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Thrills come in all sorts of packages, and two films make it this week that show u.s.a. how interesting that tin be. Read on to find out how Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent and Liam Neeson bear witness united states of america grownups in extraordinary circumstances. Plus, what's new on Netflix? We've got the full scoop!

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The Duke, R

The mysterious 1961 heist of Goya's portrait of the Knuckles of Wellington from London'south National Gallery was in one case so famous that in the 1962 Bond moving-picture showDr. No, the archvillain stole it. The existent thief turned out to be the eccentric, unemployable idealist Kempton Bunton (Jim Broadbent), threescore, who said at his trial that he'd but borrowed the painting to forcefulness the government to provide free Tv set for OAP (old-age pensioners). In a movie that feels like a chamomile bubble bath enjoyed whilst sipping British tea, Broadbent is infinitely charming, and Helen Mirren, looking older than her age for once, is his perfect match as the no-nonsense married woman who supports them by cleaning houses — and emphatically does not support lawbreaking, nor people who won't use tea coasters. Mostly true, information technology plays similar a frail fable. What makes information technology a must-see is the excellence of its acting and its sheer kindness.—Tim Appelo (T.A.)

Watch it:The Knuckles, in theaters

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What happens when a thriller'south hero is struggling with dementia?

Retention, R

Liam Neeson plays Alex Lewis, the usual two-fisted Neeson hero, satisfyingly capable of kicking butts a fraction of his age. Except this time, he's struggling with memory loss — the serious advancing dementia everybody dreads. When an FBI homo (Guy Pearce) saves a young immigrant girl (Mia Sanchez) from criminals, Alex, a professional person hitting human, is ordered to rub her out. Somebody does so, and Alex doesn't know if he was the killer or not. Martin Campbell (Casino Royale) directs with panache, but the story is at to the lowest degree 100 IQ points dumber than the 2000 classicMemento, where Pearce plays a retention-affected hero who, similar Alex, scribbles things on his arm in a vain attempt non to forget.Retentivity isn't memorable, but its gimmick is more than interesting than Neeson'due south typical action fare.—T.A.

Watch it: Memory, coming April 29 to theaters

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Middle in the Sky (2015)

Liked Helen Mirren inPrime Suspect? Try her as a tough British colonel hunting al-Shabab terrorists in Nairobi and confronted with a moral dilemma: Should she stop them with drones and Hellfire missiles at the toll of killing an innocent child who wanders into the kill zone? A smart, superb thriller with a theme worth pondering. Last day to watch it on Netflix: May 12.

Watch it:Centre in the Heaven, on Netflix

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Spring is here, and that means ane affair…

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Tom Cruise every bit Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell in "Pinnacle Gun: Maverick"; Penelope Wilton equally Isobel Merton and Maggie Smith every bit Violet Grantham in "Downton Abbey: A New Era."

​It's our annual spring picture preview! Get our critics' inside wait at the blockbusters, dramas, comedies and documentaries that are coming this season. Spoiler alert: One of them is the new Downton Abbey movie (be still our hearts)!

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​​Anyone noticing a revival of great black-and-white films this yr?​​​

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(Left to right) Caitriona Balfe, Jamie Dornan, Judi Dench, Jude Colina and Lewis McAskie in "Belfast."

FromThe Tragedy of Macbeth toBelfast, some of the year's high-profile films (and top Oscar contenders) are in black and white. Y'all may be surprised at how many movies set color aside this twelvemonth. Get our critics' list and stream them all!​

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Need some (more) cozy in your life right around now? These Netflix movies are here for y'all​​

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Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn (right) in "My Off-white Lady."

Infant, it is common cold exterior, and our critics are here to help you go through the winter with a dozen cozy gems (nine films and three bingeable Tv series) streaming on Netflix right now. All you need to do is provide the PJs, the throw blanket and the cocoa!​

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What are the best thrillers on Netflix right at present? We're hither with the goods

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(Left to right) Jake Gyllenhaal in "The Guilty," Tyler Perry in "A Fall From Grace" and Sandra Bullock in "Bird Box."

Wintertime just seems like the perfect time to scroll upwards on the sofa with a pulse-pounding film, which is what inspired our critics to gather upwards the 13 very best thrillers currently streaming on platform powerhouse Netflix. From 1982's Blade Runner (never a bad thought to revisit that classic) to the 2020 Netflix original Tyler Perry'south A Autumn From Grace, we're here to pull you into the rabbit hole of suspense and sweaty palms.​

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Don't open Netflix once again until you've read this

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Do you become a little lightheaded from all those "recommendations" the streaming behemothic proposes for you? Our critic took a shut look behind the browsing drapery at Netflix and has some uncomfortable truths nearly how Netflix is manipulating your browsing experience. Get the whole scoop and find out how to have control of your account (and see better stuff).

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21 great movies you didn't even know were on Netflix!

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Idris Elba and Caleb McLaughlin in "Concrete Cowboy" (left) and Carey Mulligan in "The Dig."

Sure, you know the big-proper name shows and original serial that the streaming giant wants you to browse … but did you lot know that Netflix has almost iii,700 movies you can stream? Our critics sifted through the whole list to uncover 21 fantastic gems that are ready to watch. So what are you waiting for?

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(Left to right) Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh on the set of "A Streetcar Named Desire," Judy Garland in "The Wizard of Oz" and Uma Thurman in "Pulp Fiction."

Our critics scanned the entire film itemize from the 1930s to now to handpick just xxx films that you must ­— must — see. We're not talking about the best films (everyone does that listing) only rather the films that are essential. Yous want to take seen these movies not merely because they're great (they are), simply because they ensure yous're tuned into their cultural moments, the ability of their fourth dimension. And then when someone makes a Philadelphia Story reference or deadpans, "the Dude abides," you know exactly what they mean.

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Love rom-coms but tired of watching millennials have all the fun?

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We hear you lot. Which is why our critics found the 13 best romantic comedies that feature older actors! From an all-grown-up Spencer and Tracy in 1957's Desk Set to Angela Bassett in How Stella Got Her Groove Back in the late '90s to Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland in 2017'southward The Leisure Seeker, these are dearest stories for folks who know a thing or two almost beloved. Grab your favorite rom-com date and get streaming here: Grown-ups In (and Out) of Love: 13 Great Rom-Coms Starring Older Actors

Other movies to watch

Petite Maman, PG

From Celine Sciamma, the brilliant French director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, comes a clear-eyed, intimate, beautifully rendered story nearly iii generations of women — and one beautiful child's fantastical encounter with her mother as a young girl. The vividPetite Maman, orLittle Female parent, follows 8-twelvemonth-former Nelly (Josephine Sanz) on a melancholy trip with her parents to empty her tardily grandmother'due south cabin. While exploring the nearby woods, Nelly befriends a mysterious 8-year-old (Gabrielle Sanz). As the girls play together, their bail grows. Over fourth dimension, Nelly realizes her new playmate's true identity, and how they can support each other through challenging times. The Sanz sisters deliver fresh, naturalistic performances. At that place'due south no fluff, only an unusual exploration of the female parent-daughter bail — and this stunning premise: What would a child encounter if they met their parent as a youth? The answer is an emotional experience like no other.—Thelma M. Adams (T.M.A.)

Watch it: Petite Maman, in theaters

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, R

We're witnessing a Nicaissance, and the sublimely entertainingThe Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, which begs to be seen in a theater for communal laughs, seals it. Ebullient, star-driven and charmingly meta, the action comedy features Nicolas Cage, 58, the star of the 1987 rom-com Moonstruck and terminal year's vividGrunter, going balls out as a fading version of himself in the midst of an identity-and-cash crisis. The spendthrift takes a $1 million altogether-party gig with a shady financier (the delightfulGame of Thronesstar Pedro Pascal) on an island paradise, only to be pulled into a drug war, a CIA sting and an unlikely only satisfying bromance. Remaining relevant, a roaring Cage embraces his massive talent also as his enormous crazy, and soars.—T.1000.A.

Watch information technology: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, in theaters

The Northman, R

Think encarmine Hamlet: a Viking prince witnesses his uncle (Claes Bang, 54) murder his father the king (Ethan Hawke, 51) and abduct his female parent the queen (Nicole Kidman, 54). Our preteen hero flees, grows into a crusty-but-buff adult (Alexander Skarsgard, 45) and returns to seal his destiny: Save his mother, kill his uncle and avenge his father. On his quest, he beds a bewitching slave (Anya Taylor-Joy) — and sacrifices everything for revenge and a i-way ticket to Valhalla. The Shakespearean execution comes from horror wunderkind Robert Eggers (The Witch,The Lighthouse) — information technology's arty, intense and insular. While the Northmen genre is enjoying a vibrant revival, with the streaming success ofVikings,Vikings: Valhalla and The Final Kingdom, Eggers' miscast, moody, turn-of-the-10th-century activity take chances seems late to the Norse feast despite, or perhaps because of, its overserious intentions. —T.M.A.

Watch information technology: The Northman, in theaters and on demand

As They Made Usa, R

Jeopardy andBig Blindside Theory star and neuroscience professor Mayim Bialik's writer-director debut is a very fictionalized version of her own family's experience of her father's decline and death. Dustin Hoffman, 84, plays the dad, puckish and funny in flashbacks to middle historic period, touchingly vulnerable equally illness takes hold, even so insisting he's "fine." Candice Bergen, 75, is a destructive forcefulness of nature as his irascible wife, bickering inseparably with him, in deep denial most his status, heedlessly offending everyone in her path, and then defiantly maxim, "What?" It's a pic packed with home truths, sometimes wordless — like a scene of Hoffman and Bergen in a non-dish-dandy moment, a sweet, frail trip the light fantastic toe in the living room.—Tim Appelo (T.A.)

Watch it: Equally They Fabricated The states, in theaters and on demand

Nitram, NR

Justin Kurzel'due south agonizing drama digs nether the sweaty skin of Nitram (an engrossing Caleb Landry Jones) in a fictional excavation of what drove one Australian to commit the country'due south deadliest mass shooting, the Port Arthur massacre, in 1996. The motion picture portrays the shooter as a physically mature boyfriend of limited intelligence who loves lighting fireworks but has a loose grip on consequences. This is a case where everyone — his disquisitional mother (Judy Davis, 66, emotionally stripped bare), his father (an impressive Anthony LaPaglia, 63) and the kooky heiress upwards the street (Essie Davis, 52, ofThe Babadook) — knew something was very off but wasn't equipped to contain him. Ultimately,Nitram is almost Australian gild'southward failure to go along guns out of inappropriate hands. To me, the heartbreak lies in the lack of a mental wellness safety net to address the young man'due south repeated calls for help, and the devastating loss of innocent lives as a consequence.—T.M.A.

Watch it:Nitram, in theaters

Everything Everywhere All at One time​, R

Michelle Yeoh, 59, and Jamie Lee Curtis, 63, make beautiful movies together — and I hope to meet them joined in everything from Westerns to criminal offense thrillers. In this whacked-out, exuberant, multiple-timeline sci-fi actioner, Yeoh plays Evelyn Wang, a bedraggled Chinese immigrant living above the family unit laundromat with her married man, Waymond (Ke Huy Quan, 50). While sandwiched betwixt her cranky father, Gong Gong (James Hong, 93), and moody girl, Joy (Stephanie Hsu), she finds herself on the wrong side of IRS auditor Deirdre (Curtis in a crowd-pleasing, physically comic performance). In other words, she'due south doing the everywoman juggle, except that in an outrageous series of multiverses, Evelyn has to dig deep, detect her inner kung fu fighter, make peace with Joy (who ofttimes appears in outrageous costumes every bit her mother'southward multiverse adversary), Waymond and Gong Gong, and save the world. Spoiler alert: She succeeds — and global audiences volition emerge feeling similar winners, too.—T.Chiliad.A.

Picket information technology:Everything Everywhere All at Once, in theaters

The Outfit, R

Mark Rylance, who stoleDon't Look Upwardfrom Leo DiCaprio andBridge of Spies from Tom Hanks, plays a self-deprecating, London-trained tailor in 1956 Chicago who matches wits with his customers, impaired young gangsters who underestimate him (splendid Dylan O'Brien and Johnny Flynn) and one smart old gangster (Rylance's boyfriend British stage great Simon Russell Beale). They use his shop to stash stuff they don't want cops or rivals to find, and when one mafioso gets shot, the tailor stitches him upwards. The FBI has bugged the tailor shop (which actually happened in 1950s Chicago), the mob is hunting whoever ratted on them, and the tailor tries to protect his receptionist, who'due south like a daughter to him (Zoey Deutch, a ringer for her mother, Lea Thompson). Author/director Graham Moore, who wrote the Oscar-winningThe Imitation Game, crafts a tense thriller that's like a cantankerous betweenSleuth andReservoir Dogs — he keeps you guessing. You won't likely detect meliorate acting in any picture this year. —T.A.

Lookout information technology: The Outfit, in theaters

CODA, PG-thirteen

Yes, it's formulaic, with foreseeable TV-like beats, only at that place'southward a reason this winsome indie film broke all Sundance Festival sales records. The most feel-good Sundance hitting since Little Miss Sunshine, it's an irresistible coming-of-age tale of a CODA, a Child Of Deafened Adults (Emilia Jones). Ruby-red helps her irascible hearing-impaired folks (Marlee Matlin, 55, and The Mandalorian's Troy Kotsur) and brother (Daniel Durant) with the family unit fishing business in a salty Massachusetts town. She joins the schoolhouse choir — there's a beautiful boy — and proves to be a Glee-level vocaliser with a shot at Berklee College of Music. When Ruby sings "Both Sides At present," her parents can't hear it, but they can feel it, bridging the gaps of both generation and hearing. Unsurprisingly, Matlin'south acting is just as good when she'due south signing (with subtitles), not speaking. —T.A.

Watch it: CODA, on Apple Goggle box+

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The Lost Daughter, R​

Maggie Gyllenhaal makes a bold author-managing director debut unpacking Elena Ferrante's slim, scorching novel. Among 2021'due south all-time, the vibrant drama centers on Leda (a glorious Olivia Colman, 47), an academic pushing 50. She travels solo to a Greek island for summer dominicus and self-care but, curious, can't resist getting entangled in the traumas of glistening young mother Nina (Dakota Johnson). As Leda becomes obsessed with Nina, her clingy young daughter and the extended family swirling around them, the encounter triggers sharp, undigested personal memories — and reveals the past choice that, even now, defines Leda. Enter the brilliant Jessie Buckley in flashback every bit the younger Leda, raising daughters while pursuing an ambitious intellectual career, struggling with domesticity'south burdensome demands and seduced at an bookish conference by Professor Hardy (Gyllenhaal's husband, Peter Sarsgaard, 50). An original character study that spirals like a thriller, The Lost Daughter is an exhilarating, unsparing examination of modernistic motherhood — its joys and discontents.—T.M.A.

Scout it: The Lost Daughter, on Netflix

 Swan Vocal, R​

I can never get enough of double Oscar winner Mahershala Ali, 47 (Moonlight,The Green Book) — and here there are two of him: the original and his clone. In writer-director Benjamin Cleary'south existential sci-fi romance set in a near future of driverless cars and dramatic AI advances, Ali plays Cameron. The terminally ill male parent and husband confronts extinction and the end of his love before his time. His doc (Glenn Close, 74) recommends he have a radical new course: bid his love Poppy (Naomie Harris, 45) and son goodbye, transfer his memories to the clone, and enter an idyllic hospice for his final days while another flesh-and-claret being stuffed with Cameron's personal memories takes over. That's going to take some serious adjusting. Ali excels at delivering a man undergoing all v stages of grief until he achieves acceptance, and Harris connects as his married woman, but the overall narrative unfolds with all the forward drive of passive voice. —T.M.A.​

Watch it: Swan Vocal, on Apple TV+

King Richard, R​

In the existent story of tennis immortals Venus and Serena Williams, the kids (Saniyya Sidney and Demi Singleton) are all right. They striking all the notes of a sport biopic with a satisfying thwack. But the grownups steal the evidence. Will Smith (53) outdoes himself as their dad/double-decker Richard, who survived KKK thugs in youth, protects them from Compton thugs, vows they won't always accept to share a bedroom with 3 other extremely talented sisters in poverty and shamelessly promotes them to the rich, lily-white tennis establishment. Smith conveys the bizarre drive that fabricated his preposterous plan come true in a functioning equally impressive equally anything he'southward done, perhaps more than, and entirely new. Remarkably, Aunjanue Ellis (52) is even improve in the smaller function of Richard'southward wife, Oracene, who stands upwards to his atomic number 26 will and coaches simply too. A total experience-adept movie.—T.A.​

Watch information technology: King Richard, on HBO Max​

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The Harder They Fall, R​

Like a Tarantino romp only faster-paced, Jeymes Samuel's Black Western is a sort-of historical hoot and a holler. Information technology really is history-inspired: Blacks were a quarter of America's cowboys, and the film's stampede of stars play wildly fictionalized actual people: Bass Reeves (Delroy Lindo, 68), the West's first Black deputy U.S. marshal; outlaws Rufus Cadet (Idris Elba) and Nat Love (Jonathan Majors); and Stagecoach Mary (Zazie Beetz), the offset Black U.S. post carrier. Treacherous Trudy Smith (Regina King, l) is a gas merely not real. The shaggy-canis familiaris plot involves the Love gang's vendetta against Buck's, but information technology's just an alibi for tongue-in-cheek genre pastiche, high-noon showdowns and saloon shootouts, shot with flippant style and a killer soundtrack by everyone from Fela Kuti to Jay-Z (a coproducer). Information technology's overstuffed with terrific actors having a blast, and the fun's infectious.—T.A.​

Spotter it:The Harder They Fall, on Netflix

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Tim Appelo is AARP's picture and Goggle box critic. Previously, he was Amazon'southward entertainment editor, Entertainment Weekly'southwardvideo critic, and a writer for The Hollywood Reporter, People, MTV, LA Weeklyand The Village Vocalism.

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