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Clockwise from top: Marty, Life Is Short; Rivals; Obsession; and Is God Is.
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Lady Gaga, crushes, Tom Cruise, and movie theaters — the through-line for this week is obsession. Some instances of the passionate emotion veer into more bloody endeavors with thrillers like Obsession and Lurker. Meanwhile, I’m just healthily obsessed with Lady Gaga’s new rendition of “Die With a Smile” in Mayhem Requiem. Pick your new preoccupation this weekend.

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Director Lawrence Kasdan and comedian Martin Short reunite to track back through the latter’s life and career. The documentary features home-video footage and interviews from his frequent collaborators like Eugene Levy, Steven Spielberg, and the late Catherine O’Hara.

This is an incredible show to watch as preparation for the moments your friends come to you to talk about their on-and-off situationships. Dr. Orna Guralnik shows in a matter of minutes why these real-life couples choose to come onto the show and flesh out their problems to the widest audience possible. In its fifth season, Couples Therapy still manages to be utterly fascinating, even through some of its sadder crops of couples.

The directorial debut of Aleshea Harris, Is God Is is an odyssey between two sisters (Kara Young and Mallori Johnson) looking for revenge on their father (Sterling K. Brown) on behalf of their mother/God (Vivica A. Fox). Janelle Monáe, Mykelti Williamson, and Erika Alexander co-star.

Finally, a horror movie about having a crush. Obsession follows a young guy, Bear (Michael Johnston), who, instead of just telling his crush Nikki (Inde Navarrette) he likes her, uses a “One Wish Willow” toy to wish for her love. The initial euphoria quickly devolves into Nikki becoming increasingly violent and erratic.

This show, based on the 1988 novel by Jilly Cooper, focuses on the drama at a TV station in England’s Cotswolds region. David Tennant’s Lord Baddingham and Alex Hassell’s Rupert Campbell-Black hate each other, and Aidan Turner’s journalist Declan O’Hara ends up in the middle. The trio’s scrap is set in a milieu of big ’80s hair, relentless infidelity, dramatic horse races, and anything else you could want from a British melodrama. —Roxana Hadadi 

Lady Gaga’s Mayhem era is coming to an end, and what a way to go out. Available on demand to Apple Music subscribers, Lady Gaga’s intimate performance at the Wiltern in Los Angeles features a performance of her entire last album complete with rearrangements and interludes.

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Twenty-five years ago, DreamWorks Animation launched its debut animated feature, Shrek, which went on to win the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The fantasy comedy twisted the types of fairy tales that Disney was known for with cruder and sillier humor and centered a grumpy ogre journeying to save a princess. DreamWorks is set to release its fourth sequel, starring Zendaya, sometime next year. While you wait, the OG is back on the big screen.

➽ Plus, there’s double the Tom Cruise this weekend, as both Top Gun films fly back into theaters.

Jon Bernthal is back as a veteran turned vigilante haunted by those he’s lost and killed. This special again explores the trauma Frank Castle carries from his Marines stint and again includes lots of manly screaming. Will the people who misinterpret this character finally realize he was originally supposed to be an indictment of copaganda? —R.H.

If, in the far future, you could fight back against a tyrannical regime using a giant robot, wouldn’t you do it? The latest film in the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise is part spy thriller, part mecha-action smorgasbord. It totally rips, but make sure you’ve seen the first film, Hathaway (it’s on Netflix) before you dive into Nymph Circe. —Eric Vilas-Boas

A thriller about the thin line between admiration and obsession, Théodore Pellerin stars as a retail worker named Matthew who crosses paths with a young artist, Oliver (Archie Madekwe). The two bond, and Matthew gets increasingly attached to Oliver’s world.

➽ On VOD this week: the “Ryan Gosling and a sentient rock” space drama Project Hail Mary and Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers.

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