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What to stream: ‘Only Murders’ with Steve Martin on Hulu, ‘Cinderella’ with Camilla Cabello on Amazon, ‘Worth’ on Netflix

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Plus ‘Undine’ on Hulu, ‘Afterlife of the Party’ on Netflix, Billie Eilish on Disney+, ‘9/11’ documentaries on Netflix, Hulu, and Apple TV+, and more…

Simon Yam stars in the South Korean heist thriller

‘The Thieves’ – Korean high tech heist on Viki and free on Hoopla

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The Thieves (South Korea, 2012) is Asia’s answer to the Ocean’s films, a sleek, snappy heist movie with plenty of working parts, eccentric personalities, and convoluted plotlines complicated even more by a confusing flashback structure more entertaining than elucidating and more twists than you can easily track. The basic premise brings together two separate crack […]

‘The Mimic’ on Amazon Prime and Shudder

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The ghost story The Mimic (South Korea, 2017) draws its premise a Korean myth of a tiger that mimics human voices to lure its victims into the forest, but it goes its own way from there. Hee-yun (Yum Jung-ah), still grieving over the unsolved disappearance of her son, moves from the city to her rural […]