Pick of the weekTrain Dreams<\/p>\n
Clint Bentley\u2019s film of Denis Johnson\u2019s novella is an epic, grief-infused American tale. Joel Edgerton plays railway worker and logger Robert, a quiet, solitary figure in his rural Idaho home town in the early 20th century. Then he marries Gladys (Felicity Jones), they build their own house and have a child, giving him a taste of simple bliss. But it doesn\u2019t last \u2026 The spirit of Terrence Malick is present here in the\u00a0elegaic voiceover narration, episodic plot and heart-stirring images of the natural world. Edgerton is perfectly cast as an everyman who bears\u00a0witness to his country\u2019s progress from the sidelines, not expecting much joy from life but haunted after he loses what little he does get.
Friday 21 November, Netflix<\/p>\n
Star Wars: Episode IX \u2013 The Rise of SkywalkerCosmic Rey \u2026 Daisy Ridley in Star Wars: Episode IX \u2013 The Rise of Skywalker. Photograph: Lucasfilm Ltd\/AP<\/p>\n
Carrie Fisher\u2019s untimely death before shooting means that the final instalment in JJ Abrams\u2019s trilogy loses the Leia-guided focus that would have neatly tied off the series (following episodes seven and eight\u2019s reliance on Han and Luke). So the love-hate relationship between new Jedi Rey (Daisy Ridley) and bad boy Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) has to do the heavy lifting amid all the planet-hopping quests and CGI wonders. And it\u2019s best not to wonder how ex-emperor Palpatine could be back \u2013 just enjoy another gleefully evil cameo from Ian McDiarmid.
Saturday 15 November, 4pm, ITV1<\/p>\n
The UntouchablesIncorruptible \u2026 Kevin Costner in The Untouchables. Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive<\/p>\n
Script by David Mamet. Score by Ennio Morricone. Wardrobe by Giorgio Armani. If you can forgive Sean Connery\u2019s Irish accent (by way of Edinburgh), this 1987 period crime drama is a classy joint. Brian De Palma\u2019s vaguely true story of how prohibition-era mafia boss Al Capone \u2013 a magnetically chilling Robert De Niro \u2013 was brought to book features Kevin Costner as treasury agent Eliot Ness. He assembles a ragtag bunch of honest officers, including Connery\u2019s wise old beat cop, to take down Chicago\u2019s premier wrong\u2019un, while assailed by corrupt forces.
Sunday 16 November, 10pm, BBC Two<\/p>\n
\u201971Troubles \u2026 Jack O\u2019Connell in \u201971. Photograph: Dean Rogers\/AP<\/p>\n
With 2013\u2019s prison drama Starred Up and this thriller a year later, Jack O\u2019Connell fully realised the star potential he\u2019d suggested in the likes of Skins. He plays Gary, a British soldier deployed to Belfast in 1971 who, after a house raid goes wrong, finds himself alone and on the run from IRA gunmen in a city he doesn\u2019t know \u2013 in a political situation he can barely fathom. Despite it being a tense, tight tale set over a day and a night, Yann Demange\u2019s film fits in a surprising amount of nuance, as a desperate Gary encounters folk from across the spectrum of the Troubles.
Sunday 16 November, 1.15am, Channel 4<\/p>\n
skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Get the best TV reviews, news and features in your inbox every Monday<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com<\/a> to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n A Thousand and OneOn the run \u2026 Teyana Taylor in A Thousand and One. Photograph: Everett Collection Inc\/Alamy<\/p>\n She blew away all opposition with her cameo in Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s recent opus, One Battle After Another. But there\u2019s more to Teyana Taylor than scene-stealing. In AV Rockwell\u2019s tough but tender New York drama, she holds the screen throughout as the angry, disaffected Inez, just out of prison and keen to take back her son Terry. But that means abducting him from care and setting up a falsified new life. An piercing tale of shifting emotions, responsibilities and love. AmadeusHitting the right note \u2026 Tom Hulce as Mozart in Amadeus. Photograph: Landmark Media\/Alamy<\/p>\n The upcoming Sky TV adaptation of Peter Shaffer\u2019s play has its work cut out to make the splash that Milos Forman\u2019s 1984 film did \u2013 eight Oscars being the benchmark. This period drama about the rivalry between Vienna court composer Antonio Salieri (a pitch-perfect F Murray Abraham) and newly arrived musical prodigy \u201cWolfie\u201d Mozart (Tom Hulce, forever vivace) is a joy \u2013 dramatically, visually and musically. It also reveals with great wit that genius isn\u2019t synonymous with good character, and that history isn\u2019t always written by the winners. The Unholy TrinityWho shot the sheriff \u2026 Samuel L Jackson (left) and Pierce Brosnan in The Unholy Trinity. Photograph: Everett Collection Inc\/Alamy<\/p>\n After his father\u2019s hanging, the callow, vengeful Henry (Brandon Lessard) turns up at the Montana settlement of Trinity in 1888 to shoot the sheriff. However, his target is already dead and Henry finds himself stuck in a town full of secrets, most involving the new lawman, Pierce Brosnan\u2019s Gabriel. Samuel L Jackson has a ball as St Christopher, an old cohort of Henry\u2019s pa, plus there\u2019s the odd posse and some hidden gold. The uncertain designation of heroes and villains is one of the pleasures of Richard Gray\u2019s solid western, with everyone having their reasons.
Monday 17 November, 11pm, BBC Two<\/p>\n
Thursday 20 November, 11.50pm, Sky Cinema Greats<\/p>\n
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