Date Night Picks

Will Gluck serves up a breezy romance where two love-starved strangers — Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner — crash into each other and can't quite let go. It's playful, warm and a little wild, exactly the sort of "12 hours can change everything" fantasy that makes you squeeze the hand next to yours. Easy chemistry, easy charm, and a lovely reminder of how fast sparks can catch.

Christopher Nolan and Benny Safdie steer Matt Damon's Odysseus through gods, monsters and trials on the long road back to Ithaca, a sweeping adventure with Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway and Lupita Nyong'o. At its heart it's a story about cunning, endurance and the ache to get home, which lands harder when you're watching it together. Go grand, hold on tight, and let "Defy the gods" be your motto for the evening.