Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks are estranged siblings reunited by a murder
DRAMA Chloe (Jessica Biel), a hard charging Manhattan magazine editor, arrives home to find husband Adam (Corey Stoll) face down in a pool of blood. DNA tests implicate his teenage son Ethan (Maxwell Acee Donovan)— whose mother happens to be Chloe’s red-hot mess of a sister Nicky (Elizabeth Banks). It’s complicated. Nicky, who’s like unvarnished plywood compared with the flawlessly shellacked Chloe, isn’t a terribly welcome or well-behaved guest. (Chloe: “Enough with the Jerry Springer antics.” Nicky: “Sick burn—1998!”) But their bond evolves, and improves, as this enjoyable mystery series twists its way through eight episodes. (Launches May 29)
COMEDY Zsa-zsa Korda (Benicio del Toro, funny and bleary) is an unprincipled tycoon hustling to raise money for his grand project, an infrastructural chimera out in the desert. The film has its own intricately whimsical charm—as you expect from writer-director Wes Anderson—but also a deflating vagueness. It’s a Ponzi scheme that leaves you with next to nothing. (In limited release May 30, PG-13)