A SIMPLE FAVOR (2018) Stream on Amazon. The director Paul Feig might be most closely associated with the rebooted “Ghostbusters” and the dirty comedy of “Bridesmaids.” But he took a darker turn here, directing a mystery adapted from the novel by Darcey Bell. Anna Kendrick plays Stephanie, a widow whose mild fixation with her new friend, Emily (Blake Lively), becomes not-so-mild when Emily goes missing. In her review for The Times, Manohla Dargis called the movie “a female-friendship comedy with neo-noir ambitions,” writing that, despite two well-synchronized stars, the movie “starts stalling out as the narrative feints and dodges increase.”

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HIGHER LEARNING (1995) 6 p.m. on BET. This third feature from the director John Singleton delves into race relations on a 1990s college campus, telling the story of three freshmen (played by Omar Epps, Michael Rapaport and Kristy Swanson) whose lives intermittently overlap as they move toward a haunting climax.