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A guide to the movies you should be watching, at home or in theaters, as curated by freelance writer and film critic Marshall Shaffer.

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Weekday posts (everyone)

This newsletter will be much more utility-focused with an emphasis on streaming lists. This is the “news you can use” piece of Marshall and the Movies.

The first week of every month will be the best movies added to popular streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and Disney Plus. The last week of every month will be the movies you have to catch before they depart streaming sites.

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Forget BABYLON, Watch These Docs Instead
Happy Boxing Day! (I once thought this meant the sport of boxing.) Whether you’re in recovery mode or coasting off the good times, hope everyone is having a nice day. I’m admittedly a bit depressed by how little there is to see out in theaters while at home in Houston — this is usually the week for platform releases to start breaking wide or for earlier …
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A Streamer's Guide to Sundance 2023
Up on the slopes of Park City, some of the year’s most helpful new releases are playing before rapt crowds. I, once again, abandoned the parka and snow boots to just do another year of virtual Sundance. (More on that next week.) But if I’m not at Sundance in the flesh, I usually still do some “homework” once the lineup drops. Sure, I’m not watching the n…
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Every A24 Movie, Ranked
A decade ago this weekend, the indie label A24 distributed its first movie. (That title was the unremarkable A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, which hardly set the world on fire.) But they quickly established a reputation as the rare film studio with a brand identity of its own. The A24 logo became an imprimatur of quality — or, at the very…
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Weekend posts (subscribers only)

These will be the dealer’s choice, so to speak. You might get a deep dive into a favorite movie, an emerging trend, or an obscure sidebar on streaming. Maybe it will be a piece based on a pitch that I couldn’t get picked up for another outlet. Consider it a mystery box that will land in your inbox at the end of each week and provide enlightenment as well as a bit of surprise.

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THE DARJEELING LIMITED at 15
15 years ago today, Wes Anderson released The Darjeeling Limited (available to stream on Hulu) into the world…
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