This Week in Streaming (April 15th)

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Y2K (Max) Comedian Kyle Mooney’s off-the-wall alternative apocalypse movie about a teen whose plans to get with his crush on New Year’s Eve 1999 get rudely interrupted by sentient murderous electronics died at the box office last December. But, as we said then, “it’s a genre film that attempts to diagnose its generation’s implosion while offering a damning critique of the victimization that defines peak millennialism.” What it loses co-starring Rachel Zegler, it more than makes up with an Oscar-worthy cameo from Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst. 

Your Friends & Neighbors (AppleTV+) Jon Hamm pulls a full 180 from Don Draper as a disgraced hedge fund manager who keeps up appearances by stealing from his HOA-obsessed neighbors in this perfect blend of satire and character study. 

The Abyss (Disney+) James Cameron was the King of the World as early as 1989 when he released this underseen thriller about a petroleum engineer (Ed Harris) aiding the military in retrieving a nuclear sub from a seafloor awash in mysterious creatures. See the action great’s last sci-fi hurrah before he went off the blue people deep end.