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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: ‘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. -
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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. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Under Paris’ on Netflix, a Shark-in-the-Seine Thriller That Delivers the Ludicrousness You Crave
By John Serba •A massive shark. In the river. On the eve of a triathlon. What more do you need? -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Our Son’ on Peacock, Starring Luke Evans as Half of a Fractured Gay Couple in a Lightly Poignant Drama
By John Serba •The movie touches on a few difficult, universal truths about marriage. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Back to Black’ on VOD, a Messy Amy Winehouse Biopic That'll Have You Screaming "No, No, No"
By John Serba •This probably goes without saying, but: The memory of Amy deserves better. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘I.S.S.’ on Paramount+, a Space Station Thriller Starring Oscar-Winner Ariana DeBose
By John Serba •The premise sets up many intriguing possibilities that the movie ignores for overly familiar junk. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Promised Land’ on Hulu, in Which Mads Mikkelsen And His Big Ass Potatoes Carry a Gripping Historical Drama
By John Serba •It's a metaphor, the potatoes. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘A Part of You’ on Netflix, a Teen Grief-and-Loss Drama Bolstered by a Brilliant Felicia Maxime Performance
By John Serba •The movie gives off some YA vibes, but avoids most of the cliches. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Godzilla Minus One’ on Netflix, a Powerful, Poignant New Classic in the Kaiju Pantheon
By John Serba •This might be the best Godzilla epic since the 1954 original. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘In Good Hands 2’ on Netflix, a Mawkish Sequel to a Turkish Terminal-Illness Weepie
By John Serba •Life goes on for the characters who didn't die in the first movie. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Jim Henson: Idea Man’ on Disney+, Ron Howard's Insightful Profile of a Showbiz Genius
By John Serba •Jim Henson was 1/1, a true innovator. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The First Omen’ on Hulu, a Shockingly Relevant, Well-Made Horror Prequel
By John Serba •Even more shocking, this movie stands pretty well on its own despite being yet another slab of IP.