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It has a 91% Rotten Tomatoes score.

Staying in this Saturday night? Well, you could check out JOE's Must Watch at Home for this week, which you can learn about right here:

This Week's Must-Watch at Home... is reportedly the second most expensive TV show ever made! And it comes from the minds behind Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame! pic.twitter.com/gWCu14O3v4

— JOE.ie (@JOEdotie) April 26, 2023

Or you could watch one (or two) of these movies airing on TV this evening.

Lantana - AMC - 9pm

Our pick for tonight is this 2001 Australian movie focusing on the relationships of four couples that unravel as a woman's body is discovered in the lantana bushes of suburban Sydney.

An incredibly stressful film is among the movies on TV tonight

Featuring amongst its ensemble cast actors such as Anthony LaPaglia, Barbara Hershey and Geoffrey Rush, what could be a standard mystery in Lantana quickly evolves into an authentic, emotional, cathartic and gripping exploration of the everyday secrets that the inhabitants of a small town keep from one another.

Comparable in its structure to the multi-narrative storytelling of classics like Magnolia and Short Cuts, Lantana currently holds an impressive 91% Rotten Tomatoes score.

Bohemian Rhapsody - Film4 - 9pm

Rami Malek took home the Best Actor Oscar for his work playing Freddie Mercury in this music biopic.

Saw - Sky Max - 9pm

The ingenious first entry in the long-running horror franchise.

Halloween - Turner Classic Movies - 9pm

One of the first slasher movies ever and one of the best.

Scanners - Horror Xtra - 9pm

This early sci-fi horror from filmmaker David Cronenberg (The Fly, Videodrome) about psychics who can make people's heads explode boasts incredible special effects and is set to be rebooted as a TV series for HBO.

Narrow Margin - Legend - 9pm

A '90s neo-noir action thriller starring Anne Archer and Gene Hackman.

Le Mans '66 - Channel 4 - 9.20pm

Starring Christian Bale and Matt Damon, Le Mans '66 is also known as Ford v Ferrari in some parts and is a great movie.

Schindler's List - RTÉ2 - 9.30pm

Steven Spielberg's incredibly powerful Holocaust drama which won seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director.

I'm Not There - TG4 - 9.30pm

Ben Whishaw, Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger and Richard Gere are all Bob Dylan in this fascinating unconventional music biopic.

Ingrid Goes West - MTV - 10pm

Aubrey Plaza and Elizabeth Olsen are excellent in this black comedy-drama and social media satire.

Lantana

A still from 2001 Australian movie Lantana - our pick for tonight

The Perfect Storm - Turner Classic Movies - 11pm

A biographical disaster drama starring George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg.

Rambo: First Blood Part II - ITV4 - 11pm

The confusingly titled first Rambo sequel with Sylvester Stallone.

Broken City - AMC - 11.15pm

A private detective (Wahlberg again) finds himself embroiled in a scandal involving a New York mayor (Russell Crowe) in this watchable neo-noir crime thriller.

French Connection II - RTÉ One - 11.35pm

Gene Hackman reprises his Oscar-winning role as Detective Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle in this action thriller sequel.

Greta - BBC One - 11.40pm

Ireland's own Neil Jordan directs this pretty good horror thriller about a young waitress (Chloë Grace Moretz) in New York who becomes friends with an older widow (French acting titan Isabelle Huppert). However, the latter is hiding dark secrets.

Primal - Film4 - 11.45pm

This straight-to-VOD Nicolas Cage action thriller where he plays a big game hunter got mixed reviews upon release in 2019.

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