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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Good Burger 2’ on Paramount+, a Dopey, Cheery Sequel to a Cult Nickelodeon Favorite
Kel Mitchell so easily slips back into moron mode, it's almost scary. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Oppenheimer’ on VOD, Christopher Nolan's Sprawling, Urgent Three-Hour Nuclear Biopic
The filmmaker blows up the genre and reinvents it. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas’ on Apple TV+, in Which the Multi-Hyphenate Delivers a Very 'Ted Lasso' Christmas
The stage and screen star plays the Winking Diva and leans into the things that brought her fame. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Bye Bye Barry’ on Amazon Prime Video, Where Detroit Lions Great Barry Sanders Speaks on His Retirement, Finally
Alternate title: The Agony and the Ecstasy of the Detroit Lions Fan. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Blue Beetle’ on HBO Max, a Mildly Endearing DC Venture That Nevertheless Feeds Our Superhero Ennui
It succeeds at diversifying the comic-book-hero crop, but doesn't achieve much else. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Leo’ on Netflix, in Which Adam Sandler Voices a Lizard Who's Also a Child Psychologist
Stay with me here, because this movie is really funny. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘A Paris Christmas Waltz’ on Great American Family, a Fluffy Snowflake of a Charming Rom-Com
This might be the most expensive -- or at least expensive-looking -- GAF Xmas movie yet. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Santa, Maybe’ on Great American Family, a Holiday Rom-Com Revolving Around A Secret Santa Exchange
This Secret Santa saga isn't particularly scintillating. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Rustin’ on Netflix, a Biopic Lifted by a Marvelously Charismatic Colman Domingo
Domingo might earn an Oscar nod for playing civil rights activist Bayard Rustin. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story’ on Amazon Prime Video, a Documentary Showing How the Media Mogul Did Good All By Himself
From rags to Madea to a media empire. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: 'Albert Brooks: Defending My Life' on Max, an Intimate Retrospective on a Singular Comedy Artist
Rob Reiner turns a chat with his old friend into an insightful documentary. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Christmas Keepsake’ on Great American Family, a Half-Baked Holiday Confection
There's a subplot here about a trifle (as in the dessert) that's all too metaphorical. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Candy Cruz’ on Max, a Sitcom About a Wannabe Chef Who Finds Herself Competing on a Cooking Show
INSERT LAME FOOD METAPHOR HERE. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Killer’ on Netflix, David Fincher's Anti-Emo Procedural Assassin Thriller, Starring Michael Fassbender
In which the filmmaker rediscovers his killer instinct. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Girl Who Killed Her Parents – The Confession’ on Amazon Prime Video, the Third Movie in a Brazilian Series of True Crime Thrillers
Welcome to exploitation city. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Insidious: The Red Door’ on Netflix, The Fifth Outing In The Horror Franchise That Continues To Deliver
Is anybody truly invested in the Insidiousverse? -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Quiz Lady’ on Hulu, Loosey-Goosey Comedy Fun From Awkwafina and Sandra Oh
And Will Ferrell nods to his Trebek impersonation, playing a goofy game-show host. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Sound of Freedom’ on VOD, 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: ‘Wingwomen’ on Netflix, a Turbulent Action-Comedy Smoothed Out by Melanie Laurent and Adele Exarchopoulos
Laurent directs and stars in this familiar, but funny outing. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Fingernails’ on Apple TV+, a Muddled High-Concept Sci-fi-com That Leaves Jessie Buckley High and Dry
Buckley co-stars with Riz Ahmed in a movie that doesn't quite know what to do with them.