Roman Vacation; That ’90s Program.
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A reboot, a follow up, and a rerelease all walk into best schedule for one weekend, and that’s practically Hollywood nowadays, child! You can scroll over to Netflix to get your ’90s fix or sit down in a theater to enjoy Storm Reid scroll around looking for her mother for nearly 2 hours. Here are our picks for this weekend.
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In theaters and streaming on Paramount+.
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Read our streaming suggestions from the weekend of January 13. Vulture’s next list of weekend-streaming choices browses the web Friday, January 27.