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You Can’t Handle the Truth!
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (Showtime). That other military courtroom drama, quoted above, owes much to a 1954 picture starring Humphrey Bogart, which itself was based on a Herman Wouk bestseller. Wag Emeritus William Friedkin’s last film is a reverential update. Kiefer Sutherland swaggers into the part of Captain Queeg, who may be nuts; Jake Lacy is on trial for leading a mutiny against him. Jason Clarke, Lewis Pullman and Dearly Missed Lance Reddick are on the case. Oh, and speaking of Friedkin, there’s yet another Exorcist sequel out there. —Daniel Kaffee
Visit to Human Resources
Fair Play (Netflix). Writer/Director Chloe Domont understands the dicey sexual politics of the moment. This thriller about two hedge funders (Alden Ehrenreich and Phoebe Dynevor) whose secret romance takes a turn after she is promoted over he is as cool as ice and as sharp as razor blades. Eddie Marsan is wicked as the pair’s satanic boss. — Seth Davis
Proper Piss-Up
Dicks the Musical (theaters). What to say? A24’s musical is about two business dudes (Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson) who are both big, swinging you-know-whats. When they find out that they are twins separated at birth the result is … not The Parent Trap. Based on Sharp and Jackson’s stage show, F*cking Identical Twins, it’s an artillery barrage of gags, some of which hit the mark. Megan Mullally and Nathan Lane are the lads’ star-crossed parents, Bowen Yang is Yaweh, and Megan Thee Stallion — you heard it here first —classes up the joint. —Franz Liebkind
Masters of the Metaverse
Loki (Disney +). Marvel is a gigantic glossy balloon, and lately it feels as if the air is whooshing out of it. That doesn’t mean it can’t still make amusing farty sounds. Loki has the usual windy premise — time and space are colliding or fraying, there’s a run in the cosmic seam, yada, yada. This adds up to Earth is Doomed. Whatever! It’s lavishly rendered and well cast — Sir Tom Hiddelston is all Etonian pip as the Norse god of Mischief, while Sir Owen Wilson, playing a bureaucrat from the TVA (Time Variance Authority), is a genial charmer. Oscar Darling Ke Huy Quan delights as an absent-minded professor. — Patsy Walker