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Stream It Or Skip ItStream It Or Skip It: ‘Sleeping Dogs’ on Hulu, a Russell Clowe Movie About an Ex-Detective With Alzheimer's
Crowe's latter-career string of B-movies continues. -
Stream It Or Skip ItStream It Or Skip It: ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’ on VOD, Another Noisy Fracas Leaning on Will Smith and Martin Lawrence's Comic Chemistry
The fourth film in this franchise coasts on fumes. -
Stream It Or Skip ItStream It Or Skip It: ‘Despicable Me 4’ on VOD, Another Entry In This Franchise That Cares More About Jokes Than Coherence
That's not a bad thing, necessarily. -
Stream and ScreamStream It Or Skip It: ‘Suitable Flesh’ on Hulu, in Which Heather Graham Anchors a Sleazy Take on Lovecraftian Horror
The screenwriter of Re-animator and From Beyond returns with another weird, campy horror outing. -
Stream It Or Skip ItStream It Or Skip It: ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ on Hulu, a Rock-Solid New Franchise Entry Proving That Apes Still Together Strong
This is a surprisingly enduring franchise. -
Stream It Or Skip ItStream It Or Skip It: ‘The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’ on Netflix, a Guy Ritchie Action Flick That's All Style, Style, Style
...but no substance. -
Stream It Or Skip ItStream It Or Skip It: ‘Knox Goes Away’ on Max and Hulu, An Excellent Noir Directed By and Starring Michael Keaton
Keaton continues to challenge himself late in his career, playing a hitman afflicted with degenerative memory loss. -
Stream It Or Skip ItStream It Or Skip It: ‘Non Negotiable’ on Netflix, a Mexican Satire About a Hostage Negotiator With Marital Problems
There's just enough solid jokes and suspense here to keep you watching. -
Stream It Or Skip ItStream It Or Skip It: ‘Quad Gods’ on Max, a Quietly Inspirational Documentary About the First-Ever All-Quadriplegic Esports Team
For these gamers, video games provide necessary therapy. -
Stream It Or Skip ItStream It Or Skip It: ‘Abigail’ on Peacock, a Delightfully Gory Vampire Horror-Comedy
In which a crime-thriller slowly becomes an intensely funny gorefest. -
Stream It Or Skip ItStream It Or Skip It: ‘Challengers’ on MGM+, in Which a Sporting Zendaya Anchors a Wildly Entertaining Stylegasm
It's about tennis, but it's really barely about tennis. Which is to say it's about sex, sex, sex. -
Stream It Or Skip ItStream It Or Skip It: ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ on VOD, a Surprisingly Poignant Apocalyptic Thriller Anchored by Lupita Nyong'o (And Her Cat!)
To any haters of this movie: meow. -
Stream It Or Skip ItStream It Or Skip It: ‘The Animal Kingdom’ on Hulu, a Bizarre French Fable About Human-Animal Hybrids
One of society's greatest fears is dramatized here: What if a virus began transforming humans into bird persons and teen wolves? -
Stream It Or Skip ItStream It Or Skip It: ‘Breakin’ On the One’ on Hulu, a Documentary Zooming In on the Moment When Hip Hop Came to Prominence
In 1981, two breakdancing crews battled -- and the rest, as they say, is history. -
Stream It Or Skip ItStream It Or Skip It: ‘Bob Marley: One Love’ on Prime Video, A Biopic of a Music Legend and International Inspiration
Kingsley Ben-Adir plays the reggae icon. -
Stream It Or Skip ItStream It Or Skip It: ‘Young Woman and the Sea’ on Disney+, an Old-Fashioned Biopic of Endurance Swimmer Gertrude Ederle
Daisy Ridley plays the first woman to swim across the English Channel. -
Stream It Or Skip ItStream It Or Skip It: ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ on Netflix, an Exhumation of Past Franchise Glories
Call this one Ghostbusters: Night of Too Many Characters. -
Stream It Or Skip ItStream It Or Skip It: A24's ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ on Max, a Deliriously Deranged and Horny Queer Noir Starring Kristen Stewart
Katy O'Brian breaks out as Stewart's lover in this wild, violent romance. -
Stream It Or Skip ItStream It Or Skip It: ‘Skywalkers: A Love Story’ on Netflix, a By-Turns Phony and Truthful Documentary About a Death-Defying Couple
These loonies illegally climb buildings for social media clout. -
Stream It Or Skip ItStream It Or Skip It: ‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’ on VOD, Viggo Mortensen's Sort-of-Feminist Western, Brought to Life by Vicky Krieps
Mortensen writes, directs and stars, but he knows Krieps is the true star.
