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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Simon Wardell

The Gorge to Compartment No 6: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller in The Gorge.
What lies beneath … Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller in The Gorge. Photograph: Laura Radford/Apple TV+/AP

Pick of the week
The Gorge

Lithuanian sniper Drasa (Anya Taylor-Joy) and retired US Marine sharpshooter Levi (Miles Teller) are separately selected for the same top-secret job: to guard a mist-covered gorge in remote mountains and stop whatever is in there from getting out. They are stationed on opposite sides – one Russian-run, the other American – so their remote meet-cute develops into a romance across the divide. In Scott Derrickson’s sleek horror thriller, there’s plenty of tracer bullet gunplay and squishy combat with the mysterious creatures that dwell below, but it’s the chemistry of Taylor-Joy and Teller that lifts the piece – a sexy pair who just happen to be highly proficient killers.
Out now, Apple TV+

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