Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This weekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching. 

This week’s big new streaming event, as you’ve probably heard, is the Netflix release of Spike Lee’s new joint, and it should definitely be at the top of your viewing queue.

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Biographies have always been a favorite to pen for the screen. Not only do they provide a plethora of material to be brought to life, but the classic hype of the actors’ transformation in those roles (an Academy favorite aka Oscar potential). And there’s nothing more classic than watching a biopic taken place in the Classical Hollywood era.

Academy Award nominees Steven Coogan (“Philomena,” “The Trip”) and John C.

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