Clockwise from top: Black Rabbit, The Morning Show, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, and The Summer I Turned Pretty finale.
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection, Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection, Erika Doss/Prime, Apple TV+
It’s been a big, very bold, and not-quite-beautiful week in Hollywood. Life is feeling more Cabaret by the second. Your local movie theater is no Kit Kat Club, but hey, it’s a dark room to Zen out in for about two hours. Here are our picks for the weekend:
What’s Jason Bateman’s deal? He loves to play a guy stuck in some shifty situations. In Black Rabbit, Bateman plays Vince, the addiction-addled brother of Jude Law’s restaurateur, Jake. When he reappears in Jake’s life, the two are forced to confront some uncomfortable truths (and loan sharks).
➽ It’s the most stressful restaurant show of all time.
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey follows a pair of singles, Sarah and David (Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell), who are sent on a road trip that tries to charmingly examine their past to explore their potential together. It’s the most ambitious film yet from Kogonada, who previously directed Farrell in After Yang.
We’re not getting a Jordan Peele horror in 2026 like we thought, but we’re getting a horror produced by Peele’s production company, Monkeypaw, in 2025, so close enough, right? Tyriq Withers plays a young football player, Cameron, who looks up to a famous quarterback played by Marlon Wayans. When he invites Cam to his private compound, a chance at greatness turns into some increasingly horrific training.
“The show is ludicrous, but our own reality is equally, if differently, ludicrous (see: professional troll Bari Weiss may soon be in charge of CBS News), and I can’t help but find The Morning Show’s depiction of the twilight of television news compulsively watchable.”
(Now streaming on Apple TV+; read more of McHenry’s review here.)
Season two of Gen V is getting a power upgrade, complete with cameos from The Boys’s own Starlight (Erin Moriarty), the Deep (Chace Crawford), and Homelander (Antony Starr). After the bloody events of season one, the former Guardians of Godolkin (Jaz Sinclair, London Thor, Derek Luh, and Lizze Broadway) are sent back to university, where new dean Cipher (Hamish Linklater) is up to something, we’re sure. Oh, and did we mention Ethan Slater is in the cast this season?
Ron Howard’s Oscar-winning film Apollo 13 is marking its 30th anniversary with an Imax rerelease. Houston, we won’t have a problem seeing this thrilling true story on the biggest screen possible.
“The Summer I Turned Pretty was Cain and Abel if they both fell in love with the same girl — the girl who was raised alongside them as a sister, mind you, in a town called Cousins, also mind you — and then duked it out for their entire adolescence and early adulthood, stopping just short of fratricide (and I mean just short).”
Writer Rachel Handler pays tribute to Jenny Han’s addictive and freaky YA show as it closes out its run. Well, sort of.
“As it goes, Streisand specifically requested Redford as her leading man; he was initially reluctant to make a fluffy romance movie and unaware that it would become one of his most beloved. As for why she asked for him, well: Have you seen Robert Redford in the ’70s? All jawline and tawny hair, strapping, like he’s made of marble? He is a man so attractive that looking directly at him is like trying to look into the sun.” —Christina Newland on the power of Robert Redford in the heartbreaking romance movie The Way We Were, available on VOD.
For more Redford classics, here are a few recommendations:
➽Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, available on VOD.
➽All Is Lost, streaming on Prime Video.
➽Ordinary People, streaming on Fubo, Philo, and MGM+.
I’m choosing to believe the power of Nicholas Hoult’s recent selfie is the reason Superman is coming to streaming. The people want Hoult! And as the reigning superhero movie of the year, it’s clear the people want David Corenswet’s Superman! I’ll just have that Lois Lane vs. Clark Kent vs. Superman interview scene playing on repeat, thanks.
➽ And then there’s Pixar’s Elio, which didn’t make much of a dent in theaters, but it’ll probably do incredibly well on Disney+. The kids gotta watch something.
Want more? Read our recommendations from the weekend of September 12.
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