HOLLYWOOD, CA — This weekend's picks gather magic, revolt, reunion, and espionage — four stories pushing toward power from wildly different angles.
"Practical Magic 2" returns to the Owens family as old forces resurface and new abilities emerge, sending them across the Atlantic in search of answers.
"The Uprising" shifts to the mud and smoke of 1381, where Andrew Garfield anchors Paul Greengrass's take on the Peasants' Revolt.
Then the mood breaks wide open. "Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger" captures the Gallagher brothers' reunion tour with a performance‑first focus, letting the music, the crowds, and the uneasy truce between Liam and Noel carry the film's charge.
And "The Fix" threads through intelligence briefings, sabotage, and political crosscurrents, with Liam Neeson giving the thriller its most grounded presence as a retired operative pulled back into the fray.
Ready to dig in? Scroll for the full lineup — capsules below unpack the craft, performances, and the choices that make each title worth a closer look.
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Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Joey King; directed by Susanne Bier
"Practical Magic 2" follows the Owens family as a new disturbance pushes them beyond the familiar borders of coastal Massachusetts. Sally Owens (Sandra Bullock), long committed to keeping magic at the edges of her daughters' lives, is forced to confront its return when Kylie (Joey King) begins exhibiting abilities tied to the family's earliest lineage. Gillian (Nicole Kidman), instinct‑driven and still connected to the Owens past, joins Sally as the family travels to the UK, where older coven ties and ancestral records begin to surface. The shift in setting broadens the film's scope, moving from domestic interiors to landscapes shaped by inherited history.
Susanne Bier guides the material with a measured approach, centering ritual, responsibility, and the gradual reappearance of forces the family believed dormant. She treats magic as something embedded in lineage rather than spectacle, letting tension build through discovery.
Bullock plays Sally with contained resolve, emphasizing a mother's attempt to manage what she cannot fully define. Kidman adds movement to the film's emotional terrain, while King's Kylie becomes the hinge of the story, navigating abilities that pull the family toward its origins.
The film's narrow focus becomes a limitation, keeping the story fixed on interior conflict even as its expanded world suggests broader possibilities, yet it remains a steady, well‑acted extension of the Owens family's story.
Andrew Garfield, Cosmo Jarvis, Jamie Bell; directed by Paul Greengrass
Paul Greengrass approaches the 1381 Peasants' Revolt with a focus on physical detail and lived‑in texture, staging the uprising as a movement shaped by exhaustion, anger, and necessity. Andrew Garfield plays Ploughman, a farmer pushed toward rebellion after losing his family to the Black Death, and his performance gives the film a steady emotional center. Garfield's scenes with Cosmo Jarvis's Wat Tyler and Jamie Bell's John Ball sketch out a leadership defined less by myth than by urgency, and the film's battle sequences carry the chaotic force Greengrass is known for.
The film's scale is one of its strengths, capturing the mud, smoke, and confusion of a revolt rarely depicted on screen. Woody Norman's turn as Richard II adds a sharp counterpoint, and the historical grit lends the story weight even when the narrative broadens into folklore. That shift, along with a controversial late reveal, creates tonal unevenness that the film doesn't entirely resolve, and the overlong runtime occasionally blunts its momentum.
Still, the ambition and craft hold. "The Uprising" is uneven but compelling, driven by Garfield's strong performance and Greengrass's visceral staging, with enough force to leave an impression despite its missteps.
Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher; directed by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern
The documentary opens in the noise and anticipation of Oasis's 2025 reunion, treating the tour as a cultural moment rather than a simple return to the stage. Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern anchor the film in performance, letting stadium crowds, rehearsal fragments, and the band's familiar sonic weight shape the narrative. The directors avoid mythmaking, instead presenting the reunion as something built on endurance — of songs, of memory, of the Gallagher brothers' complicated bond.
Liam Gallagher moves through the film with loose, sharp presence, while Noel offers a steadier, more deliberate counterpoint. Their dynamic becomes the film's most compelling thread, not because it resolves anything, but because it shows two musicians choosing coexistence long enough to play the catalog that defined them.
The documentary rarely pauses to interrogate the feud that fractured the band, and that absence limits how fully it can engage with Oasis's mythology. Still, the film's clarity of purpose — to capture the reunion as it happened, without embellishment — gives it an immediacy that feels both engaging and unexpectedly generous.
Zachary Levi, Liam Neeson, Sam Worthington; directed by Peter Landesman
"The Fix" centers on the fallout from a collapsed CIA operation, pulling retired operative Larry (Liam Neeson) back into a world he thought he'd left behind. Evidence of internal sabotage pushes him toward Mason (Zachary Levi), a younger agent whose reluctance gives their partnership a wary edge. Their investigation leads from D.C. to Eastern Europe and the Middle East, tracing a private intelligence contractor whose interference has blurred the line between national security and profit.
Neeson gives the film its most grounded presence, steadying the early movements with a sense of lived‑in authority. Landesman stages the procedural mechanics with polish, but as the story widens, competing agendas and geopolitical threads accumulate faster than they cohere. The 142‑minute runtime stretches these elements thin, and Levi's restrained performance leaves the film without a strong emotional anchor.
By the final act, contrived twists and tonal scatter overwhelm the cleaner setup. "The Fix" has moments of tension and a solid turn from Neeson, yet its overstuffed structure and uneven pacing undercut the ambition, leaving the film less effective than it aims to be.
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