is about to hit streaming, this time centering on the love story of Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne (Danai Gurira). After being separated, the pair must fight against the odds to reunite during the zombie apocalypse.
Where to watch: Feb. 25 on AMC Plus
Shōgun
Based on the 1975 historical fiction novel of the same name, this miniseries set in feudal Japan chronicles the struggle of Lord Yoshii Toranaga, who must fight for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents work against him. The miniseries ramps up when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village, leading Toranaga to discover secrets that could help him prevail.
Where to watch: Feb. 27 on Hulu
Iwájú
In this animated series set in a futuristic Lagos, Nigeria, a young girl from a wealthy island and her self-taught tech-expert BFF discover the secrets and dangers that are hidden in their worlds.
Where to watch: Feb. 28 on Disney Plus
Code 8: Part II
Like the 2019 original, this sequel is set in a fictional town populated by people with special powers. Robbie Amell stars as Connor Reed, an ex-con turned hero who fights to keep a teenager safe.
Where to watch: Feb. 28 on Netflix
Spaceman
This sci-fi drama stars Adam Sandler as a Czech astronaut who was orphaned as a young boy. His journey to space reorders his perspective on his earthy woes. Co-starring Carey Mulligan and Paul Dano.
Where to watch: March 1 on Netflix
Elsbeth
In yet another sequel series to “The Good Wife,” quirky yet competent attorney Elsbeth Tascioni (Carrie Preston) uses her unique perspectives to help the NYPD solve cases.
Where to watch: Feb. 29 on Paramount Plus
The Regime
Kate Winslet helms a political satire that chronicles a year of unravelings within an authoritarian regime; the cast of the six-episode limited series includes Martha Plimpton, Andrea Riseborough, Matthias Schoenaerts and Hugh Grant.
Where to watch: March 3 on Max
Gender Agenda
Comedian Hannah Gadsby (who won an Emmy for their stand-up special, “Nanette”) hosts a comedy showcase at London’s Alexandra Palace that highlights genderqueer comics from around the world.
Where to watch: March 3 on Netflix
Ricky Stanicky
Three childhood best friends (Zac Efron, Andrew Santino and Jermaine Fowler) invented “Ricky Stanicky” to get out of trouble — and they’re still blaming Ricky for their behavior as adults. After their significant others get suspicious, they hire celebrity impersonator “Rock Hard” Rod (John Cena) to play the role of Stanicky, but he takes the assignment too far.
Where to watch: March 7 on Prime Video
The Gentlemen
In this Guy Ritchie series — a spinoff of his 2019 film of the same name — Eddie Horniman (Theo James) inherits his father’s large estate and becomes entangled in Britain’s criminal underworld after learning about his father’s involvement in a cannabis empire.
Where to watch: March 7 on Netflix
The Reluctant Traveler, Season 2
Eugene Levy continues to tour the world and step outside his comfort zone as he embarks on a tour of Europe in the second season of this travel show. In the seven-part series, he visits Sweden, Scotland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy and Spain.
Where to watch: March 8 on Apple TV Plus
Damsel
A young woman’s (Millie Bobby Brown) marriage to a handsome prince turns out to be a trap, and she’s sacrificed to a fire-breathing dragon instead of living happily ever after.
Where to watch: March 8 on Netflix
First Time Female Director
Chelsea Peretti wrote, directed and stars in this comedy about a writer who lands the role of director at her local theater and must control her kooky cast to make the play a success.
Where to watch: March 8 on Roku
Contributors: David Betancourt, Bethonie Butler, Ann Hornaday, Mark Jenkins, Inkoo Kang, Lili Loofbourow, Olivia McCormack, Michael O’Sullivan, Kristen Page-Kirby, Pat Padua and Lucas Trevor.