
Watch on Netflix, rent on Amazon and Google Play 23. Watch on Showtime, rent on Amazon and Google Play 30. Watch on Netflix, rent on Amazon and Google Play 31.

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Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), 101 min. Watch on Netflix, rent on Amazon and Google Play 40. Watch on Hulu and Yahoo, rent on Amazon 41. Watch on Starz, rent on Amazon and Google Play 43. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), 95 min. Watch on Amazon Prime and Google Play 47. Watch on Netflix and Showtime, rent on Amazon 50. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), 115 min. Watch on Netflix, rent on Amazon and Google PlayĦ0. Watch on Netflix and Hulu, rent on Amazon 62. Watch on Sundance, rent on Amazon and Google Play 65.

Watch on Netflix, rent on Amazon and Google Play 73. What We Do in the Shadows (2014), 86 min. Newsweek critic David Ansen wondered if studios weren’t reluctant to give notes to some of the biggest and most visionary directors in Hollywood. Speaking to the Daily Beast three decades later, Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers blamed the bloat on studios’ misguided belief that the longer the movie, the greater the sheen of prestige, the greater the potential for prestigious awards. In Corliss’ estimation, movies had become “longer but not richer,” a trend he argued began toward the end of World War II when movies shifted, broadly speaking, from creations of the studio system to the artistic visions of directors. The question Corliss explored that year is a perennial one, and it’s typically posed as a gripe. In 1984, TIME film critic Richard Corliss wrote a piece titled “Why Do Movies Seem So Long?” In it, he recalled a piece of wisdom from Columbia Pictures co-founder Harry Cohn, whose method for judging the quality of a film came down to this: “If my fanny squirms, it’s bad.
