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Clockwise from top: Send Help, Peter Hujar’s Day, Wonder Man, and Bridgerton.
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As enticing as the return of Bridgerton may be, you probably couldn’t help but notice real life rapidly encroaching this week. As a response to ICE agents terrorizing Minnesota, and America, many people (including plenty of celebrities) are calling for a nationwide shutdown and protests today. We won’t tell you what to do, but it may feel good to divert a bit of your Friday moviegoing money toward folks helping in Minnesota or your local mutual-aid funds. Wouldn’t it be nice if any of these pro-immigration funds got more money than that Melania doc?

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Rachel McAdams plays Linda Liddle, a Survivor enthusiast by night and a disgruntled and overlooked employee by day, in Sam Raimi’s new horror thriller, Send Help. Her insufferable boss (Dylan O’Brien) invites her on a trip to Bangkok, but as the plane crashes, the two are stranded on an isolated island — horrifically, and probably deliciously, switching up the social dynamics.

➽ Remember: In Raimi’s last movie, superheroes’ heads exploded.

At long last, the Bridgerton sibling who sleeps with everyone instead of doing his job and getting married gets his turn at true love. This is the Benedict season, and Luke Thompson’s performance is great. But newcomer Yerin Ha, as his love interest Sophie, is so good she nearly blows him out of the water. —Kathryn VanArendonk

When it comes to its television output, the MCU is still on shaky ground, so for its next TV series, it’s tackling … the movies. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II plays Simon Williams, a struggling actor hoping to book a role in the in-universe remake of Wonder Man. Ben Kingsley co-stars, reprising his MCU role as Trevor Slattery as he also goes for a part in Wonder Man.

Bill Lawrence and Jason Segel’s feel-bad, feel-good show is back for round three. In the latest season, still coping with the emotional fallout of his wife’s passing, Jimmy is now about to become an empty nester as his daughter readies her path to college. In Jimmy’s path? Maybe a new love interest, if he’s ready for that. —Eric Vilas-Boas

Once Shelter gets going, it delivers the goods. And by goods, I mean Jason Statham killing dudes up and down the U.K., mostly accomplished while wearing a cozy-looking fisherman sweater. Let Timothée Chalamet have December. I nominate Statham for King of January, when your New Year’s resolutions have already started slipping and you begin to tell yourself you can do better, and you will — next year. —Alison Willmore

I can’t pretend to understand what Amazon is going for when it comes to its original streaming movies, which are often starrier and pricier than what you’d expect for things the company then dumps unceremoniously on its service like so much direct-to-video filler. But I get how an executive looked at The Boys and Reacher and decided that The Wrecking Crew, an action comedy starring Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa as estranged half-brothers who cause an enormous amount of destruction trying to solve their father’s murder, was worth a try. The movie features a disorienting blend of throwback disreputability (the sibling ribbing runs along the lines of accusing one another of having sand in their vaginas) and considered local details (the film is set on Oahu, and the cast is primarily Polynesian and Asian). And while it almost certainly would have been better if it had been directed by David Leitch, as was originally the plan, and probably would also have headed to theaters, replacement Ángel Manuel Soto does at least try for more with his action set pieces. There’s a close-quarter mêlée set to an ironically inappropriate Air Supply track, there’s a hallway fight à la Oldboy, and there’s a shoot-out and car chase in which the characters are all in a minivan. You could do worse. ➽ Streaming on Amazon

Ugo Bienvenu directs a visually arresting science fantasy in which a boy from the far future time-travels to 2075 and fights for the planet with the help of new comrades, a young girl and a robot. Flying on the vibes of Hergé and Hayao Miyazaki, this film lit up Cannes last year and is finally touring the world now. —Eric Vilas-Boas

Prep for the Olympics with a docuseries about the challenging interpersonal dynamics that unfold when professional ice-dancing partners (gasp) fall in love. —K.V.A.

Kendrick Lamar leads the Grammy nominations for the very album he showcased nearly a year ago at the Super Bowl halftime show. That’s most likely why he’s not slated to perform at this year’s Grammys, but with nine nominations, he could very well be walking on that stage anyway. The confirmed list of performers includes Justin Bieber, in his first major turn since 2022, and all the Best New Artist nominees like Addison Rae and Olivia Dean. ➽ Stream live Sunday at 8 p.m. ET on Paramount+ Premium

A good thing about seeing Ira Sachs’s latest drama on streaming rather than in theaters is that you won’t ever be in a situation where you’d get laughed at when you ask the guy at the box office for “a ticket to Peter Hujar’s Day Off, please.” Not speaking from experience, just theorizing.

Streaming on The Criterion Channel

During the month of love, how about streaming this Gina Prince-Bythewood classic? Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps star as two childhood friends with dreams of becoming pro-basketball players. As the years go by their relationship grows, but their career dreams threaten to get in the way. The classic romcom dilemma: careers or love?

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