Tim Burton steps forward as director of “Wednesday,” a spin-off named for, and focused on, the comically macabre Addams family’s daughter. All eight episodes of the series, which stars Jenna Ortega in the title role, are streaming on Netflix.

Nicolas Brown directed “The Letter: A Message for Our Earth,” a documentary on the pope’s 2015 encyclical “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home.”

The upshot of “Violent NIght” is a strange blend of bloody mayhem and rank sentimentality that goes down like a gulp of sour eggnog.

Jonathan Majors portrays Jesse L. Brown in the war epic “Devotion” (Sony), a film that chronicles both the travails the flyer faced and his partnership with fellow aviator Tom Hudner (Glen Powell).

‘Strange World’ tells the story of the Clade family, denizens of an imaginary realm called Avalonia.

The movie “PROFIT,” a biopic about 20th-century Polish Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, delves into the Polish Communist Party’s yearslong operation to delegitimize him.

Working from Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor’s 2019 bestseller, director Maria Schrader depicts the dogged determination of the newswomen, the courage and resilience of their victimized sources and, ultimately, the power of journalism to reveal wrongdoing. Although their efforts take a toll on family life, both leading characters are shown to be in strong marriages.

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.