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What’s StreamingNEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS (2020) Rent on Amazon, Fandango Now, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube. A teenager goes on a subtly perilous journey to terminate her pregnancy in “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” the latest feature from the filmmaker Eliza Hittman. The movie follows Autumn (Sidney Flanigan), a 17-year-old who can’t get an abortion in her central Pennsylvania hometown without parental permission, which isn’t in the cards for her. So she takes a bus to New York, where she can have the procedure without permission. But the city presents its own host of challenges. Manohla Dargis called the movie a “low-key knockout” in her review for The Times. “Hittman is telling a story,” Dargis added, “but she’s also making a quietly fierce argument about female sovereignty.”DOLITTLE (2020) Rent on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube. This most recent reimagining of the children’s literature character Doctor Dolittle was a bit of a box-office dud, but young viewers stuck at home may be able to get an escapist thrill from it. “Dolittle” casts Robert Downey Jr. as the animal-whispering doctor, first dreamed up a century ago by Hugh Lofting. This reboot gives Dolittle a tragic back story, and has him in seclusion when the plot kicks off. His solitude doesn’t last: The doctor is soon called upon to aid Queen Victoria (Jessie Buckley), who has been poisoned by a substance whose cure — inconveniently or conveniently, depending on your appetite for swashbuckling — can only be retrieved by sailing to a distant, exotic land. Don’t expect to feel fully on board: In her review for The Times, Manohla Dargis called the movie “a dreary, overextended yawn.”What’s on TVSHAQ LIFE 9 p.m. on TNT. “Look, I’m not one to be narrating TV shows,” Samuel L. Jackson says while narrating this TV show. “But when Shaq calls, I answer.” See Shaquille O’Neal sniff a scented candle, toss pizza dough, buy shoes, D.J. and more in this new reality series, which gives Shaq’s admirers a window into his remarkably busy life as a retired professional basketball player — and an opportunity to live vicariously through him. Sprinkled throughout are pieces of insight from Shaq, who in the first episode gives a young man advice on attending an eighth-grade dance. “Listen,” he says. “If the dance starts at 8, show up at 8:15.”ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP (2019) 7:20 p.m. on Starz. Rotten flesh and nostalgia fly across the screen in “Zombieland: Double Tap,” the latecomer sequel to 2009’s “Zombieland.” Like the first movie, this violent comedy sees Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Abigail Breslin and Emma Stone butchering the undead in creative ways — this time with the help of Rosario Dawson, Luke Wilson, Zoey Deutch and other newcomers. “The whole movie is very 2009,” A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The Times, “which is amusing and puzzling and possibly kind of a relief, given what ‘very 2019’ might look like.” More

What’s StreamingPARASITE (2019) Stream on Hulu; rent on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube. The South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho won an armful of Oscars for “Parasite,” a comedic thriller that this year became the first film not in English to earn the Academy Award for best picture. The movie takes aim at social stratification: Set in South Korea, it centers on a poor family whose members begin working for a wealthy one. Their story, first comic, then shocking, involves tutoring, deception and pizza. In her review for The New York Times, Manohla Dargis called the film “brilliant and deeply unsettling.” She wrote that Bong “creates specific spaces and faces — outer seamlessly meets inner here — that are in service to universal ideas about human dignity, class, life itself.”THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER (2017) Stream on Netflix; rent on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube. For another whirligig story in which a well-off family’s life is upended, see this stylized thriller from the Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos. Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell star as married doctors whose world is rattled by a young man named Martin (Barry Keoghan), who seeks revenge for an incident that happened years before. Lanthimos “is less interested in moral shock therapy or social criticism than in aesthetic estrangement,” A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The Times. “‘Sacred Deer’ feels like a dark, opaque bit of folklore transplanted into an off-kilter modern setting.”ONWARD (2020) Stream on Disney Plus; rent on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube. Two elves trade the quiet, suburban life for an epic quest in “Onward,” the latest offering from Pixar. Those elves — Ian (voiced by Tom Holland) and Barley (Chris Pratt) — are brothers living in a post-fantasy world, where magic has been largely supplanted by technology. When their mother (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) gives them an enchanted staff that has the power to bring their dead father back to life (for a limited time only), the pair jump at the opportunity. The spell only half-works: They manage to summon their dad, but only from the hips down. Bringing back his upper half will require them to trek through their land of pixies and other mythical creatures in search of more magic. “Ian and Barley’s journey plays as disappointingly routine, a checklist of mechanically foreshadowed heart-to-hearts and lessons learned, leavened by the occasional offbeat sight gag,” Ben Kenigsberg wrote in his review for The Times. Still, Kenigsberg wrote, the filmmakers “have clearly had fun imagining a milieu with belligerent biker sprites and cops who are centaurs or Cyclopes.”What’s on TVMODERN FAMILY 9 p.m. on ABC. After 11 seasons, Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan’s three-family sitcom will come to a close, with an hourlong series finale. Before that, at 8 p.m., ABC will air “A Modern Farewell,” a documentary about the show’s behind-the-scenes life. The fact that the show is itself a mockumentary should make that documentary feel quite meta. More