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The seven best films to watch on TV this week

All the must-see movies you need in one place

  • Auli’i Cravalho in Moana 2.

    Moana 2 to The French Dispatch: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    The return of the beloved Polynesian teen is a family movie to savour, and Wes Anderson lines up Hollywood A-listers for the most Wes Anderson-y movie yet
  • No Other Land.

    No Other Land to The Outrun: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    An enraging and Oscar-nominated documentary about a tragedy in the West Bank, and Saoirse Ronan steps into Amy Liptrot’s shoes in the heart-wrenching adaptation of her hit addiction memoir
  • THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN, from left: Brendan Gleeson, Colin Farrell, 2022. ph: Jonathan Hession / © Searchlight Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection<br>2K53RB6 THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN, from left: Brendan Gleeson, Colin Farrell, 2022. ph: Jonathan Hession / © Searchlight Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection

    The Banshees of Inisherin to Thelma: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    A great cast helps Martin McDonagh’s bitter tale to sparkle with sensitivity and grim humour, while Thelma delivers an engaging comic adventure featuring no-nonsense seniors
  • Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller in The Gorge.

    The Gorge to Compartment No 6: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller have great chemistry as sexy snipers on a top-secret mountain mission, plus a first class romance set on board a train
  • Bel Bowley in Turn Me On.

    Turn Me On to Elevation: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    A strange, tender romance starring Bel Powley, and Anthony Mackie fights the ‘giant murder bugs’ who won’t go above 8,000ft in a satisfying end-times thriller
  • Richard Farnsworth in The Straight Story.

    The Straight Story to You’re Cordially Invited: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    David Lynch’s classic about a man who rides his lawnmower across America. Plus: Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell’s slapstick comedy about weddings … and alligator wrestling is a nostalgic treat
  • Anya Taylor-Joy in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.

    Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga to Star Trek: Section 31 – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    More thrilling petrolhead action in the Mad Max prequel starring Anya Taylor-Joy, plus Michelle Yeoh’s space spin-off is deliciously arch
  • Amy Adams in Nightbitch.

    Nightbitch to Back in Action: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    The ever excellent Amy Adams excels as a bored mum turning into a dog, while Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx head up a caper about two married ex-CIA operatives dragged back into the spy game
  • The takedown … Anthony Robles as Jharrel Jerome in Unstoppable.

    Unstoppable to Alien: Romulus – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Jharrel Jerome and Jennifer Lopez shine in a triumphant biopic of the US wrestler Anthony Robles, plus a youthful new twist on the classic sci-fi saga
  • blur To The End first look

    Blur: To the End to The Fall Guy – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    A glorious and intimate look at the run-up to the Britpop band’s big Wembley reunion, plus Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt flex their comedic muscles in a fun stuntman flick
  • Paul McCartney and Wings: One Hand Clapping.

    Paul McCartney and Wings: One Hand Clapping to ISS – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Macca is on superfun form in this rocking new documentary, plus a totally tense movie about nuclear war breaking out – happy holidays!
  • That Christmas

    That Christmas to Beatles ’64: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Richard Curtis gets the festive season off to a cracking start with a bubbly animation, plus Martin Scorsese’s fly-on-the-wall epic about the Fab Four on tour
  • Princess Ellian voiced by Rachel Zegler.

    Spellbound to Monkey Man: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem have enormous fun as parents turned into cute monsters in a stunning animation, while Dev Patel’s directorial debut is an ultraviolent avenger epic
  • James Norton, Bill Nighy and Thomasin McKenzie in Joy

    Joy to Blitz: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Bill Nighy, Thomasin McKenzie and James Norton star in an absorbing drama about the world’s first ‘test tube baby’, plus: Steve McQueen’s second world war epic about an evacuee who stays behind in London
  • Emilia Pérez.

    Emilia Pérez to Dune: Part Two – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    An audacious musical drama about a mob boss’s secret new life as a woman, and Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya’s spectacular fantasy saga
  • The Holdovers.

    The Holdovers to Airplane! The seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Alexander Payne’s melancholy masterpiece is witty and bittersweet, and Leslie Nielsen’s 80s spoof classic is brilliantly ridiculous
  • Lee<br>Kate Winslet in Lee / film still The film explores the most significant decade of Lee Miller’s life. As a middle-aged woman, she refused to be remembered as a model and male artists’ muse. Lee Miller defied the expectations and rules of the time by traveling to Europe to report from the frontline during WWII. There, in part as a reaction to her own well-hidden trauma, she used her Rolleiflex camera to give a voice to the voiceless. What she captured on film in Dachau and throughout Europe was shocking and horrific. Her photographs of the war, its victims and its consequences remain among the most significant and historically important of the Second World War. She changed war photography forever, but Lee Miller paid an enormous personal price for what she witnessed and the stories she fought to tell.

    Lee to Music By John Williams: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    The fierce Lee Miller is the role Kate Winslet was born to play, plus Steven Spielberg and more line up to wax lyrical about the most legendary composer in the history of cinema. What a bringer of joy
  • Extraordinary … Kirat Assi in Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare.

    Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare to The Beasts – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    The astonishing account of a decade-long deception, and an intensely moving rural drama. Plus: Bruce Springsteen on tour and a very surprising cameo from Jeremy Allen White
  • Deadly serious  … Tony Hale as Ed and Anna Kendrick as Sheryl in Woman of the Hour.

    Woman of the Hour to The Radleys: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Anna Kendrick directs and stars in the chilling true-life tale of a woman who goes on a dating show with a bachelor who is also a serial killer. Plus: Damian Lewis’s very bloody vampire horror
  • The Boy and the Heron.

    The Boy and the Heron to A Killer’s Memory: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    A mind-bending masterpiece from Studio Ghibli, and Michael Keaton at his all-time best. Plus: a beautiful documentary that will surely win Oscars
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