{"id":256663,"date":"2025-09-26T17:54:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T17:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/256663\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T17:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T17:54:13","slug":"best-movies-and-tv-sept-26-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/256663\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Movies and TV (Sept. 26-28)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Clockwise from top: Another Battle After Another, The Lowdown, Alien: Earth, and House of Guinness.
\n Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Warner Bros. Pictures, Ben Blackall\/Netflix, Shane Brown\/FX, Patrick Brown\/FX\n <\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to start reaping the rewards of our Movie Fantasy League<\/a>! If you picked One Battle After Another, expect to get some early points \u2014 though, hey, maybe The Strangers: Chapter 2 will surprise the handful of you who drafted it. Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s splashy action-thriller feels like the talk of the film world. It helps that it\u2019s actually quite good<\/a>, but for those of you trying to stay in, there\u2019s the finale of Alien: Earth, House of Guinness (think Irish Succession), a new Sterlin Harjo series(!), and the release of one S-word<\/a> Apple TV+ show this week. (Hint: It\u2019s not Savant<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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With a $140 million price tag, One Battle After Another is one of Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s more ambitious swings. Based on Thomas Pynchon\u2019s novel Vineland, this thriller stars Leonardo DiCaprio<\/a> as the paranoid Bob Ferguson, a former member of the revolutionary group French 75, who lives off the grid with his daughter, Willa (Chase Infiniti). After Willa goes missing, Bob is drawn back into the fray. Teyana Taylor, Benicio del Toro, Sean Penn, and Regina Hall also star.<\/p>\n

\u27bd\u00a0See where it lands on our rankings of every PTA movie<\/a> and every Leo performance<\/a> by reading one list after another.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Steven Knight is back playing in the field he likes best: portraits of U.K. history that allow for violence, scheming, and general ne\u2019er-do-well-ness. This show follows the Succession-style family infighting that occurs after Sir Benjamin Guinness\u2019s death. Which of his four adult children will pick up his yeasty mantle? \u2014Roxana Hadadi\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cImagine plucking one of Richard Linklater\u2019s Slacker oddballs and dropping them into a Raymond Chandler novel: familiar yet skewed, in a noir world refracted through Sterlin Harjo\u2019s sly humor and lived-in specificity.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

(Now streaming on Hulu<\/a>; read more of Quah\u2019s review here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

An Apple TV+ show that didn\u2019t get pulled from release this week is the streamer\u2019s ol\u2019 reliable spy series, Slow Horses. Gary Oldman stars as the curmudgeonly Jackson Lamb, who leads MI5, a unit full of low-level spies that includes Jack Lowden\u2019s River Cartwright.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The Strangers is utterly terrifying, but it\u2019s funny to see them attempt a rebooted trilogy when the premise is just \u201cpeople in masks invade houses.\u201d Madelaine Petsch\u2019s Maya survived the titular strangers once, and of course, they\u2019re hunting her again in Chapter 2. If she survives this, her character, Maya, really needs to leave the country and live in a bunker, because they\u2019ll just hunt her again for the upcoming Chapter 3.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn the latest, fifth season of Fargo, [Noah] Hawley\u2019s obsession with debt<\/a> reflected an increasingly anti-capitalist worldview, and it\u2019s in line with his preferences for Alien: Earth<\/a> to depict the five corporations that rule the world as evil money-grubbers fighting over the scraps of a dying society locked in indentured servitude. But this isn\u2019t a unique idea within the context of the Alien franchise, which means that Hawley\u2019s only real addition of note is the suggestion that xenomorphs can be relative heroes against the greater evil of tech bros<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s Critic Roxana Hadadi on the ending of Hawley\u2019s Alien prequel series<\/a>, now streaming on Hulu. (I\u2019ll admit, I wasn\u2019t a fan of the finale, for points Hadadi mentions and mostly because Wendy communicating with the xenomorph for the nth time for unknown reasons drove me up a wall, but I do need to see what happens to these characters, so Hawley, you win this round.)<\/p>\n

\u27bd\u00a0 Now that Alien: Earth is over, how about traversing the other worlds of Alien<\/a>?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Audiences didn\u2019t come out to theaters for Terminator 2: Judgment Day\u2013style M3GAN<\/a> the way they did for Terminator 1\u2013style M3GAN in 2023. But maybe audiences will at least reach for their remotes and go to streaming for the killer doll that slays in more ways than one. She may be on Gemma\u2019s and Cady\u2019s (Allison Williams and Violet McGraw) side now, but she still dances menacingly, so there\u2019s that.<\/p>\n

\u27bd\u00a0 There\u2019s also Danny and Michael Philippou\u2019s horror film Bring Her Back, out on HBO Max, and The Fantastic Four: First Steps and Splitsville on VOD.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s first take on a Thomas Pynchon novel before One Battle After Another was 2014\u2019s Inherent Vice. It saw PTA teaming up with Joaquin Phoenix again after the lauded The Master. Here, Phoenix plays a bumbling and always-stoned PI in Los Angeles who investigates the disappearance of his ex, Shasta (Katherine Waterston), and her rich real-estate boyfriend (Eric Roberts), which has him encountering a number of colorful characters played by Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Benicio del Toro, Reese Witherspoon. The list goes on.<\/p>\n

Want more? Read our recommendations from the\u00a0weekend of September 19<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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