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What to stream: ‘Power of the Dog’ on Netflix, ‘The Humans’ on Showtime, ‘Harlem’ on Amazon, and ‘Money Heist’ ends

Plus ‘Annie Live’ on Hulu and Peacock, animated ‘Wimpy Kid’ and ‘The Rescue’ on Disney+, ‘Burning’ on Amazon, and more Christmas programs.

What to stream: ‘Get Back’ and ‘Hawkeye’ on Disney+, ‘True Story’ on Netflix, ‘Pig’ on Hulu

Plus ‘Bruised’ with Halle Berry on Netflix, ‘Becoming Cousteau’ on Disney+, a South Park special on Paramount+, and of course a bunch of Christmas movies.

What to stream: ‘King Richard’ on HBO Max, ‘tick, tick… BOOM!’ on Netflix, ‘Wheel of Time’ on Prime Video

Plus ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ on Paramount+, ‘Sex Lives of College Girls’ on HBO Max, ‘Hellbound’ and ‘Tiger King2’ on Netflix, and a new season of ‘The Great’ on Hulu.

Jackie Chan goes west in ‘Shanghai Noon’ on Hulu

Owen Wilson and Lucy Lui costar in the western comedy by way of a martial arts odyssey.

Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr. in the David Fincher thriller

David Fincher’s ‘Zodiac’ on Netflix and Criterion Channel

Jake Gyllenhaal play the newspaper cartoonist who became obsessed with the notorious unsolved Zodiac killings in Fincher’s mesmerizing thriller.

Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling face ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love.’ on HBO Max

This film about love and family, written by Dan Fogelman years before he created ‘This Is Us,’ is a genuine romantic comedy for grown-ups.

What to stream: ‘Power of the Dog’ on Netflix, ‘The Humans’ on Showtime, ‘Harlem’ on Amazon, and ‘Money Heist’ ends

Plus ‘Annie Live’ on Hulu and Peacock, animated ‘Wimpy Kid’ and ‘The Rescue’ on Disney+, ‘Burning’ on Amazon, and more Christmas programs.

Jeff Bridges has a ‘Crazy Heart’ on Hulu and Paramount+

Bridges won an Oscar playing a country music figure on the downhill slide of a career in the drama from filmmaker Scott Cooper.

‘O’ – high school Othello on Paramount+

Mekhi Phifer, Julia Stiles, and Josh Hartnett star in Tim Blake Nelson’s reimagining of Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ in an elite private high school.

‘Bordertown: Complete Series’ – Nordic noir on Netflix

Ville Virtanen creates one of the most interesting TV detectives of all time in this murder mystery series from Finland.

‘Elementary: Complete Series’ – Holmes and Watson in 21st century New York on Hulu

Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Lui take Holmes and Watson to 21st century New York City in this TV mystery take on the world’s greatest detective.

Ian Tracey and Klea Scott star in the Canadian TV series created by Chis Haddock

‘Intelligence: Complete Series’ on Prime Video

The Canadian domestic espionage drama is smarter and more sophisticated crime drama than the American counterparts of its era, cleverer in its tangle of narratives and less showy in its visual style.

Ivor Novello in Alfred Hitchcock's 1926 silent movie thriller.

‘The Lodger’ – Alfred Hitchcock begins on HBO Max and Criterion Channel

This silent movie classic is the birth of the young Hitchcock as a master of suspense.

Clint Eastwood stars in Sergio Leone's 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'

‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ on Peacock

Clint Eastwood stars in Sergio Leone’s classic Civil War epic, arguably the definitive spaghetti western.

Gary Cooper is ‘The Pride of the Yankees’ on Amazon Prime Video

Cooper, that great Oak of an American actor, plays baseball legend Lou Gehrig in one of the most finely crafted films to emerge from Hollywood.

Clint Eastwood stars in the iconic spaghetti western by Sergio Leone

‘A Fistful of Dollars’ on Peacock

Clint Eastwood stars in Sergio Leone’s uncredited remake of Kurosawa’s ‘Yojimbo,’ which launched the spaghetti western into an international phenomenon.

‘Terror in a Texas Town’ on Amazon Prime

Sterling Hayden is a Swedish whaler on the American frontier in the final film from Joseph H. Lewis and one of the oddest westerns made during the classic Hollywood era.

‘The Blue Gardenia’ on Amazon Prime

Anne Baxter is young woman who becomes the suspect in a lurid murder case in Fritz Lang’s 1953 film noir.

‘Spy Kids 3: Game Over’ on Netflix

The third film in the junior James Bond series takes a turn into private eye fantasy and then a dazzling (and often absurdly silly) trip into a virtual reality video game.

Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson in the third "Harry Potter" feature

‘Harry Potter’ – the complete saga on HBO Max and Peacock

Watch Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson grow up through the eight films that bring the beloved books chronicling the epic odyssey of boy wizard Harry and his friends to the screen.

‘Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams’ on Netflix

The second film in Robert Rodriguez’s junior James Bond fantasies takes them to a sweet mad scientist creating preposterous dream-creatures hatched with a childlike love of puns.

Andy Lau in 'Saving Mr. Wu' from Hong Kong

‘Saving Mr. Wu’ – Hong Kong hostage thriller on Prime Video

Hong Kong movie star and pop singer Andy Lau stars in this Chinese crime thriller inspired by the real-life kidnapping of a movie star.

Simon Yam stars in the South Korean heist thriller

‘The Thieves’ – Korean high tech heist on Amazon Prime Video and free on Hoopla

South Korea’s answer to the ‘Ocean’s’ films is a sleek, snappy heist movie with plenty of working parts, eccentric personalities, and thrillingly staged and executed action scenes.

‘Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster’ on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video

Donny Yen returns as the real-life Chinese martial arts teacher and godfather of Wing Chun in the action-packed sequel set in Hong Kong after the war.

‘Saving Mr. Wu’ – Hong Kong hostage thriller on Prime Video

Hong Kong movie star and pop singer Andy Lau stars in this Chinese crime thriller inspired by the real-life kidnapping of a movie star.

‘The Thieves’ – Korean high tech heist on Amazon Prime Video and free on Hoopla

South Korea’s answer to the ‘Ocean’s’ films is a sleek, snappy heist movie with plenty of working parts, eccentric personalities, and thrillingly staged and executed action scenes.

Gary Cooper is ‘The Pride of the Yankees’ on Amazon Prime Video

Cooper, that great Oak of an American actor, plays baseball legend Lou Gehrig in one of the most finely crafted films to emerge from Hollywood.

‘Bordertown: Complete Series’ – Nordic noir on Netflix

Ville Virtanen creates one of the most interesting TV detectives of all time in this murder mystery series from Finland.

‘Intelligence: Complete Series’ on Prime Video

The Canadian domestic espionage drama is smarter and more sophisticated crime drama than the American counterparts of its era, cleverer in its tangle of narratives and less showy in its visual style.

Helen Mirren is Jane Tennison in 'Prime Suspect'

The Complete ‘Prime Suspect’ with Helen Mirren on Hulu and BritBox

Helen Mirren got the role of a lifetime playing DCI Jane Tennison, a tough, tenacious, at times brittle woman in a brutally chauvinist British police culture in a series of smart mysteries.

What to stream: ‘Power of the Dog’ on Netflix, ‘The Humans’ on Showtime, ‘Harlem’ on Amazon, and ‘Money Heist’ ends

Plus ‘Annie Live’ on Hulu and Peacock, animated ‘Wimpy Kid’ and ‘The Rescue’ on Disney+, ‘Burning’ on Amazon, and more Christmas programs.

Keri Russell and Nathan Fillion in 'Waitress,' the sweet, sour and sexy film by actress-turned-filmmaker Adrienne Shelly.

‘Waitress’ with Keri Russell on Hulu

Before it was a Broadway musical, ‘Waitress’ was a sweet romantic drama from filmmaker Adrienne Shelly, costarring Nathan Fillion.

Rosanna Arquette and Madonna in Susan Seidelman's 'Desperately Seeking Susan'

‘Desperately Seeking Susan’ on HBO Max and HBO Now

Madonna made a memorable big screen debut with this colorful and playful American indie set in the bohemian culture of 1980s New York CIty.

‘O’ – high school Othello on Paramount+

Mekhi Phifer, Julia Stiles, and Josh Hartnett star in Tim Blake Nelson’s reimagining of Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ in an elite private high school.

‘Moonrise’ – dreamy rural noir free on Kanopy

Frank Borzage’s beautiful 1948 drama is a small town melodrama starring Dane Clark as an angry young man haunted by events he can’t even remember.

‘Try and Get Me!’ – lynch mob noir on Criterion Channel

Frank Lovejoy and Lloyd Bridges star in Cy Enfield’s incendiary film noir, which turns into one of the most caustic cinematic social commentaries of anxiety and fear.

The Complete ‘Prime Suspect’ with Helen Mirren on Hulu and BritBox

Helen Mirren got the role of a lifetime playing DCI Jane Tennison, a tough, tenacious, at times brittle woman in a brutally chauvinist British police culture in a series of smart mysteries.

The original British ‘House of Cards Trilogy’ on Amazon Prime, BritBox, and Hoopla

Ian Richardson stars in the original BBC miniseries about the most seductively ruthless politician you’ve ever had the pleasure to watch claw his way to the top (over the corpses of his rivals).

Damian Lewis and Mark Rylance as Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell in the BBC miniseries 'Wolf Hall'

‘Wolf Hall’ – power and privilege on Amazon Prime

The BBC historical miniseries Wolf Hall (2015) stars Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell (not to be confused with Oliver Cromwell), advisor and legal counsel to Cardinal Wolsey and King Henry VIII. Rylance is a theatrical legend in Britain but not so well known in the U.S., although that’s changing thanks to his sublime performance in […]