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MOVIE THE GOLDFINCH (2019) 15 ◆ ★★★ Donna Tartt’s novel about a life transformed by a bombing is a hard one to film, and this effort may feel off the mark to purists. But it looks nice. From Monday.

NEW! THE ULTIMATUM: MARRY OR MOVE ON

(Season 1) ★★★ Uncomfortably compelling reality series from the creators of Love Is Blind, in which couples change partners to break a deadlock over marriage. From Wednesday.

NEW! JIMMY SAVILE: A BRITISH HORROR STORY

★★★★ (Both parts) When you look at the footage of Savile in this documentary, it’s hard to fathom how we didn’t all know what was going on at the time. It is, as the title suggests, a horrific story. From Wednesday.

NEW! RETURN TO SPACE

★★★ Lofty documentary about Elon Musk’s drive to launch Nasa astronauts from US soil, on his ships. From Thursday.

MOVIE METAL LORDS

(2022) 15 ◆ ★★★ School nerds turn rockers in a likeable comedy written by Game Of Thrones co-creator D.B. Weiss. From Friday.

PRIME VIDEO MOVIE SPEED (1994) 15

◆ ★★★★ Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock make a great pairing in a lean action film that bears repeat viewing – and, if by some chance you’ve never seen it before, then you’re in for a real treat. From today.

LAST CHANCE THE 100 (Seasons 1-5) ★★★ The remains of humanity live on a space station in this US dystopian drama, in which 100 children are sent to the surface of the irradiated Earth below to see if it is safe for the rest. Twists follow. Until Friday.

DRAMA LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE

(All eight parts) ★★★★ Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington star in this moreish adaptation of Celeste Ng’s novel about secrets and motherhood in 1990s suburbia.

MOVIE ALL THE OLD KNIVES

(2022) 15 ◆ ★★★ Chris Pine (left) and Thandiwe Newton are the charismatic stars of this thriller. Their characters have a lot in common – they’re both EX-CIA, both exlovers, and both extremely good-looking, but it seems only one will survive their reunion here, in which the two reminisce about old times in Vienna over dinner.

The movie will be also be released in some cinemas on the same day. From Friday.

DISNEY+

NEW! SINGLE DRUNK FEMALE (Season 1) ★★★★ The path to sobriety is a spiky one in this authentically sharp US comedy, in which the relationship between recovering drunk Sam and her tricky mum – played with real edge by 1980s icon

Ally Sheedy – is a particularly dark joy. From Wednesday.

NCIS

Episodes 1-3) ★★★ New seasons of this reliable US drama now arrive on Disney+ first, and the 19th opens with a big change – the exit of Mark Harmon’s Gibbs. Weekly, on Wednesdays.

NEW! (Season 19, SKY / NOW DRAMA

THE AFFAIR (All five seasons) ★★★★ Powerfully performed, multipleperspective drama, starring Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, Maura Tierney and Joshua Jackson as four points of an affair. The last season goes a little bonkers, but generally, the story and characters evolve well.

BARRY (Seasons 1-2) ★★★★ In this grounded HBO comedy, hit man Barry stumbles into an acting class, and decides he wants to go from killing people in real life to creating characters on stage. Other actors have second jobs, after all.

COMEDY BEST OF THE REST NEW! HARRY WILD (Acorn TV)

★★★ Jane Seymour looks like she’s having a ball in this Irish detective show, playing a hardswearing, hard-smoking and recently retired literature professor (Harriet Wild, left) with a knack for cracking cases. Weekly, from Monday.

NEW! SERVING THE HAMPTONS (discovery+) ★★★ There’s an upstairs, downstairs element to this new reality series, filmed in a restaurant that serves rich customers in the well-to-do American enclave. Weekly, from Thursday.

PAY MOVIES

SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME (2021) 12 ◆ (BT TV Store, Sky Store, Virgin) ★★★★ There are surprises galore in Tom Holland’s trilogy-ending outing as the wall-crawler, if you avoided the spoilers. It’s a lot of fun either way, though, and the banter between Spidey and his new father figure, Doctor Strange, is hilarious. From Monday.

THE KING’S MAN (2021) 15 ◆ (BT TV Store, Sky Store, Virgin) ★★★ Fun if crass prequel to Kingsman, set at the outbreak of the First World War and starring Ralph Fiennes. From Thursday, already on Disney+.