What to Watch on TV and at the Movies This Week

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Black Rabbit

In a star-studded thriller series set in New York’s bustling nightlife, Jude Law, 52, and Jason Bateman, 56, play estranged brothers pushed to the edge. One of them (Bateman in a scraggly beard) owes a lot of money to the types of people you don’t want to owe money to and is forced to ask his restaurant-owning sibling (Law) for help.

Watch it: Black Rabbit , Sept. 18 on Netflix

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The Summer I Turned Pretty (finale)

Isabel “Belly” Conklin (Lola Tung) is still sorting out her feelings about the heartthrob Fisher brothers (Christopher Briney and Gavin Casalegno), who have each staked a claim on her affections since high school. The third and final season jumped four years into the future, with Briney’s Conrad now in med school and Casalegno’s Jeremiah planning his wedding to Belly after an impulsive proposal. Will she actually walk down the aisle — and which brother will be waiting for her at the altar?

Watch it: The Summer I Turned Pretty, Sept. 17 on Prime Video 

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New at the movies this week

⭐⭐⭐☆ ☆ A Big Bold Beautiful Journey , R

Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie are big, beautiful A-listers. But do they have chemistry? Only inconsistently in this contrived romantic oddity. Farrell plays lonely love seeker David. Robbie’s Sarah is a love ‘em and leave ‘em before they can leave you beauty. The attractive but damaged strangers take a fantastic journey in magical rental cars dispatched by Kevin Kline, 77, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge to various portals to the past (think A Christmas Carol): a mother’s death, a fiancé’s rejection. This narrative trick allows the pretty pair to pry themselves from their inhibitions and face their relationship demons. When David returns to star in his high school musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Farrell slays as a singer and dancer. By turns painfully whimsical and deeply moving, it’s one big beautiful mess that could have been bolder. –Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, Sept. 18 in theaters

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⭐⭐⭐⭐ ☆ Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, R

It’s hard to believe 40 years have passed since Rob Reiner’s beloved mockumentary about a ridiculous British metal band that ran through drummers more quickly than groupies. Now Reiner, 78, has returned for a genially diffuse sequel in which David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean, 77), Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest, 77) and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer, 81) prep for a reunion concert — at a venue where “An Evening With Stormy Daniels” canceled at the last minute. There are plenty of chuckles throughout: David now composes hold music for customer-service calls while the management team suggests new merch like a Stonehenge-shaped bottle of Tap Water. But it’s harder for the gang to crank up the laughs to 11 as the gang once did, and prolonged cameos by stars like Paul McCartney, 83, and Elton John, 78, tend to peter out like instrumental B-sides. —Thom Geier

Watch it: Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, in theaters

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⭐⭐⭐⭐ ☆ Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale , PG

Set in the summer of 1930, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale is a great, big, comfy upholstered couch of a finale. The band is back together after the long-running British series (and film franchise) about the aristocratic Crawley clan and their servants. Scandal-plagued divorcée Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) makes one last ridiculously bad romantic decision before ascending to take over the Downton estate. Lord and Lady Grantham (Hugh Bonneville, 61, and Elizabeth McGovern, 64) prepare to fade into the landscape while spunky servant Daisy (Sophie McShera) readies to take over the kitchen and loyal ladies’ maid Anna (Joanne Froggatt) aims for motherhood as all the plot threads are double-knotted. New addition Noël Coward (Artie Froushan) cheekily leads the group, upstairs and down, in a final apt rendition of Poor Little Rich Girl. The Grand Finale should ideally be seen in a theater surrounded by a costumed audience of fans cosplaying their favorite characters — as long as one Downton diehard isn’t wearing a top hat. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, in theaters