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Reese Witherspoon, Jack Black, Anne Hathaway, and Meryl Streep star in three comedies on Amazon Prime Video you need to watch in 2025.

January also saw Prime Video streaming Zoë Kravitz's wacko horror film Blink Twice, starring Channing Tatum; the full series of How to Get Away With Murder and Monk; and new seasons of Prime Video originals The Rig, Harlem, and Tribunal Justice.

Mr. Mercedes is quite possibly the greatest serial killer thriller / supernatural drama that nobody really knows much about. Streamed in the US on Peacock but now available on Amazon Prime Video in the UK, this adaptation of an original series of novels by the great Stephen King is simply fantastic.

For the record, Amazon first announced in September 2023 that ads would be coming to Prime Video. Even if you don’t upgrade your Prime Video plan, any movies or TV shows that you purchase or rent on Prime Video will be ad-free. Amazon added commercials to Prime Video for the same reason most of the other big streamers did: It wants more revenue.

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