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NEW STREAMING MOVIES AND TV THIS WEEK
“Bruised”: Halle Berry goes one-for-two in the busy melodrama, which she stars in and directed. Her performance as cage fighter Jackie Justice gives the Oscar winner her meatiest and muscle-iest role since “Monster’s Ball,” taking full advantage of her wounded, soulful intensity.
As a director, though, she’s too in love with in-your-nose close-ups and she can’t corral multiple storylines, which include a romance, addiction issues, a child previously abandoned, mother-daughter fireworks and a “Rocky”-style comeback bid. R. Available on Netflix. 2 hours, 9 minutes.
“Nash Bridges”: Don Johnson is reviving a beloved TV character — just not the one you’d expect. The aging Lothario is no longer nimble enough to handle Sonny Crockett’s Miami beat. But he’s got more than enough charm to revive his kinder, gentler version of Dirty Harry who first quipped and shot his way to justice from 1996 to 2001 on CBS. Cheech Marin returns, as well, to provide added comic relief. In this movie, Bridges chases after a rich brat who bears more than a passing resemblance to Jeffrey Epstein. Despite some gruesome crimes, this is a lot of silly fun. TV-MA. 9 p.m. Saturday on USA. 2 hours. “F Is for Family”: Archie Bunker never had many pals, but we could see him bellying up to the bar with Frank Murphy (Bill Burr), a prototype 1970s hothead who uses more colorful epithets than “dingbat.” In this animated series’ fifth and final season, the character tries to make peace with his dead father and coax an Evel Knievel-like showman to save his airline. Some of the “B” stories get a little too outrageous, but everyone from any decade will be able to relate to Murphy’s hilarious temper tantrums. TV-MA. Available on Netflix.
‘ONE LAST TIME: AN EVENING WITH TONY BENNETT AND LADY GAGA
If you saw the recent profile of Tony Bennett on “60 Minutes,” you know the 95-year-old singer is struggling with Alzheimer’s disease. You also know that the symptoms seem to vanish when he gets onstage. Now you can enjoy more evidence of this musical miracle in a full presentation of the Radio City Music Hall concert he taped in August with Lady Gaga. The two buddies have wildly different approaches — Gaga thrusts her hips more times than Bennett blinks — but both clearly have a great appreciation for jazz and each other. 8 p.m. Sunday on CBS. “Becoming Cousteau”: The acclaimed documentary finally makes it to Disney+. The film takes an inside look at the life of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the underwater adventurer, explorer and author who became a devoted environmentalist. Directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Liz Garbus, “Becoming Costeau,” is, as the Associated Press’ Jake Coyle writes, “A defining documentary portrait of the French oceanographer — the real-life Steve Zissou — as a fish only truly content below the surface.” PG-13. Available on Disney+. 1 hour, 34 minutes
“Black and Missing”: The intense focus on Gabby Petito’s disappearance and death ultimately drew attention to the unequal treatment given to missing people of color as compared to Whites. It’s a fight that sisters-in-law Derrica and Natalie Wilson know well, as detailed in “Black and Missing,” a four-part documentary series about the Wilsons, who created the grassroots Black and Missing Foundation to raise community and media awareness and boost police resources. Emmy winners Soledad O’Brien and Geeta Gandbhir are among the docu-series’ makers. TV-MA. Available on HBO and HBO Max. “Pig”: Nicolas Cage playing a truffle forager who is on a mission to save his beloved truffle pig from violent assailants sounds a bit like a parody. So it may come as a surprise that not only is “Pig” real, and serious, it is also one of the year’s best-reviewed films. In the Los Angeles Times review of writer-director Michael Sarnoski’s debut, critic Noel Murray writes that, “though its plot follows the same rough outline of a ‘John Wick’-style shoot-em-up, ‘Pig’ is actually a quiet and often melancholy meditation on loss, anchored by a character who wishes he could shake free of the person he used to be.” R. Available on Hulu. 1 hour, 32 minutes.