Netflix has been searching for a new “dark crime drama” since Ozark concluded in 2022, said Tim Glanfield in The Times . And with the “glossy” thriller “Black Rabbit”, it feels like it has finally struck gold.

Jude Law stars as Jake Friedken, a “slick operator” whose fashionable restaurant-cum-nightclub Black Rabbit has made him the toast of Manhattan society. When his dishevelled, gambling addict brother Vince (Jason Bateman) comes back into his life, Jake’s first instinct might have been to cast him adrift; but they share a complicated past (including a stint in a band) that binds them – and so instead, he offers him a job.

Their fraternal bond is severely challenged, however, when a gangster turns up, demanding that Vince repay his huge gambling debts, said Lucy Mangan in The

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