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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘It Lives Inside’ on Hulu, A Culture-Rich Horror Movie Starring Megan Suri
"If you face a Pishach alone, you won't come out alive." -
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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: 'Dave Chappelle: The Dreamer' On Netflix, Where The Comedian Has Fulfilled His Lifelong Dream If Not Also Yours
His dream does not include an hour free of trans jokes, tho. -
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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: 'Doctor Who Holiday Special: The Church on Ruby Road' on Disney+, in Which Ncuti Gatwa Has A Delightful Debut as the Fifteenth Doctor
Celebrate Christmas with the gift of a brand new era of Doctor Who! -
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Stream It Or Skip It: 'Ricky Gervais: Armageddon' On Netflix, A Christmas Release Where The Comedian Doesn't Aim To Bring Anyone Peace
“You’ll realize this is great satire when I’m dead.” -
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Stream It Or Skip It: 'Christmas Revisited' on OWN, A Half-Baked Holiday Movie About Old Friends Reuniting At A Cabin For Christmas
The Big Chill, but make it Christmasy. -
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Stream It or Skip It?: 'A Royal Christmas Holiday' on Great American Family, in Which A Journalist and A Prince Predictably Fall in Love
What this movie lacks in a Prince Charming it makes up for in a Prince of Eyebrow Acting. -
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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: ‘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.