With awards season just kicking off after the Golden Globes, it’s certainly the time to catch up on everything that might be recognized with top prizes at awards shows. The great content keeps coming in 2025, if you’re struggling to figure out what to watch, but there are always some things that just miss the mark.
After winning the best picture for a drama film at the Globes on Sunday, Brady Corbet’s film The Brutalist, starring Adrien Brody, has expanded its theatrical release to include Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal in Canada. On the streaming side, The Pitt on Crave in Canada (Max in the U.S.) may make you fall in love with medical dramas again.
Each week Yahoo Canada will break down newly released TV shows and movies, recommending what to watch next, and what you may want to skip:
The Brutalist — ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist is certainly ambitious, from the runtime to the impressive pieces of architecture built for the film, but the result is this masterful epic that’s equal parts emotional and inspirational. Starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce and Joe Alwyn, the story is about a Hungarian-Jewish architect who survives the Holocaust and travels to the U.S. to start a new life. Spanning 30 years, Corbet doesn’t waste a moment in his storytelling, very intentionally linking the immigrant experience with artistic expression. It’s a movie that will linger in your mind long after its over.
Where to watch ‘The Brutalist’: Now in theatres in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver
Better Man — ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Admittedly, a biopic about Robbie Williams where he’s portrayed as a monkey can be a hard sell, but just lean into the fantasy and enjoy the Better Man ride. As someone who listened to Williams’ music as a kid, the proven success of director Michael Gracey’s approach to this film is that there’s been a clear resurgence in the popularity of Williams’ music. Many people, particularly in North American, are also learning about him for the first time. It’s an energetic, bold and honest biopic, with a unique concept.
Where to watch ‘Better Man’: Now in theatres
The Pitt — ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Even I can’t believe I’m recommending that people watch another medical drama, because there are so many of them. Admittedly, I went into The Pitt with pretty low expectations, assuming it would just be another version of the same formula, a charismatic doctor, overwhelmed students and medical residents, and a flurry of patients with various odd illnesses and injuries. While on the surface that’s just what The Pitt is, its extremely frantic energy and lightning speed pace just sucked me in and I couldn’t stop watching. The first season of the show is 15 episodes, with each one representing an hour in a 15-hour shift in the emergency department of the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital. Led by ER alum Noah Wyle, it’s an addictive show that’s reinvigorated my attraction to medical dramas.
Where to watch ‘The Pitt’: Crave in Canada, Max in the U.S.
Young Werther — ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I’m very aware that when a movie is largely described as “quirky,” it tends to be something I’m going to enjoy, and that’s the case with Young Werther. This is certainly the most charming film you can watch this week. Starring Douglas Booth, Alison Pill and Patrick J. Adams, filmmaker José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço modernized the 18th-century novel “The Sorrows of Young Werther” for this complicated romantic comedy. Set in Toronto, this dialogue-heavy film is fun, funny and leans into themes about friendship.
Where to watch ‘Young Werther’: Now in theatres
Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action — ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Jerry Springer Show was easily one of the wildest things that aired on television, from various stories of infidelity to the “I Married a Horse” episode. The two-part Netflix documentary Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action looks back at the show’s creation, how exactly people got on the show and the ethics around the show’s concept. The one downfall of the docuseries is that, with only two parts, it feels like we’re just touching the surface of what went on behind-the-scenes of The Jerry Springer show, and in its evaluation of whether the show’s participants were taken advantage of, leaving me wishing we had time to dive even deeper.