The 14 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend
A three-day weekend means more time with your sweetheart (TV).
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It’s Valentine’s Day weekend and not one rom-com is coming to theaters. There’s a new Bridget Jones movie … on Peacock. What is happening? Romance is supposedly canceled, but at least with SNL’s 50th anniversary, there’s plenty of comedy. Oh, and how can we forget new seasons of The White Lotus and Yellowjackets kicking off on their prospective streamers this week? Roses are red, streaming services are (mostly) blue, there’s still a lot to watch, including Paddington in Peru. Here’s everything else.
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I’m Still Here
Walter Salles’s historical drama has made quite the impression on awards season, notching a Best Picture nomination as well as a Best Actress nom for its lead, Fernanda Torres, who won a Golden Globe for her performance. Based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s memoir of the same name, I’m Still Here recounts Brazil in the early ’70s, a time when the country was under a military dictatorship, and focuses on Paiva family matriarch Eunice (played by Torres, though Torres’s mother and renowned actress Fernanda Montenegro plays an older Eunice) as she copes with her politician husband’s (Selton Mello) forced disappearance.
In theaters now
The White Lotus season three
The third iteration takes us to a White Lotus resort where the guests include Parker Posey as a wealthy, semi-snotty North Carolina woman who looks down her nose at some of the other guests — oh, that’s all I needed to say to convince you to watch? Okay, cool. —Jen Chaney
Streaming on Max
SNL50: The Anniversary Special
All the documentaries and magazine cover shoots have been leading to this: the official celebration of the most influential sketch comedy in TV history, broadcast in prime time. —J.C.
(Streaming February 16 on NBC and Peacock at 8 p.m. ET.)
For more SNL events, here are more television specials airing this weekend:
➼ SNL50: The Homecoming Concert, a concert at Radio City Music Hall hosted by Jimmy Fallon, naturally. Expect performances from Bad Bunny, Lady Gaga, David Byrne, Jack White, The Roots, and more. (Streaming February 14 on Peacock at 8 p.m. ET.)
➼ Ladies & Gentlemen … 50 Years of SNL Music, a documentary directed by Questlove that, yes, features that mind-meltingly good music montage. (Streaming on Peacock now; Airing on NBC February 15 at 8 p.m. ET.)
➼ NBC’s Saturday Night, the network will be airing the first episode of SNL that aired originally on October 11, 1975 with host George Carlin. (Airing February 15 on NBC at 11:30 p.m. ET.)
➼ SNL50: The Red Carpet, hosted by Leslie Jones and Willie Geist. Matt Rogers of Las Culturistas will also serve as a correspondent. (Streaming February 16 on NBC and Peacock at 7 p.m. ET.)
Yellowjackets season three
The new season of the mystery about a high-school soccer team that survives a plane crash is back to answer many of your questions. Like: Were there weird forces in the wilderness three decades ago that may have possessed them post-wreck? And: What banger of a ’90s song will drop next on the soundtrack? —J.C.
Streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime
Paddington in Peru
Even the weakest Paddington entry is still worth watching. Director Paul King was not at the helm of this sequel, he was busy with Wonka, but Paddington in Peru is still charming. Ben Whishaw returns to voice Paddington as he and the Brown family (Emily Mortimer replaced Sally Hawkins as Mary Brown) sets off to find his missing aunt.
In theaters now
The Gorge
This straight-to-streaming movie has everything you want for a Valentine’s Day release: romance, action, espionage, and spooky creatures. Two extremely attractive, highly trained clandestine operatives (Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller) are stationed in watch towers on opposite sides of a picturesque gorge. They spend their days flirting remotely with each other via signs and gestures while trouble brews in the valley below. Wouldn’t you know it, but the gorge is possibly a gateway to hell and there are monsters trying to break free? —Tolly Wright
Streaming on Apple TV+
Captain America: Brave New World
“Even at the level of base genre pleasures, Brave New World feels more obligatory than exciting.” (Read the rest of Bilge’s review here.)
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Renée Zellweger is continuing the trend of “New MILF Cinema.” Good for her. After the death of Colin Firth’s Mark Darcy, Zellweger’s Bridget Jones is back on the market with a few prospects. Hugh Grant’s Daniel Cleaver is alive and around but he’s serving as wingman while new men prop up like Chiwetel Ejiofor as Bridget’s son’s science teacher and Leo Woodall as the titular boy vying for her attention.
Streaming on Peacock
Love Is Blind season eight
Netflix knows what viewers want on Valentine’s Day, and that is a new batch of hopefuls signing themselves up for a pod-based romance experience. This season is set in Minneapolis, so make yourself some hotdish before you settle in. —Kathryn VanArendonk
Streaming on Netflix
Waitress: The Musical
The musical based on the movie starring Keri Russell is now available as a movie on Max. Phew. Well, it’s not exactly like last year’s Mean Girls. Waitress: The Musical is the Broadway show filmed and ready to watch at home, like Hamilton on Disney+. This production stars Sara Bareilles, who also served as the musical’s composer and lyricist, as a waitress and baker, Jenna, who longs to escape her marriage and join a pie-making competition. You can dig into the musical and then switch over to the Russell-led movie afterward.
Streaming on Max
Finally Streaming
Flow
Our sound designer Gurwal, just sent me a clip of the real capybara voice. I think that we made the right call to use a baby camel voice instead. pic.twitter.com/0HPu4eamNS— Gints Zilbalodis (@gintszilbalodis) February 8, 2025
You can watch the Oscar-nominated Flow at home, but unfortunately, you will not be getting the Capybara cut. Still a great movie otherwise!
Streaming on Max
➼ Out on VOD this week are Nickel Boys, and Better Man, and One of Them Days, oh my!
Want more? Read our recommendations from the week of February 7.
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