In the streaming era, maybe the surest sign of star power isn’t the ability to get people to show up at a movie theater just to see them, but the ability to get people to circle back and watch your biggest bombs en masse on Netflix. If that’s the case, Angelina Jolie has just performed a major flex: Her 2002 film Life, or Something Like It, which grossed a princely $14 million back in 2002, has been on the Netflix Top 10 charts for over a week. Among its wide-release corporate siblings from Fox that year, it grossed slightly less than Solaris, a downbeat sci-fi movie that received an “F” from CinemaScore. (Even if you don’t know what CinemaScore is, you can ascertain that an “F” is really bad.) It’s one of her lowest-grossing wide releases as a grown-up movie star – something she’s now been for a quarter of
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