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Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon as Scott Thorson in Behind the Candelabra

‘Behind the Candelabra’ – Michael Douglas is Liberace on HBO Max

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Steven Soderbergh’s film of the tell-all memoir by Liberace’s young lover (played by Matt Damon) won 11 Emmy Awards.

Daniel Day-Lewis is ‘Lincoln’ on Prime Video

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Steven Spielberg directs this fascinating historical drama about how Lincoln passed the 13th Amendment to the American Constitution, which abolished slavery.

Steven Spielberg’s ‘Catch Me If You Can’ on Paramount+

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FBI agent Tom Hanks chases check forger Leonardo DiCaprio in Spielberg’s lively take on the true story of a con man who successfully posed as a pilot, a lawyer, and a doctor, and passed millions in forged checks, all before his 21st birthday.

Last chance: ‘Moneyball’ – the business of baseball on Netflix

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Brad Pitt makes it look effortless in this a drama about the business of baseball in the era of multi-million dollar payrolls, which It earned six Academy Award nominations.

What to stream: ‘Tokyo Vice’ and ‘Tony Hawk’ on HBO Max, ‘All the Old Knives’ on Prime Video, ‘Harry Wild’ on Acorn TV

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Plus ‘Licorice Pizza’ and ‘Parallel Mothers’ on VOD, ‘Metal Lords’ on Netflix, ‘The Invisible Pilot’ on HBO Max, John Ford classics on Criterion Channel

What to stream: ‘The Last Duel’ on HBO Max, ‘A Hero’ on Prime Video, ‘Munich’ on Netflix

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Plus ‘Somebody Somewhere’ on HBO Max, ‘Single Drunk Female’ and ‘How I Met Your Father’ on Hulu, ‘As We See It’ on Prime Video, and more ‘Ozark’ on Netflix.

Denzel Washington is ‘Malcolm X’ on HBO Max

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Spike Lee’s epic biographical drama of the controversial civil rights leader earned Washington his first Oscar nomination for best actor.

What to stream: ‘Dopesick’ on Hulu, ‘Guilty Party’ on Paramount+, ‘Halloween Kills’ on Peacock

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Plus ‘The Velvet Underground’ on Hulu, ‘The Trip’ on Netflix, ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ series on Amazon, ‘Free Guy’ and ‘The Green Knight’ on VOD and more…

‘Friday Night Lights: Complete Series’ on Netflix, Hulu, and Peacock

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The acclaimed drama set in a high school in a small Texas town is not so much a sports drama as a drama about people whose lives were—for better and for worse—defined by sports.

Last chance: Morgan Freeman is Nelson Mandella in ‘Invictus’ on Netflix

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Morgan Freeman plays Nelson Mandella as the newly-elected President of South Africa in Invictus (2009), Clint Eastwood’s reverent tribute to Nelson Mandella’s efforts to unite post-apartheid South Africa. This isn’t a biography of Mandella. Audiences come to the film with the understanding that Nelson Mandella spent 24 years in prison for protesting South Africa’s apartheid […]