Short List: What's Hot This Weekend

TIME'S PICKS FOR THE WEEK

1 | TELEVISION Damages FX's sleek legal thriller is back, with sharky litigator Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) taking the case of a whistle-blower (William Hurt). Protégé Ellen (Rose Byrne), meanwhile, is building a case against Patty, who she believes tried to have her killed. And you thought your boss was rough.

2 | MOVIE The Class Originally called Between the Walls, Laurent Cantet's docudrama never leaves the Paris school where a teacher (François Bégaudeau) copes with and learns from his polyracial students. Affecting but not bathetic, this artful study goes to the head of the foreign-film class.

3 | ALBUM Dark...

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