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Hulu's January Arrivals Clearly Want Us to Party Like It's 1999

Or 1983, possibly. Either way, it's looking like a good month for the streaming service.

For cinephiles with more refined tastes than mine, the Criterion Collection's mass exodus from Hulu to FilmStruck might be truly traumatic. But Hulu's not dead yet: its January offerings, which include seemingly every movie released in 1999, make it clear that the streaming platform understands me now more than ever. In fact, it seems that Hulu has figured out our new year's resolutions. We should find commonality in concentrated orange juice; we should build unlikely partnerships just as we feel like ending it all; we should find a way to dream, if only for a moment, that the men who hacked our election were actually a bunch of young Matthew Brodericks. So as the year turns over, and auld acquaintances be forgot, enjoy these stories of unruly computers, Kevin Bacon dancing, Nic Cage drinking, and Woody Allen being neurotic. Lucky for us, the Ryan Phillippe/Sarah Michelle Gellar masterpiece Cruel Intentions hasn’t been added to the Criterion Collection yet. Perhaps 2017 won’t be so terrible after all.

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