The car chase has long been a Hollywood staple. But few have been as extensive as the one that consumes most of the running time of the thriller “The Mongoose” (Goldwyn). Nor has such a pursuit often been presented in so morally muddled a way as this one.

The adult-oriented but never crass romantic fantasy “Wicker” (Black Bear) makes an old-fashioned case that there’s a man for every woman. Provided, in this case, that she’s not too particular about him being woven from willow rods.

Like its eccentric title character, the science-fiction drama “Klara and the Sun” (Sony) comes across as off-beat but engaging. The film’s complex — though not hostile — treatment of faith, however, requires careful discernment on the part of grown moviegoers.

The following are capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or cable television during the week of Nov. 8, as well as notes on TV programming for the same week.

The bloody, chaotic and soul-coarsening “Clayface” (Warner Bros.) takes a longtime Gotham City character in the DC Universe and turns him into a serial killer.

As scripted by director Kitao Sakurai and T.J. Fixman, the martial arts fantasy “Street Fighter” (Paramount) includes a few stray admonitions about the evils of envy and egotism. Otherwise, however, this often frenetic adaptation of a popular video game franchise mostly amounts to macho nonsense.

Thrillers have transpired within a broad range of environments. Yet few can have been as extreme as the setting in which the main character in the drama “Whalefall” (20th Century) finds himself.

The following are capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or cable television during the week of Nov. 1, as well as notes on TV programming for the same week.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Jane Austen property that hasn’t been brought to the big screen in decades must be in want of a fresh adaptation. And so we get director Georgia Oakley’s lyrical and often amusing “Sense and Sensibility” (Focus).

A number of scenes in the passable chiller “Other Mommy” (Universal) feature a secluded seaside mansion, a lighthouse and some cliffs. As such traditional visuals suggest, the film is mostly an old-fashioned frightfest, though it does include a single, very bloody sequence as well as vocabulary that marks it as strictly for grown-ups.