Honorable underlying values and believable characters are sabotaged by excessively explicit sexual content in the limited drama series “Fleishman is in Trouble.”

Set in the 1950s and ’60s, The Fablemans recounts the childhood and adolescence of Steven Spielberg’s fictional counterpart, Sammy Fabelman (Gabriel LaBelle).

Grown viewers will be treated to another rousing visit to this realm’s inviting precincts and to the tumultuous, but ultimately pleasing, alternative reality that prevails there.

Director and co-writer Edward Berger’s eponymous production of “All Quiet on the Western Front” is streaming on Netflix.

There are some things to celebrate but others to bewail about “The Banshees of Inisherin.” In fact, this bleak combination of black comedy and rural drama incorporates elements that make it acceptable for only a small number of grown movie fans.

Our latest advance is streaming TV. For those unclear on the concept, you pay a monthly fee in exchange for everything in that streamer’s library of titles and episodes.

Grown TV fans in search of eerie programming appropriate to the Halloween season may find that the mystery series “The Watcher” fits the bill. Made up of seven hour-long episodes, the show is currently streaming on Netflix.

Debates about the true nature of justice and heroism, as well as the proper use of force, pace the predictable dustups in “Black Adam,” director Jaume Collet-Serra’s adaptation of DC Comics lore.

While the mostly agreeable comedy “Ticket to Paradise” won’t necessarily transport viewers to cinematic heaven, it will take them to a good place, both visually and thematically. Set in Indonesia, the film showcases enchanting island landscapes as well as ethical ideas generally in keeping with Gospel-based morality.

As soon as the lights dimmed for the start of the show in the tiny Vatican movie theater, the crack of beer cans being opened joined the quieter crunch of popcorn.