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John Serba
- First Movie I Ever Saw:
- Star Wars
- First Binge
- The Sopranos
- All-Time Faves
- Everything Werner Herzog, ‘Pulp Fiction,’ ‘Unforgiven,’ Hitchcock’s ‘Notorious,’ ‘WALL-E,’ ‘My Neighbor Totoro,’ ‘Fargo,’ ‘Aliens,’ ‘RoboCop,’ ‘Deadwood,’ ‘The Simpsons’
- Current Obsession
- ‘Russian Doll,’ ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’
- If I Were A GIF...
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The Latest
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Flynn’ on VOD, a Fawning Documentary Detailing Michael Flynn's War with the "Deep State"
By John Serba •The former military general and Trump adviser executive-produced his own autobiographical doc. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Boy and the Heron’ on VOD, Hayao Miyazaki's New Masterpiece of Heart and Vision
By John Serba •The singular filmmaker's own childhood is the core of this surreal and beautiful story. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘A Family Affair’ on Netflix, a Throwback-y Rom-Com Starring Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron and Joey King
By John Serba •Joey King, Zac Efron and Nicole Kidman wring some solid laughs out of a cliched screenplay. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Fancy Dance’ on Apple TV+, a Thoughtful Thriller Held Aloft by Lily Gladstone
By John Serba •Assuage the disappointment of Gladstone's Oscar loss with this confident, charismatic performance. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Drawing Closer’ on Netflix, A J-Romance Weepie About Not One But TWO Dying Teens
By John Serba •BOTH protagonists are dying of incurable diseases. Will they kiss before they croak or what? -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Price of Nonna’s Inheritance’ on Netflix, a Lazy Comedy That'll Grate on Your Nerves
By John Serba •The same dysfunctional family from The Price of Family sets out to kill a man, and no surprise, they suck at it. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Prey’ on Hulu, a Chintzy Lions-Attack Survival Story Starring Emile Hirsch
By John Serba •This movie seems to have spent most of its budget at the stock footage library. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ on VOD, a Visionary, Action-Rich 'Fury Road' Prequel
By John Serba •Appropriately gauge your expectations, and you'll love it. -
Decider After Dark
Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ on Netflix, the Quasi-Naughty Sex-Dungeon Romance Starring Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan
By John Serba •Laters, baby. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Out of Darkness’ on Paramount+ with Showtime, a Smart, Dynamic Prehistoric-Humans Horror-Thriller
By John Serba •This one is teeming with Robert Eggers vibes. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Accidental Twins’ on Netflix, a Touching Documentary About a Crazy Switched-at-Birth Scenario
By John Serba •Truth, as ever, is stranger than fiction. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Aftersun’ on Netflix, a Pensive, Moving Father-Daughter Drama From Gifted Filmmaker Charlotte Wells
By John Serba •The film has been riding a wave of acclaim since Cannes. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Trigger Warning’ on Netflix, a Rock-Solid Actioner Headlined by a Game Jessica Alba
By John Serba •Could this be the beginning of the ALBANAISSANCE? Hopefully! -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘IF’ on VOD, a Muddled Bummer of a Family Flick About Imaginary Friends And Bittersweet Yearning
By John Serba •Ryan Reynolds looks lost in this well-intentioned, but weird failure of a movie from director John Krasinski. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Remembering Gene Wilder’ on Netflix, a Warm Reminiscence of a Comedy Legend
By John Serba • 135 SharesThe highlights: Analytical insights into some of Wilder's most iconic movie scenes. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘I Saw the TV Glow’ on VOD, a Surreal Horror-Drama About Teens, TV and Tormented Identity
By John Serba •Filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun shows Lynchian vision and a willingness to "embrace incoherence." -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Monkey Man’ on Peacock, Dev Patel's Wild and Brutal Action-Revenge Epic
By John Serba •In his first directorial effort, Patel throws everything at the wall and a lot of it sticks. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Brats’ on Hulu, Andrew McCarthy's Lightly Therapeutic Brat Pack Retrospective
By John Serba •The actor tracks down his fellow '80s stars to look back on a phenomenon. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Kubra: Season 2’ on Netflix, in Which the Commingling of Religion, Tech and Politics Intensifies
By John Serba •Ideas abound in this suspenseful thriller series. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Origin’ on Hulu, Ava DuVernay's Unwieldy but Powerful Drama About the Basis of Racism
By John Serba •The director uses multiple styles and narrative threads to piece together the birth of Isabel Wilkerson's bestselling nonfiction book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.