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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.

‘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.

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

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FBI agent Tom Hanks chases check forger Leonardo DiCaprio in Steven Spielberg’s lively take on the true story of a con man who successfully passed himself off as a pilot, a lawyer, and a doctor, and passed over $4 million in forged checks, all before his 21st birthday.

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 […]

Daniel Day-Lewis is ‘Lincoln’ on HBO Max

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Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (2012), scripted by Tony Kushner, guided by Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book “A Team of Rivals,” ” casts a spotlight on one of the most important political actions in American history: passing the 13th Amendment to the American Constitution, which abolished slavery. In compelling detail, this film shows the art and craft of […]

What to stream: ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ and ‘Mosul’ on Netflix, ‘Uncle Frank’ on Amazon, ‘The Flight Attendant’ on HBO Max

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Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … “Hillbilly Elegy” (2020, R), based on the bestselling memoir by J.D. Vance, stars Gabriel Basso as a Yale law student drawn back to his Northern Kentucky home to deal with his meth-addict mother […]