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AARP critic Tim Appelo gives his recommendations for TV and movie viewing
RESERVATION DOGS
On FX and Hulu August 2
• The brilliant show about Native teens coming of age on an Oklahoma reservation—which they’re desperate to escape—also boasts some of the greatest actors of the grownup generation. Gary Farmer, 70, known for Smoke Signals and Dead Man, plays Uncle Brownie, who teaches kids how to be warriors. Zahn McClarnon, 56, who got his first lead role at 55 as Navajo Police sleuth Joe Leaphorn in the must-see AMC+ thriller series Dark Winds, plays the more comic cop Big on Reservation Dogs, which takes a darker turn this year.
ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING
On Hulu August 8
• Meryl Streep, 74, joins Steve Martin, 78, and Martin Short, 73, on the hit murder mystery comedy. This season centers on the suspicious death of an actor (Paul Rudd, 54) at the premiere of a Broadway play. But former cast member Nathan Lane, 67, jokes, “It’s now called Only Meryl in the Building.”
THE HILL
In theaters August 25
• Dennis Quaid, 69, who loves making uplifting sports movies, plays a pastor trying to convince his son Rickey Hill, who has a spinal disease, to quit dreaming of becoming a pro baseball player. Spoiler: The kid makes it to the major leagues anyway, and it’s based on a true story. “In America, you can choose to be what you want,” Quaid told Deadline.
PAINKILLER
On Netflix August 10
• Matthew Broderick, 61, plays the controversial Richard Sackler, whose Purdue Pharma made billions selling opioids.
JULES
In theaters August 11
• What happens when a UFO crash-lands in the backyard of an increasingly absent-minded and isolated small-town Pennsylvanian named Milton (Ben Kingsley, 79), destroying his beloved birdbath? He forms an improbable bond with the extraterrestrial arrival he dubs Jules, who couch surfs at his house. Soon his neighbor (Saturday Night Live’s Jane Curtin, 75) sings “Free Bird” to Jules, and they find late-life meaning and connection in this feel-good film.