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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Good Grief’ on Netflix, Dan Levy's Mopey Sort-of-Comedy About Loss
The Schitt's Creek co-creator and star writes and directs his first film. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Foe’ on Amazon Prime Video, in Which a Sci-fi Dystopia Disrupts Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal's Troubled Marriage
In which two past Oscar nominees struggle to survive in a cruddy screenplay. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Society of the Snow’ on Netflix, J.A. Bayona's Take on a Familiar Story of Survival and Cannibalism
Thirty years after Alive, we get another dramatization of the Andes rugby-team plane crash. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Bitconned’ on Netflix, an Entertaining Documentary Portrait of a Sleazy Crypto Crook
You'll instantly hate the main subject of this movie. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Time Bomb Y2K’ on Max, a Trove of VHS-era Archival Clips Telling the Story of a Near Disaster
Did the world almost end on 01/01/00? Maybe. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Equalizer 3’ on Netflix, Another Denzel Washington Thriller About An Aging Assassin
The Antoine Fuqua-directed trilogy comes to a close while underutilizing its immensely talented star. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘A Vampire in the Family’ on Netflix, a Leandro Hassum Slapstick Comedy That's Just Plain Bats
TIL that vampires can't be tagged in social media posts. It's just logical, I guess. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Holdovers’ on Peacock, a Would-be Future Classic Christmas Dramedy from Alexander Payne
Star Paul Giamatti has never been so, well, GIAMATTI. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Sound of Freedom’ on Prime Video, the Child-Trafficking Movie That Became a Culture War Flashpoint And Box Office Sensation
It's not really a Qanon movie, even though Jim Caviezel stars in it. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Hell Camp: Teen Nightmare’ on Netflix, a Sloppy Documentary About the Serious Subject of 'Wilderness Therapy'
The doc takes a sensationalist approach to a serious topic. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Maggie Moore(s)’ on Hulu, a Crime-Comedy Wherein Jon Hamm and Tina Fey Kindle Some Romantic Chemistry
You could do worse than to watch a watery Coen Bros. derivative, I guess. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Saltburn’ on Amazon Prime Video, Emerald Fennell's Provocative Sort-of-Satire for Provocation's Sake
Fennell follows up Promising Young Woman by casting Barry Keoghan as a slippery little worm eating the rich from the inside. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire’ on Netflix, Zack Snyder's Space Opera-Slash-Western-Slash-Snoozefest
The movie is the first of a hopeful new franchise. "Hopeful" only if you're Zack Snyder, though. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: 'Beau is Afraid' on Paramount+, an Epic Psychosexual Nightmare Like No Other
Joaquin Phoenix and director Ari Aster are two great tastes who make bad taste together. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Creator’ on Hulu, a Modestly Compelling Sci-Fi Outing About AI and its Implications
The definition of "alive" isn't quite so simple in a world shared by humans and sentient robots. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Maestro’ on Netflix, Bradley Cooper's Overtly Artsy Leonard Bernstein Biopic
Is it great or merely indulgent? There's no easy answer to that. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Blue Jean’ on Hulu, a Quiet, Poignant LGBTQ+ Drama Set During Thatcher's Reign
It's a remarkable indie debut from director Georgia Oakley. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Family Plan’ on Apple TV+, a Weirdly Violent Mark Wahlberg Action-Comedy Intended For Families
This is a purported family-friendly movie that’s an action/road-trip comedy about a dad who’s also secretly a reformed government assassin ... and I can hear you yawning already. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget’ on Netflix, an Acceptably Amusing Sequel That Lacks the Usual Aardman Special Sauce
Twenty-three years after the first movie, we finally get a follow-up. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Barbie’ on HBO Max, Where Greta Gerwig Makes Clever, Intelligent, Unfailingly Funny Art Out of Corporate IP
Barbie may just be both the smartest and funniest movie of 2023.