Just when you’d finished the dark and murky four-hour marathon that is HBO’s “Allen v. Farrow” docuseries, along comes Zack Snyder with a dark and murky four-hour director’s cut of “Justice

League,” the super-friends reunion that underwhelmed critics and fans alike in its 2017 theatrical cut, now expanded/restored to Snyder’s full vision. Personally, I found it fun for a while,

then increasingly exhausting before giving up about midway through as a giant CG character with a hammerhead helmet and really shiny armor was growling something about Mother Boxes in what

looked like a giant cavern, but might have been a spaceship. I don’t know, but my colleague Owen Gleiberman loved it — more than the Avengers movies — so if you’ve got an HBO Max

arrest anyone for the murder. And if conspiracies are your thing, Netflix has a biggie for you as well in “Operation Varsity Blues,” about the college admissions scandal. POPULAR ON VARIETY

Here’s a rundown of those films opening this week that _Variety_ has covered, along with information on where you can watch them. Find more movies and TV shows to stream here. EXCLUSIVE TO

HBO MAX Zack Snyder’s Justice League (Zack Snyder) CRITIC’S PICK Distributor: Warner Bros. Where to Find It: HBO Max It takes an extraordinarily diverse skill set to direct a great

comic-book movie [like] the thrillingly restored four-hour-long director’s-cut version of the 2017 DC Comics extravaganza. The new movie — and make no mistake, it really is a new movie — is

more than a vindication of Snyder’s original vision. It’s a grand, nimble, and immersive entertainment, a team-of-heroes origin story that, at heart, is classically conventional, yet it’s

now told with such an intoxicating childlike sincerity and ominous fairy-tale wonder that it takes you back to what comic books, at their best, have always sought to do: make you feel like

you’re seeing gods at play on Earth. — Owen Gleiberman Read the full review NEW RELEASES ONLY IN THEATERS City of Lies (Brad Furman) Distributor: Saban Films Where to Find It: In theaters

now, followed by on demand April 9 Who shot Christopher Wallace, aka Biggie Smalls? It’s crazy to think that a Hollywood movie can solve a homicide the Los Angeles Police Department couldn’t

crack. But conspiracy-minded “City of Lies” suggests that the Notorious B.I.G.’s death isn’t unsolved at all, but a cover-up of epic proportions. That’s a bombshell if true and downright

irresponsible if not, although one thing is certain: Such claims should make for a far more exciting movie than this convoluted taupe-tinted chronicle of a 20-year investigation that foments

anti-cop distrust and falls back on the LAPD’s seismic Rampart scandal to give it any kind of pulse. — Peter Debruge Read the full review The Courier (Dominic Cooke) Distributor: Lionsgate,

Roadside Attractions Where to Find It: In theaters now Shaken martinis and martial-arts fight sequences tend to be a lot more sexy than watching whatever Benedict Cumberbatch, playing an

English salesman named Greville Wynne, does to avoid suspicion in this intermittently interesting espionage drama — basically, going to the ballet, hosting business meetings, drinking with

clients, while discreetly passing packages from a high-ranking Russian mole. “The Courier’s” hook is that it’s based on true events, and the underlying history deserves to be shared. It’s a

solid if dull-by-definition espionage story about the civilian recruited to liaise with a top Russian spy at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. — Peter Debruge Read the full review NEW

RELEASES ON DEMAND AND IN SELECT THEATERS Enforcement (Anders Ølholm, Frederik Louis Hviid) CRITIC’S PICK Distributor: Magnet Releasing Where to Find It: In select theaters, on demand and

digital This gripping Danish cop movie begins where films such as “Do the Right Thing” and “Les Misérables” abruptly stopped. That’s an awfully ambitious (if somewhat foolhardy) setup for

helmers Ølholm and Hviid to construct their debut feature — a thriller that’s both a relentless adrenaline rush and a social-issue Rorschach test for all who watch it. Whereas Spike Lee and

Ladj Ly dedicated their movies to representing how different parties’ conflicting experience can boil over, “Shorta” deals with the immediate aftermath from the point of view of two police

officers who find themselves in Copenhagen’s Svalegården ghetto when the rioting erupts. — Peter Debruge Read the full review The Fever (Maya Da-Rin) Distributor: KimStim Where to Find It:

In select theaters With its recursive structure mirroring Justino’s own monotonous days, “The Fever” languidly creates a portrait of a man immobilized by his own inaction. The way Justino is

surveilled at work (his supervisor is well aware he’s been nodding off during his shifts and gently reminds him the company may be held liable for any workplace accidents) doesn’t bother

him much. He’s unperturbed by such admonishments. It is Myrupu’s beguiling performance what anchors this intimate and entrancing epic, a modern-day fable about the very concept of modernity

and the promise of fabulation. — Manuel Betancourt Read the full review Happily (BenDavid Grabinski) Distributor: Saban Films Where to Find It: In select theaters, on demand and digital

“Happily” is what happens when a cute conceit goes nowhere intriguing. Writer-director BenDavid Grabinski’s feature debut tries to generate comedic menace and mystery from the aftermath of a

bizarre encounter between a preternaturally lovey-dovey California couple and an enigmatic stranger, but there’s nothing particularly amusing or suspenseful about the weirdness that ensues.

Stranding a host of likable actors in atonal purgatory, it seems likely to please few. Aiming for a darkly humorous portrait of marital bliss — and the difficulties of maintaining it — the

film comes off as a half-formed “Twilight Zone” joke minus the punchline. — Nick Schager Read the full review Rose Plays Julie (Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor) Distributor: Film Movement

Where to Find It: In virtual cinemas, on demand and digital Beneath the eerily calm surfaces of Molloy and Lawlor’s terrific “Rose Plays Julie,” a transgressive story bides its time. It’s a

tale that feels ancient in structure, but terrifyingly modern in detail, mapping MeToo-era revelations and a contemporary preoccupation with fractured identities onto a deceptively simple

revenge plot that could have been plucked directly from a Greek drama, then plunged into liquid nitrogen to achieve its deep-freeze aesthetic. Still waters run deep, but frozen ones reach

down fathoms, and who knows what perfectly preserved bodies lie waiting to be excavated.  — Jessica Kiang Read the full review Wojnarowicz (Chris McKim) Distributor: Kino Lorber Where to

Find It: Available in virtual cinemas Channeling the aesthetic and urgency of a driven multimedia creator, “Wojnarowicz” chronicles the too-short life of a determinedly “outsider” artist who

was among the most furiously outspoken victims of the AIDS epidemic. The documentary is largely composed of materials from the late subject’s archives, woven into a collage that is equal

parts biography, vintage agitprop and objet d’art, plus surviving associates’ audio reminiscences. While David Wojnarowicz’s confrontative nature is amply represented, there’s also

considerable beauty and invention on display here, as often there was even in the artist’s most enraged work. — Dennis Harvey Read the full review EXCLUSIVE TO NETFLIX Deadly Illusions (Anna

Elizabeth James) Where to Find It: Netflix It’s tricky deciding what kind of cheese “Deadly Illusions,” a diverting thriller starring Kristin Davis and Dermot Mulroney streaming on Netflix,

is exactly. Soft and overripe, from the look of it. Which poses the question, when is its cheesiness intentional and when is it clumsy? But why trouble our pretty little heads with those

quandaries when we could sit back deep into the couch and giggle at the story of Mary Morrison, her near-perfect family and the pert and innocent (or is she?) nanny hired to keep an eye on

Mary and husband Tom’s late-in-life young’uns while Mary dives into her final novel in a best-selling series. — Lisa Kennedy Read the full review Operation Varsity Blues: The College

Admissions Scandal (Chris Smith) Where to Find It: Netflix The massive scam that rocked the world of elite college admissions sent Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin to jail — but that

scurrilous saga of fallen celebrity was just the tabloid tip of the iceberg. “Operation Varsity Blues” presents the whole iceberg, in an innovative and compelling way. Smith has virtually

never directed a conventional, just-the-facts-ma’am documentary, and though the film has all the facts, and lays them out with galvanizing clarity and precision, the innovative move Smith

makes is to take FBI transcripts of wiretapped conversations and play them out, in real settings, with actors portraying the relevant people. — Owen Gleiberman Read the full review Get the

Goat (Cabras da Peste) (Vitor Brandt) Where to Find It: Netflix