Watching popular movies for free is no longer a compromise on quality, but a compromise on convenience. If you are willing to trade 20 minutes of your time watching commercials for a high-definition stream of a Hollywood blockbuster, the current market is excellent.

The ads are real. Watching a 2-hour movie took about 2 hours and 20 minutes. The repetition of the same commercial five times in a row is annoying, but it’s a small price to pay to save $150 a month on cable or theater rentals.

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