This Week’s Movies and Series: Alex Schulman’s Directorial Debut and the Final Season of Babylon Berlin

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This Week’s Movies and Series: Alex Schulman’s Directorial Debut and the Final Season of Babylon Berlin
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Alex Schulman makes his directorial debut with the story of a school trip that goes completely awry. Fares Fares, Gustaf Skarsgård and Linus Wahlgren play three class fathers who join the trip and lose control of the students.

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Sixteen years ago, Aaron Sorkin wrote the screenplay for “The Social Network,” the film about how Facebook was founded. Now Sorkin returns to the same company as director, depicting how whistleblower Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison) contacts a journalist (Jeremy Allen White) with allegations that Facebook realized early on how harmful social media could be. Jeremy Strong plays Mark Zuckerberg.

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Ben Affleck directs himself and Kerry Washington in a kidnapping thriller about a powerful politician and his wife, whose elegant facade is shattered when their son is abducted.

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Jessica Chastain makes a rare appearance in a horror film as the creepy “other mother,” a terrifying being only the daughter can see who “moves in” with the family. And she looks exactly like the real mother.

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The epic German drama series about the fall of the Weimar Republic is now set in the fateful year of 1933. Police officer Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch) comes across Hitler's medical records, which could put an end to the Nazi leader. But then he disappears, and his colleague Charlotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries) must fend for herself against the Nazis as they ruthlessly and rapidly take over all the country's centers of power.

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The new TV adaptation of Stephen King's chilling - and very bloody - debut novel is set in the present day, so the humiliation of new student Carrie (Summer H Howell) is made all the worse when it spreads on social media. But so is her revenge.

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Josh Hartnett plays fisherman Calvin, who must intervene when a mysterious phenomenon from the depths of the ocean begins to terrorize a small fishing village on Canada's Atlantic coast.

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This critically acclaimed comedy-drama series has an unusual premise. Eccentric Michael (Pearce Quigley) tries to create tiny artificial human figures to get closer to the truth about the whereabouts of his missing girlfriend. Monty Python star Michael Palin appears in a supporting role.

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