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The seven best films to watch on TV this week

All the must-see movies you need in one place

  • Manoj Bajpayee in Joram.

    Joram to Source Code: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    A captivating thriller about a man on the run with a baby, and Jake Gyllenhaal has to stop a train from blowing up in a glorious time-loop whodunnit
  • Kinds of Kindness.

    Kinds of Kindness to RoboCop: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Yorgos Lanthimos’s anthology comedy is as wonderfully weird as you’d hope, and Peter Weller’s shiny sheriff dishes out justice in dystopian Detroit
  • Mads Mikkelsen in The Promised Land.

    The Promised Land to Madame Web: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Madds Mikkelsen is a soldier on a mission in a bruising, brilliant thriller, and the Marvel misfire about spider-women is … better than you might expect?
  • Awkwafina and John Cena in Jackpot!.

    Jackpot! to Men: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    A fun new action comedy starring Awkwafina and John Cena, and Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear are creepily effective in Alex Garland’s astonishing horror
  • Daughters

    Daughters to Three Thousand Years of Longing: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    A documentary about a radical approach to rehabilitation is inspirational and heartbreaking in equal measure, while Idris Elba plays a genie as Mad Max director George Miller lets his imagination run riot
  • Noa played by Owen Teague in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

    Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes to Mission: Impossible – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    The gripping prequel to the original movie plunges into political tribalism, while Tom Cruise’s 1996 blockbuster bristles with meticulously formulated action
  • Jessie Buckley and Olivia Colman in Wicked Little Letters.

    Wicked Little Letters to The Shining: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley indulge in some sensational swearing in a hugely enjoyable comedy, while Stanley Kubrick’s iconoclastic horror still packs a punch
  • Falling for an avatar … Ryan Reynolds and Jodie Comer in Free Guy.

    Free Guy to Young Woman and the Sea: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Ryan Reynolds’s charm carries a super-fun video-game comedy, and Daisy Ridley is steely and inspirational as Trudy Ederle – the first woman to swim the Channel
  • Petrifying … Skywalkers: A Love Story.

    Skywalkers: A Love Story to Mean Girls – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    An extraordinarily edgy documentary follows a ‘roof-topper’ couple on their ‘extremely dangerous and illegal’ climbs. Plus: the Plastics are back thanks to Tina Fey
  • A total revelation … Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson and Zac Efron in The Iron Claw.

    The Iron Claw to Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Jeremy Allen White and Zac Efron are terrific in a bone-breaking wrestling biopic, and Eddie Murphy resurrects the wisecracking Axel Foley!
  • Demi Moore and Andrew McCarthy in Brats.

    Brats to Anyone But You: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    The Brat Pack – from Emilio Estevez to Demi Moore and more – have a nostalgic reunion in a documentary packed with Hollywood war stories, plus Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell will sweep you off your feet with their breezy romcom
  • Isabel Deroy-Olsen and Lily Gladstone in Fancy Dance.

    Fancy Dance to Black Barbie: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Lily Gladstone stars in a poignant and arresting road movie, plus Shondaland’s fascinating look at Mattel’s first Black doll
  • Jodie Comer in The End We Start From.

    The End We Start From to Federer: Twelve Final Days – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Jodie Comer stars as a refugee in dystopian Britain in a stirring drama full of peril, plus a farewell to the tennis great that will make you weep
  • Glenda Jackson and Michael Caine in The Great Escaper.

    The Great Escaper to Poolman: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Glenda Jackson’s swansong – and probably Michael Caine’s – is an impossibly moving drama about the D-day’s 70th-anniversary bash in Normandy. Plus, Chris Pine’s jolly, silly mashup of The Big Lebowski and Chinatown
  • Adria Arjona and Glen Powell in Hit Man.

    Hit Man to Bones and All: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Richard Linklater’s romantic comedy sizzles with chemistry between Adria Arjona and Glen Powell, while Luca Guadagnino explores the cannibalistic impulses in the gripping horror with Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell
  • Jennifer Lopez in Atlas.

    Atlas to Close: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    It’s Jennifer Lopez vs a smart robot that has decided to wipe out humanity! Plus a heartbreaking tale of childhood friendship with tragic consequences
  • Jessica Alexander in A Banquet.

    A Banquet to Inception: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Ruth Paxton’s psychological horror is a gut-wrencher, and Leonardo DiCaprio invades your dreams in the Christopher Nolan gobsmacker. You’ve not lived until you’ve seen a Paris arrondissement fold in on itself …
  • The Blackening.

    The Blackening to Mean Girls: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    A funny and knowing Juneteenth-set slasher about a sinister board game, plus Tina Fey’s hilarious Plastics are still teen movie royalty
  • Frosty! … Hugh Grant as Tony the Tiger in Unfrosted.

    Unfrosted to Old: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Jerry Seinfeld’s origin story of Pop-Tarts is a riotous comedy full of starry cameos, and M Night Shyamalan’s thriller about a secret beach has all the twists you would expect from the maker of The Sixth Sense
  • Charlbi Dean Kriek and Harris Dickinson in Triangle of Sadness.

    Triangle of Sadness to The Idea of You: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    The Palme d’Or winner takes aim at the fashion world as models have a disastrous time on a luxury yacht, while Anne Hathaway falls for a boyband star in a swoony, steamy romance
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