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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: ‘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. -
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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 • 117 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 • 116 SharesThe 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. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Mulligan: Season 2’ on Netflix, Which Offers More Gummy Satire and Pop-Culture References For Your Shrugging Bemusement
By John Serba •Tina Fey returns as a key voice actor in this joke-a-second series. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Perfect Days’ on Hulu, Wim Wenders' Profound Rumination on Beautiful Toilets, and the Tender Soul Who Cleans Them
By John Serba •One of the best films of 2023, easy. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Hit Man’ on Netflix, a Fizzy Rom-Com/Thriller Cementing Glen Powell's Superstar Charms
By John Serba •Powell co-writes with director Richard Linklater and co-stars with Adria Arjona, a combo that generates potent comedic chemistry. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Viewer Discretion Advised: The Story of OnlyFans and Courtney Clenney’ on Tubi, a True Crime-Meets-Naked People Documentary
By John Serba •In a word, yuck. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘How to Rob a Bank’ on Netflix, a Gripping Documentary About a Notorious 1990s Bank-Robbery Spree
By John Serba •The criminal at the center of this story is an infamous type who had the cops playing whack-a-mole for several years.