The 11 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend

Not even a good clove of garlic can keep our recommendations away this weekend. The biggest movie to sink your teeth into is Sinners, Ryan Coogler’s action-packed vampire story. Though, if horror isn’t your thing, the dreamy 2005 adaptation of Pride & Prejudice rides its way back into theaters. See Matthew Macfadyen’s hand flex on the largest screen possible. Now that sounds like a fantastic weekend.

Featured Presentations

Sinners

Breaking away from the world of the MCU’s Black Panther, Ryan Coogler debuts his first original film since Fruitvale Station. A vampire thriller, Sinners stars Michael B. Jordan as twins, Smoke and Stack, who return to their hometown in Mississippi to open up a juke joint. The pair enlists their cousin Sammie (Miles Canton) and a group of locals, which include Delroy Lindo and Wunmi Mosaku, for help with the grand opening. But the night quickly devolves when they’re visited by a trio of vampires.

The Rehearsal

Season one involved Nathan Fielder staging fake scenarios, such as raising a pretend child in a faux co-parenting situation, to help people practice the emotions they might eventually feel in real life. He’s back to do it again by putting “his resources toward an issue that affects us all:” commercial aviation disasters. — Jen Chaney

The Wedding Banquet

Min (Han Gi-chan) is rich and wants a green card; Angela (Kelly Marie Tran) is American and needs money for her family. This seems like the setup for a “marriage of convenience” romance, except in this comedy of errors, the man and woman are both queer and already in relationships with Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone, respectively. Min’s traditional grandparents — and wealthy benefactors — don’t know he’s gay, so when his grandmother travels from Korea for the wedding, everything gets more complicated. —Tolly Wright

#1 Happy Family USA

Ramy Youssef teams up with South Park writer and producer Pam Brady for this satirical animated series about a Muslim family’s life just after September 11. In response to their neighbors’ paranoia and widespread Islamophobia, the Husseins decide to look one way inside their home and another outside of it. The voice cast includes Youssef, Alia Shawkat, and Kieran Culkin. —Roxana Hadadi

Agatha Christie’s Towards Zero

A divorced couple decides to spend a summer together at a relative’s coastal estate; of course, someone is murdered, and the detective who comes to investigate realizes that everyone has a motive. The locked-door shenanigans are typical, but the cast is not — Anjelica Huston and Matthew Rhys lead an ensemble featuring Clarke Peters, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, and Anjana Vasan. —R.H.

Back in Theaters

Pride & Prejudice

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a romantic of good taste must be in want of a swoon-worthy Mr. Darcy. While you wait for Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic, celebrate the subtle horniness of Joe Wright’s take with this 20th-anniversary rerelease. Here’s your warning that your heart will skip a beat when Matthew Macfadyen does the Darcy hand flex on the big screen. —T.W.

Vulture Recommends

“From the first episode of The Traitors’s third season on January 9 right up until The Pitt’s first-season finale on April 10, every week has delivered appointment television, often released one episode at a time, that it seemed like everyone was yapping about. A throwback? Certainly. A recession indicator? Perhaps.” —Rebecca Alter, on what to watch now that a slew of great spring shows have ended

➽ For The White Lotus fans, there’s another vacation series starring unrelatable wealthy people: The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip 4: RHONY Legacy on Peacock.

➽ For The Pitt fans, you can always watch the hospital shenanigans of Scrubs on Hulu.

Read all of Alter’s picks here.

Finally Streaming

Companion

The daunting experience of going on a vacation with a new flame’s friends goes from anxiety inducing to bloody awful in this horror-comedy. Iris (Sophie Thatcher) is feeling like the odd woman out during a couples trip with her boyfriend, Josh (Jack Quaid), for good reason: Josh is keeping a big secret from her, and when she learns the truth, she’s ready to make everyone else pay. —T.W.

➽ The Day the Earth Blew Up, the first fully animated theatrical Looney Tunes movie in years, is now rentable.

Double Feature

Interview With the Vampire

Any chance I have to sing Interview With the Vampire’s praises, I will. It’s sexy, thrilling, and an incredible take on Anne Rice’s novel. The ’90s film may have the notoriety (Kirsten Dunst deserves), but showrunner Rolin Jones’s series digs deeper into the unhinged love story of Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) and Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid). And it helps to have a stellar supporting cast in Bailey Bass (and in the second season, Delainey Hayles), Eric Bogosian, and Assad Zaman, who all breathe fresh life into this tale of the undead. So, if you’re inspired by Sinners to look into other vampire stories, Interview is a worthwhile pick. (Bonus: It is also set in the South.)

Want more? Read our recommendations from the week of April 11.

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