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Stream It Or Skip It: 'The Bad Orphan' on Lifetime, In Which a Manipulative Orphan Makes Her Adopted Mom Lose Her Mind
But seriously though, how old was that orphan?! -
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Stream It Or Skip It: 'Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer' On Dropout, VidCon Co-Founder Finds His Way In Recovery Through Comedy
“Like any good stand-up comedy show, this one has corrections.” -
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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
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
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
BOTH protagonists are dying of incurable diseases. Will they kiss before they croak or what? -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Hate To Love: Nickelback’ on Netflix, A Doc That Tracks The Band’s Success In The Midst Of “You Suck!” Chants
Hate to Love: Nickelback dips a little into the band’s status as a target of meme culture. But it’s mostly a doc about a band who nowadays are veterans of ... -
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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
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: 'Federer: Twelve Final Days' on Prime Video, a "Home Video" Of The Tennis Great's Farewell Tour
Roger Federer is arguably the greatest male tennis player who ever lived, and walking away from a career like his couldn’t have been easy. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Prey’ on Hulu, a Chintzy Lions-Attack Survival Story Starring Emile Hirsch
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
Appropriately gauge your expectations, and you'll love it. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: 'Diane von Furstenberg: Woman In Charge' on Hulu, Where The Fashion Icon Attributes Her Success and Happiness To "Living A Man's Life In A Woman's Body"
Who turns down a threesome with Jagger and Bowie? DVF, that's who. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Out of Darkness’ on Paramount+ with Showtime, a Smart, Dynamic Prehistoric-Humans Horror-Thriller
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
Truth, as ever, is stranger than fiction. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: 'Two Scoops of Italy' on the Hallmark Channel, About An American Girl, An Italian Guy, And The Gelato That Brings Them Together
Ice cream-based romance is my favorite kind of romance. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Trigger Warning’ on Netflix, a Rock-Solid Actioner Headlined by a Game Jessica Alba
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
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: 'Yoga Teacher Killer: The Kaitlin Armstrong Story' on Lifetime, Where Being a Pick-Me Girl is Perhaps the Greatest Crime of All
If a woman's resume includes working in finance and teaching yoga, you'd think you'd know to stay away... or at least to not give her a gun. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: 'A Greek Recipe For Romance' on The Hallmark Channel Is Just An Okay Recipe For A Movie
Two strangers find love in the cradle of Western civilization in Hallmark's newest international romance.